William Shatner aka “The Shat” has a new gig as the Admiral on My Outerspace dot com
The site is completely SiFi themed and subdivided in to ships and planets where the members interests can be explored.
The planet Orpheus has a musical theme and the Galaxy is where Sci-Fi Fans and MYOUTERSPACE observers participate in discussions, view videos, and communicate with the MYOUTERSPACE community.
But my favorite planet is Creatia:
Creatia
People like writers, directors, and playwrights call this planet home. Creatia hosts a creative environment for thinkers of all kinds like writers, directors, and playwrights, who call this Planet home. Become a citizen of Creatia today and take advantage of the rich resources that this planet offers its citizens.
Obviously writers, directors, playwrights and the other masters of redundancy are welcome, but editors are strictly persona non grata.
The site’s been kicking around since 2009 so it’s still young and the only thing about it that bothers me, aside from the copy being written by someone from the Department Of Redundancy Department, is Shat’s green hair. I wonder if it’s supposed to be a joke, or if knocking boots with all those different colored women has finally taken it’s toll.
Vremya Novostei: The content of toxic substances – lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, radioactive nuclides, caesium, pesticides and ergot – must be restricted in the Russian beer. Parasites of bread reserves – insects and ticks – must not appear in the production process. Beer must be made without the use of ethyl alcohol. Labels on the end product must provide full and true information for customers. These are a few of the new technical regulations on beer.
They are also regulating the amount of beer in special beer. It must contain at least 80% beer.
Beer based soft drinks and cocktails must contain at least 40% beer.
Beer based soft drinks??…. Only in Russia.
The Colorado River Toad or Bufo alvarius, also known as the Sonoran Desert Toad, is a psychoactive toad found in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The skin and venom of Bufo alvarius contain 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin.
Here’s the potential problem:
Owning this toad is not illegal, but the substance it secretes is a “controlled substance.” So you don’t need to worry about some wildlife agency busting you for possessing and/or licking this critter, but since it produces a controlled substance you might need to worry about the DEA.
And yes, there are people who actually lick this toad to get high. –Although it seems to me that if you’re running around licking toads…. you probably don’t need to get any higher.
There’s no word yet on a PETA campaign to rename the Colorado River Toad to “land puppies” to try and stop the practice.
So, how many of you read this as “Erotica?”
It’s a phonecard based on a character developed by Pro Wrestling Revolution.
Here we have, for your edification and enjoyment, a classic case of — they got paid to do a study that produced nothing more than a ream or so of never to be read “scientific” papers and fewer trees.
www.telegraph.co.uk – Why men will judge a woman in milliseconds:
Professor Mark van Vugt and Dr Johanna van Hooff, from the University of Amsterdam, and postgraduate student Helen Crawford, from the University of Kent, were behind the study which is to be published by the Oxford Journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Prof van Vugt said: “Men definitely have the most wandering eye but it is because they have evolved to pay attention to cues of fertility and one of those cues is facial beauty – it’s not that men are shallow.
“But we found they do make snap judgments about women, much earlier than was previously thought. They make that decision on whether a woman would be a good mating partner in milliseconds.
“This is something very ancient and a way of helping men find the best mate to produce children.
“Women were not distracted by attractive male faces because women need more proof of whether a man is a good mate.
“Women make that decision on behaviour, whether a man is trustworthy and committed. They make their decision much later than men.”
Now I wonder how much money went into the exercise in overstating the obvious.
I recently passed on a 1200mm Nikon lens that was listed on eBay because of my on experience with an old Canon 1200mm. It was waaay too much lens for casual use.
Now we have this Canon 5200mm lens from 1962 that was recently listed on eBay. –If I recall correctly they only made one of these, and while I can’t swear to it, it seems to me that it only brought $55k at auction.
•Focal Length: 5150mm
•Exposure Control: Light quantity is controlled with the use of built-in ND filters, corresponding to f/14, f/16, f/22, f/32
•Minimum Object Distance: 120 meters (Approx 393 feet!)
•Size: 500mm(wide) x 600mm(high) x 1890mm(deep) [20x24x75.6]
•Weight: 100kg (220 lbs) without stand.
From the Brochure:
Is it just me or does the picture in the top right corner look like something out of a weapons of the future article?
Now the $64,000 question: What the hell would you do with it?
Better yet: What uber-secret government project was it built for?
It’s not like you could carry it out into the field under cover of darkness take your shot and sneak back. So that pretty much lets out most military and spy applications, and the mount seems to preclude any astronomical applications.
I know: It was built to watch the girls on the beach at Malibu………… from Omaha.
Delta Airlines sent two children fling under the airline’s unaccompanied minors program two the wrong cities.
A boy destined for Boston wound up in Cleveland and a girl bound for Cleveland wound up in Boston. The airline said it was because of a paperwork mix up.
news.com.au: Delta said the children were connecting through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, US on Tuesday when they were put on the wrong connecting flights because of a “paperwork swap.”
Delta spokesman Paul Skrbec on Wednesday said a boy ended up in Cleveland instead of Boston while a girl was sent to Boston instead of Cleveland. He would not release information about the children, citing passenger privacy. [....]
Delta said it has apologized to the families, sent the children to their final destinations at no cost, arranged full refunds for the children’s tickets and provided credits to the families for future travel.
“A paperwork swap?” Does this mean the airlines put illiterates who couldn’t read the paperwork well enough to tell if it was for a boy or a girl in charge of these children, or was it the same baggage handler who sends my luggage to O’Hare when I’m headed to Dallas Fort Worth?
It also makes you wonder if they have a warehouse for unclaimed children?
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