Hitler Finds Out That Kevin Smith Was Thrown Off Southwest Airlines Flight

Doug Fieger Dies at 57, Singer of ‘My Sharona’

Doug Fieger, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the band the Knack, whose enduring 1979 hit “My Sharona” has become an emblem of the new wave era in rock and a prime example of the brevity of pop fame, died on Sunday at his home in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 57.

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Wolf numbers in Yellowstone National Park declined for the second consecutive year. The decline was expected and considered natural.

The Yellowstone Wolf Project reports the 2009 population at 96-98 wolves, down 23 percent from the 124 wolves recorded in 2008. This is the fourth decline since wolf reintroduction began in 1995. A population high
of 174 wolves was recorded in 2003. In 2004 and 2007, 171 wolves were counted.

A Joke

Two Middle East mothers are sitting in a cafe chatting over a plate of tabouli and a pint of goat's milk. The older of the two pulls a bag out of her purse and starts flipping through photos. They start reminiscing. 'This is my oldest son, Mujibar. He would have been 24 years old now.' 'Yes, I remember him as a baby,' says the other mother cheerfully. 'He's a martyr now though,' the mother confides. 'Oh, so sad dear,' says the other. 'And this is my second son, Khalid. He would have been 21.' 'Oh, I remember him,' says the other happily, 'he had such curly hair when he was born.' 'He's a martyr too,' says the mother quietly. 'Oh, gracious me . . . , ' says the other. 'And this is my third son. My baby. My beautiful Ahmed. He would have been 18,' she whispers. 'Yes,' says the friend enthusiastically, 'I remember when he first started school.' 'He's a martyr also,' says the mother, with tears in her eyes. After a pause and a deep sigh, the second Muslim mother looks wistfully at the photographs and, searching for the right words, says . . . 'They blow up so fast, don't they?'

I don't think so.

"Our debt to Haiti stems from four main sources: slavery, the US occupation, dictatorship and climate change. These claims are not fantastical, nor are they merely rhetorical. They rest on multiple violations of legal norms and agreements."

Naomi Klein

My New Favorite Song

Danger!

Big Graphic Blueprint

Want It!

And now, Bohemian Rhapsody played on a ukelele

Meet the New (old) Barbie

You don't even have to ask: Of course she has a pink laptop.

Earlier on Friday, toymaker Mattel announced the results of an online contest to name the profession that the latest edition of Barbie dolls would have, and ultimately two were named: alongside "News Anchor" was the popular-vote winner, "Computer Engineer Barbie." Yes, she has a Bluetooth headset, a pink laptop, a smartphone, and hot-pink glasses. Oh, and she wears sparkly black leggings and a neon green shirt patterned with binary code, the sort of outfit that was probably only acceptable among Burning Man attendees in the late 1990s who liked to talk about "cyberspace." Actually, judging by that outfit, a Pets.com sock puppet would make a great accessory for the new doll.

Beetle Mania

Researchers at Northern Arizona University recently revealed a new weapon against swarms of tree-eating bark beetles. Rather than dousing them with environmentally unfriendly pesticides, researchers exposed the bugs to recordings of their own mating calls. And their reaction was to freeze, flee, or violently attack one another.

The NAU study focused on devising ways to stop the aggressive bark beetles, which are devastating the forests of the West. Azcentral.com reports that the bugs have chewed through millions of acres of the West's pine forests, leaving behind dry, dead trees and the potential risk of wildfires. Experts say the bark beetles have decimated 80 million ponderosa, piñon and lodgepole pines in Arizona and New Mexico alone.

Richard Hofstetter is a forest entomologist at NAU and leader of the study. As he told Azcentral.com, "Our interest is to use acoustic sounds that make beetles uncomfortable and not want to be in that environment." At first, the researchers blared Queen and Guns N' Roses and played snippets of radio talker Rush Limbaugh backward for the beetles. The beetles were undeterred. But when researchers played digitally altered recording of their own songs, the beetles went crazy. As one researcher noted, at one point “the male stopped mating and tore the female apart.”

The study, notably called “Beetle Mania,” took place in a lab. The researchers hope to gain funding to take the twisted beetle songs out into the wild. Researchers hope that beetles can be reined in with this acoustic pest control.

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Helena's Last Bordello

Today I found out you can get arrested for Free Hugs

Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm gonna carry a can of spray paint driving around this summer.

A few posters

Do you know the Seven Dwarves?

Toothpaste

Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall

VAIL, Ariz. — Students endure hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from school in this desert exurb of Tucson, and stir-crazy teenagers break the monotony by teasing, texting, flirting, shouting, climbing (over seats) and sometimes punching (seats or seatmates).

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Jerod Reyes, left, and Dylan Powell use their bus's Wi-Fi to do homework on their way to school.

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On buses equipped with Wi-Fi in Vail, Ariz., officials say more homework is getting done, and there's less rowdy behavior.

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Armando Lagunas finds the bus a place for quiet pursuits, even when he isn't online.

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But on this chilly morning, as bus No. 92 rolls down a mountain highway just before dawn, high school students are quiet, typing on laptops.

Morning routines have been like this since the fall, when school officials mounted a mobile Internet router to bus No. 92’s sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech experiment has had an old-fashioned — and unexpected — result. Wi-Fi access has transformed what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared.