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Stephen Colbert Makes Dean Kamen Remove Doritos From Water

--Read More In: Better Living Through Chemistry | Bio-Tech | Disease | News | Noise

I could go on about how Perpetual Hairstyle Makeover Candidate Dean Kamen saves the third world with a machine they can't afford, that will be taken right off the UNICEF trucks by warlords and sold to Idi Amin's grandchildren so they can run hexavalent chromium-removal experiments in Ye Olde Backyard Minefield, and how anything that evaporates at or near water's evap point may collect also (like hydrocarbons), if not allowed to escape in a very sneaky way. -AND how distilled water will literally pull the minerals right out of your bones and teeth if you don't add it back into the water for the lucky 3rd-worlders who Do see one of Dean's boxes, but Screwit! -Here's a funny vid after teh jump!:...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 05/15/08 | Email to a friend | Comments (0)
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TRIPLE FRAK!!! =>Rocket Fuel In Water. EPA Sez, "What, me worry?"

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-Probably won't do anything to get it out of the water or pass any laws that "represent a meaningful opportunity for reducing risks to human health" -yay.

Wait, what was that about buying a really good home water filter?

I could fantasize about the Rocket Fuel functioning like

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Posted by Will on 05/ 8/08 | Email to a friend | Comments (0)
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Aw, >>FRAK<< ! -Canucks Bork Nalgene. Thanks, Bisphenol A!!!

--Read More In: Better Living Through Chemistry | News | Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll

BLAME CANADA!!

Our neighbors to the north in their perpetual re-bid to be a haven for pot smokers, asian prostitutes, odd guys named Doug, expatriated French-holes and to remain the red-headed stepchild of socialst Sweden have struck YET AGAIN!!!!

Damn you, Canada! -Singlehandedly pounding the Nalgene Nunc company by outlawing polycarbonate drinking vessels made using Bisphenol A.

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Posted by Will on 05/ 7/08 | Email to a friend | Comments (0)
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Nero; -I Mean Teh EPA Sez No 'Known' Ill Effects from PPCPs In Water

--Read More In: Better Living Through Chemistry | Nutrition | Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll | Stupid Health Tricks

"To date, scientists have found no evidence of adverse human health effects from PPCPs in the environment."

"There are no known human health effects from such low-level exposures in drinking water"

O RLY?

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Posted by Will on 04/23/08 | Email to a friend | Comments (0)
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Residual Antibiotics, Hormones found in Public Water

--Read More In: Better Living Through Chemistry | News | Nutrition | Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll | Signal

Apparently, fish getting their freak on for Jesus in it is becoming the least of our problems.

And though CityNews has clarified for us some of the snow types not to eat (yellow is still bad, btw), AP’s national investigation team has discovered some stuff may be making its way into the water, -particularly unmetabolized birth control hormones and other

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Posted by Will on 04/21/08 | Email to a friend | Comments (0)
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Sorry For The Outage; TwitThis Killed Us!

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Apparently, as their last April Fool's Prank, the weblog badge from TwitThis malfunctioned and ROYALLY screwed our Load Times.

Their bookmarking widget for the IM/Social Bookmark/Micro-Personal-Blogging Juggernaut that is Twitter either

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Posted by Will on 04/ 7/08 | Email to a friend | Comments (0)
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Ben & Jerry's Wants Hormone Labeling on Ice Cream

--Read More In: Better Living Through Chemistry | Nutrition | Vitamins/Supplements

If Al Gore, after inventing the internet without DARPA, Unix and Tim Berners-Lee, can get labels on food telling us what the Nutrition Facts are, wouldn't it be nice to know about the other stuff that goes into making it? -Like the chemicals and drugs

Now, I am never one to advocate looking into an Industrial Sausage Press, or a Hot Dog Factory. -Because sometimes, you really don't want to

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Posted by Will on 03/20/08 | Email to a friend | Comments (0)
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ACHTUNGUNTZEE! -Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash and Brown Spots

--Read More In: Better Living Through Chemistry | News

No longer afraid of being a lifelong alcoholic, perpetually falling off the wagon, I've written the current Crest ProHealth Mouthwash off my dental hygeine list after this comment from Consumerist's reader "Monique".

"Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash turned my teeth brown! And on top of that, I can't taste anything! I can't believe this stuff is even

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Posted by Will on 03/18/08 | Email to a friend | Comments (0)
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The "Clean Plate Club" Can Actually Be A Bad Thing

--Read More In: News | Noise | Nutrition | Weight/Fat Loss

SOLUTION???
-smaller plates...

++ Less French People.

-Many Americans have been schooled by their parents, in the spirit of puritanism in part, that Waste is Sinful.
While the Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has its place, certain consequences of it can mean Big Fat Americans.

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Posted by Will on 02/23/08 | Email to a friend | Comments (0)
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