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...so here's a funny youtube video.

In fact Bat Out of Hell has been charted for over 30 years, sells 200k copies a year, and each of its' seven tracks has been a hit single.

I think Michael Lee Aday, aka Meat Loaf has earned the right to have a little commercial fun. After all, he did play Jack Black's dad in "The Pick of Destiny."



I think even Ian MacKaye would forgive the man. He can rock.

Eight Miles High and Falling Faaaaaaaaaaaaast...

Seriously, build that shelter. If you grew up in my old neighborhood, you might have had one (my next door neighbors had theirs filled in with concrete, but I remember my piano teacher had hers fully stocked even in 1997).

Why? Congressional Quarterly reports that (I have no idea what prompted this) in a nuclear attack, the best thing to do (when you're not vaporized) is to stay put.

Actually, the reason that they're talking about is because this is what Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) thinks is important.

In the event of the most likely type of nuclear attack, people would be better off ignoring the instinct to flee and remain inside their homes, security experts said Tuesday.

"The natural inclination is to flee and what they're going to do is they're going to get caught in gridlock," said Cham E. Dallas, director of the Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense at the University of Georgia. "They're going to get caught in gridlock because everyone else will be fleeing, and that is not viable. Most people should not flee" because they won't be affected.

Dallas made his comments following a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on confronting challenges a day after a nuclear attack.

Ashton B. Carter, co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, echoed the sentiment. "Certainly most of my friends and family who don't do this, they think that a nuclear weapon levels an entire city and that anybody nearby better get out of the way or they're going to get covered in radiation," Carter said after the hearing. "That's just not true."

Please note, Senator Lieberman is Chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee...does anyone think he has more important things to hold hearings on?

Just in case you didn't know...

I was five years old when this was filmed. I still haven't seen anything like it, and I go to a ton of concerts.

So, at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in, I think 1994, Annie Lennox was panned for her...interesting style of dress (perhaps she was trying to personify disease?) when singing alongside David Bowie, who only made it to the stage after being attacked by a gang of spray paint wielding children...

Hat tip to Adam Conner

London's Sunday Independent reports that a yet another mobile phone study has found that using one of those helpful little gadgets will kill more people than smoking or asbestos.

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.

The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.

It draws on growing evidence - exclusively reported in the IoS in October - that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.

I guess if they're right, the answer to "where you at" will be "in the hospital, fool!"

Hmmm...

I just finished re-watching 2001: A Space Odyssey and found this absolutely hilarious. Also, the iSight camera on my MacBook Pro is starting to make me a little frightened...does my Robot Insurance policy cover this, too?

Kurt Cobain said that he knew he'd "made it" when Weird Al Yankovic covered Nirvana's "Smells like Teen Spirit." It's much easier to do that with technology these days, even as a simple mash-up. The great thing that I've seen about the Obama campaign is people have been creating their own ads and hyping the Senator even since last year.  You know that "Yes, We Can" video floating around? Here's the "Weird Al" GOP version:



Too Funny. Featuring a look-alike of Senator Obama's "cousin" too!