Archive for June, 2005

Politically Correct Day at Wetwired

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Politically Correct
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HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:

1. She is not a “BABE” or a “CHICK” - She is a
“BREASTED AMERICAN.”

2. She is not a “SCREAMER” or a “MOANER” -
She is “VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE.”

3. She is not “EASY” - She is “HORIZONTALLY
ACCESSIBLE.”

4. She is not a “DUMB BLONDE” - She is a
“LIGHT-HAIRED DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.”

5. She has not “BEEN AROUND” - She is a
“PREVIOUSLY-ENJOYED COMPANION.”

6. She is not an “AIRHEAD” - She is “REALITY
IMPAIRED.”

7. She does not get “DRUNK” or “TIPSY” - She
gets CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED.”

8. She does not have “BREAST IMPLANTS” -
She is “MEDICALLY ENHANCED.”

9. She does not “NAG” you - She becomes
“VERBALLY REPETITIVE.”

10. She is not a “TRAMP” - She is “SEXUALLY
EXTROVERTED.”

11 She does not have “MAJOR LEAGUE
HOOTERS” - She is “PECTORALLY SUPERIOR.”

12. She is not a “TWO-BIT HOOKER” - She is a
“LOW COST PROVIDER.”

HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT MEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:

1. He does not have a “BEER GUT” - He has
developed a “LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY.”

2. He is not a “BAD DANCER” - He is “OVERLY
CAUCASIAN.”

3. He does not “GET LOST ALL THE TIME” -
He “INVESTIGATES ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS.”

4. He is not “BALDING” - He is in “FOLLICLE
REGRESSION.”

5. He is not a “CRADLE ROBBER” - He prefers
“GENERATIONAL DIFFERENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS.”

6. He does not get “FALLING-DOWN DRUNK” -
He becomes “ACCIDENTALLY HORIZONTAL.”

7. He does not act like a “TOTAL ASS” - He develops a case of
“RECTAL-CRANIAL INVERSION.”

8. He is not a “MALE CHAUVINIST PIG” - He
has “SWINE EMPATHY.”

9. He is not afraid of “COMMITMENT” - He is
“RELATIONSHIP CHALLENGED.”

10. He is not “HORNY” - He is “SEXUALLY
FOCUSED.”

11. It’s not his “CRACK” you see hanging out of his pants-It’s
“REAR CLEAVAGE.”

CSS



After checking out some cool sites like this, and this. I’ve decided to pick up this book and learn a bit more about CSS (cascading style sheets). Basically you never need to actually use tables to layout a website again, you can lay out pictures and content very very simply and where things will actually load quite a bit faster as well.

Back from the Dead

Frankenstien on dogs? Almost…

SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.

US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh’s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject’s veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.

The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.

But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.

Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours,

But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.

During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs’ body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death.

Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved.

Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.

Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.

“The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology,” said one US battlefield doctor.

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Area 51 on Google Maps

Check it out.

Hat tip to Magik for this link.

Tags: Government Area51 Aliens Coverup

Bean Bag Chair

Austinist has a contest for a beanbag chair. Best story about how your life would be better with the bean bag chair.

I’ve already started on my story.

Okay, This Is BEAUTIFUL.

Take a look.

First of all, I love seeing someone with a sense of karmic justice similar to my own. Of course if this goes through, and they manage to do this?

Fricking priceless.

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Gimme Some Of That Old-Time Radio

So, Pylorns and I went out to see the Salvage Vanguard Theater tonight.

Interesting group, this one. See, they put on plays that are in fact recreations of old 1930s/40s radio productions, complete with old-time sound effects, production style and storytelling methods. The show tonight was called “The Intergalactic Nemesis: Twin Infinity,” and for the most part the production itself was very good. I have nothing bad to say of the actors, the performance or the work that went into the show.

If you’re interested in checking this group out in person, their next show is slated for a late October release. Check out the website for further information.

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Coming Soon Wetwired Radio



Wetwired Radio

A Cure for Cancer

WASHINGTON (June 21) - A common virus that is harmless to people can destroy cancerous cells in the body and might be developed into a new cancer therapy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

The virus, called adeno-associated virus type 2, or AAV-2, infects an estimated 80 percent of the population.

“One of the most compelling findings is that AAV-2 appears to have no pathologic effects on healthy cells.”
-Craig Meyers, Penn State College of Medicine

”Our results suggest that adeno-associated virus type 2, which infects the majority of the population but has no known ill effects, kills multiple types of cancer cells yet has no effect on healthy cells,” said Craig Meyers, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

”We believe that AAV-2 recognizes that the cancer cells are abnormal and destroys them. This suggests that AAV-2 has great potential to be developed as an anti-cancer agent,” Meyers said in a statement.

He said at a meeting of the American Society for Virology that studies have shown women infected with AAV-2 who are also infected with a cancer-causing wart virus called HPV develop cervical cancer less frequently than uninfected women do.

AAV-2 is a small virus that cannot replicate itself without the help of another virus. But with the help of a second virus it kills cells.

For their study, Meyers and colleagues first infected a batch of human cells with HPV, some strains of which cause cervical cancer.

They then infected these cells and normal cells with AAV-2.

After six days, all the HPV-infected cells died.

The same thing happened with cervical, breast, prostate and squamous cell tumor cells.

All are cancers of the epithelial cells, which include skin cells and other cells that line the insides and outsides of organs.

”One of the most compelling findings is that AAV-2 appears to have no pathologic effects on healthy cells,” Meyers said.

”So many cancer therapies are as poisonous to healthy cells as they are to cancer cells. A therapy that is able to distinguish between healthy and cancer cells could be less difficult to endure for those with cancer.”

AAV-2 is being studied intensively as a gene therapy vector — a virus modified to carry disease-correcting genes into the body. Gene therapy researchers favor it because it does not seem to cause disease or immune system reaction.

Battlefield 2

Anyone play yet? The demo came out last Friday and I’ve been playing it ever since. I guess the draw to this game is it is more than just a 3rd person shoot-em-up. Its about serious war strategy.


The Game is broken up into two teams and the goal is to capture the points or flags once your team controls all the flags you are awarded points but the other team can still re-capture the flags or pointis from you before the time runs out. Each team has squads - each squad has a squad leader answers the the single commander who is elected at the begining of each round.


The commander can play like regular - or he can just sit down in a safe place and view the entire battle field like a map and move his squads to different locations. Airlift a squad behind enemy lines - drop supplies in to them and then send an artillery barage in right before they get there. The commander module is similar to a full out strat. game like starcraft or Age of Empires. So needless to say the game appeals to me in both levels - 1. TO just kill anything that moves and 2. to use my wits to outsmart the other commander and command my troops to victory.

A year ago

Take a look at the posts we had last year at this time. Pretty interesting to look back a year and see what went on.

A space for you

Well we’ve lost another one to ditech.. er mu.nu. Thats right Kitty has moved over to them. The devils.

I have a space available for YOU. If you are interested - and you post reguarly, have readership etc.. I invite you to take a subdomain of wetwired.

This is an excellent chance to get out from under using blogger as your host.

Return of Wetwired Radio

Keep your eyes peeled for several new types of posts.

Okay… If you HAVEN’T seen Star Wars Episode Three, DON’T CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW!!!

But if you have…

Then please, please PLEASE go to this site and read what may be the single funniest commentary on something in Star Wars I’ve ever read. I’m still laughing- actually laughing, not that dumbass LOL crap- a good five or six minutes or so after reading it.

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Hunh. That’s Kinda Cool…

Hey, Py?

I’m curious. When did we become the number one listing in Google when you search for the term Wetwired? Cause, y’know… cool.

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