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ZooBorns: Orphan Pups in Pittsburgh - http://www.zooborns.com/zooborn...
ZooBorns: Orphan Pups in Pittsburgh
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"The endangered Painted Hunting Dog or African Wild Dog once numbered as many as 500,000 individuals but human population growth has shrunk that number to only about 3,000. Almost unheard of among social mammals, the Painted Hunting Dog's social structure is a submission-based hierarchy, meaning whoever begs the most gets the most food instead of whomever is most aggressive.  These nine pups were born just days ago at the Pittsburgh Zoo but sadly the mother died shortly thereafter. Luckily a surrogate mixed breed dog was found who was happy to step-in." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
*wants to rub some puppy belly* - Jessie
x_x - Derrick
Man makes living by selling the shirt on his back | Oddly Enough | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
"A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso. Jason Sadler, 26, a former marketing professional from Florida, founded his own company, www.iwearyourshirt.com, in 2008 with the idea to wear a T-shirt supplied by any company and then use social media tools to promote the firm." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
YouTube - BYU vs. New Mexico women's soccer match - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - BYU vs. New Mexico women's soccer match
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ouch! - Jessie from Bookmarklet
I just saw that. How has she lasted so long in the game? - Anne Bouey
I suspect she won't last much longer. - Soup
Soup, apparently she has been suspended from her school. - Anne Bouey
Good. She should be. - Soup
That hair pull alone should have gotten her banned from playing soccer in that league ever again, IMO. - Spidra Webster
yeah that hair pull definitely deserved a suspension. i winced when i saw the player's neck jerk. where were the refs when all this was going on? - Jessie
950th Time's The Charm - Woman passes driver's test on 950th try - http://jezebel.com/5398743...
950th Time's The Charm - Woman passes driver's test on 950th try
"Cha Sa-soon, a 68-year-old South Korean woman, passed the written exam for a driver's license on her 950th try. She's spent $4,200 in application fees since 2005 and still needs to pass a driving test." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
*sigh* - Anika
o boy. - Micah Wittman
Dear DMVs of the world: in software, they call this forgetting to put in bounds checking. - Micah Wittman
i'm not sure i'd want to share the road with her, but there's something to be said for persistence. - Jessie
God help us all.... - Morgan Haley
$4200 bucks is $4200 bucks - Josh Haley
all that money she could have taken a taxi - VAL D.
The WRITTEN test!!! - Andrew C
Do wolves kill for sport? - By Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine - http://www.slate.com/id...
Do wolves kill for sport? - By Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine
"During this fall's inaugural wolf-hunting season in Montana, hunters killed the matriarch of a Yellowstone wolf pack that researchers had been studying for more than a decade. Park officials suspect that her mate and three other pack members were also killed. A Los Angeles Times story about the hunt claims that wolves are known to kill for "pure pleasure." Do wolves really attack their prey just for the fun of it?" - Jessie from Bookmarklet
"Wolves are not alone in displaying an apparent lack of predatory economy. Foxes have been known to kill large numbers of chicken, eating only the head of each victim. (Veterinarians vaccinate foxes against rabies by sprinkling inoculated chicken heads throughout their territory.) Weasels like the back of the head and neck of their avian prey and tend to pile up the uneaten bodies in neat stacks. Raccoons eat the head and the crop. " - Jessie
Secret Lovers Kill: A National Mass Media Campaign to Address Multiple and Concurrent Partnerships | AIDSTAR-One - http://www.aidstar-one.com/case_st...
"The text message on the young woman's mobile phone reads, "He's workin' late, cum work on me." It's for her makhwapheni ("secret lover" in SiSwati). But next to the image of the phone appears another message that dramatically changes the mood: "Why kill your family," followed by the tagline, "Secret lovers kill."" - Jessie from Bookmarklet
"On call-in radio shows, in the newspapers, and between friends, Swazi openly discussed the formerly unmentionable practice of makhwapheni and the attitudes of fellow citizens toward multiple sexual partnerships. The Times of Swaziland invited readers to send text messages on their thoughts of the campaign, which were then printed in the newspaper, fueling further discussion. The debate... more... - Jessie
Rebels With A Cause - Iran - Jezebel - http://jezebel.com/5397750...
Rebels With A Cause - Iran - Jezebel
"An Iranian woman holds her national flag during a rally outside the former US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 2009 to mark the storming of the American embassy by Iranian students 30 years ago. Thousands of Iranians staged the noisy anti-US rally in central Tehran as riot police armed with batons and firing teargas moved in as several hundred opposition supporters attempted to stage an anti-government protest. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)" - Jessie from Bookmarklet
Fraternity Accused of Stealing 10,000 Student Newspapers to Cover Up Date Rape Story - Washington City Paper - http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs...
Fraternity Accused of Stealing 10,000 Student Newspapers to Cover Up Date Rape Story - Washington City Paper
"A fraternity on the University of Arizona campus has been accused of sabotaging 10,000 campus newspapers in order to cover up a small item in which a woman alleged having been drugged and possibly sexually assaulted at one of the frat’s parties. The copies of the Arizona Daily Wildcat containing the offending “Police Beat” item were apparently removed from their racks and strewn on the outskirts of campus shortly after publication on Oct. 8." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
"The Daily Wildcat pinned the sabotage on the fraternity named in the piece, Phi Kappa Psi, after the Spanish homework of members Alex Cornell and Nick Kovaleski surfaced at the site of the discarded newspapers—a revelation the Phoenix New Times astutely notes mirrors a plot point from the 1998 film The Big Lebowski." - Jessie
"The New Times phoned Phi Kappa Psi President Keith Peters “to find out if two ‘pledges’ were really dumb enough to steal 10,000 free newspapers and then leave their homework with the stolen stash.” Peters declined to comment."" - Jessie
WTF? - Derrick
*facepalm* - Jessie
ZooBorns: Healthy Lion Cubs Born at the Columbus Zoo - http://www.zooborns.com/zooborn...
ZooBorns: Healthy Lion Cubs Born at the Columbus Zoo
ZooBorns: Healthy Lion Cubs Born at the Columbus Zoo
"On September 22nd the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium welcomed three big and healthy African lion cubs. These two little girls and one boy were bred as part of the AZA's Species Survival Plan for African lions. Over the past twenty years African lion populations have fallen 50% due to human population growth into their native habitat." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
11-year-old gives birth to baby girl after going into labor at her WEDDING! - http://www.nydailynews.com/news...
"An 11-year-old girl became one of the world's youngest mothers - after she went into labor at her wedding. Kordeza Zhelyazkova, from Sliven, Bulgaria, was still wearing her wedding dress and tiara when she was rushed to the hospital, where she gave birth to a 5-pound, 8-ounce girl." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
""I'm not going to play with toys anymore - I have a new toy now," Kordeza told reporters as she showed off little Violeta." - Jessie
"The family planned a three-day Roma wedding so Kordeza and Jeliazko could be married before the baby arrived. But Kordeza went into labor on the second day. "I had been having pain in the morning and a couple of hours into the wedding, it got worse." She was rushed to hospital and gave birth 20 minutes later." - Jessie
Oh dear. - Anika
sad. early marriages are not uncommon among roma, but 11 seems young even for them. - Jessie
I think I'm more upset about her 'new toy' comment. - Anika
same here. i worry for the newborn whose 11-year-old mother thinks she's a toy. - Jessie
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT?? - Chieze Okoye
Dude...she totally looked like she was 14! - Gabe
Oh, my. - Anne Bouey
On the plus side, shorter generational gaps lead to increased rates of evolution. Just look at fruit flies. - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
O_o - April Buchheit from iPhone
I don't know, I thought the "I am not going back to school - I am a mother now" quotation was pretty upsetting, too. - Katy S
she's gonna find it an even bigger slog providing for her child if she doesn't have an education. - Joe Silence is not dead
i hope she gets a lot of help from her extended family. - Jessie
*checks airfare to Bulgaria* - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Proposed law would require pay for sick workers | U.S. | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
"U.S. employers who tell workers to stay home when they are sick will have to give them paid time off for up to five days under new federal legislation proposed on Tuesday. The emergency law would cover pandemic H1N1 flu or any other infectious disease, said California Representative George Miller, a Democrat who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee and who introduced the bill." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
Hotels come to the rescue of Taipei's pet dogs | Oddly Enough | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
"Taipei's dogs are living it up at hotels, complete with VIP suites and pools, that aim to ease the problem of strays that has plagued the city for decades. Hoping to discourage people from dumping unwanted pets on the streets, two Taipei proprietors have opened giant hotels dedicated to dogs, with pools, salons, classes and playrooms." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
ZooBorns: The Everland Zoo's Adorable Fennec Fox Kits - http://www.zooborns.com/zooborn...
ZooBorns: The Everland Zoo's Adorable Fennec Fox Kits
ZooBorns: The Everland Zoo's Adorable Fennec Fox Kits
"Time to check back in on our favorite Fennec Fox kits at the Everland Zoo in Seoul, Korea. Zoo photographer In Cherl Kim takes outstanding photos of these epically adorable canines." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
To Benefit Kids, Give Dads Their Due - http://jezebel.com/5396111...
To Benefit Kids, Give Dads Their Due
"Bad moms, good moms, moms who drink — the media is so mother-centric these days that it's easy to forget many kids also have a male parent. But according to the New York Times, we ignore dads at our peril." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
yay dads! - Jessie
put on three layers of eyeliner this morning and it's still barely visible. maybe i should try using a sharpie.
:) - Anne Bouey
:P - Jessie
Fwd: Must Watch: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time First Trailer - http://www.firstshowing.net/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/geekand...)
Fwd: Must Watch: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time First Trailer - http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/11/02/must-watch-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time-first-trailer/ (via http://ff.im/aTAmA)
I'm pretty stoked for this. They seem to have captured the feel of the game really well. I'm jonesing for another Pirates of the Caribbean style blockbuster. - Michael Scarpelli
@Michael: Pirates of the Caribbean was my first thought too. Feels like it'll be a fun adventure type movie. - Jess Lee
but jake gyllenhaal? really?? - Kelly
haha kelly, that's what my roommate said. i'm also on team naveen andrews. :D - Jessie
What's wrong with Gyllenhaal? I think he's pretty good. People had the same reaction to Matt Damon as Bourne and he kicked some serious ass in those movies. Naveen is awesome, but Gyllenhaal actually looks more like the character and is a name that will bring people to the theater. - Michael Scarpelli
I guess he doesn't look like what I imagined prince of persia would look like? Plus he's kinda whiny....I actually like him ok as an actor, but for this role I'm skeptical. Totally going to see the movie still though - Kelly
i also like him as an actor, but i can't see him in this movie without thinking "jake gyllenhaal." maybe if he had contacts or something, but as it is he looks almost out of place here. - Jessie
i will still totally go see the movie though. probably with kelly. - Jessie
Yeah, I will give you that. When they first released press shots of him all buffed out for the role, it was almost comical. Like someone had put him in a Halloween muscle suit. But yeah, the Prince in the games was awfully white-washed. Always something I found odd. http://foxyurl.com/KZv and http://foxyurl.com/KZx - Michael Scarpelli
Wow he was pretty white-washed......eh... - Kelly
yeah he does look pretty pale. - Jessie
and I agree, those first shots of him do look like he's wearing a muscle suit ;p - Kelly
Meh. I'll need more than this trailer to make me go, I think. It looks looks a weird combination of PotC & LotR. Also that cast is, generally speaking, very unPerisan. - Soup
YouTube - Angela Zhang - 喜欢你没道理 (Love You Without Reason) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Angela Zhang - 喜欢你没道理 (Love You Without Reason)
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這首歌很煩. >.< - Jessie
都是你喜歡煩的.....XD - Dominic Yang
才怪.我的室友也覺得這首歌很煩. - Jessie
How an Economist's Cry for Ethical Capitalism was Heard | Fast Company - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazin...
"Hertz has been campaigning for the past decade against the mantras of mainstream economists, urging a more ethical form of capitalism. But her message isn't some yoga-infused spiritual quest. As she explained in her 2001 European best seller, The Silent Takeover, it is about the unsustainability -- environmentally, socially, and economically -- of laissez-faire capitalism and the idea that markets are stable. If the surge of corporate power was going to leave governments relatively impotent, Hertz argued, then those corporations themselves needed to fill the void." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
"Drawing on subjects as diverse as anthropology, physics, geopolitics, and neurology, Hertz's economic vision is at once eclectic and holistic, which may explain her apparent ability to foresee dangers and opportunities others do not. It is also relentlessly pointed, serving an explicit agenda -- making corporations realize that they can no longer operate in their Adam Smith -- designed... more... - Jessie
The Associated Press: Human Genome reports positive data on lupus drug - http://www.google.com/hostedn...
"Benlysta is aimed at suppressing the immune system's response to lupus, which is an inflammatory disease prompting the body to attack its own tissue and organs. The anticipated study data, from a clinical program called Bliss-76, showed a 10-milligram dose of Benlysta, plus therapy with steroids, prompted an improvement in 43 percent of patients, compared with an improvement in only 33 percent of patients on the placebo end of the study." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
10% gain over placebo doesn't seem like much, but only 7% from half showing improvement does. - Michael W. May
Why Halloween can be an organizational nightmare for pagans. - By Lee Ann Kinkade - Slate Magazine - http://www.slate.com/id...
Why Halloween can be an organizational nightmare for pagans. - By Lee Ann Kinkade - Slate Magazine
"A few weeks before the ritual comes the discussion. It may begin with a priestess asking what song we should sing for the Spiral Dance, the part of the ritual in which we dance clockwise ("sunwise" is our term for it) to generate energy and to unite us with the god and goddess. One person suggests "There Is No End to the Circle." Any number of coven members nod; the rest groan. Somebody says, "We did that last year." Somebody else: "Exactly. It's traditional with us." Another person asks, "So, we're faux fam-trad now?" A new coven member tries to remember what, exactly, a fam-trad coven is. Inspired by the discussion, someone spontaneously sings out, "There is no end to this song, there is no end." The high priestess glares. Eventually, the debate is resolved simply because everyone is sick of talking about it." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
So a ninja and a vampire walk into bar...
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Your costume came out great! - Anika
thanks! my roommate actually won a prize for hers at her job - two roundtrip tickets to anywhere american airlines flies. i want to work for her company! - Jessie
Wait, I'm confused....I thought ninjas never revealed they're ninjas. plz explain - Kelly
you can't see my face. so you don't know it's me. heh. - Jessie
pffft - Kelly
cool! haha it's fun! - Dominic Yang
Bad drivers? Blame their genes | Oddly Enough | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
"No need to curse that bad driver weaving in and out of the lane in front of you -- he cannot help it, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. They found that people with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people with a different DNA sequence." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
"The gene controls a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which affects memory." - Jessie
does everyone in l.a. have the same genes? - Jessie
The New "White Man's Burden" - elan: The Guide to Global Muslim Culture - http://www.elanthemag.com/index...
"Earlier this month, Dr. Michael Berdine, Director of Cambridge Muslim College (which is not affiliated with Cambridge University but has high hopes that it will be one day), announced the launch of a year-long course, entitled “Contextual Islamic Studies and Leadership,” to teach Muslims how to become an integral part of the British community (because they aren’t already?). Students will study Western intellectual history, Islam and gender, modern political thought, and how to conduct inter-faith dialogue and run mosques and charitable organizations." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
"The program, which has drawn a total of 6 students, was formed partly in response to a government-commissioned study that found that most British citizens believe that Muslims are an enemy within their country. The study attributes the problem to the media’s representation of Islam, which is often negative, skewed and imbalanced. So the logic thing to do, of course, is to change the Muslims - not the media." - Jessie
boo. they should be targeting the media and the general public, rather than the population in question. - Jessie
Pakistani women are worst hit by climate change « GOATMILK: An intellectual playground edited by Wajahat Ali - http://goatmilk.wordpress.com/2009...
"When it comes to climate change population does matter, particularly for countries like Pakistan with an annual growth rate of 2.69 percent[4], will be the sixth most populous country. As poor families struggle to survive, environmental degradation is going to be more pervasive. Long-term sustainable development goals are disregarded in favor of immediate subsistence needs, leaving vulnerable communities specially women at the mercy of climate. Increased use of wood for fuel, abusive use of land and water resources, in the form of overgrazing, over fishing, depletion of fresh water and desertification- are common in rural areas of Pakistan." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
"There seems to be no stopping the runaway population growth here in Pakistan because birth control is often portrayed as anti-people. The country’s political and religious leaders who could make a difference are to blame. They have ignored the explosive population growth completely. Birth control is a taboo topic in Pakistan. In our culture, the larger the number of children, the stronger the family feels. Poverty does not seem to matter." - Jessie
Andre Agassi revelations leave sport in state of shock | U.S. | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
Andre Agassi revelations leave sport in state of shock | U.S. | Reuters
"Eight-times grand slam winner Andre Agassi left the tennis world in a state of shock on Wednesday when he admitted using the recreational drug crystal meth and lying to men's governing body the ATP to escape a ban." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
How disappointing. - Anne Bouey
Rather shocking, but I've gotta say he's the best looking meth head I've seen... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
very disappointing. i wonder if this explains his famous temper. - Jessie
Amazing - is there any sport not tainted with drug use these days? - Jack Norris from email
BRILLIANT « Celebrity Pictures, Lol Celebs and Funny Actor and Actress Photos – ROFLrazzi - http://roflrazzi.com/2009...
BRILLIANT « Celebrity Pictures, Lol Celebs and Funny Actor and Actress Photos – ROFLrazzi
"Using explosions to promote logic and critical thinking. Should be required viewing in every school...and Congress!" - Jessie from Bookmarklet
For gay and straight men, facial attraction operates similarly - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rel...
"A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women. The findings suggest that regardless of sexual orientation, men's brains are wired for attraction to sexually dimorphic faces—those with facial features that are most synonymous with their gender." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
"In this particular study, straight women preferred more masculine-faced men than lesbian women, while lesbians preferred slightly more masculine female faces than straight women or men." - Jessie
"Then I Said, 'One Hump Or Two?'" - Radio City Rockettes - Jezebel - http://jezebel.com/5393212...
"Then I Said, 'One Hump Or Two?'" - Radio City Rockettes - Jezebel
"Rockettes Erin Monteleone and Candace Jublonski pose with camels at Radio City Music Hall October 29, 2009 in New York. Camels, donkeys and sheep posed with the Rockettes as they arrived for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular running November 13-December 30th. AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)" - Jessie from Bookmarklet
'New Jews' stake claim to faith, culture - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
"When Moses came down from Mount Sinai about 3,300 years ago, he couldn't have seen these Jews coming. A blogger writes about how one of Judaism's holiest days ended, for him, in a strip club, while elsewhere a guy strolls into a tattoo parlor requesting a Star of David. Two women exchange wedding vows in a Jewish ceremony, and hipsters toss back bottles of HE'BREW, The Chosen Beer. A full-time software developer prepares to lead a group in Jewish prayer, as a PhD candidate in Jewish thought pens a letter criticizing Israel's policies. Meet the "New Jews," as some call them: pockets of post-baby boomers -- or more accurately Generation X and Millennial (Gen Y) Jews -- who are making one of the world's oldest known monotheistic faiths and its culture work for them and others in a time when, more than ever, affiliation is a choice." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
""When I'm on stage screaming, hitting my face with a microphone and pouring beer on my head, at least I'm singing about the Torah," said the 26-year-old founder of PunkTorah, an outreach effort to inspire Jewish spirituality." - Jessie
The Haunting Of Shirley Jackson - Shirley Jackson - Jezebel - http://jezebel.com/5392917...
The Haunting Of Shirley Jackson - Shirley Jackson - Jezebel
"Jackson had a thriving career writing light domestic pieces, although nowadays she's better remembered for her spine-tingling stories of human perfidy and otherworldly menace. Everyone's read "The Lottery" in school, just one of many amazing short stories - "The Mouse" and "My Uncle in the Garden" are just two that have refused to budge from my conscious. Her last novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castleis haunting and disturbing and has a well-deserved cult following. And then there's Hill House." - Jessie from Bookmarklet
one of my favorite authors! - Jessie
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