First Bonus Bananas of the new year. Let's rock:
1) AIG uses ad campaign to thank taxpayers for bailout (Politico) - When I first saw this I thought, "Geez, how 'bout rub a little salt in the wound?" But now I'm thinking it's actually a pretty cool idea. As much as I hated TARP, it is good to see a TARP recipient make a full recovery and maintain the right attitude about it (ahem, Goldman Sachs).
2) How Colombian Drug Traffickers Used HSBC to Launder Money (CNBC) - Well, here's the nuts and bolts of it. I'm still stunned that no one at HSBC is going to do any time behind this mess. Something has to change at the Justice Department.
3) Sex secrets of NYC’s men (NY Post) - There's a new book coming out that spills the sex secrets of NY men as told to a prominent sex therapist. Short version: y'all are messed up. No judgment.
4) Ray Kurzweil, Google's Director Of Engineering, Wants To Bring The Dead Back To Life (Huffington Post) - You make Ray Kurzweil Google's Director of Engineering and you might as well strap yourself in, cause it's gonna be a bumpy ride. Giving Kurzweil unbridled access to Google computing power just moved up the Singularity by a decade. Read this if you want to live forever.
5) This $5 lamp is powered by gravity (and just destroyed its funding target on Indiegogo) (Venture Beat) - Speaking of mad geniuses changing the world, how about these guys? Holy shit, what a cool idea. Got a bag of sand? Got gravity? Well, let there be light! Awesome.
6) Highest-Paid California Trooper Is Chief Banking $484,000 (Bloomberg) - Threw this one in here just to piss you guys off. If the idea of banking half a million a year to ride a motorcycle around California beaches sounds good, these guys might be hiring. No wonder California's screwed.
7) California Should Be The Economic Model For America (The Tolling Bell) - So just how screwed is California? Well, screwed enough for an Econ professor from a patch of Alaska with a population density of 2 people per square mile to make fun of it, evidently.
8) Squash Holds Decapitated King Louis XVI's Blood (Live Science) - Okay, this is really cool for us science nerds, but seriously - how sick to you have to be to keep somebody's head as a family heirloom for generations? A gourd full of king's blood? Maybe. A severed head? NOPE NOPE NOPE.
9) Welcome to 2013: Shameful scenes of booze-fuelled New Year's chaos in cities across Britain (Daily Mail) - Those British girls sure like to drink. God bless 'em.
10) Study: Watching Porn Tied To Short-Term Memory Loss (CBS Las Vegas) - I meant to tell you guys about this but I forgot.
Video of the Week:
There were a couple of strong contenders for Video of the Week this week. Like the Money Honey tearing the ass out of Maryland Senator Ben Cardin on live TV. Or this
. But the following video won out at the eleventh hour for the sheer ridiculousness of it.25-year old Twilight actor Bronson Pelletier has had a rough holiday season. What's the best way to follow up an arrest for possession of coc***e and methamphetamine before Christmas? Why, get completely obliterated and tossed off your flight and then piss all over the airport a couple hours later, of course! What's amazing to me is that the following video was actually taken two hours after he'd been escorted to the terminal and told to chill the fuck out. He's so wasted he doesn't even know the terminal's not a urinal. In his defense, I actually worked part time at LAX for five months, and it's an easy mistake to make. Enjoy:
That's it for this week, monkeys. Let me know what you think in the comments and have a tremendous weekend!
I could watch Clowney's hit for hours. Cannot believe how sure the referee was of the "first down" on the preceding play. Karma's a bitch.
4) I don't know about the moral implications of all of this, or if we can 'transcend biology,' but Kurzweil's projects are really, really interesting. If he's got the Google guys interested and paying, he should have the support to do some cool shit.
7) Someone beat me to it in her comments, that the blog should be the Trolling Bell. I like it.
8) You guys have to click the link and checkout the embalmed head, nothing too gory, but yeah, I wouldn't show that off to guests at dinner parties.
Wow that's awesome. Reminds me of that backpack invented a while ago that generates electricity by you walking, and could be used to charge a cell phone or power a GPS. Of course, 7 years later and you've yet to be hear about it in any capacity in terms of widespread development.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9245155/ns/technology_and_science-science/t…
The best part of the Clowney hit was the one handed fumble recovery and then Clowndog just standing up and walking away with the ball still in the hand he recoverd it with.
Did you guys see the hilarious Wikipedia entry on Clowney after that hit? Wikipedia took it down right away, but this is awesome:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1467450-jadeveon-clowney-monster-hit…
Unrelated but still sports and awesome: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/tatted-rex-kinky-ink-wi…
[quote=happypantsmcgee]Unrelated but still sports and awesome: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/tatted-rex-kinky-ink-wi…]
Holy shit, that's a seriously regrettable tattoo.
6 & 7: I miss California, and sometimes think of moving back. Then I see articles like these and think, "Nope, I'll wait until after the state requests a federal bailout." The state is just horribly broken at every level.
I think Hank Greenberg is going to have a heart attack.
My only complaint about this week's bananas is having to sit through the ad for Double Divas first. Can't believe that even exists.
Hate to disagree with you Eddie, but I've gotta give the award to Maria on this one. I love how the floor just erupts with applause after she's done. She starts blinking really fast and you're just thinking, "oh boy, here it comes..."
Yeah, that was right up there with Santelli's meltdown on live TV a few years ago. It kinda cracks me up how far we've come. There was a time in my life (and not that long ago) when no one would dream of speaking to a US Senator like that.
Which Santelli meltdown? He's had about two dozen!
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