“Everyone is born unique, but so many die as copies.”

“I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me to turn my music down and that made me angry ’cause I like loud music… so when he knocked on the wall, I’d mess with his head. I’d say “Go around! I cannot open the wall! I dunno if you have a door on your side but over here there’s nothin’. It’s just flat.” –Mitch Hedberg

Sooo….

This is a good one: [link] From: [Link]

Not much else, too busy…

…and uhhhh, here’s an ad;

There’s a very nice blog entry on a subject I’ve been trying to remember to look into. The news about booze and fruit that has been getting smeared all over lately sounded like filler, to me and I hadn’t seen any real detail about how exactly they came to that conclusion.

The blog entry [here] basically takes a look at the actual findings behind the press release which apparenly used plenty of creative license.

The blogger comments; “Take home message was that a combination of methyl jasmonate (to increase antioxidants) and allyl isotholcyanate (to reduce decay) would maximize shelf life.”

So the press coverage of a story about alcohol making fruit healthier was extrapolated from researchers testing whether treating strawberries and blackberries with natural volatile compounds (methyl jasmonate, allyl isothiocyanate, ethanol, and tea tree oil) would be effective in reducing decay in the berries!

At the end, the entry remarks; “So really, a dash of methyl jasmonate in your daiquiri might leave you healthier, but I can’t say what that would do for the taste and fun of your beverage.”

“MIGHT”!! As a commenter pointed out “Unfortunately, there is no evidence that antioxidants provide any health benefits at all. A recent JAMA article showed that supplemental antioxidants actually increased mortality.” So far I’ve had the impression there’s some potential there but I’ve still never seen any studies that really said anything remotely conclusive in this area.

People love to cling to what they’d like to think is true if they can spin it out of any kind of theory or research, that’s why it always makes the news and that’s why it always seems to change. Any time someone says “Hey look! This might be interesting and worth looking into more!” someone reads what they want into it, makes it a headline, refers back to the research and BLAMM! Suddenly it’s science fact and it’s all over the news!

Looks like the next entry is about testing caffine soap. I’m this site’s new #1 fan.

Time to read on!

Do check out the Motivational posters I tinkered together. (Or (de)Motivational, see link to the right)

They’re fun. I’ll probably continue to update the list whenever a new idea strikes.

Though it may not be everyones cup-o-tea I expanded the motivational post parodies to a new branch that I don’t think anyone else has touched on just yet. Probably because there aren’t that many people who’re quite as cynical or evil as myself. People usually aren’t quite so screwed up as to be able to look down on people of the world because they cannot tolerate the inescapeable fact that they too are a part of this embarrasing group of meat-bags.

Anyway the new parody is (de)Moralization. The de in parenthasis because a poster could technically go either way and be created to highlight awareness of ones moral standing or could be created to demoralize one…

So since I’m so proud of my two stupid little works, I’m going to post them in this post even though they’re still technically works in progress. Note though the pages they’re on individually show them shrunken down and it’s a little ugly, just click the image to load it full size.

Man’s Inhumanity to Man

Humanity…

Also on flickr;

Suck it, fuck sticks!