Jessie

"What's really inside your household cleaning products? It could be a bunch of dirty-minded chemicals, who are all bright and bubbly and innocent in TV commercials but who indulge in debauchery off camera, hanging around long after cleaning time to watch you give your naked bod a good scrub in the shower. That's the warning in the video below from Droga5 and Method, the maker of environmentally friendly cleaning products. "When did clean become so dirty?" the company asks, and wants you to ask your elected officials. The goal is to require all cleaning products to list their ingredients on their labels, and to keep depraved bubble gangs out of your bathroom." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

*shudder* - Jessie

High-risk individuals include those who are pregnant, living with/caring for children under 6 months, working in healthcare, between the ages of 6 months and 24 years, or living with a chronic health problem/compromised immune system and are 25-64 years old. - Jessie

More info at 1-877-462-2582 - Jessie

"The true story of the night I discovered the horrible truth about a guy I once knew and his connection to the "My Little Pony" fan community." - Jessie

"I'm pretty easygoing when it comes to marketing and product placement. It's so ubiquitous that I tune it out, or laugh along when it shows up on 30 Rock. I can never really muster up the rage some viewers do when Pizza Hut, Ford, or the iPhone is prominently placed in a movie or television show. The most I'll do is roll my eyes and joke about it later on ("Did you notice that? Lame!"), because I find the big picture to be more important than some high-priced props. That is, I didn't care until Fox proudly announced that Bones will return in two weeks with an Avatar themed episode." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

I'm gonna guess it's gonna be lame, judging from how Bones has been doing lately.... - Kelly

"Since the days of Ctesias, one strand of stories and artworks has focused on this notion of the unicorn as a fierce, powerful beast. A Scottish unicorn has been snarling at an English lion on the United Kingdom’s coat of arms for the past 400 years. (Hence the showdown in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 Through the Looking Glass.) In the King James Bible, which first appeared in 1611, God is described as having “the strength of the unicorn.”" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

neither did i, thanks mr rapatton http://www.allaboutunicorns.com/warrior... - chaz2b

"If you want your victim to survive, go for his veins. Whereas arteries carry blood from the heart—and have higher blood pressure—veins carry blood to the heart and have lower pressure. It's therefore easier to patch up a puncture wound to a vein than to an artery. (When you see a wound spurting, that means an artery was hit, whereas bleeding from a vein is smooth and constant.)" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Yellow-Spotted Amazon River Turtles grow to be one of South America's largest, up to 18 lbs and over a foot across, but start their lives only a bit larger than a quarter. Unfortunately for these endangered turtles, they are considered a popular delicacy in and around the Amazon River Basin. The Buffalo Zoo hatched these babies in October where they will soon be on display, and of course, off the menu. " - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Lincoln University students will now have to endure a physical exam determining each student's BMI (body mass index) before they are permitted to graduate. An individual's BMI measures the amount of body fat. Amid fierce criticisms, Lincoln University has recently installed a new requirement for its undergraduate students. If your BMI is over 30, you are required to take a physical education class." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

also lincoln university is an HBCU so i wonder if they took this into account: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... - Jessie

"An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 400 miles after getting lost and taking a wrong turn onto a major Australian highway, police said on Wednesday." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

""I just went out on the road to have a drive, a nice peaceful drive," he told reporters, adding he did not need a satellite navigation device as he'd only been lost once." - Jessie

""People demand a TV, not a toilet, because it is not aspirational or charismatic," said Sim, who does not hesitate to talk in graphic detail about the dangers of poor sanitation. "Governments and people are not very receptive to being told they're dirty, that they need more toilets," said Sim on a visit to Mumbai, where more than half its 18 million residents live in slums and where the average ratio of people to toilets is 81:1." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"There's a hilarious new meme in the wingnut sectors of the internet: someone's coined a bumper sticker slogan encouraging people to pray for Barack Obama. But here's the funny part: it's really a secret Christian code for "Kill the President!'" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

this is so so so wrong. - Mycaptain

"Nine members of two high school girls' soccer teams have been suspended for their roles in a fight that sparked a brawl in the bleachers." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"The fight broke out after two players collided during a Nov. 8 game. A television news camera recorded the girls throwing punches and pulling hair, and fans fought in the bleachers during an awards ceremony." - Jessie

"A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

The companies says they expect most of their clients to be celebrities. I suspect most of their clients will be tabloids looking to mock the names celebrities have recently chosen - Soup

"An Emirati man watches cheerleaders perform on the beach at Jumeira, on the first day of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Dubai, on November 16, 2009. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

""After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up: part was eaten and part was also sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies," the Prosecutor-General's main investigative unit for the Perm region said in a statement issued Friday." - Jessie

O.O - Jessie

""Seeking 500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 foot, 7 inches) tall, well-dressed but not in mini-skirts or low cut dresses," read the ad by the Hostessweb agency and quoted in Italy's Corriere dell Sera newspaper in its story." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Some 200 women showed up at a Rome villa, having been told they would receive 60 euros ($90) and "some Libyan gifts." Among them was an undercover reporter for Italian news agency ANSA, who took photos and described the evening's proceedings. Most had expected to attend a party, according to ANSA, but instead were invited to wait in a large hall until the arrival of Gaddafi, who gave them a lesson on Libya and the role of women in Islam." - Jessie

""Imagine," said one attendee of the first-ever Clio Healthcare Awards, held in Manhattan on Friday night, "that you're making a TV commercial for a new Nike sneaker. But you aren't allowed to talk freely about the sneaker. Instead, you have to show a pair of bare feet, and then tell the viewer he can solve his barefoot-ness by asking his doctor about Nike. That's the challenge for most pharmaceutical advertising."" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

Uh, I hope Pfizer doesn't use that template for Viagra. - Jim Norris

"Another silver Clio went to NuvaRing's ad for a contraceptive vaginal insert. Ad Report Card has previously reviewed this ad, in which synchronized swimmers illustrate the wearying repetition of swallowing a birth control pill every day." really? i think this ad is lame. it doesn't strike me as particularly original. - Jessie

lol - Kelly

it's cool! also ecologically! - Dominic Yang

"Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

Love the photo - Soup

:'-( - Jessie

[wipes away tears] - April Buchheit

Aw.. - Soup

"There's little evidence that the bagpipe was a traditional element of military funerals in the United States until the mid-20th century. The use of the instrument at President Kennedy's burial may have spurred modern interest, but even to this day, bagpipes tend to be reserved for large military memorial services. Few individual soldiers are put to rest to the sound of pipes. Of the approximately 150 families who request assistance from West Point each year for burial ceremonies, only three or four want bagpipers. (They almost always request "Amazing Grace.")" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"The experience of Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox Searchlight), Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of the Roald Dahl book for young readers, is like being magically shrunk down to 1:12 scale and set loose for 90 minutes in an exquisite, handcrafted, dizzyingly well-stocked dollhouse. If, like me, you're a lifelong aficionado of miniatures—someone who still presses their nose to toy-store windows filled with cunningly crafted furniture and tiny kitchen supplies—this movie will seduce you on tactile terms alone. The animal characters' real, shiny fur, gently moving in the wind! The infinitely detailed sets and props: acorn-patterned wallpaper, cutlery made from deer hooves, bespoke corduroy jackets with tiny stalks of wheat in place of pocket squares! You don't want to watch this movie, you want to climb inside it and play." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"You can savor the flavor all night long as this glass can hold up to a full bottle of your favorite fruit of the vine. It's just the thing for a cozy night in." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

*adds to christmas list* - Jessie

"During the third quarter of Dallas’ 20-16 win, Eagles tight end Brent Celek(notes) caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from Donovan McNabb(notes), then appeared to purposefully back up and align himself in front of television cameras. Putting his hands on his hips, Celek raised his right leg, mimicking a pose similar to the pirate on Captain Morgan’s label." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

yeah, i didn't recognize it as captain morgan, either. - Jessie

OMG my cute sensorial areas of the brain just had an aneurysm...CUTE OVERLOAD! - Alex Scoble

These are so adorable, it's effing ridiculous. They've completely melted the thick black ice from around my heart... - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

bebe otters! I love them!!! - Anna Lynn M.

"After more than an hour talking about how awful business has been of late, Pete Van Straten, 52, jerks a thumb at the telephone sitting on the desk behind his younger brother, George. "Have you heard that phone ring in the last hour?" he asks a visitor. "Two years ago that phone was ringing off the hook and we couldn't keep up with orders. Now, it's dead."" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Thousands of Chinese women are vying to attend a lavish ball in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, lured by the dream of a possible fairytale match with a millionaire." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Which brings me to the question: are Wild West/Weird West examples really non-Eurocentric examples? Geographically, this may well be the case since they’re not in Europe. However, if we take into account all parties involved – the Chinese labourers, the Native Americans, the black slaves, and the descendents of Europeans (neo-Europeans), the power dynamics indicate very strongly that no matter how geographically removed America is from Europe, the power dynamics remain rested in the hands of the neo-Europeans, which renders Wild West examples that do not prominantly feature visible minorities still Eurocentric." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Using basic Arabic language rules that distinguish whether one is addressing a male or a female, the campaign uses an accent (called “kasra”, the Arabic word for the grammatical symbol added to a word to make it sound feminine) to highlight the differences in language: when one reads a male-formed word, he or she will assume it can be meant for both but it will sound masculine. Readers are asked to place kasras underneath words that are normally read as male to include themselves." - Jessie from Bookmarklet