Click HERE for a ton of other weird uses for Altoid tins
Monday, January 31, 2011
Martin Luther King III has a dream: to buy the Mets
The son of the late civil-rights leader is uniting with some heavy hitters, including Mets legend Ed Kranepool; entrepreneur Donn Clendenon Jr., son of the 1969 Mets World Series MVP; TV executive Larry Meli; and a number of unnamed deep-pocketed investors, The Post has learned."It's fitting with the legacy of Jackie Robinson essentially transferring to the Mets; what better place to have African-American ownership than with the Mets," Meli said, noting that Major League Baseball has no African-American owners.
"The time and place are right for it. It just seems to be the right mix of people."
According to Meli, King, 53, who runs the King Center in Atlanta, is scheduled to come to New York this week to set up a meeting with the Wilpons, who announced Friday they're looking to sell up to 25 percent of the team because of financial woes created by the Bernie Madoff mess.
Click HERE for the story
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Good idea or going too far?
A Virginia legislator is renewing his push to allow castration of sex offenders as an alternative to the increasing costs of detaining and treating them after they've served their prison sentence.Sen. Emmett Hanger's bill would require the state to study the use of physical castration as an alternative to costly civil commitment for those deemed sexually violent predators. The General Assembly approved similar legislation four years ago, but then-Gov. Timothy M. Kaine vetoed it.
While opponents call the procedure barbaric and the proposal heavy-handed, Hanger argues castration is cost-effective for the state and could provide a cure for some offenders.
Click HERE for the story
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
For anyone who thinks water needs more meat...
New Yorker Till Krautkraemer is the founder of MeatWater, a beverage company that creates hearty -- and obviously meaty -- meal supplement drinks in highly unusual flavors like cheeseburger, barbecued chicken wings and Italian sausage.The new flavors in his MeatWaterVOID line include poached salmon salad -- which supposedly tastes like a piece of salmon over lettuce, asparagus and mustard seeds -- and grilled chicken salad, a green-colored beverage said to taste like grilled chicken, spinach and onions, complete with a balsamic vinegar dressing.
However, in Krautkraemer's opinion, the MeatWater flavor that takes the cake for most delicious is German sauerbraten.
He said that one tastes like the traditional German dish containing ox rump roast with vinegar, raisins, juniper, bay leaf and a red-wine-reduction sauce.
Click HERE for the story
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Ted Williams Leaves Rehab
Ted Williams -- the homeless man with the "Golden Voice" -- has left rehab against medical advice, less than two weeks after checking in for drug and alcohol dependency.Ted -- who decided to go to rehab earlier this month after a taping of the Dr. Phil show -- left the Origins Recovery Center in South Texas moments ago and is on his way to the airport.
Ted's girlfriend is currently in rehab at the Safe Harbor facility in Costa Mesa, California.
Click HERE for the story
Football is serious business!
With Chicago reeling from Sunday’s painful playoff loss, Monday morning probably wasn’t the best time for car salesman John Stone to share his love for the Green Bay Packers with co-workers and customers.But Stone, 34, proudly showed up for work at Webb Chevrolet in south suburban Oak Lawn wearing his green-and-yellow Packers necktie anyway.
Now he’s former car salesman John Stone.
The morning after the Chicago Bears’ hated rivals beat them at Soldier Field to advance to the Super Bowl, Webb’s general manager Jerry Roberts says he fired Stone for refusing to remove the Packers-branded tie.
“He said, ‘You have two options,’ ” a furious Stone said later Monday. “Remove the tie, or you’re fired.”
“When I didn’t, he said, ‘You can leave, you’re fired.’ Does that sound fair to you? I was just showing my love for my team and it was a nice, smart tie that matched my clothes — none of the customers minded: they had a sense of humor about it.”
Click HERE for the story
Monday, January 24, 2011
Hide your kids, hide your wife, AND hide your TVs
TMZ reports that Antoine Dodson--the guy who famously battled a bedroom intruder--is shooting a pilot for a reality show produced by Entertainment One. Actress Kali Hawk will serve as executive producer.The show doesn't have an official name yet -- but producers have already shot a bunch of footage centered around Antoine moving out of Alabama and over to West Hollywood.
So far, the show is still looking for a deal with a network.
Click HERE for the story
Friday, January 21, 2011
The Most Badass Wheelchair EVER
A DISABLED man has been stopped from using his specially-made wheelchair because British road authorities say it's a tank.Jim Starr, 36, was told by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DLVA) he cannot ride his specially-made chair, which has caterpillar-treads instead of wheels, because its size and width technically make it a tank.
Jim says he has already driven the custom-made vehicle across snow, sand and even into the surf of his local beach.
"The whole idea of the chair was that I could go down to the beach with the kids," Jim said.
"It is a fantastic machine and can take me anywhere I want to go. It has no limits."
Jim, a former landscape gardener from Dorchester, Dorset, said he had hoped the chair would give him more freedom to go outdoors with his wife Emma, son Leo, eight, and daughter Skye, four.
"I used to be someone who was very into outdoor pursuits before I had to use a wheelchair and I had hoped the tracks would mean I could get back out and do the kinds of think I used to love doing."
The chair is controlled using a special joystick on the arm, is run by a 24-volt motor battery with a top speed of 12km/h.
Click HERE for the story
Hickeys are dangerous!
A woman was partially paralyzed from a hickey that caused her to have a small stroke, the New Zealand Medical Journal said according to a media report.The 44-year-old New Zealander went to the emergency room after she found that she couldn't move her left arm while she was watching TV, The Christchurch Press reported.
Doctors concluded that she had had a stroke but were perplexed as to why, the paper said. Then they found a "love bite" on her neck near a major artery, and discovered a clot in the artery beneath the hickey — a small vertical bruise.
"Because it was a love bite there would be a lot of suction," said Dr. Wu, who attended to the woman over a year ago at the Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, according to the paper. "Because of the physical trauma it had made a bit of bruising inside the vessel."
He added the clot traveled to the woman's heart and caused the stroke.
"We looked at the medical literature and that example of having a love bite causing something like that hasn't been described before," Dr Wu said.
Click HERE for the story
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Joey Gay live in Beacon!
Here's the info about Joey Gay's show we discussed this morning:
Saturday January 22nd
DOORS OPEN 8:00pm
SHOWTIME 9:15pm
Virgo's Sip N Soul Cafe'
469 Fishkill Avenue
Beacon, NY
Ticket information: 845-831-1543
Saturday January 22nd
DOORS OPEN 8:00pm
SHOWTIME 9:15pm
Virgo's Sip N Soul Cafe'
469 Fishkill Avenue
Beacon, NY
Ticket information: 845-831-1543
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Cheap gas thanks to... e. coli?
In September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium – that feeds solely on carbon dioxide and excretes liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.”Click HERE for the story
Monday, January 17, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Man vs. Machine!
Meet Watson, aspiring Jeopardy champ. He's a black rectangle with a globe avatar, and he absorbed 200 million pages of text to prepare for the game show.Watson is the IBM (IBM) supercomputer sent to do battle with human contestants on Jeopardy. He analyzes the vast amounts of information in his databases to come up with contextual clues that let him understand human language, spotting subtleties like the difference between a dog's bark and a tree's bark, CNN reported.
It's going pretty well. Watson won a practice round of the game show, netting $4,400 and answering no questions incorrectly. It wasn't a walkover – he stayed silent during the "Children's Books" category.
Still, the supercomputer, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson is already a crowd pleaser at a show with categories like "A man, a plan, a canal... Erie!" and "Chicks Dig Me." The audience roared with laughter when Watson came off with game show speak like "Let's finish up 'Chicks Dig Me.'"
Click HERE for the link
Thursday, January 13, 2011
The Man With the Golden Voice has Hit Hard Times
"Dr. Phil" says Ted Williams, the golden-voiced Ohio homeless man, is going into rehab to deal with alcohol and drug dependency.Williams agreed to enter a private facility after a lengthy one-on-one interview with Dr. Phil McGraw that is set to air today, according to a statement from the show.
"If Ted is ever going to get better, he's got to be honest with himself and admit he's addicted to drugs and alcohol," the statement from "Dr. Phil" says. "I've told him it's not going to be easy and it's going to take a lot of hard work. It might be a long journey for him, but this is a big step in the right direction."
Click HERE for the story
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Hopefully the closet was smell-proof!
Police in Japan were questioning a man for abandoning a corpse after his father's mummified remains were found in a wardrobe in the apartment they shared, local media reported yesterday.The 55-year-old man reportedly admitted to police that he put the body of this father, Mitsuo Sonoda, into the wardrobe, The Mainichi Daily News reported.
"More than five years ago, during the winter, I came home and found my father in his bed. He wasn't moving. I left him there for a week, but he started to smell, so I put him in the wardrobe," he was quoted as telling investigators.
The son continued to pocket pension payments made to his father, who he shared the Kyoto apartment with for 10 years.
Police said the remains of the senior citizen - who would have been 92 years old - were found after his son's ex-wife visited the apartment January 4 and told police she "could find no sign" of her former father-in-law.
Click HERE for the story
What's the fair meth-to-car conversion on an Oldsmobile?
A man caught with a stolen car told police he bought the vehicle from a woman using meth as payment.West Virginia State Police stated that Jerry Wayne Means was driving down I-77 around 11:20 Saturday night.
The Oldsmobile Intrigue Means was driving came up stolen on a trooper's mobile plate hunter.
Means was pulled over and arrested near Oakridge Apartments on US-119.
While in police custody, Means admitted he rented the car from a woman and used $50 bags of meth as payment. Means later told police he bought the car for two grams of meth.
Click HERE for the story
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