Thursday, December 10, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
LAX, SAN, SFO, OAK, SJC to Honolulu $175 Each Way
Starting January 5, you can fly for a more reasonable price from Hawaii’s single-most important market, California. Perhaps most importantly, this price is currently available over the typically very expensive (March and April) Spring break period. Don’t wait if you want to travel over those dates.
Here’s the deal:
$370 round trip (all-inclusive). Price is based on $389, then using Hawaiian Affiliate code for 5% discount.
Hawaiian Airlines
Airports: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, (Sacramento slightly higher).
Availability: excellent from about January 5 through May 11 for West Coast departures
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Here’s the deal:
$370 round trip (all-inclusive). Price is based on $389, then using Hawaiian Affiliate code for 5% discount.
Hawaiian Airlines
Airports: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, (Sacramento slightly higher).
Availability: excellent from about January 5 through May 11 for West Coast departures
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Scientists grow pork meat in a laboratory
SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish.
The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing to eat it.
So far the scientists have not tasted it, but they believe the breakthrough could lead to sausages and other processed products being made from laboratory meat in as little as five years’ time.
They initially extracted cells from the muscle of a live pig. Called myoblasts, these cells are programmed to grow into muscle and repair damage in animals.
The cells were then incubated in a solution containing nutrients to encourage them to multiply indefinitely. This nutritious “broth” is derived from the blood products of animal foetuses, although the intention is to come up with a synthetic solution.
The result was sticky muscle tissue that requires exercise, like human muscles, to turn it into a tougher steak-like consistency.
“You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals,” said Mark Post, professor of physiology at Eindhoven University, who is leading the Dutch government-funded research.
Post and his colleagues have so far managed to develop a soggy form of pork and are seeking to improve its texture. “What we have at the moment is rather like wasted muscle tissue,” Post said.
“We need to find ways of improving it by training it and stretching it, but we will get there. This product will be good for the environment and will reduce animal suffering. If it feels and tastes like meat, people will buy it.”
At present there is a question mark over the taste as laboratory rules prevent the scientists eating the fruits of their labour.
The Dutch experiments follow the creation of “fish fillets” derived from goldfish muscle cells in New York and pave the way for laboratory-grown chicken, beef and lamb.
The project, which is backed by a sausage manufacturer and has received £2m from the Dutch government, is seeking additional public funds to improve the technology.
Global meat and dairy product consumption is expected to double by 2050, according to the United Nations. This could have an unprecedented impact on climate change because the warming effect on the atmosphere of methane, a digestive by-product from farm animals, is 23 times greater than that of carbon dioxide. The UN has attributed 18% of the world’s greenhouse gases to livestock.
The Vegetarian Society reacted cautiously yesterday, saying: “The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered. It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust.” Peta, the animal rights group, said: “As far as we’re concerned, if meat is no longer a piece of a dead animal there’s no ethical objection.”
The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing to eat it.
So far the scientists have not tasted it, but they believe the breakthrough could lead to sausages and other processed products being made from laboratory meat in as little as five years’ time.
They initially extracted cells from the muscle of a live pig. Called myoblasts, these cells are programmed to grow into muscle and repair damage in animals.
The cells were then incubated in a solution containing nutrients to encourage them to multiply indefinitely. This nutritious “broth” is derived from the blood products of animal foetuses, although the intention is to come up with a synthetic solution.
The result was sticky muscle tissue that requires exercise, like human muscles, to turn it into a tougher steak-like consistency.
“You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals,” said Mark Post, professor of physiology at Eindhoven University, who is leading the Dutch government-funded research.
Post and his colleagues have so far managed to develop a soggy form of pork and are seeking to improve its texture. “What we have at the moment is rather like wasted muscle tissue,” Post said.
“We need to find ways of improving it by training it and stretching it, but we will get there. This product will be good for the environment and will reduce animal suffering. If it feels and tastes like meat, people will buy it.”
At present there is a question mark over the taste as laboratory rules prevent the scientists eating the fruits of their labour.
The Dutch experiments follow the creation of “fish fillets” derived from goldfish muscle cells in New York and pave the way for laboratory-grown chicken, beef and lamb.
The project, which is backed by a sausage manufacturer and has received £2m from the Dutch government, is seeking additional public funds to improve the technology.
Global meat and dairy product consumption is expected to double by 2050, according to the United Nations. This could have an unprecedented impact on climate change because the warming effect on the atmosphere of methane, a digestive by-product from farm animals, is 23 times greater than that of carbon dioxide. The UN has attributed 18% of the world’s greenhouse gases to livestock.
The Vegetarian Society reacted cautiously yesterday, saying: “The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered. It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust.” Peta, the animal rights group, said: “As far as we’re concerned, if meat is no longer a piece of a dead animal there’s no ethical objection.”
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Snow Summit's Opening Day is Thanksgiving Thursday!
Chair 1-Miracle Mile and Chair 8-Bear Bottom Beginner area will be open tomorrow at Snow Summit for the 09/10 winter season. Chair 5-Central Park run at Bear Mountain is open and as snowmaking progresses more lifts and runs will be available at both resorts. Lift hours this weekend are 8:30am to 4:00 pm. Rates will be $35 for Adults (22+), $30 for Young Adults (13-21), and $15 for Children (7-12). Remember one ticket is good at both resorts! We recommend reserving your tickets for Thursday-Sunday on-line NOW to guarantee your place on the snow this weekend. Ticket availability will be limited. Same day reservations are not available. Click HERE for reservations.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Bacon Stuff is Awesome
Ok, I've blogged about bacon before ... just because news about bacon is just always awesome:
100 Ways to use strips of bacon
Bacon-infused Vodka
So here's something else that's baconlicious:
Bacon flavored envelopes
get 'em here
100 Ways to use strips of bacon
Bacon-infused Vodka
So here's something else that's baconlicious:
Bacon flavored envelopes
get 'em here
Cookin' with Coolio
yeah .... really, Coolio came out with a cookbook. Here's some funny quotes from the cookbook I might actually buy.
1. "I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray."
2. "This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison."
3. "Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex."
4. "[My mom's] fried chicken would literally put on tennis shoes and run the fuck into your mouth."
5. "Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples."
6. "Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna."
7. On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."
8. "Having the right utensils is a good start, but then you gotta show them who's the boss up in this bitch."
9. "Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that."
10. "Let me be perfectly clear. You ain't cookin' with fire. You ain't cookin with heat. You're cookin' with Coolio, motherfucker!"
Top 6 Hangover Cures
If you party with me, you'll know my hangover prevention routine is to drink a shot of Monavie before going to bed. But that shit ain't cheap so here's some other alternatives.
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So maybe nothing scientifically "cures" a hangover but time, according to some experts, but there's no harm in trying when you've overindulged at a holiday party on some of the season's best drinks. In preparation for the time honored tradition of holiday hangovers, here's our list of the best hangover cures.
1) Drink Plenty of Water the Night of the Drinking Festivities
This one's more about prevention than a cure. While plenty may seem like a broad term, think one glass of water per alcoholic drink. The glitch is doing this throughout the evening (or day if you're a big-timer) rather than trying to catch up at the end of the night. Drinking a little before hitting the sack wouldn't hurt, though.
2) Have a Bloody Mary (Minus the Alcohol)
It's not as fun as a bloody mary with alcohol, but curing an illness with the cause of the illness is quite ludicrous (although some people swear by it). If you're too hungover to spice up your tomato juice, don't worry. It's the tomato part that helps you over that hazy hump the next day. Tomatoes contain fructose, a type of sugar that helps your body process alcohol faster.
3) Menudo (The Soup, Not The Band)
Leave it to our partying neighbors just south of the border to come up with a tasty soup to cure a night's worth of drinking mescal and tequila. It's a spicy concoction made with some of the nastier bits of the vaca including the second chamber of the cow's stomach (aka honeycomb tripe) and calves feet. Some of the less threatening ingredients include garlic, onions, cumin and some spicy peppers to sweat that hangover right out of your system.
4) Eat Some Bananas
They're delicious, natural and cheap, which makes this a favorite and simple remedy for the people in hangover land. Just eating a banana, or several if you're not too nauseated, drinking some water and resting could have you springing back to normal in a shorter amount of time. The potassium and magnesium found in bananas helps to replenish some of the nutrients you've more than likely peed out over the course of the night and the water will rehydrate you. The mild texture and flavor also helps coat an uneasy stomach. If you're feeling up to it, you can even make a shake from milk, or soy milk, honey and cantaloupe for a breakfast of champions.
5) Drink Pickle Juice
The combination of minerals and sodium will aid in the common theme here, replacing the healthy stuff your body needs that left it when you partied too hard. While to some it may not sound so appetizing, it's a common cure in Poland, where they know a thing or two about drinking and pickles.
6) Greasy Breakfast
Alcohol irritates the stomach lining, causing that undulating nausea and upset stomach when you wake up. Counter intuitively, eating a large breakfast full of grease and carbs will help lube up your stomach lining, soothing that tummy ache and giving you something else to feel guilty about momentarily.
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So maybe nothing scientifically "cures" a hangover but time, according to some experts, but there's no harm in trying when you've overindulged at a holiday party on some of the season's best drinks. In preparation for the time honored tradition of holiday hangovers, here's our list of the best hangover cures.
1) Drink Plenty of Water the Night of the Drinking Festivities
This one's more about prevention than a cure. While plenty may seem like a broad term, think one glass of water per alcoholic drink. The glitch is doing this throughout the evening (or day if you're a big-timer) rather than trying to catch up at the end of the night. Drinking a little before hitting the sack wouldn't hurt, though.
2) Have a Bloody Mary (Minus the Alcohol)
It's not as fun as a bloody mary with alcohol, but curing an illness with the cause of the illness is quite ludicrous (although some people swear by it). If you're too hungover to spice up your tomato juice, don't worry. It's the tomato part that helps you over that hazy hump the next day. Tomatoes contain fructose, a type of sugar that helps your body process alcohol faster.
3) Menudo (The Soup, Not The Band)
Leave it to our partying neighbors just south of the border to come up with a tasty soup to cure a night's worth of drinking mescal and tequila. It's a spicy concoction made with some of the nastier bits of the vaca including the second chamber of the cow's stomach (aka honeycomb tripe) and calves feet. Some of the less threatening ingredients include garlic, onions, cumin and some spicy peppers to sweat that hangover right out of your system.
4) Eat Some Bananas
They're delicious, natural and cheap, which makes this a favorite and simple remedy for the people in hangover land. Just eating a banana, or several if you're not too nauseated, drinking some water and resting could have you springing back to normal in a shorter amount of time. The potassium and magnesium found in bananas helps to replenish some of the nutrients you've more than likely peed out over the course of the night and the water will rehydrate you. The mild texture and flavor also helps coat an uneasy stomach. If you're feeling up to it, you can even make a shake from milk, or soy milk, honey and cantaloupe for a breakfast of champions.
5) Drink Pickle Juice
The combination of minerals and sodium will aid in the common theme here, replacing the healthy stuff your body needs that left it when you partied too hard. While to some it may not sound so appetizing, it's a common cure in Poland, where they know a thing or two about drinking and pickles.
6) Greasy Breakfast
Alcohol irritates the stomach lining, causing that undulating nausea and upset stomach when you wake up. Counter intuitively, eating a large breakfast full of grease and carbs will help lube up your stomach lining, soothing that tummy ache and giving you something else to feel guilty about momentarily.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
10 Awesome Celebrity Cakes
Pretty much everyone loves cake, and absolutely everyone loves Chuck Norris, so fusing these two beloved things into one glorious whole should have people losing sleep over the sheer awesomeness of the combo. But, even though the idea of a C-Nor dessert is easily the standout of the group, this compilation of 10 awesome celebrity cakes throws a few other noteworthy celebs into the mix.
1) Biz Markie Cake
2) Mr. T Cake
3) Michael Jackson Cake
more at Daily Fork
1) Biz Markie Cake
2) Mr. T Cake
3) Michael Jackson Cake
more at Daily Fork
Monday, November 9, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Playable Sonic Fabric Neckties Made from Old Audio Tape
These Sonic Fabric neckties($90/each) are made from sonic fabric, which is woven from 50% recorded audio cassette tape(used) and 50% colored thread. The fabric is actually audible if you run a tape head over it!
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Hip Hop Popsicles
Mango-flavored “Forty Pop” and Strawberry-flavored “Westside Pop” — part of a larger collection of funky frozen treats produced and distributed by LA-based mixed-media artist Gary Garay by way of an appropriated paleta cart.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Bear Mountain Opens Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 !!
This is it! Bear will open Chair 5- Central Park run with half a dozen features tomorrow morning at 9:30! Snowmakers fired up over 70 guns on Central Park run alone so the ride should be gooooood. Take advantage of this early season opening and tune up your winter legs. Bear’s ticket prices are reduced to only $25 for Adults, $20 for Young Adults and $10 for children. The Ice Box Apparel and accessories will be open along with rentals and food services.
Bear Mountain
Bear Mountain
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Snow's Coming Soon to Big Bear!
Winter Fun Coming Soon
Snowmaking is underway at Snow Summit and Bear Mountain. Typically, the resorts open mid to late November but with this this cold spell and great snowmaking weather, Bear Mountain could possibly open Central Park Run in the near future. Snow Summit is stockpiling snow in preparation of future cold snaps. We will announce Summit's expected open date as we get closer to the winter season.
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Snowmaking is underway at Snow Summit and Bear Mountain. Typically, the resorts open mid to late November but with this this cold spell and great snowmaking weather, Bear Mountain could possibly open Central Park Run in the near future. Snow Summit is stockpiling snow in preparation of future cold snaps. We will announce Summit's expected open date as we get closer to the winter season.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Adidas Originals Superstar “LA Lakers”
The Los Angeles Lakers begin their 2009-2010 season as World Champions tonight along with the ring ceremony and banner raising acknowledging their 15th NBA Championship. To commemorate this moment, adidas Originals is releasing a special edition metallic gold and purple Superstar.
The shoe will be available beginning on November 1st at the following retail locations: Undefeated, NBA Store, NBA.com, LA Lakers Team Shop, adidas Originals Store Melrose, adidas Originals Chicago, adidas Performance Store Santa Monica, adidas Performance Store Chicago and at Shopadidas.com.
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The shoe will be available beginning on November 1st at the following retail locations: Undefeated, NBA Store, NBA.com, LA Lakers Team Shop, adidas Originals Store Melrose, adidas Originals Chicago, adidas Performance Store Santa Monica, adidas Performance Store Chicago and at Shopadidas.com.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
BK unveils septa-patty Windows 7 Whopper
Burger King in Japan is so thrilled about Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system that it's cooked up a giant seven-patty Whopper in honor of it. According to Engadget, it will be available for seven days only, and the first 30 customers can buy it for 777 yen (that's about $8.50). For latecomers, it will cost 1,450 yen (about $17). It's not clear whether the sandwich will make it to the U.S., where rogue BK employees now seem lame for making four-patty "Quoppers" for their friends.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About
Check out Maximum PCs list of 50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Lego Pop-up Book!
Ok so its not really a pop-up book, there's only one page ... but it awesome nonetheless.
The First 5 Billion Tweets
Pie Chart of the Day: Have you heard? Twitter just celebrated the tweeting of its five billionth tweet. (#5,000,000,000? “Oh lord.”) Award-winning blogger Sara Schaefer decided to take a closer look at what on earth is so goddamn important.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Mammoth Mountain 2009/2010 Season Opening Day- FREE Ski Day!
Location: Main Lodge- Chair #1
Date: Oct 16, 2009 - Oct 16, 2009
Contact: 800.Mammoth
Details:
Mammoth Mountain will open for skiing and snowboarding today! Lift tickets will be FREE to guests today (Friday October 16) only! Pick up your FREE lift ticket from the Main Lodge Ticket Counter.
The First Chair #1 will open at 8:30am! Come and line up early to recieve free Hot Chocolate and Pastries from 7am and meet Woolly the Mammoth at 8:15am!
11:00am- Come up to the Main Lodge Sundeck for the Annual Champagne Toast to celebrate the beginning of the 2009/10 Ski Season!
Date: Oct 16, 2009 - Oct 16, 2009
Contact: 800.Mammoth
Details:
Mammoth Mountain will open for skiing and snowboarding today! Lift tickets will be FREE to guests today (Friday October 16) only! Pick up your FREE lift ticket from the Main Lodge Ticket Counter.
The First Chair #1 will open at 8:30am! Come and line up early to recieve free Hot Chocolate and Pastries from 7am and meet Woolly the Mammoth at 8:15am!
11:00am- Come up to the Main Lodge Sundeck for the Annual Champagne Toast to celebrate the beginning of the 2009/10 Ski Season!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Punch Camera
The Punch Camera by designer Matty Martin.
The PUNCH takes regular digital images but allows its users to physically punch a rasterized image of their photo. The punched image gives information which can connect its users to the digital gallery.
"This is a camera which was inspired by the loss of tangible memories. It is meant to connect both physical and digital while minimizing excess materials and the hardships in sharing images."
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Ultraman - The Complete Series DVD Set for $11!!
Created by special effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya (GODZILLA MOTHRA), the 1960s television series ULTRAMAN remains one of Japan s most beloved science-fiction exports. Airing between 1966 and 1967 with a total of 39 episodes the live-action series followed a high-tech police force and their robot superhero Ultraman as they battled to save Earth from invading monsters and aliens. This collection presents the complete series in original uncut and remastered editions. Starring AKIJI KOBAYASHI as Captain Cap Toshio Muramatsu, SUSUMO KUROBE as Shin Hayata, AKIHIKO HIRATA as Professor Iwamoto, MASANARI NIHEI as Mitsuhiro Ide, and HIROKO SAKURAI as Akiko Fuji.
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South Korean creates kimchi that won't smell
Is it going to taste the same though? I'm skeptical.
"Kim Soon-ja says her freeze-dried pickled cabbage, which has the taste but not the odor many associate with the national dish, will appeal to foreigners and fussy Koreans."
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"Kim Soon-ja says her freeze-dried pickled cabbage, which has the taste but not the odor many associate with the national dish, will appeal to foreigners and fussy Koreans."
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Awesome Craigslist Ad
new york craigslist > manhattan > personals > casual encounters
Put together my IKEA table while I masturbate - w4m - 37 (TriBeCa)
I bought this IKEA table and i can't assemble it. Come over and put it together for me and I'll masturbate while you do it. With a dildo. And I will serve you unlimited iced tea. I'm 37 and not amazing looking but totally serviceable.
PostingID: 1383180711
I don't think the iced tea is gonna matter.
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Put together my IKEA table while I masturbate - w4m - 37 (TriBeCa)
I bought this IKEA table and i can't assemble it. Come over and put it together for me and I'll masturbate while you do it. With a dildo. And I will serve you unlimited iced tea. I'm 37 and not amazing looking but totally serviceable.
PostingID: 1383180711
I don't think the iced tea is gonna matter.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
7 Beloved Celebrities And The Awful Shit You Forgot They Did
We are a pretty forgiving society when it's convenient. So what if Halle Berry has a habit of hit and run mayhem? She showed her rack in Swordfish. If we're fond enough of your music, movies or boobs, you can get busted committing what's known as an "atrocity" when done by someone who isn't cool. If we like you, all you have to do is sit back and wait for our short attention spans to take over, and the good will to return. For instance, you probably forgot about the time ...
(read more at Cracked.com)
Kanye doesn't seem that bad now, huh?
(read more at Cracked.com)
Kanye doesn't seem that bad now, huh?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
CookThing.com - How to Cook Anything
I just discovered this website and it's AWESOME! All you gotta do is click on the ingredients you have and it spits out a list of recipes
http://www.cookthing.com/
http://www.cookthing.com/
Friday, September 18, 2009
11 Things Wal-Mart Has Banned
Retail giant Wal-Mart is the world’s largest public company, and whether or not you’re a fan of shopping at the House that Sam Walton Built, you’ve got to admit that the store stocks just about everything. But not quite, though. There are a number of things that Wal-Mart has banned from its stores at some point. Let’s take a look at a few of them.
1. Barbie’s Pregnant Pal
In 2002 Wal-Mart cleared its shelves of Barbie’s pregnant friend, Midge. The doll, which featured a removable stomach complete with deliverable baby, was part of Mattel’s “Happy Family” set that also included her husband and son. However, customers complained about seeing pregnancy enter into Barbie’s universe, and Wal-Mart pulled all of the Happy Family sets from its stores.
2. This Underwear:
That’s right: panties that say, “Who needs credit cards…” on the front and “When you have Santa” on the rear. The undergarments started showing up in Wal-Mart’s juniors departments in December 2007 and quickly started an Internet firestorm over the perceived message of using Kris Kringle as a sugar daddy. While the same joke would be fairly harmless on, say, a t-shirt, many women felt that its placement on underwear added a sinister sexual undertone aimed at adolescent girls. In response to the public outcry, Wal-Mart pulled the offending underthings from its shelves.
3. Confederate-Themed Barbecue Sauce
You may remember the raucous debate about whether the Confederate flag should be flown over the South Carolina State House in 2000, but you probably didn’t know the battle spilled over into Wal-Mart’s grocery aisles. At the time, 90 Southern Wal-Marts were marketing a mustard-based sauce created by Maurice Bessinger, an outspoken advocate of flying the Rebel flag over the State House and owner of eight Piggie Park restaurants.
During the flag debate, Bessinger replaced all American flags at his eateries with Confederate flags, a move that Wal-Mart saw as objectionable and needlessly provocative, so the company yanked his sauces from its stores. (Don’t feel too bad for Bessinger, though; it took nothing less than a 1976 Supreme Court intervention to force him to serve African Americans in his restaurants.)
4. A Shirt That Read “Someday a Woman Will Be President”
In 1995 a Miami-area Wal-Mart pulled this shirt from its racks after consumer complaints. The shirt, which featured the character Margaret from Dennis the Menace, ran afoul of “the company’s family values,” so it went back to the stock rooms. Eventually more reasonable, non-Stone-Age heads prevailed, and the shirt made it back onto the shelves after three months in limbo.
5. Workplace Romance
In November 2005, German courts ruled that Wal-Mart could not ban all workplace romance at its German stores. The retailer had unsuccessfully tried to force all employees to sign off on a 28-page code of ethics that included prohibitions on “lustful glances and ambiguous jokes” and “sexually meaningful communication of any type.”
6. An Al Snow Action Figure
In 1999 Wal-Mart put the brakes on selling an action figure featuring WWE hardcore wrestler Al Snow. Snow’s wrestling gimmick at the time involved walking to the ring while carrying and talking to a mannequin head. Naturally, his action figure came with the head as an accessory, but two professors at Georgia’s Kennesaw State University saw the inclusion of the head as a problem. They told the press that by selling the action figure society was “normalizing violent treatment of women. We are telling little boys that this is acceptable behavior.” (Please, parents: don’t ever give your sons the impression that carrying and talking to part of a mannequin is acceptable.) Following this high-profile outcry, Wal-Mart quit stocking the Al Snow action figure.
7. Megan Fox
The Wal-Mart in the starlet’s hometown supposedly banned her for life following a teenage shoplifting bust. A 2008 report on contactmusic.com alleged that Fox got the heave-ho after being caught swiping a $7 tube of lip gloss during a rebellious shoplifting spree, which earned her the lifetime ban.
8. Lad Mags
If you’re a frisky 17-year-old looking for the latest Maxim, Stuff, or FHM, don’t head to Wal-Mart. Since 2003 the store has banned the so-called “lad mags” due to their racy photo spreads and bawdy editorial content.
It’s actually not all the uncommon for Wal-Mart to give a single issue of a magazine an ax, too. In the past, the store has refused to stock issues of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition and a 2001 issue of InStyle that featured an artistic nude shot of Kate Hudson.
9. Music
Wal-Mart has long declined to stock any music bearing a parental advisory warning for explicit lyrical content, but the company’s fastidiousness with regards to music doesn’t stop there. When the store carried Nirvana’s album In Utero, it changed the song title “Rape Me” to the less offensive (and less coherent) “Waif Me.” Similarly, the store declined to carry Prince’s 1988 album Lovesexy because of a fairly tame cover that featured a nude photo of the artist.
10. Superbad DVDs
When the comedy Superbad hit store shelves in 2007, it came with a little extra: a replica of the fake Hawaii driver’s license used by the self-dubbed “McLovin’.” Most movie fans would simply see this freebie as a little reminder of one of the movie’s funniest scenes, but Hawaiian authorities simply felt it was a fake ID. Honolulu mayor Mufi Hannemann requested that Wal-Mart pull the DVD from store shelves across the state, and the retailer quickly complied.
11. Cuban Pajamas
Wal-Mart’s Canadian stores found themselves in a pickle in 1997. The Canadian subsidiary had begun selling Cuban-made pajamas at eight bucks a pop across our neighbor to the North, which enraged both the company’s home office and the U.S. Treasury Department.
The stores quickly pulled the offending PJ’s, which led to a second problem: this action may have violated a Canadian law that forbids abiding by the American embargo of Cuba. After the Ottawa government pointed out that Wal-Mart could face a million-dollar fine for pulling the sleepwear from its shelves, the Canadian Wal-Marts reversed the ban after one week.
1. Barbie’s Pregnant Pal
In 2002 Wal-Mart cleared its shelves of Barbie’s pregnant friend, Midge. The doll, which featured a removable stomach complete with deliverable baby, was part of Mattel’s “Happy Family” set that also included her husband and son. However, customers complained about seeing pregnancy enter into Barbie’s universe, and Wal-Mart pulled all of the Happy Family sets from its stores.
2. This Underwear:
That’s right: panties that say, “Who needs credit cards…” on the front and “When you have Santa” on the rear. The undergarments started showing up in Wal-Mart’s juniors departments in December 2007 and quickly started an Internet firestorm over the perceived message of using Kris Kringle as a sugar daddy. While the same joke would be fairly harmless on, say, a t-shirt, many women felt that its placement on underwear added a sinister sexual undertone aimed at adolescent girls. In response to the public outcry, Wal-Mart pulled the offending underthings from its shelves.
3. Confederate-Themed Barbecue Sauce
You may remember the raucous debate about whether the Confederate flag should be flown over the South Carolina State House in 2000, but you probably didn’t know the battle spilled over into Wal-Mart’s grocery aisles. At the time, 90 Southern Wal-Marts were marketing a mustard-based sauce created by Maurice Bessinger, an outspoken advocate of flying the Rebel flag over the State House and owner of eight Piggie Park restaurants.
During the flag debate, Bessinger replaced all American flags at his eateries with Confederate flags, a move that Wal-Mart saw as objectionable and needlessly provocative, so the company yanked his sauces from its stores. (Don’t feel too bad for Bessinger, though; it took nothing less than a 1976 Supreme Court intervention to force him to serve African Americans in his restaurants.)
4. A Shirt That Read “Someday a Woman Will Be President”
In 1995 a Miami-area Wal-Mart pulled this shirt from its racks after consumer complaints. The shirt, which featured the character Margaret from Dennis the Menace, ran afoul of “the company’s family values,” so it went back to the stock rooms. Eventually more reasonable, non-Stone-Age heads prevailed, and the shirt made it back onto the shelves after three months in limbo.
5. Workplace Romance
In November 2005, German courts ruled that Wal-Mart could not ban all workplace romance at its German stores. The retailer had unsuccessfully tried to force all employees to sign off on a 28-page code of ethics that included prohibitions on “lustful glances and ambiguous jokes” and “sexually meaningful communication of any type.”
6. An Al Snow Action Figure
In 1999 Wal-Mart put the brakes on selling an action figure featuring WWE hardcore wrestler Al Snow. Snow’s wrestling gimmick at the time involved walking to the ring while carrying and talking to a mannequin head. Naturally, his action figure came with the head as an accessory, but two professors at Georgia’s Kennesaw State University saw the inclusion of the head as a problem. They told the press that by selling the action figure society was “normalizing violent treatment of women. We are telling little boys that this is acceptable behavior.” (Please, parents: don’t ever give your sons the impression that carrying and talking to part of a mannequin is acceptable.) Following this high-profile outcry, Wal-Mart quit stocking the Al Snow action figure.
7. Megan Fox
The Wal-Mart in the starlet’s hometown supposedly banned her for life following a teenage shoplifting bust. A 2008 report on contactmusic.com alleged that Fox got the heave-ho after being caught swiping a $7 tube of lip gloss during a rebellious shoplifting spree, which earned her the lifetime ban.
8. Lad Mags
If you’re a frisky 17-year-old looking for the latest Maxim, Stuff, or FHM, don’t head to Wal-Mart. Since 2003 the store has banned the so-called “lad mags” due to their racy photo spreads and bawdy editorial content.
It’s actually not all the uncommon for Wal-Mart to give a single issue of a magazine an ax, too. In the past, the store has refused to stock issues of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition and a 2001 issue of InStyle that featured an artistic nude shot of Kate Hudson.
9. Music
Wal-Mart has long declined to stock any music bearing a parental advisory warning for explicit lyrical content, but the company’s fastidiousness with regards to music doesn’t stop there. When the store carried Nirvana’s album In Utero, it changed the song title “Rape Me” to the less offensive (and less coherent) “Waif Me.” Similarly, the store declined to carry Prince’s 1988 album Lovesexy because of a fairly tame cover that featured a nude photo of the artist.
10. Superbad DVDs
When the comedy Superbad hit store shelves in 2007, it came with a little extra: a replica of the fake Hawaii driver’s license used by the self-dubbed “McLovin’.” Most movie fans would simply see this freebie as a little reminder of one of the movie’s funniest scenes, but Hawaiian authorities simply felt it was a fake ID. Honolulu mayor Mufi Hannemann requested that Wal-Mart pull the DVD from store shelves across the state, and the retailer quickly complied.11. Cuban Pajamas
Wal-Mart’s Canadian stores found themselves in a pickle in 1997. The Canadian subsidiary had begun selling Cuban-made pajamas at eight bucks a pop across our neighbor to the North, which enraged both the company’s home office and the U.S. Treasury Department.
The stores quickly pulled the offending PJ’s, which led to a second problem: this action may have violated a Canadian law that forbids abiding by the American embargo of Cuba. After the Ottawa government pointed out that Wal-Mart could face a million-dollar fine for pulling the sleepwear from its shelves, the Canadian Wal-Marts reversed the ban after one week.
Manny Pacquiao x Nike “Lights Out” Air Trainer 1
With his May 2nd knockout of British star Ricky Hatton, Manny Pacquiao celebrates in style by collaborating with Nike to release another Pacquiao sneaker, the “Lights Out” Air Trainer 1. This sneaker will feature glow-in-the-dark details throughout the base, swoosh, and laces. An official launch can be expected on September 25th, 2009 via Nike Park The Fort. Doors open at 9:25 pm and the sneakers are limited to 1 per person at 5,995 pieces. There is also a T-shirt that is available to 3 per person at 1,095 pieces.
(via steezgiant)
(via steezgiant)
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them
From cake, steak and tapas, to oysters, chicken and burgers, Killian Fox roamed the world to find the 50 best things to eat and the best places to eat them in, with a little help from professionals like Raymond Blanc, Michel Roux, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray
(via www.guardian.co.uk)
(via www.guardian.co.uk)
Starbucks Mooncake
I love it when companies have regionalized menu items. Starbucks will be selling these mooncakes in China for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
2009 MTV VMA - Michael Jackson Tribute Was Awesome!
Oh who cares about Kanye ... let's not give him any more attention.
Check out the Michael Jackson Tribute!!!
Check out the Michael Jackson Tribute!!!
Friday, September 11, 2009
The 12 Most Awesomely Nerdy Breakfast Cereals of All Time
12) Bill and Ted's Excellent Cereal
11) Pokémon Cereal
10) Pac-Man Cereal and Donkey Kong Cereal (tie)
9) G.I. Joe Action Stars
8) Smurf-Berry Crunch/Smurf Magic Berries
7) Urkle-O's
6) Mr. T Cereal
5) Croonchy Stars
4) The Real Ghostbusters Cereal/Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters Cereal
3) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal
2) C-3PO's
1) Nintendo Cereal System
I personally think the Urkle-O's should've been number 1
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Free Chick-fil-A on Labor Day!
Wear your sports team logo to Chick-fil-A on September 7 from 10:30 a.m. to close, and get a FREE Chick-fil-A Original Chicken Sandwich.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Honolulu seeking to ban 'BO' on buses
HONOLULU – Stinky city bus riders soon could get soaked. The Honolulu City Council is considering a bill that would impose up to a $500 fine and/or up to six months in jail for public transit passengers convicted of being too smelly.
The bill will be heard Thursday in committee. It would make it illegal to have "odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit system."
It doesn't matter if it's body odor or offensive fumes that emanates from clothes, personal belongings or animals.
Councilmen Rod Tam and Nestor Garcia co-sponsored the anti-odor bill.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii says it is concerned with laws that are inherently vague, which opens the door to discriminatory enforcement based on an officer's individual prejudices.
The bill will be heard Thursday in committee. It would make it illegal to have "odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit system."
It doesn't matter if it's body odor or offensive fumes that emanates from clothes, personal belongings or animals.
Councilmen Rod Tam and Nestor Garcia co-sponsored the anti-odor bill.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii says it is concerned with laws that are inherently vague, which opens the door to discriminatory enforcement based on an officer's individual prejudices.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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