Andymatic

Month: January 2010

  • Wi-Fi Radiation Nutters Get Served

    Love it – resident complain about illness related to a nearby cell tower – the telecom says they’ll turn it off for a few days: According to Van Zyl residents quoted periods of hours, or at most, two days to see an improvement in the symptoms experienced. “One lady who showed us a rash claimed […]

  • California Bonds Rated Less Than Kazakhstan

    Collapse continues: Californian munis cost 2.6% of face value per year to insure, reports CMA DataVision in London, which tracks bond insurance data. Kazakh bonds: Just 1.8%. It is “now less expensive to insure Kazakh debt than that of Greece, California and various other entities,” confirms CMA spokesman Simon Mott. (Crisis-stricken Greece, incidentally, costs about […]

  • Conan O'Brien On Following Your Dreams

    Narf: I just want to say to the kids at home – you can do anything you want to do in life… unless Jay Leno wants to do it too. via Reddit

  • Satan Gets the Job Done

    As we all know, Pat Robertson should be set of fire. Here’s a fun insight into his recent ‘Haiti made a deal with the devil = destruction’ stupidity: Say, what happened during that 1791 slave rebellion when the Haitians allegedly made a pact with the devil? “The Haitian uprising is regarded as one of history’s […]

  • Family Detransitions Trans Woman in Coma

    A transgender woman in year four of her transition from male to female is hit by a car and put in a coma. Her family takes action: The message came through from her family once she was far away: they were changing up some of the treatment protocols, for Melissa’s sake. It was going to […]

  • Bayonetta, Sexuality, Decoration and Celebration

    The inimitable, incisive .tiff checks in on the hype about the main character in Bayonetta being an example for female characters in video games: I don’t buy it. Bayonetta is pure camp to me, which well explains the extremities of everything from her disproportionate body to her saucy one-liner dialogue. Because of this campiness, I […]

  • Manwhore Compares Struggle to Rosa Parks

    The first legal male prostitute in Las Vegas talks about his struggles: Basically this is the first time in the economy of the United States that a male has actually stood up and said, “I want to do this for a living.” And be protected under law to do it. It’s just the same as […]

  • Brain Organizes Objects in 3 Ways

    This is wild: “In effect, we discovered how the brain’s dictionary is organized,” said Just, the D.O. Hebb Professor of Psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. “It isn’t alphabetical or ordered by the sizes of objects or their colors. It’s through the three basic features that the brain uses to define […]

  • The Middle-Class, 1950s and Socialism

    A discussion on Metafilter involved the loss of middle class standard of living for so many in the US. A commenter remarked: you used to be able to raise a family with a good standard of living on a single working class wage in America and another commenter responded: For one fleeting period of time […]

  • Mirena Coil IUD and Depression

    Another ‘comment of the year’ from Reddit: My wife has suffered from similar feelings for the past 4-5 years, and after therapists and anti-depressants did very little to help after initial success, we stumbled across accounts of these and her other symptoms (weight gain, excessive tiredness, IBS, lack of concentration, etc.) from people using the […]