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Will We Lose Cassini's "New" Mission at Saturn to Budget Cuts? | The Planetary Society:

NASA’€™s shrinking budgets for planetary exploration may force it to decide between continued funding for the Saturn Cassini mission and the continued funding for its Mars missions.

It’s absurd this is even a choice, that both cannot be fully funded.

Further proof that we live in a world gone mad.

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Blowing smoke up your ass —- The history of the tobacco smoke enema.

Shortly after the introduction of tobacco to Europe, physicians and so called “health experts” began to experiment with tobacco as a medicinal remedy.  By the 18th century doctors began to combine tobacco with one of the most popular medical procedures of the era, the enema (then called “clysters”).  At first physicians would smoke from a pipe and blow the second hand smoke into the patient’s rectum through a simple tube.  Later the process became much more advanced as special tobacco smoke enema kits were created which featured a bellows with an internal reservoir of burning tobacco.  By the mid 18th century the tobacco enema was a popular cure for typhus, cholera, and fevers.  Results varied.

In 1774 two London physicians named Dr. William Hawes and Dr. Thomas Coogan experimented with the idea of using tobacco enemas to revive the recently diseased, especially drowning victims.  They theorized that the tobacco smoke would warm the person and stimulate respiration.  A group of like minded medical professionals joined Dr. Hawes and Coogan, forming an organization that would later become the Royal Humane society.  While the use of tobacco enemas probably did little to revive those in cardiac arrest, the group did developed the first methods of artificial respiration, a precursor of modern CPR techniques.

In 1811 the English scientist Ben Brodie discovered that nicotine was a poisonous substances.  As a result, by the early 19th century most medicinal uses for tobacco fell by the wayside, tobacco enemas included. 

BUTTS.

"Smells like cigarettes and ass"

Where’s your head at?

Welcome to the working week

Bahahahahaha! He may get tenure.

It appears that Seth Rogen may be involved in the rumored Preacher adaptation. Following reports that AMC has ordered a Preacher pilot, Rogen tweeted, "I may get to bring one of my favourite stories to life...Arseface. John Wayne, The Saint of Killers."

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In a split-second, "BREES FACE" was born.

The New Orleans Saints have a chance to win the game after Ahmad Brooks was penalized for this hit on Drew Brees. Pay special attention to how the quarterback's face contorts in terror when he realizes he's about to get leveled -- this is "BREES FACE."

It's OK, Drew. You guys still have a chance.

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Doodle Time by Sarah Anderson [tumblr | twitter | facebook]

GET SOME, BIG MAN

There are a lot of great things about football, but the greatest is that a large percentage of the tremendously athletic people who play it happen to be really, really fat.

311-pounder Brandon Mebane is one of these. He celebrated this fact after a QB hurry when his shirt stopped covering his entire belly:

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In yet another odd chapter from the US's movie rating history, the MPAA would not let Raiders of the Lost Ark's famous exploding head scene pass without an R rating—until director Steven Spielberg agreed to obscure the phony gore with flames.

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What happens when New Orleans allows a deep touchdown?

The New Orleans Saints are locked in a close defensive game with the San Francisco 49ers and the defense just surrendered a deep touchdown pass to Vernon Davis. Let's check in on Saints defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, just to make sure he's doing OK.

I'm doing ...

"FFFFFFFFFFFFFINE!"

That's what he said, right?

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Knock loud, I’m home.

Dragon Bowl (Nics - arcade - 1992)

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Did you ever ask yourself what it would be like if you took the exact gameplay of Tecmo’s arcade beat-em-up Ninja Gaiden, replaced all the graphics with ridiculous cartoonish animals and environments, downgraded the music, and let you play as Son Goku? Quit lying, you never thought that—but clearly someone in Korea did, for in 1992 Nics released Dragon Bowl in Korea.

Although the title screen made me think this might be a killer Dragon Ball bowling sim, the truth is much more mundane: the game is a hack of Ninja Gaiden. All of the characters, objects and backgrounds have been redrawn, almost always for the worse, although the character movements—right down to your overhead flip throw—feel so authentic to Ninja Gaiden’s that it’s downright spooky. Overall the graphical experience feels like something out of a sleep-deprived haze, especially your enemies, who are large bipedal animals, and sometimes people in animal suits.

The music would have been outdated when the original Ninja Gaiden was released in 1988. The music’s sound synthesis sounds uncannily like something out of a mid-80s Capcom game like Side Arms or Legendary Wings, but I can’t place it. The sound effects are all lifted from other games, and the most noticeable among these is Chun-Li’s voice samples from Street Fighter II used for a variety of attacks and for the end-of-stage jingle.

There’s not much to recommend Dragon Bowl apart from being able to say you experienced a slice of arcade insanity. The only thing it does well—the gameplay—is exactly what you’d find in Ninja Gaiden, except with better trappings. (In case you were wondering, there is no reference to the actual Dragon Balls other than the title.)

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"I got into this tournament for one reason: money. And now I have a new reason: kicking your ass!"

You Are How You Eat: A Collected Analysis of Bill Murray’s Eating Habits On Screen:

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by Andrew Root

“You know what I like about restaurants?” asks mob boss Frank Costello in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. “You can learn a lot, watching things eat,” he seethes, licking a freshly smashed fly off his hand. I never knew what to make of that line. It seemed like a needlessly…

Definitely one of my very favorite things we have published this year. This is brilliant, hilarious, insightful stuff. Plus it’s about 1) Bill Murray and 2) eating, so what more did you want exactly on a Friday morning?

Where I live is currently under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning; directly north of me they’ve got a Tornado Watch going on.

But the NOAA has said nothing about dragons.

I sense a conspiracy. 

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Ruff night!

Greer's season could be in jeopardy after badly injuring his left knee against the 49ers.

Saints cornerback Jabari Greer left Sunday's game against the 49ers in the first quarter with a gruesome left knee injury. He was carted off the field after being evaluated by the training staff. It was initially unclear what kind of injury he sustained.

While attempting to make a play on a high throw, Greer landed awkwardly. His knee bent inwards in a way it shouldn't, which forced the 10-year veteran down to the turf. He immediately grabbed at his knee and remained down on the field for five minutes before being helped off.

Greer appeared to be in good spirits as he was carted off the field. He waved to the crowd with a smile on his face and then put his hands in the air.

Greer broke into the league in 2004 with the Bills. He came over to the Saints in 2009, appearing in 63 games over the last five years. He recorded an interception and 30 tackles in nine games this season.

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For many professionals it seems, Sunday is less a "day off" than it is to do similar things as you might do while "at work" but without the infrastructure and bureaucracy of being "on the job."

ZethM shows us a simple technique for transforming yourself into Batman using a black cat.

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