I am not the most photogenic person sometimes, but I just came across this article, 5 tips to look better in pictures, and they’re really good tips. I could paraphrase but you’re better off just checking out the article.

New research continues to pour in demonstrating the wide array of health benefits produced by marijuana. From protected your brain from damage due to alcohol abuse, to a type of tumor whose only treatment seems to be the magical herb, pot is healthy dammit! The only reason it is illegal is the pharmaceutical lobby, they can’t profit off of something that is so easy for people to grow themselves. Check out the facts! It’s so hard to imagine the poor people who are rotting in jail because they were in posession of cannabis, jail, literally sharing a cell with a killer. Legalize it!!

Here’s an interesting read, this woman smelled like rotten fish her whole life and the smell was so intense it would fill the entire room and even an auditorium. She visited all sorts of doctors and specialists to no avail. She finally found the answer on the internet, trimethylaminuria, and now she has it under control to some degree.

The U.S Transportation Security Administration is the proud recipient of the most diverse picture of the year award!! Notice the guy with one arm in the foreground… and the giant black man standing 3 feet behind everyone else so he doesn’t look to imposing, it’s like the UN over there.

This comic strip featuring Ann Coultier in a burka was censored today by the International Herald Tribune. I think it’s quite clever.

Check out this auction, this kid seems pretty sharp, what a great idea! He will pay 2% of his annual income to you from 2012-2052 for the starting bid of 100k. I don’t think it’s a great investment, but it sure is a brilliant idea! Only on the internet…

Firefox is exponentially gaining more and more users for good reason. In addition to being a safer security alternative for web browsing, it is also open source, so there are all sorts of cool add-ons that you can supercharge your Firefox with to suit your needs. Check out, this article, 5 Firefox extentions you can’t live without.

The web is awash with all sorts of theories about aspartame. The company’s story is that it was designed as an anti-ulcer drug, and they realized it tastes sweet. But one theory that seems very interesting is that it was designed to be the world’s best ant poison, but they realized they could make more money with it as an artificial sweetener, so they marketed it as NutraSweet. Apparently it is extremely effective at killing ants. Some varieties of ants need it made into a solution, but others, like the capenter ant, can handle it raw. I would be very interested to find out if it is true, so if you have an ant problem, give aspartame a try, and report back and comment here. It sure beats the toxicity of other ant poisons, I would hope