Profiteering ghouls have been using debit cards distributed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - intended to buy essentials for evacuated families - in luxury-goods stores as far away as Atlanta.

"We've seen three of the cards," said a senior employee of the Louis Vuitton store at the Lenox Square Mall in affluent Buckhead, who asked not to be named. "Two I'm certain have purchased; one actually asked if she could use it in the store. This has been since Saturday."

The distinctive white cards were distributed by the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and carry a value of up to $2,000.

Wow, nice. Love the gossip pages, sad part is it is most likely true.

Lavish tastes of card-carrying lowlifes

One researcher has even proposed a way for life to survive on the giant Saturnian satellite. It is too cold for organisms to survive on the surface of Titan, where temperatures are about -178C (-289F).

But David Grinspoon of the Southwest Research Institute says organisms could occupy specific niches, such as hot springs. They could use acetylene, in reaction with hydrogen gas, to release enough energy to power metabolism, and possibly to heat their environments.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Titan moon occupies 'sweet spot'

I walked in and was greeted by a pile of about 18 VHS video tapes sitting on the table (apparently it started with 25, but some eager folks had taken a few already). Each one was labeled simply "Rock Singer Audition" on the long side with a piece of masking tape. That's it. Just "Rock Singer Audition". I asked my buddies about them and they began cracking up, telling this harrowing tale about the guy who brought them in and how he kept loudly announcing his intentions of being a rock star. They insisted I take one of his "Audition" tapes and check it out.

Shirtless redneck belting out rock songs acapella.

TheRawker.com: Get Ready To RAWK!!!!

On his WCKG-FM (105.9) afternoon show Tuesday, he mused about creating a drink inspired by reports of "floating corpses" in New Orleans. And on his Web log Wednesday, he elaborated.

Wow, that's pretty harsh.

Steve Dahl serves up recipe with foul taste

Shimano Inter-8 Premium (identifiable by its red stripe) is our smoothest, most rugged and most versatile gearing. The planetary gears are cold forged and heat treated to take long term abuse, and the hub internals are designed to handle inputs that would exceed what could be exerted by most any rider. The Outback’s 8-speeds offer a gear range comparable to 20 gears on a 24-gear chain bike, including multiple climbing gears for demanding off-road performance. With the tough, aluminum enclosed shaft drive and all-internal gearing, this bike also offers 13” of ground clearance and the durability to take crashes that would otherwise cripple fully exposed chains and derailleurs. In short, this bike is ideal for anyone who wants all the pleasures of mountain biking without the hassles of greasy, maintenance-prone chains and derailleurs.

A friend sent this to me and I thought I would pass it along.

Chainless Mountain Bikes

BEER! The MOVIE!

After much popular demand (and explosive mail with ACIDIC SHRAPNEL), I've decided to make the BEER movie more accessible. Please remember that this very song in our our album entitled, "We Couldn't Think of a Title," which you must undoubtedly purchase. Pretty please?

Well I was gonna fix the title of this to BEER! The MOVIE! but when I saw the actual title on the site it was much better. Anyway heard this song on XM48 - Squizz, found their site and saw this flash video. I'm still laughing.

Psychostick - Stabbing your face with awesome dumbness!

"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The U.S. Mint seized 10 Double Eagle gold coins from 1933, among the rarest and most valuable coins in the world, that were turned in by a jeweler seeking to determine their authenticity."

...Sounds like more fascist BS to me....

US Mint Seizes Rare Coins

terratogen wrote:

Mike the Usurper wrote:
Okay, it's wrong, but so what.

1804.

Alright I had to stop after my supply of lab kittens ran out at 967 ft.

RE: Kitten Cannon - Presented by Addicting Games

Miller has one very bold idea: He wants to build a new town where there is none, a community that would be carved out of the farm fields and draw hundreds of people from across the nation ... maybe even the world.

What would set this town apart is it would be home to deaf and hard-of-hearing people who want to live together. They'd raise their families here, send their kids to school and share a common language: sign language.

A town for the deaf? | The San Diego Union-Tribune

Stare at the crosshairs in the centre of this picture. After a short while you'll notice that there is a green dot revolving around, replacing each purple dot in turn. Then if you keep staring the purple dots disappear, and all that remains is a circling green dot.

But it's all an illusion - there's no green dot and the purple dots never actually disappear.

Interesting effect.

Optical Illusion