Sometimes getting so coked up that your heart actually has to stop to catch its breath can be really expensive? Well today, you’re in luck b/c to celebrate July 11th, 7/11 is giving away free slurpees at all US locations. Click the Slurpees to find the nearest aneurysm in a cup.
via NewsDay.com
Neave TV is an Internet station that cuts together some of the oddest clips of TV you’ll ever see.
via JWZ
There’s a rumor going around right now that Jared is dead. There’s even a website dedicated to his passing. We all hope Jared is ok….and that they bring back the $5 holla deal for ALL their subs.
via Jared Remembered
Don Imus, makes yet another ridiculous racist comment only a year after he was fired for “Nappygate” in which he made sexist/racist comments about the Rutger’s woman’s basketball team.
TRANSCRIPT
Wolf: “Defensive back Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones, recently signed by the Cowboys. Here’s a guy suspended all of 2007 following a shooting in a Vegas night club.”
Imus: “Well, stuff happens. You’re in a night club, for God’s sake. What do you think’s gonna happen in a night club? People are drinking and doing drugs, there are women there, and people have guns. So, there, go ahead.”
Wolf: “He’s also been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005.”
Imus: “What color is he?”
Wolf: “He’s African-American.”
Imus: “Well, there you go. Now we know.”
A Goldberg find via Huffington Post
Recent research has shown that the brains of gay men have more similarities to a straight woman then a straight man, and not just in the regions of the brain that control sexuality and sexual preference.
via Time Magazine
A new study has found that anyone who is big into getting all the newest gadgets like wii’s and iphones is most likely an asshole.
Know someone who loves gadgets and can’t wait to buy the newest model? Chances are you would describe them as assertive and a strong leader — and possibly arrogant, according to a U.S. research.An online study evaluating the characteristics of 25,000 American adults found avid technology consumers tended to score highly in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness — but low in modesty. – Reuters
via Reuters
Thought this was an interesting theory, whether it’s true or not.
When trying to find a good neighborhood to invest in buying a home, Starbucks may be a great guide. According to Newsweek’s Daniel McGinn, just finding out where they’re planning to build their next locations might a great area to look into. People think they just try to keep no more than a mile between each location, but Starbucks and other franchises actually have entire teams that are dedicated to economic and demographic research to find where the best new places are to expand. So when they pick a spot, it means they’re research gives them confidence about the economy and potential of that neighborhood.
Just start by going to Starbucks.com and under the store locater tab, just seach the “coming soon” option.
Cracked.com shows 5 psychological experiments that show very interesting stuff about us as humans. Unfortunately, this isn’t fun Freakonomics type discoveries, but rather sadistic and depressing realizations. The most disturbing one is The Milgram Experiment. During the Nuremberg Trials, many defendants tried to excuse themselves from the horrible atrocities they committed by simply claiming they were “just following orders”. In 1961, Yale University psychologist, Stanley Milgram, decided to test the willingness of a subject to obey an authority figure..
…(Milgram) ran an experiment where the subject was told he was a “teacher” and that his job was to give a memory test to another subject, located in another room. The whole thing was fake and the other subject was an actor. The subject was told that whenever the other guy gave an incorrect answer, he was to press a button that would give him an electric shock. A guy in a lab coat was there to make sure he did it (again no real shock was being delivered, but the subject of course did not know this).
The subject was told that the shocks started at 45 volts and would increase with every wrong answer. Each time they pushed the button, the actor on the other end would scream and beg for the subject to stop (again, acting).The Result
Between 61 and 66 percent of subjects would continue the experiment until it reached the maximum voltage of 450, continuing to deliver shocks after the victim had been zapped into unconsciousness or the afterlife. Repeated studies have shown the same result: Subjects will mindlessly deliver pain to an innocent stranger as long as an authority figure directs them to do so.
They also talk about an experiment where people were asked to shock puppies for every incorrect action it made…except the puppies were really shocked. Almost 80% of the people were willing to shock the helpless puppies b/c they were told to do so.
