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Entries from August 2009

Flame Cut Steel Gifts For Flame Cut Steel Friends

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Reviews, Unique Gifts

Share.. Talk about a unique gift idea: A new personalized gift site allows a user to cut steel sheets with a flame and have the resulting sculpture delivered to his home or office. Delivery takes about a week. The site, GiveAPP, has the steel cut within a hundredth of an inch of accuracy, and each [...]

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DJ AM Found Dead in NYC Apartment

August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities

Share..He survived a plane crash one year ago only to be found dead in his apartment on Friday in New York City. Adam Goldstein, otherwise known as DJ AM, is dead at 36. A crackpipe and prescription drugs were found in his room near his body, found face down on the floor. Authorities have not [...]

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Chris Brown Sentenced for Rihanna Beating

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities

Share..Remember when rapper Chris Brown was arrested for beating his girlfriend Rihanna? Well, two days ago, Brown was sentenced. He’s getting five years probation and 1,400 hours of community service. That’s way more than you need to do in order to get into the Honor’s Society even. Hoo hoo. Word is spreading that there were [...]

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What is the Evil Eye thing Anyway?

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, Handmade Jewelry

Share..Ever since Madonna joined the Kabbalah Center, Jewish mysticism has been getting a heck of a lot more attention than it used to. There are both good and bad aspects to this publicizing effect. The bad first: Coming to mysticism directly from a vacuum in response to an emotional need, people sometimes tend to become [...]

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Michael Jackson’s Death Ruled a Homicide

August 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities

Share..Almost two months after his death, Michael Jackson’s case has been ruled a homicide, which means Jackson’s physician, Conrad Murray, who supplied him, seemingly, with enough drugs to sedate a herd of stampeding elephants (just a guess, unsourced), is in deep trouble. The ruling was based on a toxicology assessment that Jackson had an anesthetic [...]

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Z-coil – The Shoes with the Springs

August 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, Reviews

Share..One day, I saw my father-in-law walk into a the living room of my parents house and quip, “Maybe these will put some spring in my step.” Then he showed us all his new shoes. They were tennis shoes, but they had a large spring attached to the back, as if it were some kind [...]

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Italian PM Berlusconi to be Treated for Sex Addiction? Maybe

August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, Fun Stuff

Share..The Italians are at it again. For a 72-year-old, Silvio Berlusconi is a pretty virile, potent, well preserved Italian Prime Minister, and human in general. God knows how he does it. Probably has something to do with the fact that he’s a billionaire and can afford investing much financial assets in state-of-the-art self-preservation techniques. Word [...]

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Venessa Hudgens and Paula Abdul on the DeFranco Show

August 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities

Share..This guy has some funny commentary – have a great weekend!

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Lefanek, Lefanek, Lefanek…

August 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Fun Stuff

Share..Dear Family, This is for you… lefanek, lefanek, lefanek… See you soon, Dovrat

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RedToeNail Follow-Up, a Cancer Beating Video Game

August 19th, 2009 · No Comments · In the News, Reviews

Share..A few weeks ago, we came across a blogging community for cancer patients called RedToeNail. Today, we found a video game for kids going through cancer treatments. The video game simulates what goes on inside the bodies of cancer patients. You get to shoot cancer cells in virtual reality by controlling a nanite robot. It’s [...]

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Quentin Tarantino to Visit Israel in Promotion of Nazi Killing Flick

August 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, In the News

Share..With less than a month until the local debut of his purported masterpiece The Inglourious Basterds, director Quentin Tarantino is heading out to Israel for the film’s premier in the Jewish State on September 17. The film, a shockingly gory display of brutal Nazi-killing at the hands of a special team of eight Jewish-American soldiers [...]

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Babyhanger Frees Up Mother’s Hands in the Bathroom

August 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Fun Stuff, New Stuff

Share..You’re a new mother, or even an old one with a new baby, or someone carrying a new mother’s baby who isn’t a mother at all, and you have to go to the bathroom, but you have nowhere to put the baby. Get this: My question is, what did mothers, or other people with babies, [...]

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All you can Fly for $599

August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Buying Online, Specials

Share..You ever walk into an all you can eat buffet and load your plate up? And then load your plate up again? For a month?! Well, no, probably not a month. But get this: JetBlue, is offering an all you can fly anywhere they go, for $599. That means you buy one pass, and you [...]

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Old News! Two Planets Bash Into Each Other Millennia Ago

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Professional Shopping

Share.. NASA’s Spitzer Telescope has recently discovered that two planets smashed into each other only a few thousand years ago 100 light years away. The telescope didn’t pick up the actual collision of course, though there is a 100 year lag between what happens over there and what our telescopes can pick up. Since it [...]

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Use Less Gas, Get More Miles with a Solar Car Battery Charger

August 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Tips, Unique Gifts

Share.. I just bought a car, and I live in Israel, which happens to be the only Middle Eastern country without ungodly massive amounts of oil reserves. That, and the countries that do have them around here don’t exactly like my country, so this makes gasoline riot-inspiringly expensive. It’s about $6.30 per gallon. If you [...]

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