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Take part in wholesome spouse-related excercise:
How to become a master in Wife Carrying

There have been a couple of posts on the Google Blog regarding health care over the past two weeks, where they mention some “problems that we believe need our attention” and “other challenges in health care that we plan to work on.”

Which has me wondering if their use of our and we are references to Google themselves, or just a greater inclusion of all of the world’s people as a pronoun.

If the G-men were to initiate a health care plan, that would be huge, and I dare wonder if an organization with the trillions of dollars of influence (and actual cash) would be able to make social changes like this – and how would those fat cats up on Capital Hill put that in their pipes and smoke it?

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Enjoy!

Following a disaster in London The East Anglican Ambulance Service launched a national “In case of Emergency (ICE)” campaign. The idea is that you store the word “ICE” in your mobile phone address book, and with it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted in an emergency. Emergency Services personnel and hospital staff would then be able to quickly contact your next of kin by simply dialing the number programmed under “ICE”.

For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.

Thanks Bev!

That’s the best title I could come up with.

There’s a semi-hilarious article on the lack of cool gadgets in the latest Bond movie over at Wired Magazine.

Camera Bomb

Think about it. How many times have you been in a situation where you want to take pictures, but you don’t want to arouse suspicion? Well, nobody’s going to suspect you of taking photos when you pull out this detailed replica of a homemade bomb! Just nonchalantly hold on to the dynamite sticks at either end, look into the countdown display (actually a viewfinder), and click the thumb trigger and you’ve got a high-resolution photo with nobody the wiser!

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Dormitory, by Chinese photographer Wang Qingsong, is a huge picture showing dozens of people trying to find intimacy while they are living on top of each other in cage like minimal spaces.

Denmark tries topless women holding speed limit signs to slow drivers down.
“Denmark has redeemed itself!”
video (Definitely NSFW!)