Interesting Drug

Animals Pose for the Camera (Misc.):

“Your aww of the day.”

Celebrity Yearbook Photos (Misc.):

“See what celebs looked like in high school.”

10 Surprising Uses For Aspirin (Community and Lifestyle):

“It can do more than relieve your headache.”

Home & Office : USB Tape Dispenser Hub:

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We are officially fans of multi-function gadgets, especially those of the USB variety. So, this USB hub and tape dispenser combo hits right in the sweet spot.

Price: $17.99

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http://lpcoverlover.com/2007/08/25/2206/:

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There Are a Lot of Job Openings in the Masturbatory Arts:

“Friend’s mom: So, Michelle said you just graduated. What is your degree in, Jessica?
Recent grad: I did! My major was Psychology, but I have a minor in Sex. Well, they call it ‘Sexual Studies.’
Friend’s mom: That’s great. Do you plan on teaching with it or…?
Recent grad: I could teach sex-ed, but I want to do something hands-on.

–Starbucks, Union Square

Overheard by: Melissa H.

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Yankees Caps With Gang Colors Pulled From Shelves:

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After a protest in East Harlem, baseball cap manufacturer New Era has agreed to pull Yankees caps from store shelves. A number of caps seem to refer to the Bloods, Crips and Latin Kings and became a controversy during a back-to-school shopping trip.

Jose Rivera liked a Yankees cap with a gold crown on it and wanted to buy it for his son, but his son explained that he could be in danger for wearing it. Rivera told NY1, ‘It was [my son] who said this crown might be construed as something possibly associated with a gang. I said ‘what kind of a gang?’ He said maybe the Latin Kings. I said ‘why? It’s just a New York Yankee hat.’ It’s quite nice. I liked it and the crown to me said ‘you’re the king!’ That’s great.’

If you watch the video from NY1, you’ll also see Rivera’s son explaining how the red bandanna cap stands for the Bloods while the blue one is for the Crips. And the NY Times reports that Rivera also asked many kids what the caps meant, ‘From 8 years old and up, they knew they represented violent gangs.’

New Era, a Buffalo based company, released a statement saying:

In response to the situation in New York City regarding our caps, New Era Cap offers the following statement.

It is our mission at New Era to create, design and market headwear that follows fashion trends around the world. Recently, it has been brought to our attention that some combinations of icons and colors on a select number of our caps could be too closely perceived to be in association with gangs.

In response, we, along with Major League Baseball (MLB) have pulled those caps.

In addition, as part of our ongoing effort to ensure that there is no possibility that our products are seen as promoting gangs or gang related activity, we are working closely with MLB and continuing our internal efforts with local gang suppression units to set-up training sessions to better understand gang symbols, names and locations.A good move, but really, it seems pretty clear that the caps were referring to gangs.

New Era has a license with the MLB. Maybe we’re classicists, but it’s sort of weird seeing caps in different colors with the Yankees logos - why not stick to the tried and true team colors?

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Oh, You Know It?:

“Frat boy #1: Dude, you got really skinny. What’s going on with you? Are you sick or something?
Frat boy #2: Yeah, bro, I have IBS — Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Frat boy #1: You shittin’ me!

–91st & 1st

Overheard by: AZS

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Hole Punch Art:

“Now this is some serious office supply talent!”

Hollywood Trendwatch: Balls Are So Huge Right Now:

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As pointed out to us by a reader, the movie posters for this weekend’s release Balls of Fury and mid-September’s Mr. Woodcock demonstrate that there’s no hotter trend in one-sheet design than testicular imagery that subtly reinforces the ‘ballsiness’ of either a movie’s concept or its characters. In the case of Mr. Woodcock, however, we assume that this was the studio’s fallback version; while the MPAA let the Balls marketers go forward with their nonthreatening wooden phallus, they probably were never going to allow the public to see Billy Bob Thorton dangling a more conceptually appropriate, 34-inch Louisville Slugger between his legs.

[Images: Rogue Pictures/New Line]

• Previously: Annals Of Subliminal Advertising: The ‘License To Wed’ Poster [Defamer]

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[Strange] And the award for the least appropriate name for an mp3 player goes to:

“(Some Racist)

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[Asinine] Use too much of your cable internet service, that’s a one-year suspension. How much is too much? Well, Comcast still won’t say:

“(Consumer Affairs)

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[Obvious] How George Bush pulled off the biggest heist in history:

“Rolling Stone

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Pimp Your Desk: Moped Lamps Shed Light, Don’t Have Wheels:

“Sometimes you look across your desk and think, ‘If I was pimp daddy enough, this expanse would resonate style.’ Enter the Lamponi lamp collection.

These desk lights are made of genuine, disused (we hope), moped parts. They are designed individually to exact customer requirements. Yes, you guessed it, they are not cheap; prices range from $1772 - $2044. You cannot put a price on high fashion, made of junkyard scraps or not! The fittings are all the real deal, apart from the lamp itself; a road legal light on your bedside table would probably be better at blinding you. Not much use when you need light to read that terrible Dan Brown book all your friends think is so cool.

If you are thinking of whipping your wallet out, do not do it. Instead, take it out in a calm manner and call Mr. Leopardi, tell him you have just taken your wallet out in a cool and collected fashion and would very much wish to purchase one of his splendid lighting products. We offer you this good advice because Mr. Leopardi, who builds these fantastic artworks, does so from scratch. He takes his sweet time too, possibly because they are expertly crafted and they take ages to get down to perfection. Alternatively, it could be because Mr. Leopardi is in fact a big-time gangster and does not like to be rushed. We can deduce this from our astute observations that all gangsters enjoy the finer things in life and have names ending in vowels. Who would have thought the Godfather would have been such a great learning resource? (The last comment was a joke; Mr. Leopardi is not a gangster in any underworld, he is a colloquial gangster because his lamps are so cool he makes other lamp designers look like poo. Lawsuit averted). [Product Page via Shiny Shiny].

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Tidy Me Up: Cordhog Tidies Your Wires, Respects Your Space:

“Is there anything more annoying than stubbing your toe on the side of your bed? Yes there is—all your wires getting in a hefty mess is infinitely more aggravating. Cordhog understands our pain and have devised this ingenious solution. It is a ball like structure that wires wrap around and that is it! Much like football (ours, not yours), all the best things in life are pretty simple and this is testament to the solution. It reminds me of those little histone proteins the DNA coils itself around all tight and cute; now we can all have histone wire solutions to prove how incredibly geeky we are.

The annoyance of messy wires may not hurt on the outside, but a wired disarray will slowly kill you on the inside. (Take it from me, I know). To tidy your colossal cable clutter you shall have to set aside, a very reasonable, $6 for six Cordhogs. That’s Mark’s Christmas gift sorted! [Uber Review].

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“Behold the view from 117,597 feet, taken on August 11, 2007 by a camera hanging from a helium balloon launched by a group of guys in Alberta, Canada. Called the SABLE-3 (Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment #3), the balloon’s small payload box was packed with a Byonics MicroTrak 300 APRS tracking device, a Nikon Coolpix P2 digital camera set to snap one picture per minute, and filled with enough helium to take it to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere.

Just 2 1/2 hours later, the balloon reached its pinnacle of 117,597 feet—holy moly, that’s 22.27 miles above the earth! At that point, the helium balloon burst and its payload parachuted safely back to Earth, where there were a few recovery teams close enough to see its soft landing. Cool pix, indeed! [SABLE-3]

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Russian wooden phone:

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Handmade applewood cellphones, thanks John! Link.

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August 2007 Space Shuttle photos:

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These are great, photos from Rob’s uncle from NASA’s Space Shuttle mission last week - Link.

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New Pixelated Glass Window in Cologne Cathedral:

“Xeni Jardin:

BoingBoing reader Michael Shaughnessy says,

Greetings from Cologne, Germany. Yesterday the new Gerhard Richter glass window was unveiled at the Cologne Cathedral. It looks like a group of pixels and is stunning to look at. The line to get in was over an hour and even today, hundreds of passers by simply were staring at the window in amazement. It is great to see how a modern application of old technology can have a positive effect on people. The artist Gerhard Richter, designed the window for free as a gift to the city of Cologne and the over 1 million people who visit the cathedral each year.
Here is one high res version and I am sure many other images will appear soon on Flickr.

Link

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Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks:

“We’ve gotten a number of submissions about the new tricks the massive Storm botnet has been up to. Estimates of the size of this botnet range from 250K-1M to 5M-10M compromised machines. Reader cottagetrees notes a writeup at Exploit Prevention Labs on a new social engineering attack involving YouTube. The emails, which may be targeted at people who use private domain registrations, warn the recipient that their ‘face is all over ‘net’ on a YouTube video. The link is to a Storm-infected bot that attacks using the Q4Rollup exploit (a package of about a dozen encrypted exploits). And reader thefickler writes that the recent wave of ‘confirmation spam’ is also due to Storm, as was the earlier, months-long ‘e-card from a friend’ series of attack emails.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Sorted:

“Celebrating Tony Wilson (realplayer - realplayer alternative here). BBC Radio One’s weekly 2hr Essential Mix, this week featuring show host Pete Tong and Hacienda legend Mike Pickering. It’ll be up for a week from today - tracklisting here.”

The Complete History of Lemmings:

“Mike Dailly, the creator of Lemmings, describes the story of the game’s creation in ‘The Complete History of Lemmings.’ If you feel the need to play the game after reading that, try it in DHTML (previously mentioned, though the old link is dead), and if you need help here are some walkthroughs and level codes. Finally, to short-circuit the rumors about these misunderstood rodents: no, they don’t jump off cliffs in real life.“

LOL Street Journal covers the ell oh ell cats:

“Xeni Jardin:
Link to a feature article on cat macros and the websites that love them, including Eric Nakagawa’s icanhazcheeseburger. LOLcats may not have started there, but whatever, I love that site. In other news, HELLL FREEEZIZ OVAR.

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What To Do When You Are Pulled Over by a Cop (5 Do’s & 1 Don’t ):

“Advice from a former Virginia State Trooper, who asked them not use his real name, ‘because I don’t want people to think I’m trying to draw attention to myself,’ he said. He chose a colorful alias, asking that we just refer to him as Trooper Tom. Here are his 6 tips…”