Air Conditioning is One of the Culprits of the Crime Called Obesity

• There are so pretty compelling (and not-so-compelling) theory related to Obesity Theory, but some of them include artificial sweetners, pollution, viruses, and yep, air-conditioning. [Popular Science]
• Finding Atlantis would cost $2 billion [Popular Science]
• The first Transparent Headed Fish caught on tape! The Pacific Barreleye Fish [National Geographic] [Video]
• (550-990) lb. Stingray [National Geographic]  (is it bad if I say that sounds delicious?) 
• Some nutcase sent HIV+ blood to Obama [CNN]
• Mischevious octopus floods the entire Santa Monica Pier Aquarium [CNN] (Giggles)

YouTube Videos of the Day:

SO CUTE!!

Cai Luong [Vietnamese Opera (?)] using English

The "Holy Grail" of Comic Books

• Rare copy of first Superman comic will be up for online bidding. [Reuters] Collectible experts value it at $126,000. Wow.
• Saks Fifth Avenue is down $99 million in the fourth quarter [NY Magazine] Bringing the year's losses to a cool $154.9 million. Youch.
• Asian supermodel Kimora Lee Simmons hits the jackpot: $40K per month for child support (and full custody) [People] What a shamdoozle.
• Healthier living will cut a third of common cancers [Reuters] I guess this means I'm definately going to get cancer. Cheers. You can pry the cupcakes away from my cold fingers!
• It's times like these when I know that grant money is being wasted: Four years and two mathematicians later, there is a computer model theory of the symmetry of snowflakes [Reuters] Come on people. Seriously? Two people spent four years of their lives coming up with an explanation to snowflake symmetry? Get a life! And yes, I love snowflakes.
• Taping magnets to crocodiles brains [Reuters] so that they don't return to their original territory after being relocated.
• The newest MacBook Pro is gorgeous. Too bad it's $2799. :(
• Tom Brady marries Gisele. [CNN] I will never get over the fact that he didn't marry his baby's mama. And I never liked Gisele, I'm sorry. Just the same, wishing them happiness together.
• Ancient footprints found in Kenya [CNN] that are 1.5 million years old (the 3.6 were of Lucy's species)
• (I love Vietnam Idol.) SO FUNNY 

• (I love Doutzen Kroes.)
  

I saw something today that I never thought I would ever see.

Seriously. Ever.

I was just finishing up my chao and making my way back up to the office after lunch, and I happened to glance at this woman's ear.

She was wearing a belly button ring in her ear.

Singapore has some major fashion lows, but this? This "tops" the list.

I was in shock for a good 5 minutes. 

The $28 Million Chair.

Wow. 

• YSL chair fetches $28M. [Bloomberg] Upon the second day of sales, they already fetched double the top estimate of the revenues - how I envy Cheska Vallois.
• UK's Royal Bank of Scotland reports $34 billion. [CNN] for the year 2008. 
• The more alcohol, the higher risk of cancer in women. [Reuters] I love how they put in a quote from Dumbledore (from Harry Potter).
• 666th person officially gets sick from Salmonella [Reuters] Wow, how would you feel if you were the 665th person? What a shame.
• Microsoft decides to drop the payback scheme [Reuters]
• If you've got a spare 20 minutes, watch this episode from Two and a Half Men [Sina.com]
• Saving the planet by staying married? [Reuters] People use less resources when they share. :) Duh.
• Taiwanese ex-con asks for more time in prison because he's hungry [Reuters] He can't find a job. 
• Nokia is considering entering the laptop industry as phones and computers continue to merge [Reuters] No surprise there.
• Big bust on Mexican drug cartel [CNN] I wish Singapore's drug laws were in place in the US. We could really clean up. 
• Obese teenage boys are just as likely to die as others who smoke more than half a pack of cigarettes a day [Bloomberg] This is quite alarming, and I hope that healthy weight loss programs and teaching healthy eating habits increases over the next few years in America.
• US to leave Irak in 2010 [El Pais] 
• Curbing the methane from sheep belches [WSJ] Ridiculous.
• HOLY COW Korea v. Japan over a bit of islands [Boston.com]  I have to say that cutting off pheasant's heads (Japanese national bird) over the Japanese flag in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul is quite a message.
• I love this Silly bunny!
  

Bunny is Angry at BK

Burger King is have a promotion for 4 chicken tenders as an add-on for $1.95. 

I go in, not knowing that it's an add-on promotion and ask for two boxes of them. They say that they can only give me the 6 piece for $3.60. If I want 10 pieces, that means I have to pay $5.55.

Yesterday I went for McDonald's 9 piece McNuggets for $4.65. That means that my extra tendr cost me $.90. --> not worth it!!

I'm never ordering chicken tenders from BK again.

You make me upset! We're in a recession, you nasties! I'm hungry, and I want my food!