This dog needs life-saving surgery!!

http://www.giveforward.com/savebanjo




As so often happens, our most precious possessions are animals, and they need our help. Please read this story and donate to the cause if you can. Even if you are not able to donate, please pass this link on via blog, Tumblr, Facebook, or wherever you can!

Supernatural fans-- please vote!!

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/02/tvs-most-crushworthy-villains-joseph-morgan-vs-mark-pellegrino-and-genevieve-padalecki-vs-katie-mcgr.html



Mark Pellegrino and Genevieve Padalecki, AKA Lucifer and Ruby, need our votes!

PS- Don't click this link, Vampire Diaries and Merlin fans. ;)

Um... come back to watch this in December?

Was cleaning out my school e-mail account when I found this. It's not my school, but I guess they decided to spread the cheer anyway. It's cute! After a very weird and mild holiday season, half of me wants a Christmas do over, and the other half is ready for spring and summer. Needless to say, this took me back a couple of months.



http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/holiday11/

Hilarious word play!!!

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.





The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.


And the winners are:

1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.

6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men

Annoying crap that people do on Facebook

While I don't agree 100% with this list, I think that most of the points made here are valid.



http://blog.sherweb.com/facebook-etiquette-rules-people-still-break/

I'll bet you didn't know most of these

Gah, I love stuff like this. So many useful little tips to help us get through our days...

The one that absolutely blows my mind is the fact that the plastic tabs on bread loaves are color-coded by date. I mean, it totally makes sense, but how many of us even stop to notice that every day the tabs are different colors? Crazy stuff, man.



http://diyhshp.blogspot.com/2011/10/did-you-know.html

Philosophy according to the cool guy

On the rare occasions when my classes have covered philosophy, it's never made much sense to me. While I haven't poked around on this blog very much, I feel that it would make an otherwise complex topic easier to absorb. Have a look!



http://www.philosophybro.com/

Mike Rogers on health care

I feel as though I've seen very little of this perspective on the news lately. Granted, I don't own a TV at the moment, but in the past, other sides of the matter have been more widely presented. Just thought I'd put it out there.




Congressman Mike Rogers' opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C.
By RepMikeRogers

http://youtu.be/G44NCvNDLfc

People in power to help animals are hurting them

PLEASE SIGN this petition!! They are only 300 sigs away from their goal of 1500. Stockton's shelter director, Pat Claerbout, is illegally refusing to provide records for this and other dogs that have come in to the Stockton shelter. So far, her supervisors are backing her up, though there is now an Internal Affairs investigation into her conduct--and we hope into that of her immediate supervisor, Lt. Doug Anderson of the Stockton Police Department.

*This shelter director also killed a couple dogs The Perfect Dog, a local dog rescue, tried to save.*

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-killing-and-start-saving-dogs-and-cats-in-stockton-ca

Sexy scarves!

Got this e-mail a couple of days ago...



Tired of no one noticing you??

Are you sick of being ignored? Do you sit unnoticed on the sidelines while others are picked?

Are you tired of being overlooked?

Get a new scarf ! !

Try the latest scarf fashion and you too will be the center of attention..

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The perfect pet for those who can't have a real one

Pleo is an adorable baby dinosaur. Yeah, okay, so we all remember Furby and Fluffy My Come Here Puppy. But this guy is more than a step up from that. He truly interacts with you, and develops his own personality.

If the photos and descriptions don't win you over, watch the videos. He's pretty awesome.



http://pleoworld.com/Home.aspx

This one's for the art-lovers

Ever wanted to see van Gogh's painting "Starry Night" is ultra-high quality? This is super cool. I've always loved this painting, and this is by far the highest-resolution image that I've seen.



http://www.googleartproject.com/museums/moma/the-starry-night

Hot singer on "Alarm für Cobra 11"

A German friend of mine told me about Alarm für Cobra 11, a crime show, the name of which is translated as "Alarm for Cobra 11". I haven't watched any of it, but this one guy, Tom Beck, is a pretty good singer!

The first video amuses me because he's randomly singing to the driver in the car. I'm sure it'd make more sense if I knew what was going on, but by itself it's funny.

The second is a really nice song from his album.



Alarm für Cobra 11- Ben singt im Auto
By SophiaHaHe14

http://youtu.be/Um66sPAuW10




Tom Beck - Carry on
By damIIyOo

http://youtu.be/xWLmNGs4iBw

Foods that will actually improve your mood

A lot of crappy things happened to me today. I did my best to stay calm, but by 3pm I was eating cookies, and after dinner, I had ice cream... twice. Woops.

While many of the foods on this list might not strike you as appealing or happiness-inducing, give it some thought. Grocery store shelves are overflowing with products that the human body never ingested before 1940 or so. Without jumping atop the Always-Eat-Healthy soap box, I just want to point out that our systems would probably feel better if we ate other things now and then.

(And in case you're still not convinced, dark chocolate is on this list.)

Have a look, and have a happy day!



http://www.organicgardening.com/cook/11-instant-mood-boosting-foods?cm_mmc=GardentoTableNL-_-793888-_-01312012-_-11_instant_mood_boosting_foods



PS- If you like this article, click on the other links within it. I got so hooked that I ended up reading articles for at least an hour!

Because women over 30 are awesome!

I am way behind in reading this relatively new blog, but I very much intend to catch up. It's written by actress Kim Rhodes, who I've come to admire on Supernatural, who turns out to be a great writer as well.

Ladies, if you need something worthwhile to read, come check this out!



http://rhodeside.vuxe.com/

In case you're already searching for next year's ugly Christmas sweater...

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-12-all-time-ugliest-christmas-sweaters/



These are insane. Personally, I appreciate the one with the skiers, but that could be due to my 1990s childhood, spent playing Ski Free. (In case you're interested, the creator has a website from which you can download the original game!)

Apparently, ugly Christmas sweater were all the rage this past December! A friend of mine told me that the Salvation Army had sold out.

What's your favorite? Do you own one? Comment and lemme know!

Boys can do whatever they want with their hair!

http://www.change.org/petitions/jts-cause-amend-hair-policy-for-boys-for-donating-hair-to-charity



This is interesting... frequently we think that only girls are disadvantaged in our society, but then when it comes to a thing like hair? I hadn't even considered it. Anyway, this is a great cause, if you're looking for something to get behind.

Why things need to be right

I feel that engineers would appreciate this. I know this, because it was sent to me by an engineer.



Why Calibrate?
By PublicResourceOrg

http://youtu.be/yxZBNYBoLLU



I love vintage videos!

Kripke's got a new show!

Okay, I've never gotten hooked on a TV show on the day that the pilot aired, but here's to hoping that this will be the one. (All of my beloved shows, I've found out about later on.)

Anyway, I'm excited and willing to give this one a shot because it'll be run by Eric Kripke, the creator of Supernatural. I'm very curious to see what he does with his concept.



http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/nbc-picks-up-eric-kripkejj-abrams-drama-pilot-revolution/