Kaiju Big Battel is a live event series that revolves around tournament-style performances, which are a tongue-in-cheek hybrid of American pro-wrestling, Japanese-monster-movie mayhem, and lowbrow pop-culture. Click here for the full "About Kaiju Big Battel".

What is Kaiju Big Battel?

] Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors
] and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer
] behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would
] be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric.
] After years of staying put, her skin had literally become
] one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.

wow.

480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch

] Introduction
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I don't know if this is legit yet, but I am going to try it out with one of my lesser accounts ...

free public domain hosting?

The Right Number is a three part story about a man who believes he’s found the key to love’s mysteries in the most unlikely of places — and he may or may not be right.

Each chapter is the equivalent of a traditional comics magazine in length but presented in a radical new zooming format. Click at right to see it in action.

Scott McCloud Website - The Right Number

] You can create your own COLORCELL by choosing up to four of
] your favourite colors.
]
] Your cell is living in a virtual livingspace with cells from other users.
] There is space for 100 cells.
]
] Everybody can select their favourite cells once a day.
]
] Each day, the daily selections of each cel; get converted into fitnesspoints.
]
] Cells that seem to be likeable will become stronger (because they
] have been selected often).
]
] Cells that didn't get selected often enough will become weaker
] (apparently the color combination isn't very popular).
]
] There are various statistics about each cell (just click the cell),
] about the livingspace and the cemetery.

Colorcell Home - A reputation system for color combinations

]It's well known that President Ronald Reagan used a color-coded
]calendar to keep track of his astrological predictions. But not
]everyone knows that these predictions were based on the wrong sign.

Astrology meets Astronomy and loses.

Your Astrological Sign is Not What You Think

]"The Company That Makes This Sued My Friend."
]If you knew someone who'd just been sued by one of the big
]record companies, you wouldn't want to buy any of their products
]either. Families like yours are literally getting pushed into
]bankruptcy. Why not buy music from record labels that don't sue
]their fans?

What A Crappy Present

a magazine/website that showcases photos, notes, and other objects found in junkyards, burned-out buildings, between the pages of used books, etc.

FOUND Magazine

It was just a matter of time ...

Homeland security wants to decide which college classes get funded and they are thinking of excluding classes that teach that there even might be dissenting points of view.

And please note that the committee will be appointed NOT elected.

Just what America needs! Less education! Less democracy!

(I have chopped the name of the originator of this document to protect him - but I am not trying to take credit for writing it - just for strongly supporting the sentiment embodied therein)

As many of you who know me well will soon realize, I have become a political activist for the first time in my life. I am not here to rant, but to inform you on current legislation that is being debated in the House of Representatives. The legislation in question, H.R. 3077, will rewrite the Title VI legislation that has provided FLAS money to many of us and that also funds the various area-studies centers in our universities. In particular, the legislation proposes the creation of an "advisory board" that may severely impact universities by dictating the curricula taught, course materials assigned in class, and the faculty who are hired in institutions that accept Title VI funding. It gets worse. The U.S. House of Representative's Subcommittee on Select Education Hearing on "International Programs in Higher Education and Questions about Bias" on June 19, 2003

http://edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/108th/sed/titlevi61903/wl61903.htm

begins with an opening statement by Representative Phil Gringrey that includes the following passage: "we are here today to learn more about a number of programs that are authorized and funded under Title VI, which are some of the oldest programs of support to higher education. These programs reflect the priority placed by the federal government on diplomacy, national security, and trade competitiveness. International studies and education have become an increasingly important and relevant topic of conversation and consideration in higher education... However, with mounting global tensions, some programs under the Higher Education Act that support foreign language and area studies centers have recently attracted national attention and concern due to the perception of their teachings and policies." Testimony provided by Dr. Stanley Kurtz (available from the link above) portrays areas studies centers as hotbeds of unpatriotic anti-Americanism. Dr. Kurtz focuses, in particular, on post-colonial theory and the work of Edward Said's Orientalism in which "Said equated professors who support American foreign policy with the 19th century European intellectuals who propped up racist colonial empires. The core premise of post-colonial theory is that it is immoral for a scholar to put his knowledge of foreign languages and cultures at the service of American power." (quoted from Kurtz's statement found at

http://edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/108th/sed/titlevi61903/ku... [ Read More (0.7k in body) ]

Thanks to advances in nanotechnology, RF and MEMS, researchers say a cloud of miniature self-organizing sensors could monitor chemical spills or tell you your milk is sour.

Dust 'Motes' making their way into modern technology