When protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square came under violent attack from paid Mubarak supporters, they used homemade ingenuity to protect themselves and hold their ground. These amazing photos published by Germany’s Der Spiegel did not include any credits for individual photographers, a measure, perhaps, to protect their identities.
Source: Der Spiegel, Germany
Fashionistas need not fear the rising tide – shoe designers have come to their rescue.
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Artists in Pittsburgh got wind that the Google Street View Car was visiting their locality and decided to throw a street party with balloons, confetti and a marching band. You can navigate the street view here at 488 Sampsonia Way for as long as Google leaves it live.
A Newscaster from ABC7 in Los Angeles strikes an uncanny resemblance to the police rapist sketch he is reporting on.
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If you are driving in upstate New York, there’s a good chance you’ll see deer crossing the road. The Google Street View car did just that and more, while recording it all on their 360 degree cameras. Google responded to the incident as follows:
“Gathering the imagery for Street View requires quite a bit of driving; as such, we take safety very seriously. Unfortunately, accidents do happen — as some people have noticed, one of our Street View cars hit a deer while driving on a rural road in upstate New York. Due to several user requests these images are no longer available in Street View. “
“The driver was understandably upset, and promptly stopped to alert the local police and the Street View team at Google. The deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived.”
The screen shots below were grabbed before Google took them down.
BY DREW WATERS
Every web site that I visit seems to be blitzed by Vimax Penis Enlargement ads. Women’s faces looking with shock, surprise and horror in the direction of my crotch. Facial expressions designed to make me feel insecure about the size of my penis. LOL … The ads promise me, at least, an additional 4 inches.
One assumes that Vimax, the company behind the penis pills, must be throwing bags of money at a huge advertising campaigns with Google and Yahoo, but it turns out that most of these ads are malware that have taken over your browser and are displaying their wares. (If you have the Firefox browser you can go to the Mozilla web site and download the NoScript add-on to kill these ads.)
Dr. Michael Donnenberg of the University of Maryland describes the effect of penis enlargement pills and creams as providing zero results. “There may however be a placebo effect i.e. a psychological effect making the user think he has a larger penis, and increasing his confidence, when in fact there is no actual change to his penis size.”
A review, conducted by Drs. Kevan Wylie and Ian Eardley of the Porterback Clinic and Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield and St. James’ Hospital in Leeds, United Kingdom, respectively, combines results from more than 50 international research projects into penis size and small penis syndrome (SPS) conducted since 1942. It shows similar poor results.
“The issue of attractiveness to women is complex, but most data suggest that penile size is much lower down the list of priorities for women than such issues as a man’s personality and external grooming,” the researchers write.
So the Vimax ads in the end may just provide cultural entertainment. Another company trying to profit from a widely held male cultural myth that size matters most.
Here’s a collection of some of the ads appearing in my browser window in the past few months:
