From the Daily Beast

As admissions letters hit mailboxes—and amid growing concern about mental health on campus, The Daily Beast looks at which schools are the biggest pressure cookers.

Kids who aim for top colleges know full well that this month's stress over which envelope—-thick or thin—is only the beginning. And in recent weeks, concerns about the pressure cooker environment on some campuses have escalated. At Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., there have been six confirmed suicides this academic year, including two on successive days last month. Last week, Cornell installed chain-link fencing along many of the bridges that cross the gorges on campus, serving both as deterrent and a physical reminder.

OKLAHOMA CITY (CBS/AP) In these cash strapped times, almost anything goes. In Oklahoma, a woman has pleaded no contest to ...   more »

Amusing article on the Gordo.

Step outside, posh boy. LOL

Unedited, here it is...

Appeals court gives new life to local 'zombie' suit

The U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday released a ruling in favor of a group of zombies who say they were wrongfully arrested while protesting consumerism during the 2006 Aquatennial.

Yes, you heard right.

The N.H.L. has gained huge attendance the last few seasons with its annual outdoor Winter Classic, played at places like Wrigley Field and Fenway Park. Never an organization to pass up a good idea, the Harlem Globetrotters decided to play a game outdoors as well. Not wanting to mess with success, they decided they too would play their game on ice.
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This is a really interesting article about space exploration and theoretics.

Oceans of liquid diamond, filled with solid diamond icebergs, could be floating on Neptune and Uranus, according to a recent article in the journal Nature Physics.

The research, based on first detailed measurements of the melting point of diamond, found diamond behaves like water during freezing and melting, with solid forms floating atop liquid forms. The surprising revelation gives scientists a new understanding about diamonds and some of the most distant planets in our solar system.

"Diamond is a relatively common material on Earth, but its melting point has never been measured," said Eggert. "You can't just raise the temperature and have it melt, you have to also go to high pressures, which makes it very difficult to measure the temperature."

Take a look!

I knew companies sponsored events, sports etc.

I wasn't aware they sponsored demolition, but...

IRVING – Texas Stadium will come down this spring in a "Cheddar Explosion."

That's the name that Kraft Foods has given to its promotional campaign for the implosion of the iconic structure.

In its last act of 2009, the Irving City Council on Thursday unanimously approved Kraft Foods as the official sponsor for the demolition.

"It's a good deal for us and a good deal for them," council member Rose Cannaday said during the 15-minute special meeting. <more>

So it must be true.

From Annanova
Man sues over lack of 'Lynx effect'

A luckless Indian romeo is suing Lynx after he failed to ...   more »

One of the weird things about the web is the free speech it allows. This is mostly a good thing, but according to certain Governments, it's the spawn of Satan. ironic, really.

Threatened Voices tracks blogging and the authoritarian attitude to free speech.

North Carolina health officials are investigating the death of a woman who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria three days after accidentally jamming her hand in a wheelchair while working at a nursing home. Full Story

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. -- An Indiana man has filed a lawsuit claiming that police forcibly withdrew blood and urine from his body during a drunken driving arrest, WLWT-TV reported.According to the suit, police arrested Jamie Lockard, 53, on suspicion of drunken driving in March.A Breathalyzer test showed he was under the legal limit, but Officer Brian Miller doubted the findings.Lockard and his attorney claim in the suit that police took him to Dearborn County Hospital and forced him to submit to a urine and blood test.

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NEW YORK – Brooklyn residents are riled over a performance artist who's been delivering bags of fake crack. The Daily News reported that Nate Hill makes the deliveries dressed in a white tuxedo and a dolphin headpiece. He shows up between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., like a real drug pusher.
Enrica Serrero said she ordered the "candy crack" at a Williamsburg party last Sunday. Says the 21-year-old: "I'd definitely do it again."
Hill calls it "amusing theater."
Ismael Torres, who's president of a tenant association, is not amused. "I've seen too many cemeteries, too many hospitals, too many funeral parlors," Torres said.
Kevin Wadalavage of Outreach Project, which treats substance abusers, said he is "dumbfounded."
 

FBI: Man gives teller ID before robbing bank
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A 34-year-old man is in custody after authorities say he gave a teller his account number and showed her his picture ID before robbing an Anchorage bank.
The FBI says Jarell Paul Arnold of Anchorage is being held on federal bank robbery charges.
The FBI alleges Arnold walked into an Alaska USA Federal Credit Union branch Friday and inquired about the balance on his account. The teller asked for his name, account number and ID.
Authorities say he complied, and then handed over a receipt with a note on the back that said he had a gun and demanded money.
The FBI says he got away with about $600. Authorities arrested Arnold on Monday. A message left after business hours Wednesday with Arnold's public defender, Michael Dieni, was not immediately returned.
Court records say Arnold was sentenced to 57 months in prison for bank robbery in 2004.

A thief has made a bid for the title of New Zealand's dumbest crook after providing his name and contact details to a store clerk minutes before grabbing money from the cash register in full view of the Christchurch store's eight surveillance cameras.

The long-time customer of Penny Lane Records on Colombo St in Sydenham began his bad caper on Friday afternoon. More...

Something very strange of going on on Saturn. Anby strange I mean stranger than the possibility there's someone there who enjoys Deal or No Deal. Something punched through one of the rings, which Cassini sent back images of. Weird.

Or  is it?

You got to love cats. They have it sussed. Food, the comfiest chairs. and apparently they exploit owners by purring

Rest in peace, Simon Vinkenoog [Dutch blog w/English option], poet, friend of artists like Karel Appel, translator of Beat Generation figures like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, psychedelic enthusiast and "weed ambassador" of Amsterdam, and author of such guides to hip living as How to Enjoy Reality. One of the European jazz-loving proto-hippies who made the '60s swing and mentored several generations of culture hackers, though he was never widely known in the US.

The world just got a shade darker. Again.

From Simons' Website


Thus the mourning advertisement sounds which will stand today in the Parool. If one thing has become clear in these has expired summons, then is that, however, the overwhelming quantity people for whom Simon of meaning have been and will remain. For this reason everyone is welcome of this delicious man personal farewell come take. He is of our all. Did not adress its necessary, because we know all which he was and what he has meant for the world.
The travelling box will be open, Deo Volente, so that one him can small attentions which on its last travel will accompany slip him. Also can become on the travelling box signed and which called feels itself the dead can whisper of course something in the ear. To be friends bandsmen again for him game, lustre to what they want give him, in music is possible that improves still then with words. It will be come and, up to the moment that are three sons Robert, Alexander and Arthur, with Derrick mount man, Joep Bremmers and René francs from Antwerp - friends with whom he has shared the last years of its life intensely - Simon to its last rustplaats will bring. Everyone can throw symbolic schepje sand on the travelling box and for my geestesoog to see I eventually a mount arising, covered under a sea of flowers.

Ever Simon have given that to know he would want disappear kindest on a fire battery in Ruigoord of this world and for this reason we address there a joy fire to inform the sky of its arrival.

If there wasn't any proof that things ar going way to mad in the world, then there is now.

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MSNBC ran a story last week about a student who was prosecuted, maybe rightly, for altering a set of barrels. From the traditional barrel formation to this fearsome creation



This maniac MUST be stopped! LOL

Colin Bean was Private Sponge in Dads' Army. Although not a fantastic part, he was often called upon for the more physical business when the other members were too infirm.

You know how your washing machine uses loads of water? Okay. Rephrase. You know how your Mums' washing machine uses loads of water? This is a dandy report from the Telegraph about a machine which uses but one cup and gets the same results. How can this be? What deal with the devil have indesit done now?

There is no one in the media, save probably for John Snow, who is so doggedly determined to get answers as Jeremy Paxman. So they tuck him away on Newsnight where they think he can't offend...and yet...

First time in ages I have typed Domino without Pizza. Yes, fats came out of hiding - and it's something substantial to hide Fats, at a concert at LA at the weekend

Apparently in Japan they have a problem withpeople getting married. So much so, women are now looking for devices which will give them some idea of the perfect husband. Including this little beaut

Aggregators are big business or soon to be, this is one of the best news aggregators out there.

Here's an article form the truely awful Daily Mail, probably the most bigoted, two faced crap rag in teh newspaper industry, on what could be the worlds' oldest woman.

Although they are probably accusing her of scrounging off the state and she should go out and get a job or go back to where she came from etc etc

So do I and millions of others and you can wade in here, deep into controversy

Men are not the only ones who are downgrading their ambitions, Women are also having problems.

Weird lights above Manhatten?

Even the trannies are having issues

As web.tv discovered

I have no idea what a gnook is, who is it, what they are, what they represent. All I know is they have an endless habit of placing a 'n' after every word which begins with 'g'.

Gnerds.

There's a great character for ya.

Maybe this sort of condition - by which I mean the amounting sadness - is genetic? Who knows. Sylvia PLath wrote some pretty good but rather bleak poetry.

The bank of America? Based on what, exactly?

Twitter is one of the highlights of the year, with an enormous growth of 1082% per day. But those who are on there seem to forget that the people they are writing about can actually read what they put in the timeline...whoops

The secret of who really wrote the new autobiography of Tarzan's chimpanzee pal Cheeta is out. More>>

BNP bosses used a Polish Spitfire to front a campaign calling for Eastern European immigrants to be barred from Britain. More >>

A Hertfordshire-based firm has launched the ultimate posh cat flap for pampered pussycats. More >>

Expensive.

A Buckingham Palace footman caused £60,000 damage when he spilled a trolley of drinks on a carpet that had only just been laid. More>>

A gang have been branded Britain's worst burglars after drilling their way into an empty office next door to a bank.

The thieves had hoped to break into the Royal Bank of Scotland branch in Poynton, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, reports the Daily Telegraph. More>>

AMD are the main competitors to Intel, since the demise, in my opinion wrongly, of Apples 'G' range. However, in the last day or so, AMD have mentioned they're claims about power usage to the CPU may have been...um...well, optimistic. Or possibly fictional.

There is a Miss <insert placename> who actually intends to make something positive in the world. Heads up and roar for Miss Virginia.

A Liverpool motorist was stopped by a police officer and questioned - for laughing at the wheel of his car.
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A burglar with a cold was caught after he broke into a house in Portsmouth - because he dropped his handkerchief. More>>

51-Year-Old Denise Delgado-Browne In Stable Condition At St. Barnabas Hospital More>>

One year after Wisconsin created a state brand, officials are announcing a new logo and theme to go with it. More >>

Police are seeking a man who duped a teller and stole $90,000 Sunday afternoon by posing as the owner of a currency exchange in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. More >>

A man told his boss he was leaving his job by writing a resignation letter on a cake.

With the launch of discovery last night, NASA is holding some press conferences regarding the mission throughout its' duration. Yes, they are very dull and boring, but sometimes you pick up on some interesting science. If you are still awake.

My God...time does NOT fly when you watch these guys.

Ron Silver, the activist and GOP member, has died.

Jade Goody has gone home.

Although I don't feel any particular emotion for her, or indeed any animosity, I think it's an awful thing to happen to anyone, esp when kids are involved.

I have no idea how to spell the guys' name and frankly I can't be arsed looking it up. But the bloke who did "I'm Slim Shady" has had some bad news in teh last 24.

Seriously, this is disturbing. Do not read if you worry a lot.

Pants. $69. Deal or No Deal?

Some of the best pictures from Reuters in the last hundred years or exposures or something

This is an interesting bijou article about how first impressions are formed in the neural complex of your synapses and the subsequent farting in the lift

Weird Asia News had a story over the weekend about a watch which is over 4,000 years old and as yet has not featured on Bid.tv