Day: August 20, 2012

The McBournie Minute: That’s enough, Green Day

Every band in existence has said in their early stages that they are in it for the music. Maybe they say it’s for the chicks or the drugs, but they don’t say it’s for the money. And at least some of them are lying. They may not intend to do it for the money at first, but they all need to eat, and instruments don’t pay for themselves. At some point, every artist is a sellout.

And yet there’s something that separates artists from the average Joe or even the management they work for: the musician does it because it’s his or her passion, and he or she takes pride in the quality of the craft. It’s in their DNA to do this, and the benefits like a paycheck? Well, those can be necessary, but not necessarily the reason the artist puts pen to paper in the first place.

So what about Green Day’s new Angry Birds Facebook app is about the music? Continue reading The McBournie Minute: That’s enough, Green Day

Mars Attacked!

It is with joyful elation that we bring you this news from the recently opened front in the War on Aliens: Mars! The Curiosity rover has just vaporized the first rock in what will prove to be the premptive attack that saved our world.

For too long, Mars has haunted our collective imagination, invading us in books and movies over and over again. But, now that we have perfected laser cannons and rocket cranes, we have finally caught up with our dangerous, imaginary foes and will destroy any trace of them should they assume a bacterial form on softball-sized rocks.

Eat our lasers, Red Menace!

Human health NOW valued at 1.7 billion dollars

Life. We all need it (well, most of us). However, what we don’t need to know, typically, is the amount that it’s worth.

Well, thanks to a lawsuit that’s been filed in Santa Monica, we now know an approximation: 1.7 billion dollars.

At least, this is how much Denise Barton thinks her life is worth. She’s filed the suit, claiming that the wireless parking meters used in the city have interfered and ruined her life. Apparently some people think you can fight city hall. Sometime back, the World Health Organization stated that low-level radiation may cause cancer and maladies in humans. Extrapolating from this, Barton thinks that the city is trying to kill her. Tin-foils hats ON.

The thing, what happens if she wins the lawsuit? Just how much would her life be worth if the parking meters were removed? More? Less? These are the intriguing thoughts we have that aren’t morbid at all and don’t imply a termination contract for her. Nope. Not at all. No. Ummm … next subject!

Lab techs will one day undo humanity

It seems like every day science is making the world a more dangerous place by training animals to kill or something, but rarely is it because of the researcher and not the research topic.

A lab technician at Georgia Health Sciences University may not have a job much longer, because he was found in a campus locker room, passed out drunk, with his pants down. Hey, we’ve all been there. No big deal, right? How about the fact that two research monkeys were let out of their cages.

Luckily, the monkeys could not get out of the room that their cages were in, but only because science hasn’t taught them that yet.