EARL (Born in the USA)

This would be so much easier if FF wasnt blocked at work ;) - EARL (Born in the USA) from Bookmarklet

I derezzed a polar bear once. - Akiva Moskovitz

This isn't necessarily new (the idea, I mean; the video, which appears after the jump, starting making the rounds yesterday), but ... does anyone else peel their bananas that way - EARL (Born in the USA)

tried it today- I think it comes in more handy with less ripe bananas. - BEX

Wow, that's pretty cool. I almost can't wait to try it. Hopefully I'll have a banana before I forget! - Curtis Jackson

Long a subject of debate--and experiments with everything from yeast to mice--the question of whether a lower calorie diet increases life span while decreasing disease has a new smorgasbord of evidence. [More - EARL (Born in the USA)

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says workers at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip allegedly dug up more than 100 graves, dumped the bodies into unmarked mass graves and resold the plots to unsuspecting members of the public. - EARL (Born in the USA)

Greed makes people do some ugly shit :P - martha

Just like the largest humans :O - EARL (Born in the USA)

July 8, 2009 -- Females may be outwardly choosy when selecting sexual partners -- accepting or shunning mates in very public ways -- but males may get the last say in this battle of the sexes. - EARL (Born in the USA)

I concur. - Christopher Harley

One day, the Pope is visiting America and driving around Washington in his limo when he gets an idea. "Driver? Can I drive for a while?" "Sure," says the driver. How can you say no to the Pope? So the Pope takes the wheel and starts driving like a maniac all around Washington -- dodging in and out of traffic, going eighty, cutting people off. Soon, a cop pulls him over. But when the Pope rolls down the window, the cop stops dead in his tracks, and goes back to the car. "We got somebody really important here," he says to his partner. "Who is it? Is it a senator?" "No. More important." "The president?" "No. More important." "An ambassador? Who?" "I don't know. But the Pope is his driver." - EARL (Born in the USA) from email

Or seek the treasure either, Pesky voice program. - EARL (Born in the USA) from fftogo

File this under "Because We Rarely Have Reason to Talk About Slim Jims": If you're wondering where your beloved beef jerky sticks are, there's a shortage due to a deadly explosion last month caused by a gas leak that destroyed the only Slim Jim plant in the country and killed three employees. The company doesn't expect to meet full Slim Jim demand until the fall. [via Best Week Ever] - EARL (Born in the USA)

A 22-year-old factory worker died Wednesday after he fell into a vat of boiling chocolate at a manufacturing plant in New Jersey, police said. The unidentified man, who worked at the Camden facility, had been in the melting pot for about 10 minutes by the time rescue crews arrived, MyFOXPhilly.com reported. By the time he was pulled out of the tank just after 11 a.m., he was already dead - EARL (Born in the USA)

Bottled water sales were growing by double-digit percentages for years and were helping buoy the U.S. beverage industry overall. But they were flat last year, according to trade publication Beverage Digest. - EARL (Born in the USA)

Like I said before, No big deal I do this every day. - EARL (Born in the USA)

Sex might seem like one of those little gifts from evolution. But it’s pretty inefficient from an evolutionary perspective. It’d be much easier to reproduce if you could do away with finding the right member of the opposite sex to help you create the next generation. So why did evolution come up with sex? - EARL (Born in the USA)

I just love this story :) - martha

Scary aint it? ;) - EARL (Born in the USA) from email

Enver Tohti remembers the week that it rained dust. That summer of 1973 he was in elementary school in Xinjiang Province, China’s westernmost region, which is inhabited mostly by Uygurs, one of the country’s minority ethnic groups. “There were three days that earth fell from the sky, without wind or any sort of storm. The sky was deadly silent--no sun, no moon,” he recalls. When the kids asked what was happening, the teacher told them that there was a storm on Saturn (its Chinese name translates into “soil planet”). Tohti believed her. It was only years later that he realized it was radioactive dust raised by the test detonation of a nuclear bomb within the province - EARL (Born in the USA)

Put down the fish and nobody gets hurt. - EARL (Born in the USA)

The United States wasn’t the only country hoping to land on the moon in July 1969 — the Soviets were trying to beat us to the punch by landing the unmanned spacecraft Luna 15 while Apollo 11 was still in orbit around the moon. Now, thanks to the discovery of previously unheard recordings from 1969, you can listen to the unfolding drama. - EARL (Born in the USA)

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is dropping the mask. Until June 12, when the Guard emerged as the critical pillar of the regime in putting down the post-election protest demonstrations, the IRGC remained in the shadows. Intelligence specialists say that there isn't a lot known about the organization, structure and operational commanders of the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), otherwise known as the pasdaran. During my visit to Tehran last month, I spoke to one Iranian expert, a former journalist, who said that there are two things that are very closely shielded in Iran: the organization of the IRGC and the organization of the Office of the Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. - EARL (Born in the USA)

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name, has died at the age of 95. My bologna was had a first name, It was the same as his. - EARL (Born in the USA)

JERUSALEM – An attempt by Hamas police to detain a young woman walking with a man along the Gaza beach has raised alarms that the Islamic militant group is seeking to match its political control of the coastal territory with a strict enforcement of Islamic law. - EARL (Born in the USA)

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Amsterdam city council is turning its attention to a pressing problem for one of the city's key business sectors -- banking and credit for prostitutes who can't get accounts from mainstream institutions. The city's red light district is famed the world over for its women in tiny windows and even tinier clothing, but despite the trade being legal, many banks shy away from taking the ladies on as customers. - EARL (Born in the USA)

ISLAMABAD – A suspected U.S. drone fired a barrage of missiles into a Taliban training camp Wednesday, killing 10 insurgents in the second such strike in the South Waziristan tribal region in 24 hours, intelligence officials said. - EARL (Born in the USA)

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan's only known pig trotted out of quarantine Saturday, two months after he was locked away because of swine flu fears, to bask again in the mud at the Kabul Zoo. - EARL (Born in the USA)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The leader of Pakistani Taliban fighters in the Swat valley, northwest of Islamabad, has been wounded in fighting, a military spokesman said on Wednesday citing "credible" information. - EARL (Born in the USA)

Seven persons died during treatment in the Shardaben hospital overnight, they said, adding two others died in the V S Hospital this morning - EARL (Born in the USA)

I guess the word Hoochie means something totally different in India? ;) - EARL (Born in the USA) from fftogo

f you’re up early tomorrow look at your clock at 5 minutes and 6 seconds after 4 am. The official time and date will be: 04:05:06:07:08:09 - EARL (Born in the USA) from Bookmarklet

ISLAMABAD, July 8 (Xinhua) -- A blast occurred near a police colony in northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring several others, local TV channel reported. Eyewitness said that a suicide bomber blown himself up on Nasir Bagh road near a police colony in Peshawar, the capital city of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), according to the private channel TV GEO News - EARL (Born in the USA)

URUMQI, China - China's president cut short a G-8 summit trip to rush home Wednesday after ethnic tensions soared in Xinjiang territory, and the government flooded the area with security forces in a bid to quell emotions in the wake of a massive riot that left 156 dead - EARL (Born in the USA)