McDonalds, Apparently Not Really Even Food

So I was wandering the web like I always do when I came across the picture above. It's a picture of a McDonald's Hamburger that's 12 years old. I never really knew how little food there was in McDonald's cooking, because even if you left that in the fridge for that long something would have started to grow on in, something from the air, something from the water, something from the meat or bread, ANYTHING. Bacteria is freaking everywhere, and yet here this burger is, clean and neat just like the day it was bought. I'm a little frightened by this burger, despite the fact that I don't even eat the stuff.

1996 McDonalds Hamburger

My Bloody Valentine, Only Shallow

Okay, so I know I'm a little late to the party but holy crap is My Bloody Valentine freaking amazing. I finally watched this video and read their wikipedia article, and man their story and last album (not for long though!) are so insanely beautiful, I can't even believe that I claimed to like shoegazey music before getting into this band as hard as I am right now. The noise and soft vocals are such a great contrast yet they compliment each other, it's so great to listen to. Watch the video, see for yourself how great this band is.



My Bloody Valentine

If Charles Darwin Were Alive, I'd Give Him A Big'ol High Five

Well well well, look who's got egg on their face 150 years later. Well, I shouldn't poke fun, but I have to admit this is a very satisfying article. Essentially the article says that the Catholic Church now acknowledges Darwin's theory of evolution is compatible with the Bible. Score one for Biologists and people who are educated properly everywhere! An excerpt from the article:

The Catholic Church teaches "theistic evolution," a stand that accepts evolution as a scientific theory and sees no reason why God could not have used a natural evolutionary process in the forming of the human species.

It objects to using evolution as the basis for an atheist philosophy that denies God's existence or any divine role in creation. It also objects to using Genesis as a scientific text.

As Ravasi put it, creationism belongs to the "strictly theological sphere" and could not be used "ideologically in science."

Well, now I suppose Creationists have even more opposition to their views. Yah know, other than most of the rest of the global Christian population that thinks Creationism and Intelligent Design being taught in schools is pretty ridiculous.

Vatican: Guess what, Darwin? Evolution is OK

NOW, Thanks for actually keeping women's Interests in mind and not bein' fools about it

NOW, the National Organization for Women, endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president recently. I... I'm just so happy right now, as, irrational as it may seem, this feels to me to be an omen of sorts, that McCain's 'Palin boost' is really all hype and when you line the two candidates beside one another, the most intelligent people I've met or heard endorse Barack. It offers hope that the Democrats, despite their terrible missteps in the better part of the past decade, may just win back the executive and just maybe we actually may see changes in how the government is run, since I really doubt that the man who has gone back on some of his most fierce beliefs is going to resist his party's influence if he were president.

National Organization for Women PAC Endorses Obama-Biden

'Hillary's women' reject McCain's VP choice

And just for fun, let's link to a 'why Obama's better' story:
Why Obama's Health Plan Is Better

Joe Rogan, now officially the motherfucking man

Oh lordy lord, have I got an amazing blog post for you. It's from Joe Rogan's blog, and it's called "Porno Party," and yes, it's as hilarious and interesting as it sounds. Basically Joe doesn't really like going to parties because he rarely finds people who are interesting to talk to at them, but likes them for the crazy crap that could possibly happen and the stories he could tell because of them. So when he gets invited to the "Porno Party" he can't resist, especially because a group of his friends are going with him. When he arrives, he sees an empty parking lot and forty chairs filled with dudes watching a porn flick, which doesn't seem too interesting until the movie stops and a director steps out. Apparently this is a screening, and the flick that was just on was just a warm up or some such. So the movie starts, and it seems fairly run of the mill, until the actress (yes, the one getting rammed on screen) shows up. What happens next is rediculous, and has already made my day. Read the post to find out what happened, and then immediately thereafter laugh your ass off. Obviously this one isn't for the kiddies, but do yourself a favor and don't scroll to the bottom of the page until you read the whole story. It's like the icing on the freaking glorious cake.

"Porno Party"

Anatoli Bugorski, Fucking Invincible

Holy crap, I had no idea who this guy was until I read his wikipedia article:

"As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Bugorski used to work with the largest Soviet particle accelerator, the synchrotron U-70. On July 13, 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when an accident occurred due to failed safety mechanisms. Bugorski was leaning over the piece of equipment when he stuck his head in the part through which the proton beam was running. Reportedly, he saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns", but did not feel any pain. The beam measured about 2000 gray when it entered Bugorski's skull, and about 3000 gray when it exited after colliding with the inside of his head."

If anyone ever made a crack about looking bad or something, he always had an ace in the hole! "Well let's see you have a proton beam shot through your skull and we'll see how good you look." That guy is just great if you ask me. I mean, how can you be a bad person if you've actually seen a proton?

Anatoli Bugorski

She & Him, "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"

Zooey Deschanel, I heart you SO hard.

Iraq cancels six no-bid oil contracts

This just makes me so happy;

"Iraq's oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, told reporters at an OPEC summit meeting in Vienna on Tuesday that talks with Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Total, BP and several smaller companies for one-year deals, which were announced in June and subsequently delayed, had dragged on for so long that the companies could not now fulfill the work within that time frame. The companies confirmed on Wednesday that the deals had been canceled."

Hazaa for the Iraqis! Stand up for your country and don't be corrupt American puppets, otherwise we may have another Saddam in like 40 years. Seriously, I hope the new administration revises their foreign policy and just stops meddling in affairs which have nothing to do with us.

Iraq cancels six no-bid oil contracts