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| May. 21st, 2008 02:43 pm The 10 Craziest How-To Books You Never Knew Existed http://www.listanity.com/the-10-craziest-how-to-books-you-never-knew-existed/
1. How-To Shit in the Woods Our once-pristine wildlands are threatened by ever increasing problems of pollution. Since its first publication in 1989, How to Shit in the Woods has been adopted by outdoor enthusiasts everywhere as part of the solution. In this updated edition, outdoorswoman Kathleen Meyer reviews the newly available portable potties, with special attention to individual trekkers in an all-new chapter, “Plight of the Solo Poop Packer.” Other topics include: the growing array of travelers’ field water-disinfecting systems, Giardia contamination and the now infamous critter Cryptosporidium, crotch-accessible clothing for women, and a fresh batch of “worst experience” stories, all peppered with irreverent musings. For the purist, there are more wise t.p.-less techniques from the Old World. Written with an effervescent sense of humor, this is a book for anyone who wants to enjoy the outdoors responsibly. - More info / Buy the book
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2. How-To Have Sex in the Woods Sex in the woods is not as simple as it sounds. Sure, you know the basics (after all, if you don’t, you probably shouldn’t try it in the wilderness), but what about all the little details that should be considered before embarking on an alfresco rendezvous that can make the difference between love under the moon and stars and love on the cold, hard ground? For example, what sex essentials should be part of your first-aid kit? What kind of camping equipment provides particular comfort for two? What are the effects of the elements on condoms, spermicides, and other contraceptives? How do you find that perfect spot for your love den? And how about foreplay, personal hygiene, and protection from pesky plants or adverse weather conditions while you’re exposed? - More info / Buy the book
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3. How-To Be Pope Congratulations, Your Holiness, and welcome to your first day at the Holy See. After being elected by the College of Cardinals, you’ll need to don the papal vestments and get right to work. Armed with this manual, compiled over the last 2,000 years, you’ll be able to navigate the Why’s, How’s, and Who’s of your new life as Pontifex Maximus. What is your official job title? Why do you need to choose a papal name? Who does your laundry? While the church has long maintained an aura of complete secrecy to outsiders, the facts, figures, and historical anecdotes found here give the crucial information you’ll need to fulfill your papal duties. - More info / Buy the book
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4. How-To Start Your Own Country Can you really start your own country? Erwin Strauss shows you five different methods for doing just that, as well as everything you need to know about sovereignty, national defense, diplomacy, raising revenue and recruiting settlers. Includes dozens of new-country success stories. Why settle for being king of your castle when you can be king of your own country? - More info / Buy the book
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5. How-To Be Happy Though Married Marriage was God’s idea, and the best advice on the subject is still to be found in the Bible. In this modern classic, Dr. Tim LaHaye shows a new generation how to develop physical, mental, and spiritual harmony in marriage. This book makes a fine wedding or bridal shower gift. And it’s a good choice for any couple wanting a refresher course on what the Bible says about marriage. - More info / Buy the book
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6. How-To Rent a Negro Ayo, a conceptual artist who integrates social issues in her visual and performing art, offers a satirical look at race relations and the myriad ways that whites and blacks interact on a daily basis but fail to penetrate racial barriers. Ayo claims that all blacks have been “rented” at some time, placed in the role of token at work or in a social setting, or drafted to represent the entire race with an opinion on a current race-related topic. Whites tend to be the renters, employing blacks in particular social situations to demonstrate their awareness of race issues or to deflect charges of racism. Ayo’s pseudo-guidebook for renters and rentals offers a range of social issues and contact, from touching a black person’s skin or hair to racial profiling from police or coworkers. She offers quizzes for readers to determine if they have inadvertently been in the position of renter or rental. - More info / Buy the book
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7. How-To Lose Friends And Alienate People How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is Toby Young’s hilarious account of the five years he spent looking for love in all the wrong places and steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. But it’s more than “the longest self-deprecating joke since the complete works of Woody Allen” (Sunday Times); it’s also a seditious attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast. And there’s even a happy ending as Toby Young marries - “for proper non-cynical reasons,” as he puts it - the woman of his dreams. “Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first.” - More info / Buy the book
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8. How-To Become a Schizophrenic The author has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, and part of the book is his own story, written in the form of a spellbinding novelette similar to I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. But more than that, the author also utilizes the ideas of Harry Stack Sullivan, Theodore Lidz, Gregory Bateson, R.D. Scott and P.L. Ashworth, W. Ronald D. Fairbairn, Anton Boisen and others—as well as his own experiences—to construct a solid theory which explains how and why he and many other people enter a state of mind called “schizophrenic.” Finally, Modrow tackles the entire medical model with its genetic and biochemical theories, its drugs, and various brain scan studies purporting to prove that schizophrenia is a brain disease, explaining why this is such a popular explanation for emotional distress, but why the theory is very likely false. - More info / Buy the book
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9. How-To Read a Book How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them — from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author’s message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed. - More info / Buy the book
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10. How-To Speak with the Dead: A Practical Handbook The author discusses a general outline of the scientific facts and arguments on which the certainties of survival and communication are based, as well as information relative to mediums and communicating with the dead. - More
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| Apr. 17th, 2008 05:26 pm Pretty funny for a Mormon Mitt Romney's *TOP TEN REASONS I DROPPED OUT*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu9NyGh6PiE
No. 10: There weren't as many Osmonds as he thought.
No. 9: Got tired of the corkscrew landings of his campaign plane while under fire
No. 8: As a lifelong hunter, I didn't want to miss the start of varmint season.
No. 7: There wasn't room for two Christian leaders in the presidential race
No. 6: I was upset that no one bothered to search my passport files.
No. 5: I'd rather get fat, grow a beard and try for the Nobel prize.
No. 4: Got tired of wearing a dark suit and tie, and I wanted to kick back in a light colored suit and tie.
No. 3: When my wife realized I couldn't win the GOP nomination, my fundraising dried up.
No. 2: I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.
And the No. 1 reason Romney dropped out: His campaign relied on a flawed campaign strategy that as Utah goes, so goes the nation.
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| Apr. 16th, 2008 12:37 pm Hillary gives Obama a virtual kick in the nuts Hillary's latest ad, entitled "Pocket" ... smart or just nasty? You decide: Hillary For President
"Pocket"
TV :30 Announcer: You've seen the ad. Barack Obama: "I don't take money from oil companies." Announcer: No candidate does. It's been against the law for 100 years. But Barack Obama accepted two hundred thousand dollars from executives and employees of oil companies. Every gallon of gas takes over three bucks from your pocket, but Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put six billion dollars in the pocket of big oil. Hillary voted against it. She'll make oil companies pay to create the new jobs and clean energy America needs. Hillary Clinton: I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message.
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Apr. 16th, 2008 08:39 am PostExpression.com What is Post Expression?Post Expression allows you to create and store multimedia messages that will be sent by e-mail to friends and family after you die. How can it help you?Post Expression allows you to communicate with people after you've died. It gives you the opportunity to communicate final words of encouragement, confession and love; or private information that may get lost if you pass away. What can you do?- Create a bunch of multimedia messages
- Decide who will receive them by adding recipients
- Choose the dates they'll be delivered
- Give a secret key to a friend, or store it safely
- And if you like: get your messages published publicly.
How secure is this?It's quick to set-up and web-based, using secure server technology. You don't need to download, install, or configure anything. No one can read what you've written, until a time you dictate, and no one can edit it. How much does it cost?Post Expression costs EUR19 for one year. In this time you can create and edit as many messages as you like, add as many recipients as you like, and choose your keyholders. If you die within that year your account will remain active for as long as it takes to send your messages.
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I prefer this method for sending a message post-life:
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| Apr. 10th, 2008 02:05 pm How "Green" are those things? Scientific American explains, in detail, what to do if one of your new congressionally mandated light compact fluorescent bulbs happens to break: Jim Berlow, director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Hazardous Waste Minimization and Management Division, recommends starting by opening the windows and stepping outside. "Any problems at all frequently are handled for the most part by quickly ventilating the room," he says. "Get all the people and pets out of the room for 15 minutes and let the room air out. If you have a central heating system or an HVAC [heating, ventilating and air-conditioning] system, you don't want it sucking the fumes around, so shut that down."
The important thing is not to touch the heavy metal (mercury). After airing out the room, the larger pieces of the bulb should be scooped off hard surfaces with stiff paper or cardboard or picked up off carpeted surfaces with gloves to avoid contact. Use sticky tape or duct tape to pick up smaller fragments; then, on hard surfaces, wipe down the area with a damp paper towel or a wet wipe. All materials should be placed in a sealable plastic bag or, even better, in a glass jar with a metal lid.
"If it gets in the jar, that's pretty good containment," Berlow states. "We've found that the plastic bags actually don't contain any mercury fumes, so absolutely, if you've got the plastic bag, get it outside when you're done." Vacuums or brooms should generally be avoided, as they can spread mercury to other parts of the house.
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| Apr. 10th, 2008 12:38 pm In case you missed it Miss Hooker 2008 Beauty Pageant:
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Apr. 2nd, 2008 10:27 am Super Pii Pii Brothers http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html?cpg=70HAs any good geek should know by now Japan has some of the wackiest and most unusual products anywhere. So when we were visiting Tokyo recently and saw lines of Japanese schoolgirls waiting to play an amazing new game for the Wii called Super Pii Pii Brothers we were only a little surprised. After all with games like WarioWare and Raving Rabbids the Wii is no stranger to crazy gameplay mechanics... but it was quite unusual to see the "strap-on" style accessory and peeing action that Pii Pii Brothers provides. Normally ThinkGeek doesn't carry video games, but we were so blown-away by Super Pii Pii Brothers that we immediately got our trusted Japanese importer on the phone and arranged to bring over a limited quantity of this amazing Wii game along with some cross regional boot discs to allow play on USA Wii consoles. The play mechanics are simple. Prepare yourself by strapping on the included belt harness and jacking in your Wiimote. A series of toilets are presented on screen and the challenge is to tilt your body to control a never-ending stream of pee. Get as much pee in the toilets as you can while spilling as little on the floor as possible. Sounds easy eh? Well the toilets open and close whack-a-mole style and occasionally the stray cat or other cute critter pops up. Spray a cat for extra points. Get too much pee on the ground and your game is over. With realistic fluid dynamics for the pee and over 100 different bathrooms from bars and palaces to automatic Japanese style toilets you'll be entertained for hours. And wait until your friends see the multi-player mode with dueling pee streams...  According to the Japanese text on the box "Super Pii Pii Brothers promotes good bathroom skills and allows women to experience for the first time the pleasure of urinating while standing." What we say is that virtual peeing is damn fun! Super Pii Pii Brothers In Action | |
| Product Features: - Video Game for Nintendo Wii Provides a Virtual Peeing Experience
- Amazing Realistic Pee Fluid Dynamics
- Imported from Japan
- Comes with game disc and Wiimote belt harness
- Includes cross regional boot disc to allow play on US Wii consoles
- Minimal Japanese text makes game easy to understand if you can't read Japanese
- Over 100 different peeing environments with multiple toilet and urinal styles
- Up to two players can compete with dueling pee streams
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| Mar. 26th, 2008 01:26 pm Not a bad prediction http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/
From the Nov 1968 issue of Modern Mechanix ...
Other conveniences ease kitchenwork. The housewife simply determines in advance her menus for the week, then slips prepackaged meals into the freezer and lets the automatic food utility do the rest. At preset times, each meal slides into the microwave oven and is cooked or thawed. The meal then is served on disposable plastic plates. These plates, as well as knives, forks and spoons of the same material, are so inexpensive they can be discarded after use. The single most important item in 2008 households is the computer. These electronic brains govern everything from meal preparation and waking up the household to assembling shopping lists and keeping track of the bank balance. Sensors in kitchen appliances, climatizing units, communicators, power supply and other household utilities warn the computer when the item is likely to fail. A repairman will show up even before any obvious breakdown occurs. Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities. Not every family has its private computer. Many families reserve time on a city or regional computer to serve their needs. The machine tallies up its own services and submits a bill, just as it does with other utilities. Money has all but disappeared. Employers deposit salary checks directly into their employees’ accounts. Credit cards are used for paying all bills. Each time you buy something, the card’s number is fed into the store’s computer station. A master computer then deducts the charge from your bank balance.
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| Mar. 3rd, 2008 11:26 am Jimmy Kimmel This is the funniest thing I've seen on YouTube in a long time. 1 comment - Leave a comment | |
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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-knerr17jan17,0,1584494.story?coll=la-home-obituariesFrom the Los Angeles Times Richard Knerr, 82; co-founded Wham-O, maker of the Hula Hoop and FrisbeeBy Valerie Nelson Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 17, 2008 Richard Knerr, co-founder of Wham-O Inc., which unleashed the granddaddy of American fads, the Hula Hoop, on the world half a century ago along with another enduring leisure icon, the Frisbee, has died. He was 82. Knerr died Monday at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia after suffering a stroke earlier in the day at his Arcadia home, said his wife, Dorothy. With his boyhood best friend, Arthur "Spud" Melin, Knerr started the company in 1948 in Pasadena. They named the enterprise Wham-O for the sound that their first product, a slingshot, made when it hit its target. A treasure chest of dozens of toys followed that often bore playful names: Superball, so bouncy it seemed to defy gravity; Slip 'N Slide and its giggle-inducing cousin the Water Wiggle; and Silly String, which was much harder to get out of hair than advertised. When a friend told Knerr and Melin about a bamboo ring used for exercise in Australia, they devised their own version without seeing the original. They ran an early test of the product in 1958 at a Pasadena elementary school and enticed their test subjects by telling them they could keep the hoops if they mastered them. They seeded the market, giving hoops away in neighborhoods to create a buzz and required Wham-O executives to take hoops with them on planes so people would ask about them. Wham-O soon was producing 20,000 hoops a day at plants in at least seven countries, while other companies made knockoffs. Within four months, 25 million of the hoops had been sold, according to Wham-O. In the 1985 book "American Fads," Richard A. Johnson wrote that "no sensation has ever swept the country like the Hula Hoop." The craze also provided a significant business lesson. "In April of 1958, people were standing around the block at department stores that were waiting to get their shipment," Knerr's son, Chuck, told The Times. "By September, you couldn't give them away. Once every household had two or three, it was over because they lasted forever." Wham-O toys often had an air of originality that Knerr called the "wow" factor. He defined it as the moment when "you're . . . showing it off and everybody says, 'What's that? What's that?' " The company founders experienced their own "wow" moment when former Air Force pilot Fred Morrison was spotted at the beach playing with his invention, the Pluto Platter. They bought the rights, modified it and renamed it Frisbee before releasing it in 1958. The name may have come from a comic strip called "Mr. Frisbie" or from the Frisbie Pie Co. tins that reportedly inspired the disk's invention. Both versions of the story have been attributed to Knerr. Initially, Frisbees were marketed by word of mouth on college campuses, and more than 100 million were sold in 30 years. A professional model went on sale in the 1960s, and the team sport known as Ultimate Frisbee soon was played on college campuses. Frisbee Dog World Championships have been held since 1975. "We didn't want it used as a toy," Melin told the Pasadena Star-News in 1998. "We wanted it to be a sport." Tom Wehrli, who has a canine Frisbee museum in his Chicago basement, called the company's story "pure Americana." "Wham-O sold about 230 different items. Our grandparents, guaranteed, touched a Wham-O product," Wehrli told The Times. In 1982, the founders sold the company for $12 million to Kransco Group Cos. Mattel Inc. bought Wham-O in 1994 and resold it to a group of investors in 1997. Richard Knerr was born June 30, 1925, in San Gabriel. As a teenager, he met his future business partner, Melin, and the two remained lifelong friends. They went to USC together, and Knerr earned a bachelor's degree in business in the late 1940s. Neither wanted to work for their fathers -- Knerr's sold commercial real estate and Melin's was in the lumber business. The duo started a business training falcons. To teach the birds to dive at prey, they lobbed meatballs with a homemade slingshot. "I don't want a bird, one prospective customer said, but I'd sure like a slingshot like that," Knerr said in Fortune Small Business magazine in 2003. So they bought a band saw and made slingshots in the Pasadena garage of Knerr's parents. They also sold other novelty hunting tools such as boomerangs and crossbows. Within a few years, they were making about $100,000 a year and moved their company to a building in San Gabriel. At Wham-O, the duo -- when they weren't taking bets on who could bounce the Superball into the wastebasket -- remained wildly open to ideas. "You can't tell whether the fish will bite if you don't drop a line in the water," Knerr was fond of saying. The approach could result in flops, such as the do-it-yourself fallout shelter, marketed at the height of the Cold War for $119, or the kit with plastic great white shark teeth that came out when the movie "Jaws" did in 1975. "He and his partner, and everyone they worked with . . . were like the Rat Pack and characters from 'MASH,' with oversized personalities," Chuck Knerr said. "If it wasn't about fun, he wasn't interested." Knerr, who was known to linger in toy stores, told The Times in 1994: "If Spud and I had to say what we contributed, it was fun. But I think this country gave us more than we gave it. It gave us the opportunity to do it." Melin died in 2002. In addition to his wife, Dorothy, whom he married in 1979, Knerr's survivors include his three children from a first marriage that ended in divorce, Melody Knerr, Chuck Knerr and Lori Gregory; two stepchildren, Richard Enright and Jeanne Stokes; and eight grandchildren. Services will be private. Instead of flowers, the family suggests donating to the Braille Institute Auxiliary of Pasadena Tribute Fund, 615 S. Madison Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106 or to the American Heart Assn., www.americanheart.org. 2 comments - Leave a comment | |
| Jan. 15th, 2008 07:00 am 2007 Darwin Awards http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007.html
You have to love #1 ....
 What Goes Up Must Come Down
2007 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
| "What goes up must come down."  (20 June 2007, South Carolina) A passing cabbie found a 21 year-old couple Znaked and injured in the road an hour before sunrise. The two people died at the nearest hospital without regaining consciousness. Authorities were at a loss to explain what had happened. There were no witnesses, no trace of clothing, and no wrecked cars or motorcycles.
Investigators eventually found a clue high on the roof of a nearby building: two sets of neatly folded clothes. Safe sex takes on a whole new meaning when you are perched on the edge of a pyramid-shaped metal roof. "It appears as if [they] accidentally fell off the roof," Sgt. Florence McCants said. This is a true Darwin Award trifecta: TWO people die, WHILE in the act of procreation, due to an ASTONISHINGLY poor decision. Bottom line: If you put yourself in a precarious "position" at the edge of a pointy roof, you may well find yourself coming and going at the same time. Ironically, one of the deceased was named "Tumbleston."
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| Dec. 17th, 2007 09:21 am Candidate Match Game Me: #1 - Fred Thomson #2 - Mitt Romney #3 - Rudy Guiliani
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| Dec. 11th, 2007 10:52 am Television 106.7 TV Themes! Oh ... my ... gawd!
I've been listening to this at work - with my headphones on, of course.
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