"If your election lasts longer than 24 hours, please consult your doctor"
-One helluva campaign promise-
Tania Derveaux (see photo, above), who describes herself as the 'leading NEE party senate candidate in Belgium,' is offering 40,000 blowjobs on the party's website. The whole thing's a satire of other belgian parties who are making crazy claims about being able to provide thousands of new jobs -- so don't expect her to pay off. Too bad, she's pretty hot. Still, it's worth a shot -- the offer's open to anyone and she's done the math. "According to my planning this would take me 500 days to tour around the world, visiting all the ones who signed up for a blowjob on this page, giving 80 blowjobs per day. So the offer is limited, sign up while you still can," the site reads. Click a button on the page and you're on the list. Good luck. (NEE-Antwerpen.be, via Reddit)
-This one's a load off my mind-
You may have heard of honey bees dying in huge and alarming numbers recently, AKA 'colony collapse.' If we lost all the bees in the world, mankind's continued future could be measured in decades -- if that long. I've seen estimates as short as four years before mankind is wiped out by famine. But it turns out that organic beekeepers aren't experiencing any collapse at all. "I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list," writes Sharon Labchuk in an email widely circulated among beekeepers. According to the email, "The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees." Industrial, non-organic bees are also genetic freaks that "are actually hyper-bred varieties that we coax into a larger than normal body size." So they're dying because we keep screwing with them. If all the bio-engineered Frankenbees die off, Mother Nature's own variety should swell in numbers to take advantage of the sudden bounty.
Good to know, I've got enough to worry about with global warming -- one extinction-threatening global disaster at a time, please. (informationliberation)
-Katrina doesn't sound so pretty anymore-
The name 'Katrina' has dropped in use for new babies lately. Big surprise there. But here's kind of a shocker; "In Louisiana, the number of babies named Katrina jumped from eight in the 12 months before the storm to 15 in the 12 months after, according to state health officials. In Mississippi, seven babies were given the name from 2004 until the storm hit in August 2005, according to state data. The number climbed to 24 from September 2005 through the end of 2006." So Katrina's out of fashion everywhere but where you'd most expect. The least popular names, according to the Social Security administration, are Jarvis and Flor -- no mystery there. (ABC News)
