Matthew McConaughey was arrested by Austin, Texas police in October 1999 and charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after a neighbor called to complain about music blaring from the actor’s crib. When cops arrived, they found McConaughey dancing around in the buff and playing bongo drums. The drug charges against McConaughey were eventually dropped, though the star did plead guilty to violating Austin’s noise ordinance, for which he paid a $50 fine.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1951
Proving once again that there is nothing new under the sun, the creator of Ghost Busters 1954 puts together movies young Lucas and Spielberg grew up with to bring us Raiders of the Lost Ark, a 1951 film starring Charlton Heston.
Forrest Gump (1949)
You always knew Tom Hanks was the reincarnation of Jimmy Stewart.
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20 coolest atheist T-shirts for sale on the web
From Richard Dawkins’ lectures to the polemics of Christopher Hitchens, atheism has never been so stridently asserted.
The war of words between believers and non-believers is being fought in books, on television screens, and even on the front of T-shirts.
Below we have selected 20 of the coolest and funniest atheist tops on the web, for anyone wanting to make a public statement of their skepticism.
We’ve also gathered 20 humorous Christian shirts, so you can decide which side is winning the fashion war.
1) Zeus to Reason
Available from: Atheists T-Shirts
Price: $19.99
2) Distrusted minority
Available from: CafePress
Designed by: The Affable Atheist’s Store
Price: £16.50
3) What would Dawkins do?
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: PlasticXstars
Price: £13.95
4) Atheist wine club
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: Plowchdr
Price: £15.95
5) Which day did God make all the fossils?
Available from: Atheist T Shirts
Price: £9.99
6) No-one has been stoned to death by atheists
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: Wearealone
Price: £17.35
7) God works in mysterious ways
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: Tallycherise
Price: £13.95
Dawkins&Dennett&Harris&Hitchens
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: Onelessgod
Price: £26.45
9) Born OK The First Time
Available from: CafePress
Designed by: Best in the Verse
Price: £14.00
10) Atheists do it unsupervised
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: GodlessGifts
Price: £23.00
11) Atheists have morals too
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: Gloom7
Price: £13.95
12) Don’t pray in my school, and I won’t think in your church
Available from: Atheist T Shirts
Price: £9.99
13) Imaginary friend
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: GenepoolDesign
Price: £24.75
14) Sleep with an atheist
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: TaylorX04
Price: £13.95
15) Science, Dawkins, Rock&Roll
Available from: Zazzle
Designed by: Atheist Apparel
Price: £16.95
16) iFraud
Available from: Atheists Online
Price: $19.99
17) Roman Lions
Available from: Atheists Online
Price: $19.99
18) Separation of church and state
Available from: Atheists T-Shirts
Price: $24.99
19) Wait, what?
Available from: CafePress
Designed by: FireTime Studios
Price: £14.00
20) Darwin is my homeboy
Available from: CafePress
Designed by: Darwin is my homeboy
Price: £14.00
via 20 coolest atheist T-shirts for sale on the web – Telegraph.
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Sep 9
These are a few videos of some crazy idiots and the babies they shouldn’t be allowed to look after.
Crazy baby swing – Watch more Funny Videos
And this is what all the fuss has been about in the australian and global news…
Christopher Charles Illingworth, a 60-year-old freelance journalist from Maroochydore on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, was charged over allegedly sharing the video using the Liveleak website.
Guy swingin his baby by the arms – Watch more Funny Videos
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Jaffa Cakes relatively harmless, survey reveals
By Lester Haines • Get more from this author
Posted in Bootnotes, 8th September 2009 09:10 GMT
A disturbing probe into the potential for apparently innocent biscuits’ ability to do harm has revealed that an astounding 25 million Brits have been injured while indulging in some light coffee/tea break snack action, with 500 victims requiring hospital treatment.
That’s according to research outfit Mindlab International, which determined that almost a third of adults had been scalded by hot beverages while dunking, 26 per cent had choked on crumbs and ten per cent had broken a tooth or filling while getting their laughing gear round a biscuit.
Rather more seriously, seven per cent of Britons have dropped a biscuit tin on their foot, three per cent have fallen off a chair reaching for vital nourishment, and an equal percentage have poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit.
Seven per cent admitted to have been bitten while feeding a tasty biscuit morsel to a pet or “other wild animal”. The most extreme example of biscuit-related mishap, however, was the case of the man who got stuck in wet concrete after wading in to retrieve a stray biccy.
Mindlab also carried out a “Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation” (BITE) to determine which was Blighty’s deadliest biscuit. Mindlab International director Dr David Lewis explained: “We tested the physical properties of 15 popular types of biscuits, along with aspects of their consumption such as ‘dunkability’ and crumb dispersal.
“Then one of our mathematicians correlated these findings with research data and responses from a nationwide survey of 1,000 adults.”
The chilling result is that the public would do well to eye the Custard Cream with suspicion, since it topped the list with a BITE risk rating of 5.63. That’s compared with 4.34 for your common-or-garden Cookie, in second spot, and 4.12 for next-placed Choc Biscuit Bar.
Those of you who like sucking a Ginger Nut will be relieved to learn that they’re relatively risk-free, rating 2.99 in ninth place. Anyone not wanting to chance their arm should stick to Jaffa Cakes, since they bottomed the list with an almost harmless 1.16.
Mike Driver, marketing director for biscuit manufacturers Rocky, which commissioned the survey, concluded: “Working with biscuits every day, we’d long suspected they’re not as innocent as they look – and we were right.”
Here’s the full biscuit risk rating listing:
Custard Cream: 5.64
Cookie: 4.34
Choc Biscuit Bar: 4.12
Wafer: 3.74
Rich Tea: 3.45
Bourbon: 3.44
Oat Biscuit: 3.31
Digestive: 3.14
Ginger Nut: 2.99
Shortbread: 2.90
Caramel Shortcake: 2.76
Nice Biscuit: 2.27
Iced Biscuits/Party Rings: 2.16
Chocolate Finger: 1.38
Jaffa Cakes: 1.16
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By John Baichtal September 4, 2009 | 8:30 am | Categories: Armchair Geek
Credit: Eliot Phillips (Community Commons) for Wired.com
Have you ever noticed certain cocktails are perfect for specific geeky pursuits? Whether it’s a special kind of ‘tini for tinkering or a hearty grog for saluting an awesome rocket launch, we (non-teetotaler) adults appreciate a cocktail that complements our hobbies. Here are some examples to sample over this long weekend as you pursue whatever it is that makes your geeky heart happy:
Sissy Klingon
Activity: Good for softening the blow of ‘The Undiscovered Country.’
If you can’t handle real Blood Wine, pataQ, try this one out. Strong, sweet and sophisticated, just like Worf circa TNG, when he couldn’t win a fight to save his life.
Instructions: Mix the booze together in a shaker and pour over ice. Add the Jolt to taste.
Neon Geek (Matt Blum)
Activity: Good for drinking with action shows/movies.
(Sodas are listed in order of preference.) Mix together with ice, then pour into a margarita glass. Garnish with mint.
Green Acres Punch
Activity: Great for relaxing after (not before!) some heavy-duty carpentry.
Instructions: All of the ingredients should be combined and left in a container overnight. Strain the next day, then refrigerate and drink at your leisure. Pour the punch into a glass and garnish with a lime wheel and mint sprig.
*Demerara syrup can be made in a pot over low heat on stove top.
2 parts demerara sugar to 1 part water. Heat and stir until dissolved.
Romulan Ale
Activity: Drink while rewatching TNG episodes.
Instructions: Mix all ingredients together. Pour into a tall, narrow glass. Add a grain of salt.
(Via webtender.com)
Sazerac Cocktail (Bill Gurstelle)
Activity: Sipping while sitting in a leather easy chair reading Douglas Adams’ ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide.’
In 2008 the Louisiana House of Representatives voted to make the Sazerac the official cocktail of New Orleans. It’s a great mix of flavors and packs a kick. A favorite with those who understand the art of living dangerously.
Chill an old-fashioned glass by filling it with ice and water. In second old-fashioned glass, mix together sugar, bitters, and 1/2 teaspoon water thoroughly. Add cognac or whiskey and remaining 1/2 cup ice, and stir well, at least 15 seconds. Take the chilled glass, discard ice and water and pour in absinthe. Swirl it around so the absinthe coats the interior of the glass. Add rye whiskey mixture into the chilled, absinthe-coated glass. Add lemon peel and enjoy.
The Princess Leia
Activity: Writing yourself into your favorite fanfic.
Classy yet strong, just like its namesake. The acai-flavored VeeV adds a little tang to your ‘pagne while the gin supplies the kick.
In a champagne flute, add the VeeV and Sapphire, stir, then top off glass with your sparkling wine or champagne of choice.
Sapphire Collins
Activity: Harvesting parts from a busted piece of consumer electronics.
Instructions: Pour first three ingredients into a Collins glass with ice and stir well. Add more ice and top with club soda. Garnish with a lemon wedge.
Royal Tea (Royalty) (Curtis Silver)
Activity: I like to drink while using the Adobe Creative Suite to edit videos and pictures of my kids.
Fill 16oz cup up with ice to brim, then iced tea to three quarters cup. Fill in rest with Crown Royal. Cut a lemon in half. Squeeze one into the cup and discard. Take the other half and cut it into fours. Put that right into the drink
(via Don Martelli, Boston PR Madman.)
Cherry Grog (Michael Harrison)
Activity: Perfect for a night spent powerleveling your guildies through Deadmines (again) or roleplaying your way through the pirate city of Freeport. Splice the main brace, mateys; just don’t overdo it and pull a Leeroy Jenkins, ya lightweight.
Instructions: Fill glass with cracked ice and drop a shot or two of spirits over the ice. Fill the rest up with the Game Fuel. Add a splash of juice and garnish with a wedge of lime
The Mom Mellowing Cocktail (Corrina Lawson)
Activity: It is best consumed after a long, exhausting day, to clear the mind.
This is your basic soda & hard liquor mixed drink but I drink it for two reasons:
1. I cannot drink vodka straight.
2. It is somewhat low calorie, with the use of diet soda.
Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (Matt Blum)
Activity: Best to drink with the old HHGttG TV show or the decidedly-mediocre movie.
There are multiple versions this legendary Hitchhikers Guide beverage. This one comes from webtender.
Instructions: Fill Collins glass with ice. Add 2 oz. of vodka and 1 oz. triple sec. Fill glass almost to the top with pineapple juice, add Grenadine for color, and top off the glass with 7-Up or Slice. Shake or stir until the drink turns a light orange-pink color.
Humongor (Curtis Silver)
Activity: All-night HALO benders.
Mix 50% Jonnie Walker (didn’t use the cheap stuff to avoid headaches) and 50% Mountain Dew, warm, in a large sports cup. CHUG.
The Ramos Gin Fizz
Activity: This cocktail takes a lot of shaking to fix — great for combining with dice-shaking activities like D&D or Yahtzee!
Ah. Born in 1887 to Henry Charles “Carl” Ramos. Not technically a cocktail, but a fizz. A morning-after drink for clearing the haze after you’ve had a few too many the night before. Downright delicious; a creamy, frothy, fragrant, lovely way to set things right again with the dawning day.
Pour the citrus and egg white in a Boston Shaker with the spring from a
Hawthorn strainer and dry shake for one minute. Keep ingredients in the tin
and in the glass add the Gin, Cointreau, Cream, and Simple Syrup. Fill with
ice reconnect with the tin and Shake for one minute. Strain into a large
Highball glass (no ice,) top with Club soda, and garnish with Orange Flower
Water.
(Note: Learn more about the Ramos Gin Fizz on John Park’s website.)
Lucid Frappe
Activity: Great for moistening a parched throat after an invigorating soldering session.
Muddle mint leaves in the bottom of a frappe style glass. Add absinthe, simple syrup and fill with crushed ice. Pour mixture into shaker and shake vigorously. Pour contents into glass, top with splash of soda water and garnish with mint sprig.
Original Story: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/09/a-dozen-geeky-cocktails-for-your-labor-day-weekend/
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By John Scott Lewinski September 2, 2009 | 3:57 pm | Categories: sci-fi
Though 11 actors have now played the lead role in Doctor Who, most sci-fi fans older than 30 have only one image in mind when considering The Doctor: A tall, wide-eyed man with a mop of dark, curly hair and a toothy smile that seems to pop up at the least-appropriate times. He wears a mismatched outfit, a wide-brimmed hat and a foolishly long, multicolored scarf.
That’s the fourth Doctor, who propelled the long-running British show to its highest British ratings in the 1970s and appeared in most of the BBC’s first exports of the show to U.S. PBS stations in the early 1980s.
That’s Tom Baker’s Doctor — the one who’s finally returning to the show’s universe after almost 30 years in a Who-less void.
Baker stars in Doctor Who: Hornet’s Nest, a five-part adventure series for BBC audio dramas. The first episode (”The Stuff of Nightmares”) will be released Thursday in the United Kingdom, with subsequent episodes arriving Oct. 8 (”The Dead Shoes”) and Nov. 5 (”The Circus of Doom”). The final two parts (”A Sting in the Tale” and “Hive of Horror”) arrive Dec. 3.
Baker took a few moments following the recording of all five episodes to tell Wired.com about his experience coming back to the role and the character who made him a legend. Fans have been calling for his return for years, and something about Hornet’s Nest’s mix of material and co-stars made it happen now.
“The BBC caught me at a good moment,” Baker said. “And part of the bait was dear Nicholas Courtney, who was to play the Brigadier. Unfortunately, he was unwell and had to be replaced before recording. So I carried on and pretended Nick was there.”
With Courtney out of the picture, Richard Franklin stepped in to play Capt. Mike Yates, the Brigadier’s one-time right-hand man. Baker said Franklin filled in just fine as someone to whom The Doctor could tell his tales.
While lost in the rigors of recording, Baker never heard the statements made by outgoing, 21st-century Doctor Who producer Russell T. Davies. When asked about how he cast David Tennant, Davies admitted looking to Baker for inspiration.
“Tom Baker and The Doctor was the single best marriage of an actor to a role in TV history,” Davies said.
Baker had no problem getting on board with that sentiment.
“I often agree with Russell,” he said. “He is spot-on. Playing the role is easier than putting on an old pair of boots. I said that I never stopped being Doctor Who — not when I walked off the set every day in the ’70s and not since I left the show. I said ‘never’ and I mean it.
“How could I stop? The Doctor was just Tom Baker. No acting. So, when it came time to record [Hornet's Nest], I just dropped into the studio and picked up the script and away we went. Just like the old days.”
Meanwhile, these exciting “new days” could be continuing, as Baker made it clear he’d consider returning once again to audio adventures in the near future.
“If the fans like them, then there will be more,” he said.
via Timeless Tom Baker Makes Return Trip to Doctor Who | Underwire | Wired.com.
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I thought this was hilarious. I really can’t stand people that love their headlights sssooooooo much that they have to show everyone.
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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been switched on and, counter to some doomsday predictions, the world is still turning. Here are 10 other dates in history when apocalyptic predictions failed to come to fruition.
Published: 7:03PM BST 10 Sep 2008
Oct 3 1533 – Michael Stifel, a German associate of Martin Luther, urged his small band of followers to sell all their property after becoming convinced by his mathematical study of the Bible that the end of the world was approaching. On the appointed day he led his followers to the top of a hill so they could be delivered to heaven. A few hours later, with the world very much intact, he hurried down the hill and had to be locked in a local prison for his own protection.
Oct 22 1844 – Millerites, followers of the American Baptist preacher William Miller, became convinced that the end of the world had been predicted in Daniel 8:14. After a few false dawns, the date was set as Oct 22 1844. That day is now known, for obvious reasons, as the Great Disappointment. Most Millerites subsequently rejected their faith.
1914 – Jehovah’s Witnesses have now stopped predicting exact dates for the end of the world after a string of high-profile failures. Charles Taze Russell, who founded the Watch Tower magazine, calculated that Jesus Christ would impose his rule on earth in 1914. The outbreak of the First World War seemed to lend support to his Armageddon prediction, but there was no Second Coming.
1969 – Charles Manson believed that simmering racial tensions in the US would erupt into an Apocalyptic race war, after which his band of criminals – the “Manson Family” – would rule the world. When no race war erupted, his gang began a killing spree to “show the blacks how to do it”. Manson is currently serving life for murder.
1980s – The US evangelist Hal Lindsey believed that Armageddon would follow the expansion of the EU into a 10 country United States of Europe ruled by the Antichrist. He never set a date for the end of the world but hinted that a final battle between good and evil was imminent. He still broadcasts his biblical prophecies on evangelist networks.
Sept 11-13 1988 – Former Nasa engineer Edgar Whisenant sold 4.5 million copies of his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988, mostly to evangelical US Christians. Follow-up works, which revised the prediction for dates in the 1990s, failed to sell as well.
1993 – David Koresh and more than 100 followers barricaded themselves into the Branch Davidian ranch in Waco, Texas, to await the end of the world. They were surrounded by the FBI in a 51-day siege that was only ended by a fire that killed 76 of those inside, including Koresh.
Match 1997 – Members of UFO cult Heaven’s Gate believed that the appearance of the Hale-Bopp comet signaled that the Earth was due for imminent destruction. The only way to “survive” the end of the world was to commit suicide so their souls could board a spaceship travelling behind the comet. The bodies of 38 devotees were found in a house in California on March 26.
Jan 1 2000 – Dozens of Christian cults predicted the turn of the millennium would coincide with the Second Coming of Christ and the end of the world. Concerns that the Y2K computer bug would collapse computer systems stoked an atmosphere of impending doom. But, as ever, life went on as normal. Carlos Roa, the Argentine goalkeeper who declined to negotiate a new contract at his Spanish club because he was convinced the world would end, returned later in the season.
May 2008 – Thirty-five members of a cult called the True Russian Orthodox Church spent six months in a cave in anticipation of the apocalypse predicted by their leader Pyotr Kuznetsov. They began to emerge from their makeshift underground home after the roof began to collapse in March. Kuznetsov, who never accompanied his followers into the cave, has been ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment by a Russian court.
via Large Hadron Collider: 10 other dates when the world failed to end – Telegraph.
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Beflief in the Rapture is widespread among US Christians Photo: REUTERS
By Matthew Moore | Published: 8:00AM BST 29 Aug 2009
Now a group of atheists in the US have come up with a tongue-in-cheek solution, offering to take in the cats and dogs of “saved” believers in return for a small fee.
All the atheists signed up by Eternal Earth-Bound Pets are self-confessed sinners and blasphemers, guaranteeing they will be left behind when the chosen are selected
The business idea is an irreverent attempt to cash in on the belief – widespread among US Christians – that the pious will be carried up to heaven by God in a sudden swoop, leaving unbelievers to endure the seven-year reign of the anti-Christ on Earth.
According to some polls, as many as 55 per cent of Americans believe in the notion of the Rapture.
“You’ve committed your life to Jesus. You know you’re saved. But when the Rapture comes what’s to become of your loving pets who are left behind?” the group’s website asks.
“Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind.”
For $110, the firm promises lifetime care for almost all domestic pets if their owners are transported to heaven within the next ten years.
The offer may sound far-fetched, and even a little provocative, but the group insists it is not joking.
It claims to have a network of pet-loving atheists spread across 20 states to ensure speedy, local animal care wherever the Rapture occurs, and has established a PayPal account to take subscriptions.
The founders also assure believers that their animals will enjoy an excellent quality of life: “All pets will live in loving homes, not in animal shelters or pet ‘mills’.”
And while the company promises that all its atheist carers are moral people with no criminal records, it stresses that they are not too saintly.
“Each of our representatives has stated to us in writing that they are atheists, do not believe in God / Jesus, and that they have blasphemed in accordance with Mark 3:29, negating any chance of salvation,” the website states.
But potential customers would be advised to read the terms and conditions before forking out their $110; if the subscriber loses their faith or is not Raputered in the next 10 years, they are not entitled to a refund.
The venture follows the launch last year of a new internet service designed to allow Christian subscribers to send emails to non-believing friends and relatives after the Rapture.
via Atheists offer to care for Christians’ pets after the Rapture – Telegraph.
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