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The current bench are pretty impressive, I'm partial to a bit of Tony Benn.

Quote: zooo @ November 22 2008, 5:13 PM GMT

WherecanIwatchthevideo.

This is the story of the event that caused Los Angeles television news stations to modify their coverage of high-speed chases and other standoffs. Nowadays they pull the cameras back to a wide shot and cut away if it looks like violence is impending, but this guy's suicide was shown live in all it's g(l)ory.

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/may/06/local/me-46809

Woaaaahhh. Now that is cool.

Quote: Aaron @ November 22 2008, 6:05 PM GMT

Woaaaahhh. Now that is cool.

But don't get the idea that L.A. stations have cut back on their helicopter-filmed coverage of police pursuits. They air at least one per week; it's sort of a local pastime. When I lived there I subscribed to a notification service that would e-mail and/or text me whenever a pursuit was being shown on live television.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7743842.stm

Ewwwwwwww!

A new dermatological treatment pulls the cells from newborns' foreskins and injects them, Botox-style, into aging faces.

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-11/foreskin-clear-skin

Don't get your kids circumcised, folks.

Jesus funking christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote: Aaron @ November 23 2008, 1:47 AM GMT

Don't get your kids circumcised, folks.

Or just learn to live with a few wrinkles.

That too, yes.

I read a couple of years ago - entirely possible it was one of those urban legends - that a lot of the collagen/botox type stuff is made up from the skin cells of executed Chinese criminals... Sounds both far-fetched and believeable at the same time. *shudder*

Quote: Aaron @ November 23 2008, 1:57 AM GMT

That too, yes.

I read a couple of years ago - entirely possible it was one of those urban legends - that a lot of the collagen/botox type stuff is made up from the skin cells of executed Chinese criminals...

Botox is (I think) a synthetic form of the toxin that causes botulism. The company that manufactures it was in the city I lived in in California.

I think medical collagen is derived from cattle or pigs. Something like that. But I think I remember reading that human placentas might be involved.

Hmmm ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122731227702749413.html

MICHAEL JACKSON has become a Muslim — and changed his name to MIKAEEL.

The skint superstar, 50, donned Islamic garb to pledge allegiance to the Koran in a ceremony at a pal's mansion in Los Angeles, The Sun can reveal.

Jacko sat on the floor wearing a tiny hat after an Imam was summoned to officiate — days before the singer is due to appear at London's High Court where he is being sued by an Arab sheik.

A source told last night how Jacko, brought up as a Jehovah's Witness, decided to convert as he used a studio at the home of his chum to record a new album.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1954666.ece

Oh my... :/

Poor guy they even sold Neverland from under him.

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