He has outlawed opera and ballet and railed against long hair and gold teeth, but now Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov is determined to wipe out another perceived scourge: lip synching. [continue]

Although the guy sounds a little wacky, he does have a point. So much of the music is manufactured now that it is quite normal to see the big stars just lip synching at an event. I for one don’t want to watch someone mouth the words to the song. How much more fake can you get?
But to have a law forbidding it is bordering on the ridiculous. I guess no more karaoke in Turkmenistan.

Coffee not only helps clear the mind and perk up the energy, it also provides more antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet, according to a new study. [continue]

The problem with the article is the assumptions that people get from not really reading it.
The story is stating that in general, people get more antioxidants from coffee than from other foods. This does not make coffee healthy. This just simply states that in general, people are not eating as healthy as they should. Since coffee is consumed in large quantities to keep them going, it becomes the number one source of antioxidants.

From the files of the obvious…

Global population growth is ensured for many decades, with most of it in developing countries, a private group said Tuesday. [continue]

Hurricane Katrina is about to pound Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and states north of them. New Orleans had a mandatory evacuation. This is going to get very very ugly. My thoughts and prayers are with them.

Think about making a donation of money, time, blood or anything else that is needed.

The Salvation Army

American Red Cross

A girl’s first menstruation is such an exciting and beautiful time in life. Here at Birth With Sol we felt that beginning the journey into womanhood, another birth experience, deserves to be honored and celebrated with joy and pride! It is so vital to pass down to our girls the importance of pride and appreciation for our womanly bodies, and celebrating the first menses is a great way to start. [continue]

So when is the party?

I was riding on the R train uptown at 3pm on Friday August 18th when a man exposed and began molesting himself on the train. It was at the very end of the train but it wasn’t completely empty. A japanese couple sat on the other side and the man was sitting adjacent to me. I was minding my own business, taking the train to work as usual when this man got on the car and kept staring at me. I tried to avoid eye contact with him but I had a feeling he was up to no good when he kept massaging his crotch. I couldn’t believe this guy had the audacity to do something like this in the middle of the day! So I took out my cell-phone and turned on the camera. Then I aimed the camera at him and took a quick shot. [continue]

What a cushy world we live in when people become traumatized and violated by seeing a man rub his penis with his hand. Oops, forgot, he was staring at them.

I am sure he broke at least one indecency NYC law, so he should be arrested if found for whatever law(s) he broke.

It is interesting though, he was performing a sexual act, even if it was on himself. So if he is caught and prosecuted, does he become a ’sex offender’? Him having to register wherever he goes to live, possibly wearing a GPS tracking device in the future?

Academics in the UK claim their research shows that men are more intelligent than women.
A study to be published later this year in the British Journal of Psychology says that men are on average five points ahead on IQ tests. [continue]

Let the hate begin, I think I hear the feminist shouting already.
I personally really do not care, even if the studies results were reversed.
In general, men and women each have abilities that each is better at.
Remember kiddies, different doesn’t not mean bad. And if one sex in general is more intelligent than the other when it comes to specific things, that is not bad, just different.

As doctors warn more patients that they should lose weight, the advice has backfired on one doctor with a woman filing a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful. [continue]

Sometimes the truth hurts, but it has to be told.
If the woman did not like the advice, then she should have gone to another doctor. A doctor that would not tell her she was obese. As politically correct as we have gotten as a society, there are plenty of them out there.

Further expanding beyond its roots in Internet search, Google is launching a long-rumored program that provides both text instant messaging and computer-to-computer voice chat. [continue]

I installed Google Talk, looks decent I guess. I have not really used it, considering no one I know runs it.
It does look much cleaner, especially with no ads. But that really isn’t enough for me to switch, not unless everyone I talk to does. MSN, ICQ (six digit number), AIM and Yahoo, do I really need another IM client?

A businessman from the Turkish city of Iskanderun has applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), demanding the U.S. and Great Britain pay him $1 billion in compensation each for his Russian wife divorcing him, RIA Novosti reported.
The man, who does not want to reveal his name, claims that his wife suffered severe mental stress due to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, fearing Turkey could intervene in the conflict, which resulted in her filing for divorce and returning to Russia together with their child. [continue]

umm, that is so insane, I have nothing to say.