According to a new study, older women who took popularly prescribed drugs like Actonel, Didrocal, or Fosamax to treat osteoporosis for more than five years, were more likely to be hospitalized for fractures to their femur bone.
Best Alternative Use of a Mailbox Ever: Space Shuttle Photography
Earlier today, photographers secured their cameras in protective housings, some of them more overtly DIY than others, and braced their tripods with sandbags in the hopes of capturing the perfect last shot of the space shuttle Discovery as it, finally, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center for its final flight tomorrow. It’s the most traveled orbiter in NASA’s fleet and will formally be retired after this mission and likely carted off to Manhattan and put on display along with the other stuff at the Intrepid museum. (Photo: Space Flight Now/Facebook)
Oh boy, have we got a gig for you, young Egyptians! Want to pass out roses to the tourists (barely) trickling back into Cairo’s museums or piece together recovered parts of looted artifacts? Criticized antiquities chief Zahi Hawass thinks it’s the “difficult” job market (not his lucrative dickishness) that’s got Egypt’s young people and archeologists demanding his resignation, so he’s promising paid internships for 1,000 students.
That’s the day New York City’s character dies and the outdoor smoking ban takes effect. Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg signed the bill passed by the City Council that essentially makes it illegal for smokers to light up anywhere but their apartments and sidewalks. The Parks Department will enforce the law as the NYPD is way too busy detaining over 600,000 people a year to be bothered… for now.
Before Johnny Knoxville torn urethra and Tom Green’s intimate encounters with a dead moose, Ralph Zavadil a.k.a. Cap’n Video ruled Ontario’s community access channel in the ’90s. He bounced off concrete, broke his neck and entertained multitudes with grandiosely idiotic antics. Read more »
Parting Shot
It’s February 23rd in Russia and Anna Chapman just turned 29, so here’s an appropriately ‘shopped visual. Red’s been busy designing Russian space suits, nope, wait, she hasn’t been. Now she’s running for parliament under Putin apparently. (Visual: Reddit)
A company that operates a small chain of restaurants is pulling billboards that make reference to the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, whereby over 900 Americans committed suicide by drinking a deadly powdered cocktail. “We’re like a cult with better kool-aid; To die for,” read the ads for Hacienda and La Senorita Mexican restaurants that offended some people in bumblefuck Indiana and Michigan, where mass deaths by cyanide apparently aren’t funny.
Bring quarters to the San Francisco solo exhibit of Brooklyn’s artist-provocateur/art thief duo Eva & Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.org. They’ve been tinkering with a vintage Pole Position arcade game so it spews carbon monoxide, building “a videogame that kills people (?!?!?).” Yup, ?!?!? is what we thought last time, when the Mattes smuggled a “radioactive” carnival ride out of Chernobyl. Read more »
Dancehall artist Buju Banton was found guilty on three of the four federal charges against him reports the Jamaica Observer. The 12-person Tampa jury delivered the verdict after two days of deliberations. He was immediately taken into custody and will await sentencing for cocaine he didn’t buy and a gun he never saw. Defense Attorney David Oscar Markus reportedly indicated that they will appeal the ruling.
A California couple who says they’re not “overly religious” (by American standards), claim to have discovered a divine image of Jesus Christ… on a weathered rocking chair, in their backyard. Ignoring his initial hunch, Lou Balducci decided to point out the messiah to his wife and friends. Only then did they realize the full scope of this miracle. “It’s clearly an image of Jesus,” said Lynn Balducci. Clearly! [Headline inspiration via @Shermanther]
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