Interesting fact: Barbara Eden was prohibited from baring her navel until the show was into its fourth and fifth seasons, and even then the audience only got fleeting glimpses. According to Barbara Eden, network executives and censors were unconcerned about her navel being seen until someone casually mentioned during the third season that it was occasionally visible when the waistband of her costume shifted. After that her navel was required to be covered.
A surreal photograph of Eric Parker, who lives in central Idaho, aiming his gun from a bridge as pro-states rights protesters assemble at the Bureau of Land Management base camp in Bunkerville, Nevada.
Amazing Stories is looking for certain kinds of fans to contribute to our daily blog with personal, insightful, interesting and knowledgeable posts about the very important happenings in their particular universes.
Blood Moon - stabilized A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses lunar eclipse tetrad - a series of four consecutive total eclipses occurring at approximately six month intervals.
This colossal metablog features Mary Ann and Ginger, of Gilligan's Island fame. To keep current, I have implanted some warm and fuzzy links that will curl your toes
Dawn Wells, who played the sexy but wholesome Mary Ann Summers in Gilligan's Island, said she wore skimpy shorts on the show to make herself look more elongated next to her much taller cast members. Like Barbara Eden, the shorts had to cover her navel, as per network regulations.
You guys do know who turned Mary Ann onto the Devil's Weed, don't ya? Nope! It wasn't Gilligan or the Professor. Ever notice how "out-of-it" Mrs.Howell was all those years on that island
I can see that you are enamored of me and why wouldn't you be? I played Ginger Grant on one of the most amazing television shows of all time. I am gorgeous and sexy and I know that you want me very badly, but all I want is coconut cream pie without the coconuts
Gilligan's Island (Das Gilliganinsel)is the name of a small Pacific island which was used as a hydrogen bomb test site by the US Air Force in 1965. Although the subsequent disaster resulted in no fatalities, it did cause a severe public-relations backlash against US atomic testing procedures.
Another edition of Derp Roundup, the weekly feature where we scrape the dumbest possible news leftovers off our overheated browser tabs, blend them into an almost-digestible slurry, and a warning to imbibe heavily.
Your all in for a real treat! For those who don't know Sarah Mcdonald. She has been featured in magazines such as ... Nuts, Zoo and a regular to Daily Star page 3 chick.
OK Guys, There is no reason to revoke my man card. I have not linked to Madonna's veins, teeth or her old shanky body. This is a retro Madonna type post
As readers/followers of this blog, Please be advised to use discretion when clicking this group of NSFW Madonna links. Management is not responsible for annoyed significant others or mean bosses.
Before Madonna was famous, she posed nude for art classes and did a few nude photoshoots. Over the years, a lot of those pictures were sold to magazines
Madonna looks like a f***ing fairground stripper - Elton John
OK, I am an old Dude that does not like Pop Music. However, I can't help but draw the parallel of burlesque and popular pop music. Madonna is a great example ...
Madonna had always used sex to sell her music, she went out with her 1992 book Sex. Released to coincide with her Erotica album, the coffee table book featured arty shots of her cavorting naked with celebrities like Vanilla Ice, Naomi Campbell and a bunch of others. Most of it was photographed by Steven Meisel and the locations ranged from Madonna's home in Miami to an all-male burlesque theatre in New York
25 years ago Madonna released "Like a Prayer" (uncensored)
Madonna's Pepsi commercial was banned by Pepsi because the music was “Like A Prayer” and after seeing Madonna’s religious, sexual music video for the song, Pepsi didn't want their product associated with this song.
A student in a prestigious university in China, Su Zizi, became an instant internet sensation after she appeared naked in a video that detailed her job as a nude model and her poor family. Many were touched by her story However, doubts raised over Su Zizi's story. After becoming an Internet sensation, Su Zizi went from a girl with a sob story to a hungry attention-seeker.
In this tremendous metablog / photo blog Josephine Baker (Entertainer, Spy, Activist and Philanthropist) receives top billing. Along with some 1920s darb stuff that dewdroppers will enjoy with their giggle juice.
The early 1920s for Josephine Baker - After dropping out of school at the age of 12 she lived as a homeless street urchin in the slums of St. Louis. The next year she was able to find work waitress at The Old Chauffeur's Club. At age 15, Josephine Baker's street-corner dancing attracted attention and was recruited for the St. Louis Chorus vaudeville show. For the next three years she performed in many of the Broadway revues.
Josephine Baker was popular in France and was known as the "Black Pearl", "Bronze Venus" or "Creole Goddess" . In the US she was rejected. Time magazine called her a "Negro wench". In New York, she was refused reservations at 36 hotels because of her skin colour. The Ku Klux Klan threatened Josephine Baker. In 1951, the famous situation occurred where Josephine Baker was refused service in the Stork Club in Manhattan and Grace Kelly rushed over to her and said she would never enter the club again. Josephine Baker then gave up her American citizenship
FBI documents from 1951 to 1966, largely concerning immigration and security issues related to Josephine Baker’s association with communist proponents and related groups.
Josephine Baker, who was married to four different men and had affairs with many others -- actually was a lesbian, ``looking for tenderness'' that only another woman could show her, Jean-Claude (her son) says.
Long before Angelina Jolie, Mia Farrow and Madonna made headlines with their adoptive families, 1920s star Josephine Baker tried to combat racism by adopting 12 children of various ethnic backgrounds from around the world.
Josephine Baker led a raucous private life French military intelligence recruits her to work for the Resistance. Josephine Baker position as an entertainer allows her to move freely around Europe, and her celebrity status grants her access to high-society and embassy functions.
With the second issue, however, Confidential's fortunes began to turn. Among the stories featured was one titled, "Winchell Was Right About Josephine Baker." The article suggested that popular broadcaster and columnist Walter Winchell had been wrongly attacked as a racist for his criticism of African-American entertainer and actress Josephine Baker.
The controversy revolved around an October 1951 incident at New York City's famed Stork Club, owned by a bigoted Oklahoman named Sherman Billingsley. As it happened, both Winchell and Josephine Baker, at separate tables, were at the club that night. When a waiter served Baker's white companions but did not deliver the steak and crab salad she ordered, the fuming entertainer walked out--and, within days, the NAACP, New York papers, and Ed Sullivan were all on the Stork Club's case, denouncing the presumed discrimination against Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker's complaints did not end with the Stork Club, but included Winchell, whose nonchalance about the incident came under her biting criticism. Winchell, however, felt falsely accused, defended the club, and lashed out at "phoney" Baker, who he also suggested was a Communist. The Confidential story sided with Winchell and chastised Baker for being an "outright liar" who fights racial discrimination "for her own cynical ends." Winchell, unsurprisingly, loved the story and encouraged his readers and viewers to read the full story in Confidential. With the Winchell testimonial, sales skyrocketed.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Vaudeville Theater owners established chains that became so popular they could have a separate chain that catered to black audiences only. To provide some more racy entertainment for patrons that did not mind some coarseness, the Vaudeville owners booked Burlesque acts from the Burlesque Theater which targeted the lower and middle class. Burlesque harks back to the origins of variety entertainment as “barroom fare.” Acts included frank songs, coarse humor, variety acts, skimpy-costumed chorus numbers and sometimes a sketch lampooning current politics or news.
Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton was an American white supremacist, lynching advocate, writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician who became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate. In a symbolic gesture, Governor Thomas Hardwick appointed Rebecca Felton to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Thomas Watson. She was sworn in November 21, 1922, and served just 24 hours.
Rebecca Felton claimed, for instance, that the more money that Georgia spent on black education, the more crimes blacks committed. Furthermore Rebecca Felton considered "young blacks" who sought equal treatment "half-civilized gorillas," and ascribed to them a "brutal lust" for white women. While seeking suffrage for women, she decried voting rights for blacks, arguing that it led directly to the rape of white women The Sixth Annual National Offend a Feminist Week "Feminism is, among other things, a totalitarian attempt to tell us what to think by controlling what we are allowed to say." - Robert Stacy McCain Lucy Pinder salutes National Offend a Feminist week!
In the 1920s and 1930s, the NRA’s leaders helped write and lobby for the first federal gun control laws—the very kinds of laws that the modern NRA labels as the height of tyranny. The 17th Amendment outlawing alcohol became law in 1920 and was soon followed by the emergence of big city gangsters who outgunned the police by killing rivals with sawed-off shotguns and machine guns—today called automatic weapons.
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"The old-school mysteries were never afraid to pull the "nude card" tell sell a novel or two. Men are a predictable breed; just imply nudity and we'll fork over the cash willingly."
When I was young and naive, I used to pay some attention. I listened to WORDS spoken authoritatively into microphones. To my still-dewy ears and my still-dewy brain, they seemed like the WORD Terrorists. Terrorists of the WORD, twisting meanings to fit agenda or whim. Is “freedom” a mere buzzword, a holdover from the days of the American Revolution? Or maybe the meaning of the word is ambiguous: each faction is saying something different when they use the word “freedom.” In Buddhism it is taught that the idea of absolute freedom of choice (i.e. that any human being could be completely free to make any choice) is foolish, because it denies the reality of one's physical needs and circumstances At its heart freedom is anarchy. It is the state of being completely and utterly free to do as you please. In a society such absolute freedom does not work as some would take actions that harm others. Absolute freedom and anarchy was certainly not what the framers of nations had in mind when they created the different constitutions that set limits both on the people and on the governments
This lusty meta/photo blog is a bit risque. Moreover, it features Charlize Theron in all her living glory. The most cool GIFs were posted to separate the outstanding links
Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Charlize Theron!
Yes, it’s Charlize Theron, strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal women. Charlize Theron, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with her private parts. And who, disguised as a mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way.
My laugher woke the dogs when I watch this - Auntie Angel is a firm believer that every man should be “grapefruited.” If you don’t know what grapefruiting is—don’t worry, I didn't know until a few minutes ago myself — never fear, cause Auntie Angel is here to perform a delightful, detailed tutorial and show you, dear reader, exactly what this so-called “grapefruiting” is all about and how you can grapefruit your man. (jump to 2:40)
Stephen Colbert has The Word on the White House’s recently released climate report, an assessment that has him “so terrified that it left a carbon footprint in my pants.”
Disney movies provide us with an idealized portrait of adulthood, full of adventure and happy endings. The artist Jeff Hong provides an alternate narrative in “Unhappily Ever After;”
This issue is all mix up. I blame the following tangents; The coup in Thailand, Voltaire, Glenn Greenwald and pantsu stuff. In short, I did not follow the 6Ps...
Taiwanese media reports that Taipei police are infuriated at the photo, which shows Iiniku Ushijima gamely flashing her pantsu whilst peering into one of their patrol cars, and are concerned it will damage their image. Huge Iiniku Ushijima gallery
Godzilla creation story: those atomic tests in the Pacific Ocean didn't cause Godzilla, they were efforts to eradicate him. All this sows the seeds of conspiracy
Troubling rumors have surfaced about Kaley Cuoco. According to witnesses who wishes to remain anonymous, the Big Bang Theory star ate the brains of six guests at her wedding in an undead rampage.
In order to comply with regulations, we will have a Curfew party at Black Pagoda tonight. Doors will open at 7.30pm, then close around 9.30pm, and nobody can leave before 5am. Seriously. ("Fugitives" will be admitted later, too).
Don't let minor complications take the fun out of your life.
It's not that they don't exist; they are very real and have been visiting and living on Earth since we became Homo Sapiens. Quite frankly, Alien-Human Hybrids are the most dangerous threat to our way of life, and it isn't necessarily because they want to harm us. It's because the are infecting the gene pool and sperm banks!
This is for real - The wildest, way out prize ever awarded in any contest: a 19-foot-prototype of the famed NASA spacecraft. Your Gemini capsule is just like the original. There's a detachable hatch, equipment section, and retro-fire package. Accurate from the ground up! When you win Gemini you'll be at the airport when it arrives in a "Flying Guppy" Aero Spacelines plane. Your name and picture will be in newspapers and magazines all over the country. How will it feel to present your spacecraft to your city for a park or museum? Famous, that's how.
With the increasing censorship restrictions, summoning of anyone critical of the junta (and the summoning and rebuking of journalists for asking Prayuth “aggressive” questions), incommunicado detentions etc it is clearly not the best time for critical blogging.
Lots of K00L James Bond stuff. This chart shows every James Bond girl that has ever appeared along the fifty years of the James Bond 007 movie history.
It's time for another rousing round of our Number Seven Spy Guy Series, so B.Y.O.B. and let's get this partito rolling with this little jewel from 1966 called 077 Killers Are Challenged!
Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald still reporting old news. This only supports my opinion that there is a lot misinformation being release. One can not stop the data mining but you can spin the data to your own ends
NSA facial recognition: combining national ID cards, Internet intercepts, and commercial facial databases
The compere of this show tells his audience that Miss Honeywell would make a good assistant to any sales manager. Miss Honeywell replies “Assistant nothing! I’d make someone a very good wife!”
Jane Russell is hosting this full moon and Friday the 13th party! There is a vicious rumor... that udder vintage and retro babes will be howling to night!
If one wants to trace back through the annals of Hollywood to find out when the ample chested actress became the fashion, one needs to look no further than Jane Russell. Who was discovered by cleavage loving and eccentric Howard Hughes.
Howard Hughes was attracted to Jane Russell's cleavage immediately and felt she was destined for pictures even though she was a doctor’s assistant when he found her.
Fixated with Jane Russell’s breasts, Howard Hughes designed a bra that would augment her natural assets for THE OUTLAW but Jane Russell found the article too cumbersome so she just employed her usual underwear and told Mr. Hughes that she was wearing his device.
Jane Russell also appears in one of her less meritorious films, Fuzzy Pink Nightgown, in a satin sheath dress. Her dresser asks her if she wants to wear a girdle. Jane Russell gasps "You must be joking!" at which she drop kicks the girdle off set.
To promote the 1954 movie Underwater, Howard Hughes flew 200 journalists and movie stars to a Florida lake, then gave the journalists scuba gear so they could watch the movie 25 feet below the lake's surface.
William Ray (the PR director) "The projector was mounted in a boat with an underwater room and a large plate glass window on the side (underwater). Underwater speakers were used to project the sound through the water. The event had to occur at night in order to have the ability to project a visible image."We had a screen made and mounted on a steel pipe frame. It was placed underwater at a depth of about 10 feet... The water was crystal clear and the projector easily displayed the images on the screen."
And what about the audience? "We supplied the weighted chairs and the aqua lungs for the guests...in water which was about six to eight feet deep. The media coverage was huge. I received over 700 clippings from one clipping service in one day."
In the 1950s, Jane Russell, who considered herself evangelical or Pentecostal without belonging to a specific denomination, formed a female gospel quartet called the "Hollywood Christian Group" that came together after they met at a church social. Even as her star was rising, Jane Russell held fast to her Christian faith, creating a weekly Bible study at her home for Christians in the film industry.
Jane Russell - "I have always been a Republican, and when I was in Hollywood long ago, most of the people there were Republican. The studio heads were all Republican, my boss Howard Hughes was a raving Republican, and we had a motion picture code in those days so they couldn't do all this naughty stuff. We had John Wayne, we had Charlton Heston, we had man named Ronald Reagan, we had Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, Clark Gable."
Fear of Friday the 13th— one of the most popular myths in science — is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number thirteen.
Paraskevidekatriaphobics - People afflicted with morbid irrational fear of Friday the 13th. I'm not scared of this special day but I do have a morbid fear of trying to say the word paraskevidekatriaphobics
There is more than one version of why and/or how Marilyn Monroe posed in a burlap potato sack. The story is that Marilyn Monroe was once chastised by a female newspaper columnist for wearing a low-cut red dress to a party at the Beverly Hills Hotel. According to Marilyn Monroe, the columnist called her cheap and vulgar. Not stopping there, the writer then suggested that the actress would look better in a potato sack. So, Twentieth Century Fox decided to capitalize on the story by shooting some publicity stills of Marilyn Monroe in a form fitting burlap potato sack just to prove she would look sexy in anything.
The fact that this is a natural association of an adult and juvenile amphibian in a seemingly protective pose displaying prehistoric animal behavior makes this an important scientific fossil as much as it is fascinating to look at.
The Iraqi crisis has allowed the Kurds (Peshmerga) to grab contested areas and seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. The Iraqi army has been in no position to resist thanks to the onslaught mounted by the ISIS. Kurdish leaders view the sudden collapse of the Iraqi state across the north of with barely concealed glee, regarding this as a unique opportunity to strengthen their own hand.
The seizure of Kirkuk would have been unthinkable before this week, but with Iraqi security forces not only displaying its inability to control large population centers from ISIS fighters, they have little appetite to confront Peshmerga forces, who are considered the best trained and most disciplined soldiers in Iraq, from consolidating territory beyond the Kurdish borders. When the smoke clears, the result could be a permanent territorial gain for Kurdistan.
For centuries, Kurds have dreamed of gaining full control of Kirkuk province, which was previously their capital. Yousif Mohammed Sadiq, the parliamentary speaker of the Kurdish Regional Government, emphasised the desire of the Kurdish government to break away from the rest of the country: “There is a natural divide between the people of Iraq. The Kurds and the Arabs, for example, are not one people but they were pushed together into one country whose borders are not natural.”
In addition to its symbolic importance, Kirkuk is now a hub for energy exploration, with some of Iraq’s largest oilfields found within the province. The Kurds view control of the oilfields as the gateway to building a viable independent state. Since 2011, big oil companies, including BP, ExxonMobil and Total have signed exploration deals with Iraqi Kurdistan.
Jennifer Lopez's body parts leads this tremendous fondue of a metablog. Followed by a smorgasbord of hot and spicy photos, GIFs and other mouth watering internet finds.
No celebrity body part has achieved greater prominence in recent memory than Jennifer Lopez's derriere. which begs the question, does Jennifer Lopez have an insurance policy on her hiney?
A magnificent show of technical ineptitude, today the U.S. Marshals revealed the identities of many anonymous bidders in its $18 million seized Silk Road Bitcoin auction
"When I saw these pictures of delicate flower, camera shy Kim Kardashian in totally not staged at all, hi-res see through wet t-shirt and look at my booty poses . . . well, what's a guy to do but share them with his one or two loyal readers" - Postal Dog
It is time Obama tells these radical jihadists that they need to cut their carbon emissions by 30% as they are invading these Iraqi cities because we all know the real threat to the world is climate change
The Iraqi crisis has allowed the Kurds (Peshmerga) to grab contested areas and seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. The Iraqi army has been in no position to resist thanks to the onslaught mounted by the ISIS. Kurdish leaders view the sudden collapse of the Iraqi state across the north of with barely concealed glee, regarding this as a unique opportunity to strengthen their own hand.
Gisele Bundchen, the expensive human pretzel, is the presenter of this wondrous photoblog. Brain food has been added to enhance your morning coffee experience
Gisele Bundchen, who is a strong supporter of her home turf Brazil, has also been chosen as the trophy presenter for the 2014 World Cup awarding ceremony
Everyone loves to hate Gwyneth Paltrow for being snooty and preachy. But do you know who’s also snooty and preachy with the added bonus of being younger, richer, and a supermodel? Gisele Bundchen.
Searching for Gisele Bündchen and screensavers can prove risky, 15 percent of the search results for this beauty can put spyware, malware or viruses on your computer. (This blog is super clean)
The idea of what makes a woman sexy has changed since the 1950’s. Whereas having large, round breasts, wide hips, and an ample derriere was once considered the epitome of feminine beauty, by contemporary standards these attributes would cause a woman to be labeled fat and unattractive. Women, by and large, haven’t changed. What’s different is the idea of feminine beauty. The major determinant of what is and is not regarded as sexy in women is high fashion, the costumes of which are designed not by women, but by men, and not just men, but, for the most part, gay men. As a result, the embodiment of female beauty is the face and figure of the pre-pubescent boy. In short, gay fashion designers have created gay friendly women--women who look like boys. These women are being criticized because they have a boy ass that is generally seen as not attractive.
Among the highlights... A perky young Lucille Ball back in the days when Lucille Ball was appearing in Three Stooges shorts and on casting couches in Hollywood.
In seventh grade, our teacher told us we were the luckiest kids in America. The above ground atomic bomb tests, at Yucca Flats, were only eighty miles from Las Vegas. We could actually feel the earth shake and see the mushroom clouds. Our teacher, who habitually drank whiskey at her desk behind a Review Journal newspaper, delighted in conducting bomb drills. She patrolled the aisles, kicking legs that protruded from under our desks. She showed us movies about Tommy the Turtle whose shell protected him from bad stuff like radioactivity. She oversaw the reading of books that told us to “duck and cover.” At John S. Park School, kids reported being pelted with greasy rain when they were in the playground. Their teacher instructed them to drop to the ground and put their arms over their heads. No one seemed to question the logic behind any of this.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.When I was at North Ninth Street school, we were herded off to the nurses’ office for blood tests, after which we were issued dog tags stating our names and blood types. We didn't ask why, nor did our parents. We were all oblivious to the chilling implications. Instead we kids argued about which blood types were superior to others. My mother, in an uncharacteristically liberal frame of mind, bought me an educational record featuring songs about intolerance. One in particular tackled the sensitive subject of blood type discrimination head on. England, China and Alaska, Mexico and Madagascar, anywhere you point your finger to—there’s someone with the same type blood as you. Nevertheless, I secretly believed that O positive was the coolest of them all.
Locals were fascinated with the bomb tests. Families would drive out and park as close to the bombsite as possible to watch the sky light up. Las Vegas was booming from bombing! People came from all over the world to watch the bomb tests from hotel roofs while sipping Atomic Bomb cocktails. The Hotel Biltmore had a Miss Atomic Bomb contest, and local beauty salons featured mushroom cloud hairdos. My mother was overjoyed. She predicted that, as our first respectable industry, the Atomic Energy Commission would be the best thing that ever happened to Las Vegas. It would attract a higher class of people. Casinos would no longer dominate the landscape. There would be art museums, symphony halls, theaters. In the meantime, sidewalks on Fremont Street were littered with glass from the impact of the explosions. Greedy shop owners collected the shards in barrels, and sold them as atomic bomb souvenirs.
Las Vegas High students were bussed to the test site where they observed three little wooden houses with mannequins inside depicting quintessentially domestic scenes, such as mom in apron feeding baby in high chair with proud papa looking on. I suppose it was a modern version of the Three Little Pigs and the big bad wolf, only this time the pigs were people and the wolf was a bomb. An unusually high number of military personnel at the test site would later be diagnosed with cancer as a result of exposure to radioactivity. Downwind of the tests, small towns in Utah would report disturbingly high instances of Leukemia, especially in old people and children. Cattle and livestock would fall ill and die.
All the while, kooks with Geiger counters roamed Las Vegas streets clicking their tongues about fallout. My mother called them “dirty commies.”
There were commies everywhere, especially on TV. We watched “I Led Three Lives,” and “I Was a Communist for the FBI.” Everyone was suspect. I tried to get my friends to help me spy on suspicious looking individuals and report them to the FBI, but they were chicken. I imagined receiving a medal of commendation from President Truman for ferreting out ruskie spies.
My mother, too, had visions of becoming a hero. She signed up to be a “sky watcher” on the roof of the fifteen-story Fremont Hotel. Because Las Vegas was so close to Yucca Flats, it was feared that the Russians considered us a prime target. Against his better judgement, my father drove my mother to night classes on identifying enemy planes at Las Vegas High School. I was impressed with her dedication to the cause of freedom. And she wasn't the only patriot. The class was filled to capacity. The day of the first sky watch, my mother got up early and fixed her lunch so my father could drop her at the Fremont on his way to work. She came home in a rage. It seemed she was the only sky watcher who showed up on the Fremont roof. The others had been seduced by the slot machines in the casino on the first floor. My disillusioned mother turned her back on the cold war and took up canasta.
I was relieved when President Kennedy banned above ground bomb tests in l961, even though Las Vegas experienced a downturn in tourism. The casinos lost money. My father called Kennedy a “goddamned son-of-a-bitch.”
NASA has its own online streaming music station. The playlist is geared towards young adults, and the commercials are information on NASA’s own missions. (Hat Tip)
Welcome to High Technology Week here at Old Picture of the Day, where we will look at cool and exciting technology developments over the last hundred years. We start with this picture from around 1920 showing a woman listening to a radio over headphones. As you can see, radios were huge back in the day. The radios amplified the signal coming from the antenna using Vacuum Tubes. These tubes were big, expensive, got very hot, and did not last very long, but they did enable people to have radios in their homes. I have heard of many people who got radios in their homes even before electricity. Some ran the radios on "Wind Chargers", which were generators with a propeller, and spun by the wind. Others kept an extra car battery to run the radio. Then each day, they would swap the batteries between the car and the radio. Driving to work would then recharge the battery.
Automatic Sperm Extractor machine features a massage pipe that can be adjusted to suit the height of the user. All the gentleman has to do is plug in the frequency, amplitude and temperature and off they go. It’s also fitted with a small screen for those feeling uninspired. (Hat Tip, Glenn Dude)
A Mars year has 669 Mars days (687 Earth days). Curiosity landed on sol 0. So the end of sol 668 marked one trip around the Sun for Curiosity's surface mission.
“Today we celebrate the proud men and women who live and breathe their districts. Today we are one Panem!.” - President Coriolanus Snow, introducing the district heroes
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. - Dave Barry
Historically, the purveyance of beer was the exclusive work of women. In the ancient world there was a law making it illegal for men to make or sell beer. Moving into the Middle Ages brewing was just another chore considered to be women’s work.
So what changed? Well the Industrial Revolution mechanized and ultimately commoditized the manufacture of beer and now brewing has became the sole domain of men.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. When women once again found a role in the beer world it was not in an enviable or equitable position. As the craft beer scene began to take root many women, previously alienated from the beer market, once again picked up their steins and said me too! Now, women drink an impressive 25% of the beer sold in the United States and this percentage only continues to rise.
Bengali Butternut BBQ Sauce has a slow, warm heat and a kick that becomes even more to savor when you discover that it was concocted by something that has no taste buds. Cognitive computers (supercomputer Watson) from IBM Research modeled quintillions of recipes based on thousands of ingredient combinations to predict what new tastes people would find surprising and delicious. And voilà!
There was once a time not that long ago, where Olivia Munn’s primary objective was using her assets to heal the adolescent wounds of nerds everywhere with GIFs and copious amounts of cosplay. It was truly a glorious era and exactly what we’re celebrating today:
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.According to recent research, women are smarter than men. For the first time in 100 years of IQ testing, psychologists have discovered that female scores are higher than males. Since IQ testing began, men have always been ahead by as much as 5 points. Many psychologists suggested that this may be due to a “genetic” difference between men and women. IQ tests have been raising over the years for both men and women, due to our brains adapting to the modern world.
A person strong in this area is good with sports and movement. They often talk with their hands, like to build things, clown around in class, have great balance, and are good at a variety of sports.
A person strong in this area is good with words. They are often good at writing, reading, and talking about things. This group often includes writers, poets, lawyers and public speakers.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. - R. C. Trench
A person strong in this area is good with math and logic problems. They often enjoy solving mysteries, reading about scientific discoveries, and like to figure out how things work. They are also usually good with computers and a variety of other gadgets.
In A Beautiful Mind (full version), her biography of the mathematician John Nash, Sylvia Nasar describes a visit Nash received from a fellow mathematician while institutionalized at McLean Hospital. “How could you, a mathematician, a man devoted to reason and logical truth,” the colleague asked, “believe that extraterrestrials are sending you messages? How could you believe that you are being recruited by aliens from outer space to save the world?” To which Nash replied: “Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.”
A person strong in this area is good with pictures and images. They are often good at putting puzzles together. They appreciate art and photography, like to draw or doodle, notice details, prefer geometry over algebra, and are good at directions.
A person strong in this area is good with music and rhythm. They can often read music, remember old songs, notice patterns, and can naturally figure out how to play a tune on an instrument.
A person strong in this area is good with people. They are good listeners, can read body language, hate injustice, can see through people who aren't being honest, hurt when others hurt, enjoy deep conversations, and often reach out to others who are hurting. Educators, counselors, salespeople, religious and political leaders all need a well-developed interpersonal intelligence.
A person strong in this area is good at analyzing things. They often think a lot and are highly aware of their strengths and weaknesses. They also often keep a journal and think deeply about life.
A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is dependent on high IQ—and why it is so often accompanied by mental illness. (good comments)
Some excerpts from journal and newspaper articles from the 1976 and 1991 coups. Each coup in Thailand is different and there are many factors involved, but there are a number of themes that are repeated over time.
Imagine that Voldemort's powerful now. You don't know who his supporters are, you don't know who's working for him and who isn't; you know he can control people so that they do terrible things without being able stop themselves. You're scared for yourself, and your family, and your friends. Every week, news comes of more deaths, more disappearances, more torturing … The Ministry of Magic's in disarray, they don't know what to do, they're trying to keep everything hidden from the Muggles, but meanwhile, Muggles are dying too. Terror everywhere … panic … confusion …
Whomever you are, NSA Dude reading my blog, know that I'm on your side. I'm trying hard to keep you smiling! Someday, I hope, we can sit back and laugh about all the fun we had with the picric acid, silver nitrite, mercury fulminate, tetryl and nitrocellulose -- TATP (Mother of Satan)stuff
I received a blogger hit spike at the same time that I built this Facebook post - Blogger stats did not indicate where the hits came from or what posts received the hits
As usual, the rule 5 posts contains links to numerous pics of pretty girls and lovely women, often scantily clad or entirely unclad; these may be NSFW or just irritating to the wife/girlfriend/whatever.
Blackmailers Don't Shoot asks, Hell, why not use Rule 5 as a slump buster?
Rowling shared her latest Pottermore story. Written in the voice of the fictional Daily Prophet's gossip correspondent Rita Skeeter, this post centers around the reunion of Harry Potter and his friends at the Quidditch World Cup Finals.
Over the last year, through the revelations of Ed Snowden and independent reporting by others, we've learned more and more about the National Security Agency's spying programs. Indeed, there have now been so many revelations that it can be hard to keep them straight. So here's a handy guide to the most significant ways the NSA spies on people in the United States and around the world.
As Bloggers, Journalists, Pundits and Politicians carry on about the hazards of NSA snooping and our descent into a surveillance state, some of the most poignant responses have come not through the written or spoken word but rather an image.
"And truth be told, in the town where Dana grew up, all the people spent a big part of their time rebuilding churches which had been blown apart by the last tornado. The rest of their time they spent in church, on their knees, praying that they would not be blown apart by the next one."OUTSTANDING blog post created by Katy, the parthenogenetic unit
New retro / vintage site : Flashbak is a collection of thousands of wonderful pictures, stories, letters, sounds and movies from across the past, with one aim - to make the past come alive.
Social Media concept : The words privacy and social media does not belong in the same sentence. ie "I posted a private message on Facebook but I only wanted my friends/family to view it. However, I forgot my boss is on my friends list..."
Data mining is too cheap and easy. It's only going to become more wide spread.
Who will win the Hashtag World Cup? During the matches, we're tracking the hashtags for each team. From kickoff to final whistle, the team’s social activity will be shown in real time
That means there are lots of people out there getting involved and managing a social media strategy. It’s becoming more common to include social media as part of an overall marketing budget or strategy
Dark Roasted Blend's happy links Digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes including: sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, personality traits, intelligence, happiness, use of addictive substances, parental separation, age, and gender.
Internet vigilantism and honey traps are on the rise. So far, digital avengers have more or less limited their activities to shaming and exposing pedophiles, con men and giant douchebags. However, one can easily see a future where the moral-minded folks dish their harsh citizen justice out on anyone who steps outside the tight parameters of their idea of acceptable behavior.
“Socialist Circle" It’s the work of a young artist named Pansak Sakpiboonrat out of Rayong, Thailand. I think it’s OUTSTANDING (Hat Tip)
Actions by nation-states to maintain security and political control will lead to more blocking, filtering, segmentation, and balkanization of the Internet.
Trust will evaporate in the wake of revelations about government and corporate surveillance and likely greater surveillance in the future.
Commercial pressures affecting everything from Internet architecture to the flow of information will endanger the open structure of online life.
Promises! Promises! Was a 1963 unrated sex comedy film with Jayne Mansfield, released after the days of the Hays code and before the MPAA film rating system became effective. It was the first Hollywood motion picture release of the sound era to feature a mainstream star, Jayne Mansfield, topless
This Jayne Mansfield hot water bottle isn't naked, but Jayne Mansfield (NSFW) in a bikini is like a regular woman naked. Fill her with hot water and snuggle up. I made my husband try a sex robot
"Just an absolute disgrace. This monster must be stopped. I don’t care if he’s Barack Obama or Mother Theresa herself, it’s just disgusting. How dare this “Steven Spielberg” guy kill our sweet innocent dinosaurs. How dare he! Shame on him. What did that triceratops ever do to him? One minute it’s walking around minding it’s own dinosaur business, next minute it’s dead and being used to take pictures with. Please share this with your friends. We can’t let this Steven Spielberg, that sadistic savage, get away with this." - A creationist PETA member
Who is xkcd? I'm just this guy, you know? I'm a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, I worked on robots at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. In my spare time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable.
Kate Upton's first law of motion is often stated as:
An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
In these 1971 recordings, these tapes captured the President Richard Nixon having a philosophical chat with Henry Kissinger and H.R. Haldeman about “the gay thing” Nixon insists he’s very tolerant, understands that “They’re born that way,” and then goes on to explain,
By God, I am not going to have a situation where we pass along a law indicating, “Well, now, kids, just go out and be gay.” They can do it. Just leave them alone. That’s a lifestyle I don’t want to touch…
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