“The Winter Stalker” By Stephen Reedy & Alex Pardee from ZerofriendsFilms Can’t believe I missed this…

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter People who are insulated from the results of their choices will inevitably choose cause for others’ regret.

Sterile insect technique is a method of biological control, whereby millions of sterile insects are released. The released insects are normally male as it is the female that causes the damage, usually by laying eggs in the crop, or, in the case of mosquitoes, taking a bloodmeal from humans. The sterile males compete with the [...]

Well, there’s things that never will be right I know,And things need changin’ everywhere you go,But ’til we start to make a move to make a few things right,You’ll never see me wear a suit of white. Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day,And tell the world that everything’s OK,But I’ll try to [...]

What up, Santa Claus? Nothing says “holidays” like a trip to the liquor store. Maybe I haven’t been “real good” this year – but I don’t need a lump of coal… just some charcoal-filtered whiskey. I’ll trade up fruit cake and cookies for some rum – it’s all still sugar, right? (Unless it’s high fructose [...]

“Listen to me, ma’am,” the operator told a panicked Melissa Doi during a 20-minute phone call. “You’re not dying. You’re in a bad situation, ma’am.” . . . “I’m going to die, aren’t I?” Doi asked the dispatcher. “Please God, it’s so hot. I’m burning up.” The operator encouraged Doi to keep her composure: “Ma’am, [...]

“I have been hacked; taking evasive maneuvers. Much apology, my friends,” wrote Rocky Barbanica, a producer for Rackspace Hosting, an Internet storage firm, in one such note. Mr. Barbanica sent that out last month after realizing he had sent messages to 250 Twitter followers with a link and the sentence, “Are you in this picture?” [...]

via Random_Man “Join a gang,” they said, “see the ghetto,” they said – all I got was this lousy subdural hematoma.

… even here? After the Emirates gained independence in 1971, oil wealth continued to flow to the area and traditional mud-brick huts were rapidly replaced with banks, boutiques and modern highrises. – Abu Dhabi at Wikipedia.org Dubai is a cool city and all, but have you ever gotten the feeling that it’s just flaunting its [...]

Rahner and Horton realized comic books were an ideal medium for portraying their story of a reluctant government agent sent to investigate strange happenings in remote and often backward Western towns — and its underlying criticism of today’s social and political ills. In their series, as in real life, “If you’re a rational, skeptical, independent [...]