• Are lab-grown human sperm the real thing? http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17428-are-la
• Teenage 'baby' may lack master ageing gene http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17379-teenag

The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order’s plans. It’s not about Left or Right: it’s about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you.

This is not even a joke I'd make

In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or overattribution effect) reflects our erroneous cognitive tendency to predominantly over-value dispositional, or personality-based, explanations (i.e., attributions or interpretations) for the observed behaviors of others, thus under-valuing or unacknowledging the potentiality of situational attributions or situational explanations for the behavioral motives of others. In other words, people predominantly presume that the actions of others are indicative of the "kind" of person they are, rather than the kind of situations that compels their behaviour. However, the overattribution effect generally does not account for our own ability to self-justify our behaviours; we tend to prefer interpreting our own actions in terms of the situational variables accessible to our awareness. This discrepancy is called the actor-observer bias and stands in direct opposition of the Fundamental Attribution Error.

The Day the Clown Cried is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It is based on a scriptment of the same name by Joan O'Brien, who had co-written the original script with Charles Denton 10 years prior. The film was met with controversy regarding its premise and content, which features a circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi camp. The Day the Clown Cried has become somewhat infamous among film historians and movie buffs for a film that has never officially been released.

spelt fuck, you.

1. When a wheat flour is labelled "enriched" what's actually being eluded to is that our flour is no longer intact, no longer whole grain. Moreover to achieve such an auspiciousness title our grain has had to remove the majority and probably the whole wheat Germ - the nourishing part - leaving the ground Endosperm (largely carbohydrates and protein). The ground remnants of our wheat probably have the same glycaemic index as white bread.


2. Corn syrup is composed mainly of glucose, that's sugar, for the sake of ease let's say our corn syrup is is good quality and thus 100% glucose. Corn syrup generally used as a lower production cost sugar, or in my tin-foil hat - for disguising the connotations sugar as an ingredient brings on.


3. Now, high fructose corn syrup on the other hand, has gone through a rather tricky piece of chemistry that they - those in the know - label an 'enzymatic processing'. Meaning simply that it's corn syrup that's had some of it's glucose turned into fructose.
   
   Now fructose you may query is indeed the same goodness found in the common apple, or any fruit you might like to cuddle with your teeth; it's sweet sugar. Fructose is in fact glucose, expect for one important difference: it's an 'isomer'. And that kids, means that our sugary deceiver fructose has changed the way it looks, it's shirt buttons up differently but it's still the same shirt; the molecular formula for glucose and fructose is exactly the same (!), except the molecules are connected; bonded; configured; differently.
   
   ENTER THE EXPLANATORY WIKIPEDIA PICTURES: Glucose on the left, Fructose on the right
   
   
   
   At the end of the day it takes a wee bit longer for your stomach to get at the sugar as it needs to convert the fructose into glucose - or so I'm led to believe.


4. I think it's safe if I skip number four on the ingredients: sugar


5. And vegetable shortening is a dead horse that has been beaten, or 100% fat, fat which is solid at room temperature.

SITTING in my office last week, facing the man whom I had just fired, I thought of the contrast between that interview and our first one, nearly two years ago! Then he did almost all the talking, while I listened with eager interest. Last week it was I who talked, while he sulked like a petulant child.

"Your contract has sixteen months to run," I said. "My proposition is that we cancel it at once, and that I hand you this check for ten thousand dollars."

With a show of bravado he waved the check aside. He would hold me to the letter of the contract if it were the last thing he ever did.

I told him he had that privilege, but I was sure he would see the futility of exercising it.

"Let me review the situation for a moment," I continued: "You came to us as general sales manager on January 1st, 1922, at a salary of twenty-five thousand dollars. It was by far the largest salary we had ever paid in any executive position; but your record seemed to justify it.

"The letters you brought spoke in the highest terms of your sales genius. The only question which they did not answer to my satisfaction was why companies which had valued you so highly should ever have allowed you to get away! When I voiced this, you stated that they merely had been outbid by their competitors -- and I accepted your statement. It wasn't until you had been here a year that I learned the truth. You are a quick starter, but a poor finisher -- no finisher at all, in fact."

"Who told you that?" he demanded.

"Nobody needed to tell me. I found it out from your effect on our own organization."

"Organization!" he sneered. "You haven't got an organization."

"So you have remarked to me frequently," I answered; "and you may be right. Our folks have mostly grown up in our own business; they know comparatively little of the way in which things are done in other lines. That's what we wanted you to teach us, and you were very sure that you could . . . We were all receptive."

"Yes, you were!" he exclaimed scornfully. "Your folks were jealous from the day I arrived. They sat back and dared me to show results. I told you that six months ago."

"I remember you did," I replied, "and my answer is just what it was then. You claim to be a brilliant salesman, and yey you failed in the first essential. You never sold yourself to the people with whom and through whom you had to work. You say they were jealous, but a man of your intelligence ought to know that the answer to jealousy is modesty, hard work -- and results. The would have jumped on your band wagon fast enough if you had made them see the advantage of it. But after waiting around for the band wagon to start, they concluded that it wasn't going to start, and it never has.

"You brought your own assistants, and we paid them high salaries," I went on. "You moved our offices away from the plant and took these expensive quarters in the center of town. You were given a sales and advertising budget more than twice as large as any we have ever had before. Every request you made I granted as whole-heartedly as I knew how, because I believed that your fresh ideas were what this business needed. But twenty months have passed, and the sales simply have not grown.

"That's the stubborn fact which can't be blinked; and now it's come to a point where I must choose between you and my good old wheel horses who, in spite of their mediocrity, have somehow managed to build a very profitable business.

"You can stay here until your contract expires, but you will have no further responsibilites. The news will get around that you are merely hanging on; and when the end comes you will step out, discredited, to look for another job. Or you can leave now with ten thousand dollars, which is the additional penalty I am willing to pay for my mistake in judgment. If you go in the proper spirit, you are still young enough to profit by your failure."

In late 1764, while repairing a small Newcomen steam engine, the idea of allowing steam to expand and condense in separate containers sprang into the mind of James Watt. He spent the next few months in unceasing labor building a model of the new engine. In 1768, after a series of improvements and substantial borrowing, he applied for a patent on the idea. August found Watt in London about the patent and he spent another six months working hard to obtain it. The patent was finally awarded in January of the following year. Nothing much happened by way of production until 1775. Then, with a major effort supported by his business partner, the rich industrialist Matthew Boulton, Watt secured an Act of Parliament extending his patent until the year 1800. The great statesman Edmund Burke spoke eloquently in Parliament in the name of economic freedom and against the creation of unnecessary monopoly – but to no avail. The connections of Watt’s partner Boulton were too solid to be defeated by simple principle.

...

In most histories, James Watt is a heroic inventor, responsible for the beginning of the industrial revolution. The facts above suggest an alternative interpretation. Watt is one of many clever inventors working to improve steam power in the second
half of the eighteenth century. After getting one step ahead of the pack, he remained ahead not by superior innovation, but by superior exploitation of the legal system.

who walked all night with their shoes full of blood on
the snowbank docks waiting for a door in the
East River to open to a room full of steamheat
and opium,

...

who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism
and subsequently presented themselves on the
granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads
and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding in-
stantaneous lobotomy,

and who were given instead the concrete void of insulin
Metrazol electricity hydrotherapy psycho-
therapy occupational therapy pingpong &
amnesia,

...

with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered
out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand
years.

with mother finally ******, and the last fantastic book
flung out of the tenement window, and the last
door closed at 4. A.M. and the last telephone
slammed at the wall in reply and the last fur-
nished room emptied down to the last piece of
mental furniture, a yellow paper rose twisted
on a wire hanger in the closet, and even that
imaginary, nothing but a hopeful little bit of
hallucination

kangaroo leather what what

Dear Scholarship Applicant,

 

Congratulations!  I am pleased to advise you that you have been made a scholarship offer in Queensland University of Technology's 2009 Postgraduate Research Scholarship Round.

 

The offer pack has been sent in an Express Post envelope to your nominated mailing address, so you should receive it within the next couple of days.

It’s silly to think responsible types would or wouldn't want to go out drinking. Surely the decision comes down to whether or not your already drunk. Obviously someone who was already drunk wouldn’t want to go out and drink because they are already out drinking... just think, if you kept going out and drinking while out drinking, you’d run into the double mirror effect and end up drinking yourself into a singularity.

It is the first time that detail is being provided about the plan, with confirmation of a "two-tiered" approach. The first tier will use a compulsory URL blacklist (currently containing around 1300 URLs), of sites said to contain "child sex abuse material". Importantly, this does not involve rules based algorithms, and the pilot is expected to test both URL blocking and IP based blocking of sites on this list.

The list currently operates on a complaints based mechanism, meaning that it only contains sites that have been submitted as prohibited content under the Broadcasting Services Act. However, ACMA intends to augment the list with sites collected by UK and US based organisations.