Pastor tells of porn addiction | Herald Sun
Disgraced pastor Michael Guglielmucci has finally told of fabricating a terminal cancer battle to hide his 16-year obsession with pornography."This is who I am ... I'm addicted to the stuff, it consumes my mind,'' he said of pornography in his first interview on Today Tonight since the story was first revealed on AdelaideNow last week.
16 years??
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Daily Kos: Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday
"You're a surgeon and you're using a rusty hacksaw?"]]>"Trust me. I was a POW."
"You’re the Republican candidate for president and you want to fix the country's problems even though you don’t know much about the economy, you don’t know how to use the internet, you don’t know how many houses you own or what kind of car you drive, you admit you don’t think clearly when you’re tired, you make frequent gaffes on foreign policy, you think offshore drilling is a short-term solution to high gas prices, you support torture and keeping the Guantanamo prison open, you make rash decisions and statements from which you have to quickly backtrack, you have an explosive temper on a hair trigger, your idea of health care reform is 'wear more sunscreen,' you're for stem cell research except when it's done on stem cells because you consider them all American citizens, and you voted to support the policies of the worst president ever 100 percent of the time this year?"
"Trust me, my friends. I was a POW."
As election speculation hits fever pitch, the Harper government has cut loose a contentious private member's bill that would have made it a crime to take the life of a fetus.
I mean, why else would they reintroduce the bill with updated wording to focus on the mother instead of the fetus:
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced Monday that the government will draft a new bill to replace Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, so that it closes the debate about fetal rights and focuses instead on penalizing criminals who harm pregnant women.]]>
Goodbye wires… - MIT News Office
A team from MIT's Department of Physics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) has experimentally demonstrated an important step toward accomplishing this vision of the future.]]>Realizing their recent theoretical prediction, they were able to light a 60W light bulb from a power source seven feet (more than two meters) away; there was no physical connection between the source and the appliance. The MIT team refers to its concept as "WiTricity" (as in wireless electricity). The work will be reported in the June 7 issue of Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science.
So what do you think? Should I get this?
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I was only able to get 17 of these. And I cheated.
More pathos, better writing, and (strangely) better acting than in the first three prequels. It's the cutest little Star Wars spoof I've ever seen. Also, just a little more tragic than Revenge of the Sith.
The Clever Sheep: Last, but not Least
As a teacher in Windsor, Ontario, my brother Mark (brother number 4 by birth order), has always found ways to engage the power of media tools in the classroom. Whether leading his class to create unique 'graduation presentations', 'music videos', or 'schoolwide multimedia screenings', he has always sought to employ the most powerful apps available. One of the ways he builds upon his repertoire of rich projects, is to complete special assignments on his own.]]>Filmed using his children in lead roles, and edited on his Mac, Star Wars VII may be destined for cult status once the YouTube fans find it...
Video: Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games - Times Online
Emily - the woman in the above animation - was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.]]>She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.
Researchers at a Californian company which makes computer-generated imagery for Hollywood films started with a video of an employee talking. They then broke down down the facial movements down into dozens of smaller movements, each of which was given a 'control system'.
Why am I mentioning it now? Because there's an awesome video of a frozen Bigfoot costume encased in a block of ice. And it's sticking its tongue out at all the Bigfoot researchers.
Now that's news. When even a costume is mocking you, maybe you should get out of the business.
BBC NEWS | Americas | American 'Bigfoot' is monkey suit
Steve Kulls - of squatchdetective.com - observed the thawing and said that as the ice melted, the exposed head was found to be "unusually hollow in one small section".As the process continued the feet were exposed - and were found to be made of rubber.
He actually bought the block of ice from the two hoaxers. I wonder if he got his money back.
]]>McSweeney's - SELECTIONS FROM H.P. LOVECRAFT'S BRIEF TENURE AS A WHITMAN'S SAMPLER COPYWRITER.
The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle's complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.]]>