he tried to make them stop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_Germany
“Nazi leaders believed that it was wrong for the master race to smoke”
July 30, 2009
June 20, 2009
June 19, 2009
April 12, 2009
Polar bear attacks woman at Berlin Zoo
Shocking that a polar bear would do that to someone jumping into its corral at feeding time. God bless CNN for the front-seat photo-op though!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/11/polar.bear.attack/index.html
April 6, 2009
February 10, 2009
What Don’t You Fucking Understand?
O’Reilly’s not the only one with problems…
…and the dance remix is potential is once again endless.
February 3, 2009
Bloomberg shows he’s no Putin
Perhaps that’s what irked Chuck the Groundhog on Monday morning on Staten Island when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg tried to lure him out of his wooden shelter.
Chuck wasn’t up for whatever it was that Mr. Bloomberg had planned for him — or for predicting how much longer winter was going to last, for that matter. And he got so annoyed at the mayor that he bit the mayor’s left hand, his sharp teeth piercing Mr. Bloomberg’s black leather gloves.
Groundhog bites N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg, signals early arrival of pain
Really, where was the tranquilizer gun? That TV crew could have been hurt!
December 30, 2008
Vishay Releases White Power SMD LEDs
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has released the series of high-intensity white power SMD LEDs in the CLCC-2 flat ceramic package to offer InGaN/TAG on sapphire technology. Designed to reduce costs in high-volume applications, the VLMW84..devices offer low thermal resistance of 25 K/W and high optical power from 5600 mcd to 14000 mcd. With a low profile of only 0.75 mm, the CLCC-2 flat ceramic package of the VLMW84.. LEDs allows the additional current drive for a maximum light output while maintaining a service life of up to 50,000 hours, making them ideal light sources in space-limited applications where thermal management is a key consideration.
December 24, 2008
Karl Marx goes manga in a Kapital comic strip
When Karl Marx alerted economists to the “the knell of capitalist private property” he probably didn’t imagine the phrase cropping-up as a speech bubble in a comic strip for Japanese commuters.
But across the world’s second biggest economy, bookstores from Hiroshima to Hokkaido are preparing for what they expect to be the publishing phenomenon of the year: Das Kapital – the manga version.
