freerice.com - its a little vocabulary game and every time you get a word correctly, they donate 10 grains of rice to the UN to distribute around the world.  technically you need 7200 grains of rice for 1 cup - so that would be about 1 meal for an adult.  its paid for by the advertisements that come up every time you click on the site.  definitely ( Read more... )

so i was watching "shot at love with tila tequila"...the bachlorette-esque show on MTV.  its a bisexual girl and half the contestants are men and half are women ( Read more... )

"In December, the United Nations took up a resolution calling for the abolition of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for children and young teenagers. The vote was 185 to 1, with the United States the lone dissenter."
how disgusting are we.

life is unbelievable.

and i lost my license.

so i got really neurotic a couple months ago and started counting calories adn working out all the time.  i've declined for a while, and these past 2 weeks, i haven't done shit.  i worked out maybe 2 times a week. ate and drank excessively.  i broke every rule i made for myself at least twice ( Read more... )

there was a dead mouse/rat in my apartment last night. and i had to pick it up and throw it away.  i was about to go bang on a neighbor's door until i found some non-sketchy looking big guy to handle it...and i dont care how antifeminist that makes me.
anyway i did it myself. and it only took me like 2 hours to work up the courage.

http://gothamist.com/2007/08/10/no_nonarabic_sh.php

a passenger wearing a shirt with arabic writing (see below) was forced to change shirts before entering a plane.  the NSA guard stopped him after he passed security (with no problems) and brought him straight to the ( Read more... )

police officers in thailand who commit offenses (like coming in late, or littering) are forced to wear a pink hello kitty armband as a form of punishment... apparently warnings aren't working, so lets try public humiliations ( Read more... )

last night claire and i took a cab home from benihanas.  the cab driver  ended up cutting off a van  so  he could  pull up to our corner.  the  van's sirens go off and out  storms  this  white guy (not wearing a uniform) cursing at the cab driver.  he rolls down his windows, and  guy starts screaming at him. that he almost killed him. and  himself ( Read more... )

1- "In 31 states, it's still perfectly legal to fire workers for being gay or lesbian. And in 39 states for someone's gender identity. " www.hrc.org

2-(From the NYTimes) "Obesity can spread from person to person, much like a virus, researchers are reporting today. When one person gains weight, close friends tend to gain weight, too."   though i ( Read more... )