Your momma’s so fat she has to grease her hands to get into her pockets. -anon
Keep talking. I always yawn when I’m interested. – Me
Whom am I calling “stupid”? I don’t know. What’s your name? – unknown
I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial. – Irvin S. Cobb
Insults | TheFourEyes June 6, 2007 | 
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Akamai Gives Free Peek at Internet
What does the Internet look like? A free new Web service from Akamai Technologies Inc. offers a peek, providing a sort of Internet weather report on global traffic tie-ups, cyberattacks and spikes in activity.
Akamai, which says it delivers 15 to 20 percent of Internet traffic on any given day, hopes its new Web site helps not only the techies it counts as clients, but also the general public.
If your Internet connection is slower than usual, Akamai’s tool can show whether traffic is clogged overall in your city. (If not, your Internet service provider might be to blame.) Or you might just want a way to visualize the global ebb and flow of the Internet.
“We originally built this feature as a tool for our customers, but once it was built it seemed like a fun thing to put out there to the public,” said Tom Leighton, Akamai’s chief scientist.
The service – check out http://tinyurl.com/yooz96 – reveals some of the data that engineers at Akamai’s Cambridge headquarters rely on to monitor and troubleshoot global server networks and ensure information flows over the most efficient paths.
The service features a real-time monitor measuring Internet traffic globally and by region. The tool shows the 10 cities with the slowest Web connections at a given moment, and ranks the regions facing the most network attacks. Other sections measure traffic on digital music, retail and news Web sites.
Still crave more insight into the world’s data streams? Check out some other sites like http://www.internettrafficreport.com and http://www.internethealthreport.com .
Jokes, Just Plain Silly | TheFourEyes June 5, 2007 |
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US scientists have devised a drug that can switch on a gene to burn body fat, offering hope of an exercise pill. Mice given the drug burned off fat, even when they did not exercise, and were resistant to weight gain despite a high-fat diet.
The ultimate use would be to treat people at risk of obesity-related diseases like diabetes, rather than offer a “no-work six-pack” pill.
The Salk Institute team presented their work at Experimental Biology 2007.
Scientists working in Germany and the US say they have found a “fidget” molecule and if you have it in your genes you are less likely to be fat. Mice with the molecule are more likely to be primed athletic beasts, while those without laze around getting fat.
It is the second time in recent months scientists have claimed to have located genetic material linked to body weight.
Scientists in Britain said they had found a separate gene, dubbed the fat gene, linked directly to obesity.
If we took his tiny brain and rolled it down the edge of a razor blade, it would be like a lone car going down a six lane highway. – anonymous
Your momma’s so fat she has to use sleeping bags for tube socks. – anon
You heedless joltheads and unmannered slaves. - Shakespeare
Ever since I saw you in your family tree, I’ve wanted to cut it down. – unknown
Sorry Folks… I’ll put some stuff up tomorrow.
Uncategorized | TheFourEyes June 4, 2007 |
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Killer banana rumour grips China
Producers say the rumour has caused big financial losses |
A rumour spread by text message has badly hit the price of bananas from China’s Hainan island, state media say. The messages claim the fruit contains viruses similar to Sars, the severe respiratory illness which has killed hundreds of people worldwide.
Producers in Hainan say the resulting price slump is costing them up to 20 million yuan ($US2.6m) a day.
China’s Agriculture Ministry has dismissed the Sars claim as baseless. Police are investigating its source.
“It is utterly a rumour,” a Chinese Health Ministry official was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
“There has not been a case in the world in which humans have contracted a plant virus, and there is not any scientific evidence.” (READ MORE)
Now … regarding that last sentence… Did we not have people dropping like flies a few months back from contracting E. coli from spinach? And weren’t we told that we couldn’t wash it off? Indicating that the virus was “in” the plant… And when did E. coli or SARS become “plant” viruses?
Somebody’s lying.
Information, Rants | TheFourEyes June 3, 2007 |
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In light of this and the previous post… I’m getting more and more worried about our proclivity to outsource everything that big business thinks will save them another dime.
Now… don’t think me some kind of a China basher… My wife is Chinese… Thereby making my kids 1/2 of same… But… Isn’t China still a communist regime that we would go to war with in a heartbeat if it threatened any of our “Allies”? Would we have allowed the Soviet Union to have as much control over our essentials? Don’t we still complain about human rights abuses in China?… Yet… And please correct me if I’m wrong… We’ve turned over so many essentials to the Chinese and lost our own capacity to manufacture these things domestically that if… The Chinese government chose to do harm to the USA… The use of military force would be like number 10 on the list.
Lets See How Many Ways They Could Do Damage To Us:
If the U.S. and China were to become hostile towards one another… Who will suffer the most… Given the USA’s trade deficit with China… Do we even dare to cross them. .. The fact is… We could be shoeless, naked and very, very ill by the time our government even got wind that something was amiss.
It seems that we’ve outsourced …and outsmarted ourselves this time.
Your vitamin likely is from China
SHIJIAZHUANG, China
If you pop a vitamin C tablet in your mouth, it’s a good bet it came from China. Indeed, many of the world’s vitamins are now made in China.
In less than a decade, China has captured 90 percent of the U.S. market for vitamin C, driving almost everyone else out of business.
Chinese pharmaceutical companies also have taken over much of the world market in the production of antibiotics, analgesics, enzymes and primary amino acids. According to an industry group, China makes 70 percent of the world’s penicillin, 50 percent of its aspirin and 35 percent of its acetaminophen (often sold under the brand name Tylenol), as well as the bulk of vitamins A, B12, C and E.
In the wake of a pet-food scandal, in which adulterated wheat gluten from China led to the deaths of thousands of pets in North America, and other instances of food and toothpaste tampering, China’s vitamin producers are reaching out to reassure U.S. consumers that their vitamins are safe.
Whether that’s true isn’t clear, however. Foreign food-safety experts say China’s larger companies have reputations to protect. The question is how they maintain quality control.
A survey earlier this year said more than three-fifths of Chinese worry about whether the food they eat is contaminated or adulterated.
Fake drugs to treat impotency and help with weight loss are legion in China. Some African nations complain of fake Chinese medicines hitting their pharmacy shelves. Shady small pharmaceutical firms have exported bogus anti-malaria medication to Southeast Asia, where the illness is prevalent, allowing sick people to grow sicker.
“We really believe they are criminals,” said Dr. Henk Bekedam, chief of the World Health Organization office in China, referring to producers of fake medicines.
A Torrance executive says he sees too many children’s books with liberal views. His titles aim to tilt the shelves the other way.
PUBLISHING executive Eric Jackson’s first foray into children’s books was a cartoon tale of two brothers and a lemonade stand.
Hoping to earn money for a swing set, young Tommy and Lou squeeze lemons until their little hands ache. But they are thwarted by broccoli-pushing, camera-hogging, Jesus-hating liberals who pile on taxes and regulations and drive the boys out of business.
The book, “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!,” came out two years ago. Jackson said it sold nearly 30,000 copies, which in the publishing world made it a bona fide hit. That success reinforced Jackson’s view that the nation’s bookshelves had tilted way too far left and that a correction was in order.
Kindergartners these days can leaf through a picture book promoting the virtues of medical marijuana. They can read a fairy tale about two princes who get married  to each other.
But where are the children’s books denouncing affirmative action? The fairy tales promoting gun rights? (MORE)
Information, Just Plain Silly, Rants | TheFourEyes June 2, 2007 |
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See my Rant of May 28th 2007
Tinky Winky… Dipsy…. Lala… Po…
The song goes through my head, over and over again. My oldest son watched the Teletubbies and loved them. Still loves them, I found out recently. I should say, (He) has learned to appreciate them on a different level. I found out after he told me he at a sleepover with his pal, they were watching Teletubbies at 1AM.”Mom. They are so goofy! ”
“What were you doing up at 1AM?”
Clearly, I don’t have a sense of humor. I wasn’t worried about Tinky Winky teaching my son to carry a red purse. I was worried about what parental supervision was happening at 1AM at the friend’s house.
Recently, Ewa Sowinska, a senior official in the Polish Government ordered– yup, ordered– psychologists to “investigate whether the popular BBC TV show Teletubbies promotes a homosexual lifestyle.” She noticed Tinky was carrying “a woman’s handbag.”
The Polish government is now spending serious money investigating a large purple character carrying a red purse. Send me the check. I can alleviate Ms. Sowinska’s worries — no gay man would ever wear a red purse with a purple frock. I mean… does it match? Not really. And if Tinky was gay? The bag would be a designer bag and there would be shoes to match. (MORE)
According to a just-reported study by Carola Frydman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Raven E. Saks at the Federal Reserve, thirty to forty years ago, the CEOs of major companies earned 80 percent more, on average, than the third-highest-paid executives. By the early part of the twenty-first century, however, the gap between the CEO and the third in command had ballooned up to 260 percent.
Now take a look at what’s happening at the very bottom of the economic spectrum, where you might have pictured low-wage workers trudging between food banks or mendicants dwelling in cardboard boxes. It turns out, though, that the bottom is a lot lower than that. On May 16, a millionaire couple in a woodsy Long Island suburb was charged with keeping two Indonesian domestics as slaves for five years, during which the women were paid $100 a month, fed very little, forced to sleep on mats on the floor and subjected to beatings, cigarette burns and other torments. (MORE)
You are a dreadfully dissolute blackguard and a disgusting, stench-emitting molester of small furry animals. - unknown
You are a woefully vile swine and a narcissistic, soul-destroying conglomerate of intellectual constipation. - unknown
You are a miserably indecent fiend and a miserable, congenitally clueless abomination of humanity. -unknown
You are a shockingly uncouth barbarian and a revolting, monotonous solitaire playing spawn of a whore and a thousand maniacs. – unknown
