My two favorite people in the entire world (this month), Lindsay and Kristy Landers, put out a music video this past Summer and it is truly a masterpiece. Not since Michael Jackson's Thriller has there been such a groundbreaking and important video. High art!

I've been talking about these two lovely ladies for the past few weeks, but you might have no idea who they are. It's probably better that way. They are the 16 and 18-year-old daughters of Judy Landers. They want to be big pop stars.

I'm not even joking when I say that I think this video was made at one of those kiosks at Six Flags amusement park. You know that shit where you can make your own music video and pick your own background. I think that's how this video was made. That being said, this is some hot shit.

Nothing says "mother of the year" like allowing your teen daughters to dress and dance like Laughlin, NV strippers. I really think their inspiration for this video came from Elizabeth Berkeley's performance in "Showgirls."

lol...

Better to watch on mute.

The Greatest Music Video Ever Made | Dlisted

Holy crap. Maybe the bipolars in scientology aren't that functional.

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Ever wondered where your opinions come from, how you manage to be creative, or how you solve problems? Well, don't bother. Psychology studies examining these areas and more have found that while we're good at inventing plausible explanations, these explanations are frequently completely made-up.

In this series of posts, I examine some of the classic findings in psychology that show we have precious little insight into our own thought processes.

Really interesting series.

PsyBlog: What Everyone Should Know About Their Own Minds: 6 Introspective Insights From Psychology

"Ed Giorgio, who is working with McConnell on the plan, said that would mean giving the government the authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search," author Lawrence Wright pens.

“Google has records that could help in a cyber-investigation, he said," Wright adds. "Giorgio warned me, 'We have a saying in this business: ‘Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.'"

This guy needs to be fired.

The Raw Story | US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search

n honor of Will Smith's apparently imminent conversion to Scientology, I present this link to the full text of Russell Miller's biography Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard. Those who have read The Gospel According to Science Fiction may have wondered why I didn't discuss Scientology, and the short answer is that I don't really have anything to say about it that Miller didn't say first. He details Hubbard's pathological lies about his life and the dubious ethics with which he ran his church, exploring both the wacky and the downright sinister tales spun by one of the greatest con men in history. One of my favorite bits is the story in chapter 14 in which Hubbard poses as a "revolutionary horticultural scientist," proving that plants can feel pain by hooking them up to an E-meter.

Be sure to also read "Suppressive Persons," which describes the Church's attempts to suppress Miller's book. The Church's tactics are the same now as then: they're rumored to be filing a $100 million lawsuit against St. Martin's Press, publishers of Andrew Morton's forthcoming Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, which claims that Cruise is one of the Church's top leaders).

Say what you will about Scientology. If nothing else, its the only way to keep bi-polar people being creative yet functional, which is still ahead of the field of medicine. If you're not bi-polar though, I'm really not sure why anyone else would want to be a scientologist.

SF Gospel: Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

Kumar and his colleagues from Harvard Medical School have developed a potentially revolutionary drug delivery method, taking advantage of a known master infiltrator of the brain: the virus responsible for rabies, also known as the rhabdovirus. Rabies viruses travel from the site of infection (a local wound bite) to the nerves, through which it gains access to the brain. It is one of the few viruses known to be nearly 100% deadly to mankind, when vaccination has not been administrated. Kumar and colleagues took advantage of the virus’ neurotropic ability by isolating a protein from the viral outer layer used to bind to the brain cells. They then attached an experimental drug to the purified fragment of protein, a small-interfering RNA. This RNA-peptide complex showed highly specific ability to access neurons in the brain that expressed receptors to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. This high specificity of drug action was demonstrated to only occur in the brain, and not in other tissues of the body.

Rabies Virus Helps Deliver Drugs into the Brain | GNIF Brain Blogger

Really neat game

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His antics at Oxford University would shock people in Pakistan awaiting Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's return to take over the political dream shaped by his murdered mother Benazir.

The 19-year-old's preparation for his role in one of the world's strictest Muslim states has certainly been unconventional.

Orthodox Muslims will be surprised to see the new leader of the Pakistani People's Party with his arms slung casually around two girls, one of whom declares herself as "bisexual" on a social networking website.

Free alcohol, hangovers, bisexual friends and a girl called Boozie Suzie ... inside the student life of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari | the Daily Mail

The case for: 'We track cars, so why not people?'

The Government is struggling to keep track of thousands of offenders in the community and is troubled by an overcrowded prison system close to bursting. Internal tagging offers a solution that could impose curfews more effectively than at present, and extend the system by keeping sex offenders out of "forbidden areas". "If we are prepared to track cars, why don't we track people?" said Ken Jones, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo).

Prisoners 'to be chipped like dogs' - Independent Online Edition - UK Politics

Add thermostats to the list of private property the government would like to regulate as the state of California looks to require that residents install remotely monitored temperature controls in their homes next year.

The government is seeking to limit rolling blackouts and free up electric and natural gas resources by mandating that every new heating and cooling system include a "non-removable" FM receiver. The thermostat is also capable of controlling other appliances in the house, such as electric water heaters, refrigerators, pool pumps, computers and lights in response to signals from utility companies. If contractors and residents refuse to comply with the mandate, their building permits will be denied.

WorldNetDaily: Big Brother to control thermostats in homes?