Day: April 10, 2009

You Missed It: One year later edition

Fridays are usually good, but this one is a particularly good Friday. Not just because it’s Good Friday, but because it’s the first anniversary edition You Missed It. We’ve been around a year (technically, a year tomorrow), and you probably don’t care that much, so we’re not going to celebrate, like write up some sort of self-congratulatory intro to this week’s edition. If you’re a famous rock star who was accused of breaking up someone’s marriage this week, odds are you missed it.

So does this mean it’s OK to eat hot dogs again?
Baseball is back. Not that it wasn’t back already, there was the World Baseball Classic a couple weeks ago, and there were plenty of spring training games before and after that, too. But Major League Baseball is officially back in season and that means that summer is just around the corner. There were some surprises out there, too. The New York Yankees paid a lot for nothing, the Philadelphia Phillies are still on vacation, and we should all be glad we aren’t on the San Diego Padres‘ lineup.

We were going to give it to you anyway
Pirates took hold of an American ship off the coast of Africa this week. The crew got out but the captain offered to stay in their place. He is still there now. The pirates are not really getting anything good out of the deal, even if they manage to get the ship itself. Rather than carrying something cool like tanks or money, it’s carrying food for various aid organizations. In other news: WE’RE TRYING TO HELP!

We’re after you next, Duran Duran!
PETA asked the Pet Shop Boys to change their name this week. They wanted the 80s pop group to change their name to, and this is true, the Rescue Shelter Boys. The Boys, who released a new album and plan a tour, respectfully declined. PETA’s argument was that in pet shops, you know, they sell animals that may not be taken care of in the best conditions, whereas in rescue shelters, the pets come pre-beaten and ready to crap on your rug.

PETA doesn’t care about Cannibal Corpse

Terrorist group PETA has unleashed their latest demand, this time on legendary British pop duo, The Pet Shop Boys.

PETA has threatened the Pet Shop Boys with … well, the article doesn’t say, so it must be so terrible that it cannot be mentioned. Maybe it’s a national security issue? Anyway, something bad will happen if they do not change their name to the Rescue Shelter Boys.

A political gesture, PETA believes that the reference to pet shops in their names provides a friendly face to the pet shop industry, which they claim is responsible for “cramped, filthy” cages used by breeders to keep their livestock in.

(We eat dogs, cats and chinchillas, right?)

Fortunately for us, the animal warriors, the Pet Shop Boys have refused their demands and have even posted their threats on their Web site for all to read. Oh, Pet Shop Boys, be careful. These are dangerous times!

I can tell at least one thing wrong about that headline

Yeah, we know Japan is weird, but as usual, they manage to make weird even weirder. 143 vials of bull semen were stolen from the Miyazaki Livestock Research Institute in 2007. Why this news is coming to light now, and not, say, in 2007, I can’t begin to tell you. We can only assume that it has to be embarrassing enough to discuss the topic in the first place. Maybe Japan was hoping it would turn up somewhere they forgot to look?

Valued at 650,000 yen (the equivalent of a gazillion spacebucks), the vials were frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored in a locked container at the facility’s artificial insemination lab. The cattle that the semen was taken from brought home top honors in a national grading event, hence the reason why their juice was worth such a high price. We can only hope that whoever took the vials did the right thing and destroyed them, thus ensuring a sickly line of bulls to inhabit the world.

Liquor? Hell, he’ll even deliver

We here at SG are fond of almost all things Boston. Be it the Red Sox, the city’s rich cultural heritage, their appreciation of a good drink, and now, home delivery of booze.

That’s right. Are you tired of sitting at home and thinking “man, I really want a drink but that drive to the liquor store sucks”? Well now Chris Palazola will home deliver any order from his store straight to your doorstep for a small charge of $5.

Massachusetts: continuing to pave the way in innovation.

Today’s green tip

Cooking: most of us fear it, but find it necessary. (You can only eat raw steak with an uncooked potato so many times.) But the thing about cooking is that it is just not eco-friendly. Sure, it may make things taste good, and save you money you could be spending on driving to a restaurant, eating there, and driving back, leaving a cloud of greehouse gasses in your wake, but it’s not green enough.

You see, ovens, microwaves and stoves use energy, and that energy comes from a power or natural gas processing plant, which means you are killing the environment with your selfish need to eat things several times a day.

Luckily, one man found a solution: a solar-heated oven. All you need is some cardboard, some aluminum foil and an acrylic cover. It can bake stuff, you just have to wait a while and have no idea what the temperature inside the oven is or how long its been cooking. Let’s totally throw out the window the fact that cardboard burns. This is a great idea that could help developing countries keep from starvation, or collecting firewood. We can save trees by giving them these ovens.

Wait, isn’t cardboard made from trees, too?