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Tue, 20 May 2008 04:11:10 -0700

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West.
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

~W.H. Auden

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Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:50:06 -0700

ancient but funny :

Jack Schitt

Many people are at a loss for a response when someone says, "You don't know Jack Schitt!" Now you can handle the situation.
Jack is the only son of Awe Schitt. Awe Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, married Oh Schitt, the owner of Knee-Deep Schitt, Inc.
In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt, and the deeply religious couple produced 6 children: Holie Schitt, the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Giva Schitt, and Bull Schitt.
Against his parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school dropout. Dip Schitt married Loada Schitt, and they produced a timid son, Chicken Schitt. Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt were inseparable throughout childhood, and consequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony. The Schitt-Happens children are Dawg Schitt, Byrd Schitt, and Hoarse Schitt.
Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned home with his new bride, Pisa Schitt.
After being married for 15 years, Jack and Noe divorced. Noe later married Mr. Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. She was known as Noe Schitt-Sherlock.
Now, when someone says you don't know Jack Schitt, you can correct him.

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Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:23:20 -0700

Vatican targets 7 new sins

London, March 10: The Vatican has overhauled its list of seven deadly sins and has added more sins to the list to help people cope with the age of globalisation. The list, which has been revised after 1,500 years, originally just consisted of pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth. However, the list was stretched to include seven more sins, according to a report published in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. The new sins in the list address a global "secular" society bent on the concerns in the age of globalisation and to the "decreasing sense of sin" in the modern world.

The Vatican has added taking or dealing in drugs, polluting the environment, engaging in "manipulative" genetic science, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, paedophilia, abortion, and social injustices that cause poverty or "the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few". Indulging in any of the new deadly sins will lead to eternal da-mnation if they are not confessed Failing to recycle plastic bags, for example, amounts to polluting the environment and could find you spending eternity in Hell.

Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican body which oversees confessions and plenary indulgences, said after a week-long Lent seminar for priests that surveys showed 60 per cent of Catholics in Italy no longer went to confession. He said priests must take account of "new sins," which "have appeared on the horizon of humanity as a corollary of the unstoppable process of globalisation." Whereas sin in the past was thought of as being an individual matter, it now had "social resonance", the Times quoted him as saying.

"You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbour's wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos," he said. He said that certain actions were so unholy that they needed to be deemed as "mortal sins" -- not the less serious "venial sins." Mortal sins threaten the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession and penitence. According to the Catholic Church, "Immediately after death, the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into Hell."

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:23:17 -0800

* Lawyer: "Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing?"
* Witness: "Yes."
* Lawyer: "Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?"
* Witness: "Yes, sir."
* Lawyer: "What did she say?"
* Witness: "'What disco am I at?'"

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Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:27:52 -0800

Do You Want to Live Forever? (2007)
Following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. de Grey.

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Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:19:26 -0800

World's Scariest Ghost: Caught on Tape features an eerie, shocking and compelling collection of moving images of what are purported to be ghost, poltergeists and apparitions.

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Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:44:12 -0800

Genes decide body clock

London, Jan. 29: Every cell in our body has a clock which is controlled by the brain's hypothalamus, which, acting on genetic inputs, works as a central clock for the human body, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Zurich's chronobiology and sleep research group have developed a simple skin test that can show if someone who hates getting up is plain lazy, or whether their body clock is badly out of sync with that of other people.

Scientists in the last decade have found that genes can influence a person's preference for rising extremely early, or late in the day. The skin test could help develop treatments for sleep ailments, especially insomnia. Once the cause of a sleep disorder has been diagnosed, it is possible to test treatments on patients who all have the same underlying dysfunction, a key step towards developing more effective treatments for body clock disorders.

The study, led by Prof. Steve Brown of University of Zurich, found that the brain's hypothalamus acts as a central clock for the body, but does so by synchronising all the individual cells, which have their own clocks.Skin cells are much easier clocks to study than the one in the brain and the team obtained cells from 28 volunteers and inserted into them a gene that glowed, creating biological clocks that waxed or waned in brightness over 24 hours.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that skin cells from extreme early-risers had the shortest glowing periods and those from very late-risers had the longest. "People know whether they are larks or owls," Prof. Brown told the Daily Telegraph. "The interesting part is that they are not all larks or owls for the same reason, and this research addresses the molecular cause of their early or late behaviour."

"What is really nice here is that by looking at clocks in peripheral tissues, we have for the first time been able to look, by proxy, at the molecular mechanisms in different human individuals that allow them to sense time in the brain. All in all, I find it quite incredible that skin cells can tell us something about a process as complex as human behaviour."

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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:06:56 -0700

***Your Psyche is Red***

You are bright, bold, energetic, and intense.
Your upbeat, zany energy inspires those who are down.
Spontaneous and playful, you also have a courageous and fearless side.

When you are too red: you are angry, overprotective, and truly scary.

When you don't have enough red: you are depleted and lifeless.

What Color Is Your Psyche?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatcolorisyourpsychequiz/

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Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:03:18 -0700

Create your own visitor map!

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Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:57:37 -0700

totalled my BMW sports coup� this morning :D