What did the chicken cross the road?

Man, you find you find all sorts of odd things online.
Edit: Ok, y'all will need to go ahead and click up there on that picture. For some reason I have not yet explored, the animated .gif does not show.

Talk to a financial advisor today to begin a savings plan.

Exploding piggy-bank aims to scare Japanese into saving

TOKYO (AFP) - Greying Japan has a new weapon to scare people into saving for their retirement -- an exploding piggy bank.

The "Savings Bomb," which goes on sale in Japan next week, "explodes" and scatters coins if users fail to save for a long time, toy manufacturer TOMY Co Ltd said Thursday.

The battery-powered toy -- designed as a cartoon-style, ball-shaped black bomb with a skull and crossbones logo -- lights up, makes a noise, shakes violently and scatters coins if it is not topped up for a long time.

"Users must pick up and collect the scattered coins and reflect on their laziness," the Japanese company said.

Japan has the world's oldest population and one of the lowest birthrates, raising fears of a future demographic crisis with a smaller pool of workers financially supporting a growing number of elderly.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071108/oddities/lifestyle_japan_toy_offbeat

Would be a fun gift, just don't tell them it explodes.

Dance it up now.

For those that know me, I ever in search of new music to expand my musical horizons. I will listen to nearly every genre of music and find a lot of music I can appreciate (save for country and polka.) Today we'll explore a few tracks that I feel can really energize and pump you up. Unfortunately YouTube being YouTube, the video quality is poor, so try listening to these tracks first, maybe even with your eyes closed to really feel the music.

Paul van Dyk feat Jessica Sutta - White lies



Video is decent, featuring former Pussy Cat Dolls singer Jessica Sutta. Goofs include PVD 'throwing' Jessica his hat at the end, but shots throughout have her wearing it. Of all of Paul van Dyk's material I've heard, I may have to say I like this song the best. Poppy? Maybe. PVD brings his organic sounds and alternation of rhythm together beautifully.


Artist: STUNT Song: RAINDROPS

Hold my hand lets chase the sun
we both know something's begun
Nothing feels that real without you
Wanna learn so much about you



What happened to these guys? I can't seem to find much more information on this group, nor the featured singer Molly Smithen-Downes. This came out Jan 2006. More please?


Offer Nissim And Maya Simantov - First Time (Live In Israel)




Wow what a voice! This song is epic!!! LET'S GO OUTSIDE AND JUMP UP AND DOWN!!!! NOT ENOUGH EXCLAMATION MARKS AND TYPING IN CAPS!!!!! She was in Toronto recently, and Offer Nissim will be visiting TO Dec. 31st for what promises to be an exciting show.

What is art?

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1. By Koopa
2. Matta (Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren)


Pictures copyright original owners.

Sleep is Very Important

Or else this could happen.

Hiromitsu Agatsuma - Interview and Music

Allow me to introduce and please your ears with a bit of Hiromitsu Agatsuma. From `Breakfast with the Art.` The instrument is called the shamisen, (more specifically, the tsugaru-jamisen.) There are obviously other artists out there that play this specific instrument, but I`ve really found his work to be most in line with my tastes. Give parts 1 and 3 a listen, I hope you may find a new artist to enjoy.

Part 1. The song is "Solitude" from album "Beams."


Part 2. Short interview.


Part 3. The Song is "Moment" from his 3rd album "Eternal Songs."

You probably couldn't make this up!!!

Police: Woman Chases Kids With Samurai Sword
Amanda Harris Faces Numerous Charges

EAGLE, Colo. -- An Eagle woman accused of chasing a group of Hispanic children with a sword faces a number of charges, including ethnic intimidation, after allegedly calling them "illegal spics," according to police.

Amanda Jane Darling Harris, 21, allegedly chased the children, aged 9 to 15, with an 18-inch samurai sword because they were playing in a parking lot of the Villa apartments, according to a police report.

Police investigated the incident on Sept. 20, and Harris was jailed until she posted a $3,500 bond this week.

ccording to the police report, the teens said Harris yelled at the children, "If you're scared, then you're guilty." That is when they said she chased them with the sword.

One boy said Harris grabbed him and held the sword to his throat, telling him he "needed to stop causing her problems."

A girl told police that Harris chased and grabbed her and threatened to cut off her ponytail.

Harris chased the other five children through the parking lot, brandishing the sword, according to her arrest affidavit.

The children told police that Harris called them "little f****ing wetbacks" and told them to go back to their own country.

Arresting officers said Harris stated that she should have hurt one of the "illegals" if she knew she was going to go to jail over it.

Harris was arrested in her third-floor apartment on suspicion of menacing -- use of a deadly weapon, misdemeanor third-degree assault with a weapon, ethnic intimidation and harassment.

Harris is employed by Pooh Corner Preschool in Minturn, Colo., according to the arrest report. A spokeswoman for the preschool said she couldn't comment on Harris' current employment status.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14227684/detail.html

What..........what........

Blue Oyster Cult - Classic music

Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult

Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (live)

Favourites, of sorts.

Neat Links Around the Interwebs

• Astronomy Picture of the Day - This archive showcases "different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer" every day! The beauty of nature and the universe.
  
• http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
• CuteOverload - Take a guess what this blog site is about. It'll blast you with so much cuteness that you may experience a sensory overload. When someone hopefully will come by to rouse you from thy bewilderment, you'll wonder where the last few hours have gone. I've been checking out this site since shortly after it began, lots of amusing pictures in the archives. There is a foil site yes, called UglyOverload.
  
• http://www.cuteoverload.com/
• FireFox - Looking for another web browser? Does nay matter! I've been using this years ago since 0.7 beta, and it really is a great alternative to Internet Explorer. From an integrated pop-up blocker, to popularizing tabbed-browsing FireFox has excellent tools. Of further note, since most people had IE installed on their machine by default, a lot of hackers wrote problems to exploit the vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer's code.

Firefox downloads top 400 million http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42279
Short article I skimmed: 15 Coolest FireFox Tricks Ever http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/15-coolest-firefox-tricks-ever.html

• http://www.mozilla.com/
• Dictionary - A free online dictionary. More people should use this and help make the world (especially the internet) a better place. It is bookmarked on all the computers I use.
  
• http://www.dictionary.com/
  

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