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To attract or repel–that is the question poking into my brain at the creation of Zombie For Him and Her, new “fragrances” by Demeter.
Zombie For Him smells a lot like the volcano exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
For the incredibly high percentage of readers who find that description useless and obnoxious, let’s let Demeter explain what the company thinks of its pungent product:
“Think forest floor. Zombie for Him is a combination of dried leaves, mushrooms, mildew, moss and earth.”
Zombie for Her smells like grass, but not fresh smelling grass. It’s more like the lawn clippings that have been sitting in trash bags for weeks because nobody wants to lug those things to the curb to be picked up. Demeter says there’s also “dregs from the bottom of the wine barrel for a feminine touch.”
To SMELL more, click HERE. You may be glad you did.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/zombie-fragrance_n_3062225.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
“Game of Thrones” returns for Season 3 on Sunday, March 31 (9 p.m. ET on HBO), and the war-torn land of Westeros will only become more brutal as we delve deeper into George R. R. Martin’s meaty tale, confidently adapted by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss on an increasingly epic scale.
Read on for a spoiler-lite preview from Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), John Bradley (Samwell Tarley), Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran Stark), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister).
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/game-of-thrones-season-3-premiere_n_2977323.html?utm_hp_ref=tv
Chantal Banks is a grown woman with a family, and like many families, hers keeps pets. Except, in her case, the pets are rats, there are 19 of them and she appears to like them an awful lot. She likes them even more than her husband, apparently.
The April 3 episode of The Learning Channel’s “My Crazy Obsession” will explore Banks’ eccentric life, from the two-bedroom apartment she now shares with her rats, to her son’s bizarre assertion that the rats are his brothers and sisters, to the furtive grumbling of her estranged husband.
“My rats don’t judge me. They love me for who I am. When I cry, they lick my tears,” Banks told TLC. Here’s a clip:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/chantal-woman-who-loves-rats-nachos-video_n_2839409.html
When ships and planes mysteriously vanish — sometimes without a trace — speculation runs wild.
Many worry about the conventional — pilot error, kidnapping and terrorism come to mind. And there are those who worry about the supernatural.
Acclaimed fashion designer Vittorio Missoni and five others boarded a twin-engine BN-2 Islander aircraft in the Los Roques island chain near Venezuela on January 4. They were headed for Caracas and had only flown about 11 miles when they vanished into thin air.
So what happened to Missoni’s plane? Could foul play have been involved, in an area that has seen its share of kidnappings or hijackings by possible drug dealers?
The Guardian reports that unexplained plane crashes and disappearances have allegedly occurred over the last 10 years in the same geographic location between Caracas and the Los Roques chain of 350 islands, cays and islets covering an area of about 40 kilometers.
If any of this sounds even vaguely familiar, it’s probably because this area, dubbed locally as the Los Roques Curse, is not far from the infamous Bermuda Triangle — bordered by Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico — where people, planes and ships have vanished for decades.
“They” try to explain:
“The only way to get to and from those islands is by boat or plane, and — like cars, boats or anything else — more traffic than average means more accidents and mishaps than average. If anything, it’s surprising there aren’t more crashes.”
While The Bermuda Triangle is the most famous of areas around the world laying claim to causing people, planes and ships to vanish, there actually hasn’t been such a report from there for almost a decade.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/bermuda-triangle-vittoria-missoni_n_2576384.html?ir=Weird+News
Woohoo! Lucky to win the lotto! Not lucky to blow up the house. Lucky again, just to be alive. The Wichita Eagle reports that two brothers were partying together to celebrate a $75,000 winning lottery ticket, when they accidentally blew up their Wichita home. Neither of the brother’s names has been reported.
From the Wichita Eagle:
One of the brothers went to the kitchen to refuel the butane torches they planned to use to light their bongs. He emptied a couple of large cans of butane lighter fluid, leaking butane into the air.
We all can deduce what happened next…BOOM!
One man was treated for second-degree burns and is in stable condition.
The other brother was arrested on drug charges after telling police he had meth and marijuana in the home.
Perhaps the lottery winnings can be used to retain a good lawyer.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/brothers-blow-up-house-lottery-kansas_n_2711020.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
What’s this all about, eh? Real life Ken, Justin Jedlica, thinks real life Barbie, Valeria Lukyanova, looks like a drag queen and TELLS her so. Real life Barbie, speaking to the Sun, defends herself to real life Ken: “Justin said bad things about me but he had more than 90 operations, while I had only one. I am not hiding that I’ve had plastic surgery. I had breast implants because I want to be perfect. He would do better not to comment on who is plastic and who is not. I think he is handsome man — but he overdid his lips.”
Jedlica, a New York native, appears to have more of an affinity for Lacey Wildd, a model and mother who wears a triple-L cup size. The Ken lookalike posted a photo of him and Wildd together on Friday with the caption, “Omg I love Lacey!”
Sadly, it appears that Barbie and Ken will not be building their dreamhouse together anytime soon.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/valeria-lukyanova-real-life-barbie-justin-jedlica-real-life-ken_n_2575786.html?ir=Weird+News
Two armed men attempted to carjack a Corvette last week, Orlando police say, but were unable to figure out how to work the manual transmission.
The Corvette’s owner, 51-year-old Randolph Bean, told WKMG-TV he was sitting in the yellow vehicle waiting for his wife to get out of work at the Orlando Regional Medical Center at around 11:20 p.m. He saw two men approaching the car with a gun “drawn and pointing at me.”
Bean says they opened the door and forced him out of the vehicle. One man held him on the ground at gun point.
The second man, he says, got into the vehicle and, after some apparent confusion, started screaming, “How do I start the car?” at Bean.
“I had to tell him four different times to push in the clutch, because it’s a standard transmission,” Bean told WOFL-TV.
Finally giving up on the carjacking, the robbers took his wallet, phone, and house keys and fled, presumably on foot or a vehicle with an automatic transmission.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/carjackers-foiled-by-stic_n_2590262.html?ref=topbar
The road to recovery may have just gotten a little bit brighter for a victim of the Taft Union high school shooting. And he has his classmates to thank for it.
Bowe Cleveland, a 16-year-old Taft Union High School student and fan of the Spiderman comics, received a personalized message from Stan Lee of Marvel Comics after fellow students started a viral campaign on social media. See it HERE:
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/stan-lee-marvel-comics-pu_n_2496848.html
When users report a problem with Google Maps — a missing roundabout, a road closure, a one-way street that’s marked incorrectly — it’s Nick Volmar who hears them.
Volmar is a program director on Google’s Ground Truth team, which has been an essential part of Google’s efforts to create a comprehensive, detailed and accurate map of the world. To build Google Maps, Google relies not only on satellite imagery, data from third-party sources and information captured by its Street View fleet, but also on the thousands of corrections it receives daily from its users, which are manually consulted and addressed by Googlers like Volmar, who reviews up to hundreds of reports a day and updates Maps by hand.
Huff Post spoke with Volmar, here are bits of the interview:
What are you responsible for? I’m primarily responsible for working with a lot of the reported map issues that come in from external users — analyzing the things they’re requesting, verifying their claims and trying to improve our maps using the different resources that are available to us internally.
Do you ever have to send someone out to physically investigate an area to answer a question? If someone reports that there’s been a new housing community built in a town and we don’t have that data available to us to confirm it, we can ask the Street View team to go out and drive the road, so we can get the street names for the roads, draw in the roads and other things that we wouldn’t be able to see unless we had an on-the-ground picture and understanding.
How many user reports do you get a day? We get around 10,000 a day. During the holidays, if there are a lot of people traveling, we tend to get a lot more because people are using our product to navigate areas they’re unfamiliar with.
What’s the strangest report you ever received from a user?
There are some fun “Easter Eggs” in Google Maps, like when you search for directions from San Francisco to Tokyo, one of the steps is “Sail across the Pacific Ocean.” One user submitted a report that said sailing wasn’t a very feasible suggestion as opposed to hopping on a plane.
READ MORE HERE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/21/google-maps-editor-ground-truth-team_n_2516924.html?ir=Technology
Evidently, sleeping on the road is an everyday thing for asses in Botswana. Google says that one of its Street View cars did not kill a donkey in Botswana, despite what images taken by that Street View car seem to imply.
As CNET notes, the images appeared to have gained steam earlier this week after they were shared on the Web by various users.
Depending on your direction of travel as you click through the map, the donkey appears either to meet an untimely demise, or to rise from a catnap in the road as the Street View car approaches.
Google insists it’s the latter.
In a Google Lat Long blog post titled “Never ass-ume,” Kei Kawai, a Google Maps group project manager, explained the controversy:
Over the last 24-hours concerned members of the public and the media have been speculating on the fate of a donkey pictured in Street View in the Kweneng region of Botswana.Because of the way our 360-degree imagery is put together, it looked to some that our car had been involved in an unseemly hit and run, leaving the humble beast stranded in the road. As our imagery below shows, the donkey was lying in the path – perhaps enjoying a dust bath – before moving safely aside as our car drove past. I’m pleased to confirm the donkey is alive and well.
Over the last 24-hours concerned members of the public and the media have been speculating on the fate of a donkey pictured in Street View in the Kweneng region of Botswana.Because of the way our 360-degree imagery is put together, it looked to some that our car had been involved in an unseemly hit and run, leaving the humble beast stranded in the road.
As our imagery below shows, the donkey was lying in the path – perhaps enjoying a dust bath – before moving safely aside as our car drove past. I’m pleased to confirm the donkey is alive and well.
YOU be the judge.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/google-run-over-donkey_n_2489691.html
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