I don’t know how this could possibly be safe at all.

It soaks up spare heat in the gases to do the cooking, and the clamshell design keeps those noxious fumes away from your food.

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Sometimes you’ve got 5 minutes to get out of the house (usually in the mornings) as you cart your lazy ass off to school or work. You can save time by using your sink as a shower and by cleaning only the stinkiest of body parts.

• Pits - Sprinkle some water underneath your armpits and wipe them down firmly with a towel. Then spray or lather on as much smelly deodorant as you’ve got. No one will be able to tell the difference later in the day.
• Pubes - Whether or not you’ve got pubic hair (*cough, cough* ladies), you going to need to wipe down your winky or pinky and the surrounding areas to ward off chaffing and general crotch-stank. Some warm water and a gentle hand should do the trick.
• Bum - Now if there isn’t a body area that’s more prone to stinkyness than your behind. Dab some water on toilet paper and go at it. Make sure to dry however and of course…do this after you have to poo.
• Face - Not good to have a semi-clean body but a greasy face. Wash your face using the standard method. Preferably you’re not going to dry it with the pits or pubs towel. Just a suggestion.

Now you can take a shower in any hotel room, gas station, and Denny’s in the world. To save even more time, brush your teeth only once a day and use hand sanitizer instead of washing your hands.

[photo by: Fractal Artist]

A student in Virginia used his cell phone during lunch to complain to the chief operating officer of his county [Dean Tistadt] about the 3 inches of snow outside. The student, Devraj Kori, could not find Tisdadt in his office and decided to call his publicly listed home number.

He got his wife instead, who called back and left this message.

“How dare you call us at home! If you have a problem with going to school, you do not call somebody’s house and complain about it,” Candy Tistadt’s minute-long message began. At one point, she uttered the phrase “snotty-nosed little brats,” and near the end, she said, “Get over it, kid, and go to school!”

Using the beauty of the Internet, Kori then posted this message on You Tube (since been removed - I checked) and to all of his fellow students…who promptly began prank calling the home and office. It didn’t stop there.

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Behind a computer is a good place for fat people to hide. It’s just exchanging time that used to be spent in front of the TV. The fatosphere is growing, and letting people know it’s OK to be morbidly obese, too fat to see your penis, or the size of a small house.

Blogs written by fat people — and it’s fine to use the word, they say — have multiplied in recent months, filling a virtual soapbox known as the fatosphere, where bloggers calling for fat acceptance challenge just about everything conventional medical wisdom has to say about obesity.

The only place this denial will be believed is if all of these fat bloggers stay seated at their desks typing away. You gotta admit though, making “fat” magically not a problem anymore is certainly lazier than actually eating less or exercising.

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Very clever - you simply scan in the soda label and replace the text with your notes, formulas, whatever. Watch the video to see a demonstration.

I’d recommend trying this sometime during the current semester. Teachers will catch on eventually and ban soda bottles from desktops during test time in the future (if they don’t already).

[via Schneier on Security]

The website dingoRUE lists recaps and spoilers of several sitcoms and reality shows.

The site makes it easy to search through old episodes and get the run down of the highlights.  If you just can’t wait to get to your TiVo after work to find out what happened on the Amazing Race 12 Episode 10 (Ronald and Christina with a trip to Curacao) visit dingoRUE to get the details with some commentary included.

Scientists in Israel have found that napping for 90 minutes helps the brain to process new information and retain recently learned things too.

The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, found participants allowed a 90-minute nap between learning the first task and the second task, did not show much improvement in the evening, but did show a marked performance improvement on the following morning.

Although the effects may not be immediate, the benefits of napping and sleep are becoming more clear every day. Sleep helps to improve your mood, increase work productivity, and keeps your kids from getting fat. Plus it feels good, who can argue with that?

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