WiTricity - Wireless Power

Wireless power - the future is near.

Real Men Pee Standing Up

Baptist Pastor Steven L Anderson tells us how men should pee using god's own words in The King James Bible.

Here are some of the good pastor's words in the sermon.

And God says, "A man is someone who pisses against a wall." ... And you say, "Ah, you're being vile." I'm not being vile. God's the one who wrote the Bible.
...
We got pastors that pee sitting down. We got the president of the United States who probably pees sitting down. ... The editors of the NIV pee sitting down. The editors of the New King James all pee sitting down. I'm gonna tell you something. I will never pee sitting down.

So there you have it. According to the Bible, real men pee standing up.
And in case you want to mark them in your Bible, here are the six verses where God uses the phrase "piss against the wall."

So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. 1 Samuel 25:22 ...surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.1 Samuel 25:34
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall... 1 Kings 14:10
... he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.1 Kings 16:11
Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall....1 Kings 21:21
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall,.... 2 Kings 9:8

From: Que Treta! and Dwindling In Unbelief

Ken Lee @ Bulgarian Idol

This is what happens when you sing a song in a foreign language without reading/understanding the lyrics.



From: Que Treta!

Portugal 2009-2013

Män Som Hatar Kvinnor - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

This awesome Swedish thriller is out now. Go and see it. This film proves that you don't need a multimillion dollar budget and great Hollywood stars to make a good movie. All you need is a great story and good actors
Check this movie's IMDb page for more info.

Trailer:

Microsoft's 'Courier' Tablet

This is the new Microsoft device that is coming out soon. The concept is just awesome... I can't wait to get it.

The Customer is Not Always Right.

Check the perverted influence of psychics on people.

Me: “Thank you for calling guest relations. This is *** speaking. How may I help you?”

Customer: “Yes. One of your hotels stole something from me and I would like you to return that item to me or I will sue you.”

Me: “We will certainly conduct an investigation. What property was it left at?”

Customer: “The [hotel chain name].”

Me: “Ok…what city and state?”

Customer: “The [hotel chain name]!”

Me: “I understand which brand name…can you please tell me the location of the property?”

Customer: “It’s on Bradford.”

Me: “Ok, and what city and state is that in?”

Customer: “By the ocean.”

Me: “Ok….which city and state?”

Customer: “Florida. It’s not my job to tell you where it’s located…”

Me: “Well, as I’m sure you can appreciate, we have over 3,000 properties in the US alone. So I will need you tell me which City in Florida this is located…”

(Customer provides name of city.)

Me: “Ok, great. And this is the [hotel chain name] on Bradford, correct? So what is missing?”

Customer: “I don’t know.”

Me: “You don’t know?”

Customer: “No. I visited my psychic this week, and she told me that one of the employees at that hotel where I just came from this past weekend, stole something from me. The employee is female with dark hair and her name starts with an ‘M’.”

Me: “Ok…but can you tell me what you’re missing please? That way I can have this documented and the hotel can investigate the situation.”

Customer: “I DON’T KNOW WHAT WAS STOLEN, BUT MY PSYCHIC DOES NOT LIE.”

Me: “Ma’am, I certainly apologize for any inconvenience experienced…but I’m sure you can appreciate that I would need to know what was taken to forward over to the hotel. Have you gone through your items?”

Customer: “Yes.”

Me: “And?”

Customer: “I can’t find anything. But your hotel better return my items or I will sue you!”

Me: “I’d love to help you. Please call us back when you have discovered what was missing. Thank you.”

This is one of the funniest things I've read but it shows how people believe in this psychic crap.

From: Not Always Right

Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs

This is Neil deGrasse Tyson's reply to a question about the existence and visit of Aliens and the many sightings of UFOs around the world. For me it's more than a mere reply it's a life lesson.




From: Que Treta!

Cow Urine Pills

WIPO Patent No. WO/2002/096440 grants Virendrakumar Jain the patent for manufacturing pills from Indian cow urine. He says:

"URINE OF COW IS A SURE CURE FOR MOST OF THE DISEASES Cow, the reverend Indian cow, known as KAMDHENU, in Indian Scripts, is a MOVING HOSPITAL, for most of the diseases. It is a STORE-HOUSE of medicines. Most of the incurable diseases are cured by its regular use. [...]. It is very pious, poison-killing, Insecticide, solemnizer for all the three disorders like Wat/Pitta and Cough. It is effective like TANTRA, Promotes power of wisdom in man, quick dissolver, digestive like a universal medicine and digestible by all alike. It smoothens and nourishes the heart and adds to the power of wisdom in Man, increasing his physical power as well. It increases life span and purities blood from all sorts of impurities in it, SUSHRUT sanhita, very widely and vividly describes that it is a sure cure for all sorts of pains, boils, stomach- disorders, scabies and various diseases pertaining to mouth. It also eradicates leprosy, and all sorts of urinary disorders.[...]

It is now over two years that cow urine therapy & Research Institute, Indore have been experimenting and deducing positive results at thi-research center. The Institute has actually observed that with the help of urine and Panchgayya, diseases like AIDS. Indigestion, Diarrhea, Acidity, Mirgi, Giddiness, Cancer, Piles, Prostate, Diabetes, Constipation, Ulcer, Gases, Enemia, eczema, increase of spleen, frequency of urination, mouth diseases, liver disorders, Blood-Pressure, ear-pains and troubles, worms, cold & cough toothache, Scabies, Lack of Semen, Insomnia, Nasal disorders, eye troubles, kidney-diseases, migraine, Headache, Asthma, menses irregularities in women, heart diseases and Hepatitis'B'etc. are cured through its regular use.

The hump over Indian cows is compared with Pyramids. The cow collects strength & Immunity from the sun, moon & planets and assimilates the power and capacity in its milk, urine as well as dung & bestows upon us boons to keep us healthy, throughout.[...]

It is only for the last two years. That Virendrakumar Jain started the centre to cure diseases by cow's urine & he is proud to declare that he due to intuition and practical experience got positive results & success in curing even the Incurable diseases. It is a great wonder that let there be a patient suffering from any type of T. B., he will be perfectly cured within 45 Days if he takes urine of the cow regularly & sleeps in the goshalashed where cows are tied & kept as their abode. There is a living example with us, that shri Jagdish chandra Nema, whose wife had died due to Aids & he himself was declared to be suffering from aids in Jan". 99. He came to institute & took cow-urine for 14 months regularly and now he is perfectly all aibht.[...]

There is a lady, who was not able to pass out her stools conveniently and she was suffering from the diseases like cancer as well. So one can easily imagine about her condition and pains as well. Such a lady started passing out stools regularly, just after only 4 days treatment of panchgavya along with cow's urine.

The chronic patients of Diabetes, who were suffering from the disease for the last 15 years & were, required to take insulin, in doses of 20 & 30 every morning and evening. They got perfectly cured & stopped taking of Insulin altogether. All diabetic are advised to take 50ml. Of cows urine twice a day."

What an amazing stuff... this guy will get billionaire and will take all pharmaceutical companies bankrupt... oh wait it was only a dream because no way he is gonna prove all of this BULLSHIT!

SMS While Driving - New Shock Campaign in the UK

Speaking on the phone while driving is dangerous for yourself and others but sending a SMS is just criminal. Not only you are distracted from driving but you are not looking at the road.

With this in mind UK police created this shock campaign to show drivers (especially the young) the dangers of that practice.



I hope that the next time you are driving and thinking of using your mobile just stop for a while: dying and/or killing others just isn't worth it.

Stay safe.

Tiësto's new artist album "Kaleidoscope" set for release on October 6th!

Tiësto's new artist album "Kaleidoscope" set for release on October 6th!

The 17 new original songs are a combination of collaborations and 5 instrumental Tiësto tracks. The following artists: Jónsi of Sigur Rós, Kele Okereke of Bloc Party, Nelly Furtado, Calvin Harris, Tegan & Sara, Emily Haines of Metric, Kianna of Tilly & The Wall, Sneaky Sound System, Cary Brothers, CC Sheffield and Priscilla Ahn will be featured side by side with Tiësto on 'Kaleidoscope'.

TrackListing:

01. Tiësto feat. Jónsi - Kaleidoscope
02. Tiësto feat. CC Sheffield - Escape Me
03. Tiësto feat. Kianna - You Are My Diamond
04. Tiësto and Sneaky Sound System - I Will Be Here
05. Tiësto feat. Priscilla Ahn - I Am Strong
06. Tiësto feat. Cary Brothers - Here On Earth
07. Tiësto - Always Near
08. Tiësto feat. Kele Okereke - It's Not The Things You Say
09. Tiësto - Fresh Fruit
10. Tiësto feat. Calvin Harris - Century
11. Tiësto feat. Tegan & Sara - Feel It In My Bones
12. Tiësto feat. Nelly Furtado - Who Wants To Be Alone
13. Tiësto - LA Ride
14. Tiësto - Bend It Like You Don't Care
15. Tiësto feat. Emily Haines - Knock You Out
16. Tiësto - Louder Than Boom
17. Tiësto - Surrounded By Light

The Kaleidoscope World Tour in already on the road and will go on for 18 months!

I hope to see him here in Portugal in 2010.

Take care.

Ben Goldacre on Homeopathy

Another insight on Homeopathy:

Ben Goldacre on Homeopathy from science TV on Vimeo.

I went to see 'Bruno'

Today I went to see the new movie 'Bruno' the gay character created by Sacha Baron Cohen. And let me tell you what a fun it was: I never laughed so much on a theater! But that's not all... let me tell you.

I don't like crowded theaters so I went to the first session of the day, it was 2:05 PM and there I was. As I expected there were only 10 people in the room. After I came in the last three people(women) entered the room.

After the first five minutes of film when the gay sex stereotype really started to kick in those three women rapidly left the theater - They must have entered the wrong theater!

Then it came the break: as usual almost all people left the theater (to go to the bathroom or buy popcorn) but the amazing thing is that no one came back!
So I watched the rest of the movie with only two other women (mother and daughter, probably) with me.

When I stop to think about it I feel a bit sad that people think that some subjects (like homosexuality and religion) shouldn't be mocked of... as proved here in 'Bruno' and as it was in 'Dogma' these are some of the subjects that make open minded people laugh the most.

Unfortunately I can almost say that these 13 people represent the intolerant Portuguese society - only a few stand out from the swan.

I hope this movie can make a difference in favor of the gay community even though Bruno is nothing more that a stereotypical gay. Traditional people must start thinking that this community deserve equal rights.


IMDb
Rotten Tomatoes

Catholic mother suffocated her newborn baby out of shame

"A devout Roman Catholic who had not known she was pregnant killed her son within moments of giving birth alone.

Elizabeth Tevenan then bled to death after she was found by her mother in the bathroom of their home, an inquest heard yesterday.

The 30-year-old had been taking painkillers for acute back pain and had even looked on the NHS Direct website for information about ulcers and stomach cancer two days before she gave birth on November 13 last year."

Read the full article here.

When I read this article I just got shocked!
I consider myself a Catholic with an open mind and in fact I think that while religion "gives" us comfort it is the reason of many evils because of the fundamentalism.
How mentally disturbed must this girl be to kill her own baby because she was afraid to tell her parents.
Of course the parents don't look good in this picture... how narrow minded they must be to teach their daughter like that.
I just imagine the awful things they must have said to her about having sex and getting pregnant.
It's not bad to give your child a religious background but don't be a fundamentalist - and remember it's better to tell your daughters about sex, birth control pills and condoms than taking them to an abortion clinic because they got pregnant.

Portugal - Bairrada => Big-Time Barbecue

This is from an article in 'The Wall Street Journal' about my homeland the Bairrada in Portugal and its culinary specialty the "Leitão à Bairrada"

"Most Portuguese towns are graced with monuments honoring local heroes. Mealhada is a bit different. There’s no stony faced navigator or dreamy bronze poet to greet visitors here. Instead, there’s a three-meter monolith topped with an oversized limestone piglet, its snout pointed skyward in an expression of civic pride in its inhabitants’ prowess in the arts of porcine cuisine."

Read the full article here.

Homeopathic ER

Just some video to let you think about how nonsense homeopathic treatment is.



From: Bad Astronomy

Why 'FurLovingVegan'?

Hello everybody!

This first post is to let you know who am I and why I created this space.

I'm a university student from Portugal and I'm 24.
I plan on using this place to speak out my ideas on everything I care about... from the origin of life to movies and TV with some touch on technology and of course give you some insights on Portugal.

If you're wondering about the title: it is more than an apparent contradiction. In fact a vegan is someone who doesn't EAT anything animal it doesn't say about what they wear :P
I am a wannabe vegan and I don't eat meat most of the time because it's healthier but family pressure and other motives force me to slip some times.
As for the fur I must say I have one leather jacket I love very much but it was not made from fur from wild animals. Things like the seal hunt really revolt me.

So I'm not a PETA fundamentalist but I do appreciate the job they do on protecting animals rights.

Stay safe.