I’d be annoyed too if my husband were sleeping (like the guy in the photo) and I wasn’t getting enough rest. Now researchers in the US have found that the phenomenon is physically manifested in the brain.

“It is almost as though, without sleep, the brain reverts back to a more primitive pattern of activity, becoming unable to put emotional experiences into context and produce controlled, appropriate responses.”

The lack of sleep certainly changes the way you make decisions and respond to stimuli. Sleeping is not an indication of laziness, some people need more, some less than the recommended 8 hours a night. Not sleeping also makes lawyers too tired to represent their clients. Keep in mind that you brain goes into creative overdrive while you daydream as well and napping 20 minutes a day can make you more productive.

Although it seems like it should be later in the week, it’s not. It’s only Tuesday, The Onion reports.

“The current Tuesday is keeping apace with past Tuesdays with no more than one ten-thousandth of a second’s variation at the most,” NIST spokeswoman Dr. Geraldine Schach said. “However, I sympathize with the common consensus that this week has already been a colossal pain in the neck.”

I agree!

An easy way to determine which side of your brain is dominant. Watch the dancer - is she moving clockwise (right-brained) or counterclockwise (left brained)?

For most the dancer switches, which shows you use a little bit of both. I suppose I’m very right-brained since I can’t for the life of me get the bitch dancing the other way.

Ah well, you can see what side of your brain does what and then let me know in the comments. Apparently I’m good philosophy, spacial perception, and love making.

Online unverified tests are great since they can give your gaydar a run for its money, or help you make important political decision like picking a presidential candidate. All without really thinking, neat.

[via Andrea Harner]

Running uphill as fast as you can for 10 seconds is a very effective way to increase your speed and avoid injury according to coach Brad Hudson.

Hit the hill, but make it fast and short, and you get the maximum amount of training effect with the minimum amount of injury risk. “The best way to recruit fast-twitch muscle fibers is to run at max intensity,” says Hudson. “The best way to build leg strength is hill running. So we run all-out up a steep hill. But we keep it to 10 seconds to avoid producing lactate and becoming fatigued.”

The efficacy of interval or intensity training is underrated if you ask me. It helps to keep you muscles guessing, keeps your workouts short and interesting, and lets you go 100% without slacking as you might do on the treadmill. A nice little workout might be throwing a Virtual Distance Football uphill as hard as you can, then running hard after it.

But only for 10 seconds though, any more and you might actually be exercising.

It’s hard to get kids out the door, teach them math, and then expect them to find friends - now you don’t have to. The Virtual Distance Football takes the pressure off parents by giving them a friend that they can play with for hours.

I can almost guarantee that children will try to combine the ball-ness of the VDF with the measuring powers of the toy. They’ll most likely use it to gauge the distance from the sofa to, say, your favorite lamp, the cat, or the mean old lady across the street.

Good thing the VDF is only $20, you’ll need the extra cash to pay for all of the broken items in your home and for the lawsuits you’re sure to face.

[via Fosfor Gadgets]

One step away from practically playing the guitar for you, Gibson has released their PowerTune self-tuning electric guitar.

The PowerTune can tune itself perfectly within 2 seconds, and can even store alternate tuning configurations. The PowerTune starts off at $899 and will save you minutes in agony, especially if you’re tone deaf.

Gibson manufacturers are also working on a guitar that snorts cocaine, has sex with underage/over-aged sluts, and dates Kate Moss (we think).

That is if you even can be bothered to vote at all next year. The 2008 Select Smart Presidential Candidate Selector can help you to base an important decision on a simple online quiz.

Simply answer how you feel about certain issues and how strongly, then stop researching and following politics all together until election day! I’m curious, what candidates came up for our readers in their quiz results?

Personally, I prefer the “shoot-a-booger” method where you shoot a booger out of your nose as hard as possible on the voting machine to pick who will screw up the country even worse be the next president of the United States.

Um, like in case you haven’t seen the lamest comeback back/teenage-masturbatory fantasy-killer that was Britney Spears on the MTV Video Music Awards I’ll recap for you here.

• Get the shittiest hair extensions you can find, like yellow party paper or dye a mop blond and put in on your head.
• Just move you lips, no matter what the music is playing, saying, or doing. The audience can still here the music, so what does it matter right?
• Don’t lose that last 15 pounds.
• Let all of the real dancers dance.Simply shake your ass from time to time and smile nervously as though someone in the crowd is planning your assassination. Then, during your own performance, think about where else you can lose you cloths to get more attention since Kevin Federline doesn’t love you anymore.
• Run off stage as fast as you can after the performance.
• Take roofies.
• Snort cocaine.
• Get high.
• Chug a beer/take 3 shots.
• Inhale some paint.
• Go watch the kids and read them the Bible.

Get it? Good. As much as we hated it, we loved it. Comeback in a can is the newly coined phrase - we may be laughing now, but she’s still making more money in a month for her has-been ass that we are with our “brains”. Speaking of, so is Miss Teen South Carolina.

The next time you have a big red itchy bite on your arm from a mosquito, take a small amount of hand sanitizer and gently rub it on.

Hand sanitizer is the travel essential that can neutralize the itch for a while and can be applied when you aren’t near a sink. If you’ve been accumulating your vacation time wisely,you’ll need relief!

We friggn’ love hand sanitizer around here since we don’t wash our hands ever, not even after peeing!

Much of the list compiled by Real Simple is common sense but I thought this trick was a unique one.

If you have leftover lemons and limes from a cocktail party, squeeze them and freeze the juice in an ice-cube tray. Once they’re frozen, store the cubes in zippered plastic bags and use them for recipes that call for fresh lemon or lime juice.

As for the other ideas I read are more organizational tips - not time savers. I’m not sure how much more you can get done by making a bunch of lists. Besides, that requires work, which we don’t like, even if it means less work. Makes sense right?