Check out these body tricks, they sound really cool. For example:

Forget Sudafed. An easier, quicker, and cheaper way to relieve sinus pressure is by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger. This causes the vomer bone, which runs through the nasal passages to the mouth, to rock back and forth, says Lisa DeStefano, D.O., an assistant professor at the Michigan State University college of osteopathic medicine. The motion loosens congestion; after 20 seconds, you’ll feel your sinuses start to drain.

A little gross, maybe, but way cool nonetheless. Check them out, there’s lots more.

I saw this on LifeHacker.

I sat on this for a whole week, because I’m a lazy lazy man. Our good friend Ali recently (re-)started her own editing business and I didn’t even mention it here. Sorry Ali, many apologies.

An editing business is a great idea, but it must be hrd to maek munny at b3cause nobuddy maeks misteaks anymore, what with the spelcheckers and such. Good luck anyway Ali on your numerous new endeavours.

Ali joins her sister in completely owning the Internet. Wanda has had her own business going for a while now, and it fits nicely with Ali because between Wanda setting up your IT and office, and Ali making you sound much smarterer than you really are, starting a business with these two by your side is a snarp.

So, check ’em out:
Gibson Home Office Help
Ali-Ink

***Disclaimer: This post was NOT edited by Ali-Ink.

There’s just nothing left to make fun of here, but it is a very Clouseau-esque series of events.

Telegraph | News | Teenage boy blows up the house with deodorant

Man, I guess it was lucky he wasn’t home at the time.

I caught this nerdy news a few days ago about NASA’s plans to smash the moon with a probe in hopes of excavating a large area at once. The idea is to create a big cloud of dust, which will hopefully contain water vapour or ice that they can detect. Pretty impressive project, although not the first of it’s kind, it is pretty cheap on the scale of these things; $80 million.

Anyway, that’s really a pretty neat project, but also completely useless. Useless, I say. There is no need to search for ice on the moon at all when ice is already raining down on the earth as we speak. Yes, apparently a large chunk of ice fell out of the sky in California and buried itself into an empty lot near Oakland. Strangely, no-one can be sure where it came from, and nobody seems to be interested in looking into it further. Can you say “secret government relations with aliens cover-up so that no-one will find out all of our elected officials are really aliens that eat oil?” I can. I won’t of course, but I could.

I’m not exactly on top of American politics, or even Canadian politics for that matter, but I saw this guy on The Daily Show a while back and thought he seemed to be quite intelligent and sensible for an American senator. It’s pretty bad when I rely on The Daily Show to give me actual facts.

Anyway, here’s a really good and thought provoking speech he gave yesterday. It’s all about climate change, energy dependence and such, and it’s very compelling. I can’t imagine an honest soul that wouldn’t take this to heart, but I guess that’s the point of his criticism of Bush’s energy plans. Anyway, have a read and think.

In my recent attempts to steal all of Damn Interesting’s content for my own (you should just go read it there yourself since there’s lots of good stuff I don’t get to write about), I came across another great article. It’s almost exactly the opposite of my post a few days ago about the suicidal Icelandic magma-fodder, er, geologists.

An incredible accident that’s right out of a movie, an oil platform on a lake was drilling for oil (naturally), punctured the roof of the salt mine under the lake, and drained the sucker. The whirlpool that was created sucked everything on the lake down into the mine (the oil platform, barges, trees, you get the idea). The water dissolved the salt in the mine, making the hole bigger and bigger. It only took three hours to completely drain the lake, since it started out to be only 11 feet deep. After the lake refilled (with salt water this time) it was 1300 feet deep. Most of the boats that were sucked down actually popped back up after the lake refilled.

Anyway, awesome and cool story. And damn you, Damn Interesting, for simply being better than I am.