The government reduces Bernie Madoff’s sentence in exchange for infiltrating and fixing the economy, leaf hunting season begins, and something is sliding around in this coffin. It’s the week of October 17th, 2011.
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The elderly spent their better days fighting for our freedom, only to have the rug pulled out from under them by the rapid advance of technology. We have nothing but sympathy for them, but all their complaining does make you wonder just what it is they think we’re up to with our damned gadgetry, and new-fangled hip-bop music.
We asked you to show us what the world looks like through their terrified, robot fearing eyes. The winner is below, but first the runners up …
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Now that The Rapture has passed, Harold Camping has confirmed the Apocalypse – October 21, 2011.
May 21st, 2011 has come and gone. The Rapture is over. Now the dread can begin because on October 21st, 2011… all of us that have been Left Behind, will die.
As crestfallen followers of a California preacher who foresaw the world’s end strained to find meaning in their lives, Harold Camping revised his apocalyptic prophecy Monday, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.
Here’s a recap of how we got here:
Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than two months left on the planet and she is going to spend her time spreading the word: Judgment Day is almost here.
Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Biblethat the end of the world will begin May 21, 2011.
Technically, May 21st is Judgment Day, or The Rapture, so the world won’t end that day, it’s just the beginning of the end… But, don’t worry, it will end VERY soon after. Probably by October 21st of this year – at the latest.
To get the word out, they’re using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners. Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling through Latin America and Africa to spread the news outside the U.S.
“A lot of people might think, ‘The end’s coming, let’s go party, let’s drink and have multiple sex partners” said Exley, a veteran of two deployments in Iraq. “But we’re commanded by God to warn people. I wish I could just be like everybody else, but it’s so much better to know that when the end comes, you’ll be safe.”
Last August, Exley left her home in Colorado Springs, Colo., to work with Oakland, Calif.-based Family Radio Worldwide, the independent Christian ministry whose leader, Harold Camping, has calculated the May 21 date based on his reading of the Bible.
Her husband left for Vegas to drink and spend his life savings on prostitutes.
Exley, in the meantime, is organizing traveling columns of RVs carrying the message from city to city, a logistics challenge that her military experience has helped solve. The vehicles are scheduled to be in five North Carolina cities between now and the second week of January, but Exley will shortly be gone: overseas, where she hopes to eventually make it back to Iraq.
“I don’t really have plans to come back,” she said. “Time is short.”
Not everyone who’s heard Camping’s message is taking such a dramatic step. They’re remaining in their day-to-day lives, but helping publicize the prophecy in other ways. Allison Warden, of Raleigh, has been helping organize a campaign using billboards, post cards and other media in cities across the U.S. through a website, We Can Know.
The 29-year-old payroll clerk laughs when asked about reactions to the message, which is plastered all over her car.
“It’s definitely against the grain, I know that,” she said. “We’re hoping people won’t take our word for it, or Harold Camping’s word for it. We’re hoping that people will search the scriptures for themselves.”
Camping, 89, believes the Bible essentially functions as a cosmic calendar explaining exactly when various prophecies will be fulfilled. But he’s 89, so he’s not so worried about the world ending. He’s already done all the living he wants to do.
The retired civil engineer said all his calculations come from close readings of the Bible, but that external events like the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 are signs confirming the date.
“Beyond the shadow of a doubt, May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment,” he said.
The doctrine known as the Rapture teaches that believers will be taken up to heaven, while everyone else will remain on earth for a period of torment, concluding with the end of time. Camping believes that will happen in October.
“If May 21 passes and I’m still here, that means I wasn’t saved and I will be dead on October 21st. Does that mean God’s word is inaccurate or untrue? Not at all,” Warden said.
The belief that Christ will return to earth and bring an end to history has been a basic element of Christian belief since the first century. The Book of Revelation, which comes last in the New Testatment, describes this conclusion in vivid language that has inspired Christians for centuries.
Few churches are willing to set a date for the end of the world, heeding Jesus’ words in the gospels of Mark and Matthew that no one can know the day or hour it will happen. Predictions like Camping’s, though, aren’t new. One of the most famous in history was by the Baptist leader William Miller,who predicted the end for Oct. 22, 1844, which came to be known as the Great Disappointment among his followers, some of whom subsequently founded the Seventh Day Adventist church.
Ron Hardeski of Bayonne, New Jersey also predicted the world would end on February 27th, 2004 – his wife’s 50th birthday. The world didn’t end, so Ron beat his wife to death with a Bible. He’s serving a life sentence.
“In the U.S., there is still a significant population, mostly Protestant, who look at the Bible as kind of a puzzle, and the puzzle is God’s word and it’s predicting when the end times will come,” said Catherine Wessinger, a professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who studies millennialism, the belief in pending apocalypse.
“A lot of times these prophecies gain traction when difficulties are happening in society,” she said. “Right now, there’s a lot of insecurity, and this is a promise that says it’s not all random, it’s part of God’s plan.”
Past predictions that failed to come true don’t have any bearing on the current calculation, believers maintain.
“It would be like telling the Wright brothers that every other attempt to fly has failed, so you shouldn’t even try,” said Chris McCann, who works with eBible Fellowship, one of the groups spreading the message.
“If you want to say we’re crazy, go ahead,” she said. “But when you’re dead on May 21st (or soon after), you’ll know we were right. And you’ll thank us.”
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This picture is from Season 4 of Jersey Shore. It is from the 2011 episode titled Fist Pump, Pushups, and Chapstick. It would appear that right before Snooki got into a fight in the bar, she was arguing with a girl who has holding a baggie of cocaine.
We would love your comments about the scene. What did you see? Is it controversial that the girl may be waiving cocaine in front of Mtv’s cameras?
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SAN JOSE, CA—With funding from dozens of news outlets and media companies, the groundbreaking Outkube.com launched this week, providing an online destination where pandering and incendiary content is used to lure moronic Internet commenters away from all other websites.
The site has so far proved extremely popular with the worst (CENSORED)ing human beings imaginable.
According to sources, Outkube boasts thousands of articles and forums carefully crafted to draw in dim-witted web users and effectively quarantine obtuse, uninformed comments on topics such as gay rights, Ryan Gosling, the threat of Sharia law in the U.S., health care reform, whether Kobe is better than LeBron, Jewish control of the government and media, the New York Jets, the Second Amendment, and professional wrestler John Cena.
Most stories on the site are reportedly preloaded with several witless and profanity-laden comments specially designed to incite retaliatory remarks.
“Outkube provides an immensely valuable public service,” said YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar, one of the decoy website’s founders and principal investors. “With its unparalleled expanse of sensational content and lack of filters or character limits on postings, Outkube attracts the broadest possible spectrum of jabbering halfwits—from paranoid reactionaries to know-it-all pricks to racists to plain old dumb(CENSORED)s.”
“Now you can read an article or enjoy multimedia on your favorite websites without having to endure the revolting, barely coherent comments these troglodytes used to leave at the bottom of every page,” Kamangar continued. “At long last, a new era has dawned for the Internet.”
Officials at Outkube explained the site relies on a set of fine-tuned algorithms to produce and continuously refresh its content. Using up-to-the-minute sports scores, trending search terms, TV viewing statistics, and key phrases from the latest scaremongering political e-mail forwards, the formulas churn out the divisive social commentary and mindless celebrity gossip upon which web-surfing morons thrive.
In addition, sources confirmed that each day Outkube’s software produces dozens of new pop-culture rankings, such as “The 10 Most Underrated Bands” or “The 15 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time,” which have been shown to occupy some of the Internet’s most obnoxious commenters indefinitely, freeing the remainder of the web for actual rational discourse. The new site also caters to its target demographic with a corps of full-time bloggers including Geraldo Rivera, Rosie O’Donnell, and Spencer Pratt.
“This is a godsend,” said Kenneth Estenson of CNN, which owns a major stake in Outkube. “We’ve seen a huge drop in the number of CNN.com commenters accusing one another of being (CENSORED)ing retard dipshits, and the once common practice among users of equating any viewpoint they do not personally share to the philosophy of the Taliban has almost entirely disappeared.”
Added Estenson: “It’s astonishing. A group of our site’s users actually had an intelligent discussion yesterday about the justice system in the Amanda Knox case without being consistently interrupted by speculation about Ms. Knox’s tits or her quote-unquote ‘taco.’ I never could have dreamed this day would come.”
Although Outkube sources admitted the site required little oversight—with nearly all posts devolving on their own into heated exchanges over the Koran’s alleged endorsement of wife-beating, whether Adam Lambert should get AIDS and die, or the government’s secret plan to mentally incapacitate citizens using the HPV vaccine—the site does employ moderators to ensure threads stay as active and idiotic as possible.
“Internet commenters are so inherently dim that, by simply responding to their ridiculous rants with an equally inflammatory statement—for example, by accusing them of engaging in homosexual acts or belittling their favored sports star or political candidate—these imbeciles can’t help but react with outrage and continue to engage with our site,” Outkube webmaster Sean Hawk said. “They take the bait every time.”
“Christ, they’re stupid,” he added.
Hawk then demonstrated a feature that detects when a user has been idle for more than 15 seconds and automatically triggers a pop-up window containing a photograph of a woman whom the user is asked to rate on a scale of “fugly (CENSORED)” to “totally boneable,” a tactic that prevents 9 of 10 idiots from leaving the website, according to internal statistics.
Though the site has won praise for providing a much-need service and has already attracted more than 40 million registered users, Outkube has also earned its share of detractors.
“This site sux serios dick,” wrote a user known as “19brazzballz86,” who left one of the more than 100,000 negative responses posted so far on Outkube’s feedback page. “Fuk u!!! hahah a GO GATORS!!!!”
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Published on Today 10/20/2011
under Cool Places
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Rooftop Playground (Denmark)
Talk about living on the edge! Danish firm JDS Architects has designed one incredibly cool rooftop playground in a densely populated area of Copenhagen. Located on top of three penthouses, the shock absorbing surface (aka the grass hill) is the perfect place for daredevil kids and their worried parents to run rampant. For quieter times, they can marvel at the cityscape on the viewing platform or relax around the outdoor barbecue.
A little freaky, don’t you think? Let’s look on the bright side. Although that low fence must be a nightmare for parents, children who come out unscathed from that death defying experience may grow up to become even more adventurous and confident than the average person!
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Rooftop Pool (Singapore)
If you fancy a dip in this pool, you’ll need a head for heights – it’s 55 storeys up. But swimming to the edge won’t be quite as risky as it looks. While the water in the infinity pool seems to end in a sheer drop, it actually spills into a catchment area where it is pumped back into the main pool. At three times the length of an Olympic pool and 650ft up, it is the largest outdoor pool in the world at that height. It features in the impressive, boat-shaped ‘SkyPark’ perched atop the three towers that make up the world’s most expensive hotel, the £4billion Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore.
The infinity pool on the roof is in the ‘SkyPark’ which spans the three towers of the hotel. The platform itself is longer than the Eiffel tower laid down and is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Infinity pools give the effect that the water extends to the horizon. In reality, the water spills over the edge into a catchment below, and is then pumped back into the pool. The pools have two circulation systems. The first functions like that of a regular pool, filtering and heating the water in the main pool. The second filters the water in the catch basin and returns it to the upper pool.
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Rooftop Trailer Park (South Africa)
Atop Cape Town’s swanky Grand Daddy Hotel is a trailer park like no other. The Airstream Penthouse Park is perched on top of the hotel, and is one of the most talked about, hip and happening places in South Africa. More trailer flash than trailer trash, seven imported vintage Airstream Trailers were handed over to local artists and designers for an imaginative makeover. The result is a collection of rooftop suites that plays with the imagination and the senses. Rooms in the hotel start at 945 rands ($90).
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Rooftop Tennis Court (Dubai)
Andre Agassi and Roger Federer were invited to have a friendly match on the world’s highest tennis court on the helipad of Burj Al Arab, 211 meters above the ground.
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Rooftop Roller Coaster (Japan)
Built on the roof-top of an eight-story outlet store in a busy city area, this scary Half Pipe roller coaster was never opened. According to some sources online the problem is with the structure of the building. While the building is capable of handling the weight of the roller coaster, the lateral forces presented an unexpected problem and is why the roller coaster never opened. (At ‘Don Quijote’ department store in downtown Tokyo).
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Rooftop Bar (Thailand)
The stunning, multi-hued Sky bar at Sirocco has several reasons to turn minutes into timeless moments. Suspended in the sky on the 63rd floor of The Dome at State Tower, the Skybar is one of the world’s highest open air bars, overlooking a panoramic view of Bangkok and the Chao Phraya River. With such an enthralling ambience coupled with a seductive selection of the finest vintages, beverages, cocktails and appetizers in Bangkok, the Skybar soars as one of the prized destinations in the city. No wonder, the rooftop bar is unanimously accepted as the coolest bar in Bangkok.
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Rooftop Cinema (Australia)
This might just be the coolest movie theater in Australia. Oh, yeah, and they serve alcoholic drinks, too – what more can you ask for? Owned and operated by a team of artists, the Rooftop Cinema plays classic, current and art-house films in the open air on the top of a six-story building. Sit back and relax in a colorful striped deck chair and just try not to be distracted by the bustle of the city around you.
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Rooftop Garden (Singapore)
Patches of greenery in Singapore’s Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates are popping up on the top decks of multi-storey car parks and on the rooftops of some residential blocks. Taking sky-rise greenery literally to new heights are the Sky Gardens at Pinnacle@ Duxton, Singapore’s tallest public housing building at 50 stories. These distinctive gardens, located on the 26th and 50th floors, are said to be the longest continuous sky gardens in the world, linking seven residential tower blocks together. In the works are plans to implement nine hectares of extensive green roofs – low maintenance rooftop greenery – over the next three to five years in existing HDB estates where rooftop gardens are not feasible.
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Rooftop Office (Austria)
The Viennese architects Wolf Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky, akaCoop Himmelb(l)au, made their reputation on blind, gestural sketches that, sometimes, became buildings. These sketches accomplish many things, three that I would like to focus on: capture a feeling, create a unique design process, and lead to complex structural and design solutions. The accompanying images are Coop Himmelb(l)au’s design of a rooftop addition, focusing on a conference room, to a law firm’s office.
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Rooftop Farm (Chicago)
In 2008, the folks at the Uncommon Ground restaurant, 1401 W. Devon, opened their 2,500-square foot organic rooftop farm. The lofty mission is to deliver organic produce for the downstairs restaurant and to use the garden to teach adult volunteers and children how to grow food organically in an urban, roof-top environment.
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Everyone’s the hero of their own narrative, walking around with the theme from Rocky ringing in their heads. It doesn’t matter if their day involves holding a toddler hostage. We asked you to show us what some great movies looked like inside the bad guy’s head.
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LOS ANGELESÂ -Â At her probation hearing today, Lindsay Lohan was ordered to be held in a morgue for ninety days.
The Los Angeles District Court Judge, who has been frustrated with Lindsay Lohan’s behavior, has revoked her probation and sentenced her to live in a morgue for ninety days. She will spend her time living among the dead bodies and cleaning up after them – if they happen to make a mess.
Sources connected with the Probation Department told WWN that Judge Sandy Meyers contacted probation officials and told them to immediately yank Lindsay from her current community service assignment with the Red Cross and incarcerate her in the Los Angeles County Morgue. “I want her put in slot #27 and held there for ninety days.”
Lohan will be kept locked in a body slot, but will be allowed to walk around the morgue for eight hours a day – IF she cleans up the blood and guts.
Lohan was immediately taken away in handcuffs and shoved into slot #27 at the Los Angeles County Morgue.
Lohan had been performing her community service at the Downtown Women’s Center, but had complained that she was “bored” and “not fulfilled” and the women there were “uncool,” “ugly” and “smelled bad.”
Lindsay has NOT violated her probation, but prosecutors feel that she has a “bad attitude” that can be “corrected” by locking her up in the morgue.
Lohan told WWN that doesn’t mind sleeping among dead bodies, “I used to living with the dead, half my friends are zombies.”
Here she is admiring her temporary new home:
Already, fans are trying to see if they can get slots on either side of Lohan at the morgue.
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Not much is known about this 1960s pinup girl who went by the names Peggy Cooper and Janey Price; however, she was one of the hottest ladies to ever grace those old black and white cheese cake magazines. Below is the largest collection of non-nude Peggy Cooper photos on the internet!
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Published on Today 10/18/2011
under Cool Objects
– by Gracie Murano
iPhone Tacky T-Shirt
This shirt doesn’t come with touch technology like the iPhone itself, but we think the reaction is still probably best when activated by the flow of electrons through your skin.
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iPhone Coasters
These coasters are from Meninos. Take your love of iPhone and use that power to protect furniture. They’re made from thin plywood wrapped in a vinyl decal, with rubber slapped on the bottom. The 3.34″ coasters come in a pack of 16 for $60, which seems just a bit expensive, but let’s face it, it isn’t cheap being a geek.
Now, if only they had wireless capabilities, you could set your drink down and open the app at the same time. Or play an iPhone game between two drinkers. Every time you take a drink, you set it down on an app and counter each other’s moves. Oh well, maybe next time.
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iPhone Coffee Table
Attention iPhone fanboys… throw out your coffee table now. You’ve just been out-geeked by some iLoungers. The coolest part about this fairly realistic looking coffee table is that the icons are removable- you pop them out to use them as coasters. The entire table is made of cardboard and glue. Do want.
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iPhone Notebooks
The Notepod ($18 for a set of three) comes from Australia and contains 100 sheets printed to look like a blank iPhone on one side and grid lines on the other — “perfect for notes or jotting down the phone number of a hot geek,” according to the Notepods website. I agree!
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iPhone earrings
The only reason I can see anyone flaunting these crazy earrings is either because they love the gadget too much or just simply cannot afford one. So if you think they are the best alternative to getting the real gadgets, you can contact Toronto artist Barb Feldman who handcrafts these teeny tiny things by precisely layering and slicing Fimo polymer clay.
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iPhone Cushion
iCushion is a comfortable pillow designed to look like a giant Apple iPhone. It even comes with a hidden pocket for your real iPhone.
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iPhone Cupcakes
Deliciously geek.
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iPhone Flask
iPhone? Of course they are, however they’re not real cellphones but iPhone-shaped flasks. Their power switch is actually the flask cap, and it lets the wine out when switched on.
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Supersized iTable
If you can’t be bothered to wait for the iPhone 5, then how about this? A German engineer has created a 10 times scale version of the iPhone 4 with a 40 inch screen which offers iPhone-esque computer functions – but also doubles up as a table. The ‘iTableous’ has exactly the same design as the Apple mobile right down to the on and off buttons, the camera and the accelerometer. It is covered by 8mm strong plexiglass and can flip onto its side to make using it more easy. But before you start placing your order, be aware that the iTableous isn’t quite as hi-tech as it might appear. It does not have a touchscreen and can’t even be used to make phone calls.
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iPhone Bed Sheet
Since your iPod Touch already has access to every app a person could ever need. Just add these custom bed sheets and your collection will be complete.
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