Operation Infinite Purity

War on asturbation. Who knows, might be coming to a country near you...

[Note: This is a mocksite]

You should also note the posters section is extreamly ammusing.

A cat riding a motor cycle

Chill Out With the cool cats - Rob Manuel & Joel Veitch

Pakistan and the Commonwealth

Seems like Pakistan has been readmited to the Commonwealth. Hmmmm so whats the big deal you ask. Well for one Pakistan is a dictatorship much like the one in Zimbabwae. But wait hasnt there been a big ruckus over Zimbabwae being a dictatorship. Wow that wouldnt happen to be becuase some white folks lost their farms in the desert and wernt allowed to play cricket would it now.

So what your saying is that Zimbabwae has been racialy excluded from the Commonwealth and not becuase of its dictatorship, which we all now know is A. O.K. by the Commonwealth (because Pakistan has been readmited). Yes But isnt taking peoples land evil regardless of race. Yes, but evil stuff also happens in Pakistan, just not to any white people. Such as the development of nuclear weapons by a dictatorship instead of feeding its people.

[Note: please direct all comments etc to beancounting@gmail.com as this is my new webmaster address, also soon the comment function will be in operations, but becuase Karl is like the only one that comments he can just email me as normal so its like not worth me even doing anything, like making the commenting system available. So who knows if I will do it or not.]

Pakistan and the Commonwealth

The Con is on

I would of waited till after monday to release this new but I just wanted to be first. Anyway, just read and you will find out that this documentary does not have as much credabilaty as Micheal Moore... It just goes to show that not all documentrys are created equal. infact somewould go so far as to say it was just a reality show. Also some of the affiliations created by the movie are questionable.

However most of these questions arise only becasue of expectations of some kinda great documentary ala 'bowling for columbine' and the whole 'fight the big company' and the fact that we just want more proof of how eating burgers are bad. Obviously actually going to see the movie will straighten things out... As in you will find out what the movies aim/message is.

Post pictures to your blog for FREE

Fully integreated into blogger, its kinda like a secret blog service, get in before it gets expensive.

Hello is anyone out there

Get Involved

This is a portal on how to, as the name suggests, get involved, with the QLD government. You can sign petitions that acutally make a difference or even start them. send emails to ministers etc just need to find the federal version and you can let fly.

So Get Involved.

Spamsocology

Spam is a metric of personal behaviour rather than the sum game of what others are doing to us. It is a frame of mind that dominates our individual choices to a greater extent than we realize. I want to introduce the word "Spamsocology". Spamsocology is the intersection of spam, its sociology and its psychology; providing an insight to the individual way we view our world. Very few of us are spam virgins i.e. those who are celibate to clicking spam, and our spam metric points us to our own behaviour and reactivity.

Always click

Funny stuff bush said

'The vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.'
Washington DC, 27 October

'Whether they be Christian, Jew, Muslim or Hindu, people have heard the universal call to love a neighbour just like they'd like to be called themselves.'
Washington DC, 8 October

'See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.'
Milwaukee, 3 October"

Wakeup Call On Sleep Disorders

Chances are these days that if you're awake in the middle of the night, you're not alone.

America, the home of the free, is also land of the tired, with sleep a casualty of the non-stop pace at which we live, reports Correspondent Jerry Bowen.

We pack our days so full that there's not a moment left over for sleeping, a human need as basic as breathing. Nowhere is that more apparent than on metropolitan area commuter trains.

Ed Hall, an ad executive by day and an artist after hours, has been sketching sleeping commuters on the Long Island Railroad for 14 years. “Some thrash, sleep in fits and starts. Some are out like a light, banging
their heads against the window,” Hall says.

Americans, on average, sleep two fewer hours every night than they did a few decades ago, but this doesn’t mean they need less sleep.

David Dinges, an expert on sleep disorders at the University of Pennsylvania, says most people need eight hours of sleep a night.

“We recognize the individual differences in the need,” he says, “but fundamentally it looks like whenever you chronically reduce sleep, even in small amounts, and make people live on seven, six, five or four hours a night, you get these escalating impairments. The brain becomes unstable during wakefulness. Attention wanes. You can't remember things as well.”

Scientists know very little about the purpose of sleep. They can't even say for sure whether sleep is exclusively for the mind or the body. In what has become an extremely hot topic for scientists, the race is on to solve the mysteries of sleep, not just to gain knowledge, but also to treat the more than 80 different types of sleep disorders being diagnosed these days.

Dr. Gary Zammit, who runs the sleep disorder clinic at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in New York, says that National Sleep Foundation data show that 42 percent of Americans are not getting the sleep they say they need to function well during the day..

One of the most common sleep disorders is insomnia. Occasional insomnia affects somewhere between 36 and 56 percent of American adults. Chronic on-going difficulty sleeping affects somewhere between 9 and 17 percent of adults.

The biggest problem doctors face in treating the legion of sleepless is getting people to regard being tired, or having trouble sleeping as a serious, medical condition with symptoms that effect health and quality of life.

At the Van Cauter Lab at the University of Chicago, Eve Van Cauter is gathering scientific evidence that may prove lack of sleep affects our bodies as well as our minds.

“We are curtailing our sleep dramatically and we are also seeing now an epidemic of obesity and diabetes,“ she says. “Is there a relationship between the two?”

In a recent study, reported in The Lancet, Van Cauter studied the effects of limited sleep on a group of healthy young men. After four nights of four hours of sleep a night, they were essentially in a pre-diabetic state.

“We did not expect to see a change of that magnitude,” she says. “That was a surprise.”

Inadequate sleep has also been linked to hypertension and weakened immune systems.

But no one ever hears executives talk about how to get their workers to get more sleep.

As a result, another area of scientific inquiry is about how to keep people awake. That’s where a new drug called modafinil comes in..

Dr Paul Blake, who is coordinating clinical studies of the drug for Cephalon, the company that makes it, says researchers don’t know how it works but it fools the brain into a state of wakefulness at any hour - without any of the nasty side effects of older amphetamines, like jitteriness, increased pulse and heart rate.

Already approved by the FDA to treat the sleep disorder narcolepsy, the hope is that one day Modafinil could be used for shift workers who need to fool their body clocks just to do their jobs.

Blake says, “People with the need to work shifts suffer from two sorts of problems in general. They tend to be sleepy when they are trying to be awake, and they tend to be awake when they are trying to be alseep. That can have great difficulties for them in performance of their work and leading the rest of their lives when they are not at work.”

Modafinil has also caught the attention of the United States military. At the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Center at Fort Rucker in Alabama, researcher John Caldwell is conducting simulator studies of modafinil in Blackhawk helicopter pilots, who often have to fly long missions with no sleep.

“While they were on the drug,” Caldwell said, “their behavior was almost at the same level as it was when they were well rested, despite the fact that they had been awake 24, 30 even 35 hours.”

The danger of a drug like that, says Dinges, the sleep specialist, is that the general public will use it to try to do away with sleep altogether.

Scientists, looking to alter the brain chemistry that makes us sleep, are studying killer whales who are able to sleep with one half of their brain at a time.

UCLA researcher Oleg Lyamin is studying the sleep patterns of Nakai, the baby killer whale at Sea World, and his mother Kasakta. He’s hoping to understand how the two halves of the killer whale brain shift between wakefulness and sleep and whether this might shed light on how humans can control their own brain's on/off switch.

Science can only give us tips that will help us get a good night’s sleep.

“We have forgotten our grandmother's wisdom and we are trying to live outside the boundaries of biology," says Van Cauter. "We are not made for sleep deprivation."

© MMII, CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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drew makes fun of the amish

The reason why the armish are funny

Gmail

Just got my self a Gmail account from google. Its the controversial email system which stores 1000mb of messages (yes amazhing but scary as well) my email that I will proberly never check is beancounting@gmail.com pretty simple but I couldnt think of a new nick name for my self....

Anyway might be good if the emails are kept private, proberly need to read the terms and conditions to find out. If anyone does read it drop me a line (geewhiz at beancounting.tk)

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For the Anti-social

This website contains tutorials on how to become Anti-Social and stay Anti-Social. Ofcourse if you are reading this or writting/written this or have written this and are now reading it, then you proberly dont need any more help on being anti-social.

Its da shit

Grant Was First Choice for 'Hitchhiker'

British heart-throb Hugh Grant was late author Douglas Adams's first choice to play Arthur Dent in the long-awaited movie adaptation of his best- selling novel The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Adams penned the screenplay for a big screen version of his 1979 book before his sudden death of a heart attack in 2001. Last month filming began in London, with The Office star Martin Freeman playing Dent, rapper Mos Def as Ford Prefect and Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast. Nighy says of Freeman's casting in the role Adams wished for Grant, 'They're both first class. Adams probably thought having Hugh on board would have got the film made.' "

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Literaly controls everything

Italian television head quits in anti-Berlusconi protest.

This is basicly as a result of the Italian prime minister being in control of both the state owned media and ALL private media... scary

Homestead

remeber homestead, the starter of my internet addiction, well they are back to their old games.... offering free hosting of your pictures. You can hold a maximum of 150 if you want more than you gota pay... and as was the case with homestead it even comes with software.

Check out PhotoSite. Its for pictures.

Reverse Dictionary

reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept

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