Winnie the Pooh thanks you

In blind compliance with my recent go-green binge, I present to you: Save The Honey Bees [.com]

Haagen-Dazs has recently brought to light as issue it considers critical- a dwindling in the world's honey bee population. My initial knee-jerk reaction was "Great, less of them to sting me" but that was 2 seconds before my dumass stumbled upon the fact that a great number of fruits are a 100% dependent on honeybees for pollination. A reduction in the amount of honeybees worldwide would cause a direct impact on the supply of pears, raspberries and strawberries.

I, for one, am not naturally charming and rely heavily on these aphrodisiacs to do the trick. So please, for my sake- Help The Honey Bees.

www.helpthehoneybees.com

Green, really, is good

For those living under a rock, there's been an on-going debate in the U.S as to whether reducing CO2 emissions will negatively impact business and economic growth. To simplify things, let's call the people who oppose reduced emissions and stricter compliances "Morons" and the other side, who advocates lower emissions as "People who have a pulse".

Morons oppose governmental measures to curtail global warming, theorizing that doing so would require costly mandates to local and regional businesses. They maintain that the cost incurred to ensure compliance would hamper economic growth in the long run- that businesses would just pass those costs on to customers which would lead to inflation, which would then cause a rift in the time-space continuum and herald in the Anti-Christ .

People who have a pulse figured otherwise. To prove their point, they aggregated all the economic theories forecasting the effects of emission reduction on the economy- and presented it in one coherent model.

The result: Even by WORST CASE scenarios, the economy (of the U.S) still keeps growing at a healthy rate.


See for yourself: http://www.climate.yale.edu/seeforyourself/

Nature Vs Man = Draw

This was one of those freak accidents---except this probably had a bajamillizillion to one odds of actually happening.

A woman, going at 25mph on her speedboat in Florida, was hit in the face by a 75 pound stingray that happened to jump out of the water. I mean imagine that things that have to be going right (or wrong) for that to statistically happen:

1) She needed to be at the exact spot in the boat where she was.
2) She needed to be at some threshold velocity.
3) Of all the routes and lanes to take in the wide open sea, she happened to be on that particular course.
4) The stingray had to jump at that exact time and height.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g7HuSme7Ygm9b_e6QvESOHaEvi7AD8VI24F80

That just plain sucks. Pasted below are pictures of the aftermath.

Finally - an excuse to be lazy

The nerd in me loves this- I just stumbled upon an applet that visually mimics how people dream.

All you do is enter certain keywords (upon which you want to base your "dream") and the applet then searches "the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association."

It's a real trip- pasted below are two of the images I got when I entered "poop + fart + zen" as my keywords. Enjoy!

http://solaas.com.ar/dreamlines/