Motorola MOTOACTV GPS Fitness Monitor and Smart Music Player
This looks like a great Christmas gift [hint hint]. And it’s on sale at REI right now for 25% off! What!
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Street Art of the Day: The Peanuts gang spoofs Abbey Road.
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Street Art of the Day: The Peanuts gang spoofs Abbey Road.
[wooster.]
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One More Thing To Worry About of the Day: Two men in Louisiana are believed to have died as a result of a brain-eating parasite they contracted after using a neti pot full of warm water to cleanse their sinuses.
While the cause of death is still under investigation, officials in the state have issued a warning to residents who use neti pots to boil their water in order to kill the parasite, Naegleria fowleri.
“If you are irrigating, flushing or rinsing your sinuses, for example, by using a Neti pot, use distilled, sterile or previously boiled water to make up the irrigation solution,” said Dr. Raoult Ratard, a Louisiana-based epidemiologist, who added that drinking tap water is perfectly safe as the amoeba does no harm when consumed orally.
“Naegleria fowleri infects people by entering the body through the nose,” says the Centers for Disease Control.
This typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in warm freshwater places, like lakes and rivers. In very rare instances, Naegleria infections may also occur when contaminated water from other sources (such as inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water or heated tap water <47°C) enters the nose. Once the ameba enters the brain, it causes a usually fatal infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).
[livescience / rawstory.]
Way big warning for those of you who are neti pot users!!!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwd10h5azu1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
One More Thing To Worry About of the Day: Two men in Louisiana are believed to have died as a result of a brain-eating parasite they contracted after using a neti pot full of warm water to cleanse their sinuses.
While the cause of death is still under investigation, officials in the state have issued a warning to residents who use neti pots to boil their water in order to kill the parasite, Naegleria fowleri.
“If you are irrigating, flushing or rinsing your sinuses, for example, by using a Neti pot, use distilled, sterile or previously boiled water to make up the irrigation solution,” said Dr. Raoult Ratard, a Louisiana-based epidemiologist, who added that drinking tap water is perfectly safe as the amoeba does no harm when consumed orally.
“Naegleria fowleri infects people by entering the body through the nose,” says the Centers for Disease Control.
This typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in warm freshwater places, like lakes and rivers. In very rare instances, Naegleria infections may also occur when contaminated water from other sources (such as inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water or heated tap water <47°C) enters the nose. Once the ameba enters the brain, it causes a usually fatal infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).
[livescience / rawstory.]
Way big warning for those of you who are neti pot users!!!
Look at This Giant Bug!
By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.comThe largest adult insect ever found actually seems sort of cuddly
This amazing/disturbing picture is of a giant weta, the world’s biggest insect at a whopping 71 grams in weight. Wetas are cricket- or grasshopper-like insects native to the…
OMG, would you look at the size of that thing!!
“…it’s boring to say that things don’t work out like they do in the movies. Everyone knows that. Even 21-year-olds. But it’s hard to resist a great story. If we had lasted, we would have had one hell of a story.”
Well-written. Worth your 3 minutes.
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Celebrity Contrarian of the Day: In a recent interview, Adam Carolla took serious, expletive-saturated issue with the Occupy Wall Street protests, which he says are driven by the “participation trophy” culture of “self-entitled monsters” he lovingly refers to as “ass-douches.”
Carolla breaks down his perception of the protesters and their demonstrations in signature Man Show fashion:
…then you get out into the real world and you realize “i’m a f*cking loser.” You’re not doing that well, you’re not making that much money, there’s no more participation trophies, this is the f*ckin’ LA auto show! You don’t get to sit around and go ‘hey, here’s my piece of sh*t I worked on, everyone. Well, why aren’t you guys buying it?’ And then instead of finding a f*cking mirror and finding the reason why no one is buying your car you just want to run around and yell at everyone else who is selling cars, and now you want to take sh*t and throw it at the cars ‘cause you want to f*ck their cars up.
‘Cause that’s what’s going on.
Discuss.
[thanks matt!]
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Cake Turducken of the Day: Humorist Charles Phoenix’s time-honored contribution to the culinary arts — The Cherpumple (CHERry, PUMpkin, and apPLE pies stuffed inside a cake) — as interpreted by professional pastery chef David Lowery.
He says:
Working in the Grand Geneva Resort pastry kitchen, I had some time to make a Cherpumple and serve it at Sunday Brunch. My Cherpumple weighed 21 lbs 10 oz and was seen by over 200 guests that Sunday. I was very pleased that it stayed standing until the final 1/8 was cut 4 hours after the first slice was taken.
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Oh, YES, please!!!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv4qp99XJu1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
Cake Turducken of the Day: Humorist Charles Phoenix’s time-honored contribution to the culinary arts — The Cherpumple (CHERry, PUMpkin, and apPLE pies stuffed inside a cake) — as interpreted by professional pastery chef David Lowery.
Working in the Grand Geneva Resort pastry kitchen, I had some time to make a Cherpumple and serve it at Sunday Brunch. My Cherpumple weighed 21 lbs 10 oz and was seen by over 200 guests that Sunday. I was very pleased that it stayed standing until the final 1/8 was cut 4 hours after the first slice was taken.
[neatorama.]
Oh, YES, please!!!
OMG! Adorbz of the Day: Precocious pink princess Sophia Grace Brownlee returned to Ellen this week with her relatively reserved pal Rosie to cover the American Music Awards on behalf of the show.
Things get adorable in a hurry.
[ellen.]
Kickass Cover of the Day: Upsettingly talented Mexican siblings Angie (10, vocals), Abelardo (15, guitar/bass/piano), and Gustavo Vazquez (13, drums) — AKA Vazquez Sounds — cover the hell out of Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep.”
[@alex_ogle.]
