Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Comics, and action sports event producer, ASA Entertainment will be hitting Venice Beach with the 2010 Supergirl Jam! Celebrating women athletes, Supergirl Jam will be a inline skating and skateboard competition. My parents saw it last year and it looked like a blast!

For more info be sure to follow Supergirl on Twitter (@wbsupergirl) and Facebook (http://facebook.com/dcsupergirl) for live updates from the main event.

Not in California? The event will be live-streaming at http://bit.ly/b9kJy3.

I have been hired by Warner Bros WBWord division to raise awareness for the Supergirl Jam. For exclusive coverage of the Supergirl Jam, please visit: http://bit.ly/b9kJy3

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This has to be one of the funniest news stories I’ve read in awhile:

Wed Mar 14, 12:56 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A man accused of drunk-driving and crashing his truck into a lamp post told police

a unicorn had been at the wheel when it careered off the road, local media reported Wednesday.
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Phillip Holliday, 42, pleaded not guilty to felony charges of criminal endangerment and drunk-driving when he appeared before a court in the western state of Montana on Tuesday, the Billings Gazette reported.

The court heard that Holliday has five previous convictions, four felonies, 35 misdemeanors and 53 traffic violations — including 28 convictions for driving with a suspended license.

His March 7 crash in Billings was witnessed by two police officers, said prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist, but Holliday still insisted a unicorn was driving when he slammed into the street lighting, shortly after jumping a red light.

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I can’t believe this….

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Aqua Teen Hunger Farce?

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Really.. there’s no end to the amount of stupid credits I’ll give Boston for the whole Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing campaign debacle.

Seriously. I just don’t have words for how OVER-reacting they are about the whole thing. Though there’s a great rant about it here.

Number one in the hood ya’ll.

What does this have to do with you?

Guerrilla marketing

This is the wave of the future… some of the best Firefly campaigns have been guerrilla marketing strategies. Seriously… I’m not happy.

Here’s some fun graphics though….

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I always knew that jackets were evil….

Colds and the Cold

Posted by Robert Needlman, M.D.

on Thu, Sep 28, 2006, 11:26 am PDT

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Fall is the season of Jacket Wars, those
frustrating confrontations between young children who just want to feel
comfortable, and concerned parents who are intent on keeping them
healthy. The parent in me sympathizes. The doctor in me knows that
being cold does not cause colds; viruses do. Meanwhile, my child
development training tells me that the real issue isn’t runny noses,
it’s control.

Let’s start with the medical. The Germ Theory of Disease is a triumph of 19^th
century medicine. It says, in essence, that germs cause disease, not
curses, vapors, or drafts. Since then we’ve discovered hundred of
viruses that cause noses to run and throats to cough. The general term
for these unpleasant and contagious events is upper respiratory
infections, or URIs. A URI represents the classic battle between a
host (your child) and an agent (the virus). The host wants the virus
out; the virus wants to make lots of copies of itself, then make its
way on to the next host. Sneezing accomplishes both of these ends; in
a funny way, it’s a win-win solution.

The main reason cold
weather brings an increase in URIs has less to do with cold air than
with windows. When we close windows, we close out the fresh air and
breathe in air that’s filled with everyone else’s viruses. Being
chilled to the bone probably does decrease our ability to fight off viruses, but that’s different from just being a little cold for a short while.

I
think most parents know all this. But we still want our kids to bundle
up in the cold, “just in case.” Completely apart from whether it
really makes any difference, we want to believe that we’ve done
everything possible to protect our offspring. We don’t’ want anyone
thinking we’re bad parents.

Kids, off course, take a different
point of view. As they see it, jackets are part of a grown-up plot to
make them uncomfortable, and in general to take over. Children figure,
it’s their skin; they know whether or not they feel
cold; so it’s their responsibility, as self-respecting autonomous
beings, to stand up against adult oppression. Runny noses are beside
the point; this is a fight for freedom!

So, what’s the solution?
If you can bring yourself to do it, I’d suggest letting your child go
jacketless. He might catch cold, but it probably won’t have anything
to do with a little chilly air. Carry his jacket with you, so it’s
there when he actually wants it. If you’re not engaged in a jacket
war, asking for the jacket won’t be a sign of surrender. Most
important, by putting the decision in your child’s hands, you help him
learn how to regulate his own comfort. You teach him to take charge of
himself, and to plan ahead. That’s got to be worth a couple of snuffly
noses.

From Here.

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LONDON, England (CNN) — A devil-worshipping sailor in the Royal Navy has become the first registered Satanist in the British Armed Forces.

Chris Cranmer, 24, a technician serving on the Type 22 frigate Cumberland, has been officially recognized as a Satanist by the ship’s captain.

That allows him to perform satanic rituals aboard and permits him to have a non-Christian Church of Satan funeral should he be killed in action.

A spokesman for Britain’s Ministry of Defence told CNN Sunday that it had a duty to allow members of the forces to practice their religion.

He added that the MoD was an “equal opportunities employer” which did not stop anyone having their own religious values.

“The Royal Navy allows this kind of approach because it is clearly in line with current regulations. We are not aware of any other individuals who want to be registered as Satanists.”

Cranmer, 24, who comes from Edinburgh, Scotland, is now lobbying the Ministry of Defence to make Satanism a registered religion in the Armed Forces, says Britain’s Sunday Telegraph.

He says he wants Satanists to be able to join the military without “fear of marginalisation and the necessity to put up with Christian dogma.”

The defense ministry told CNN that Cranmer went to his commanding officer with a request to practice his beliefs on board his ship and, after consultation with the ship’s chaplain, this was granted.

The decision was at the discretion of the captain, the MoD, said, and was on the basis that it did not impinge on the operational effectiveness, safety or security of the ship, or the well-being of colleagues.

Tour of duty

Cranmer, who has been aboard the Cumberland’s tour of duty in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf since April, said that being registered as a Satanist gave him “the freedom of religion I wanted despite its controversial nature”.

Cranmer, who is single, has been in the Royal Navy for four years and was promoted leading hand — the naval equivalent of corporal — in July last year.

He told the newspaper that he realized he was a Satanist nine years ago when he “stumbled across” The Satanic Bible by American ‘Black Pope’ Anton Szandor LaVey. “I then read more and came to realize I’d always been a Satanist, just simply never knew.”

He added that he had been “warmly congratulated” by his friends and family for becoming the Armed Forces’ first Satanist but did not feel that the war in Iraq was “the Devil’s work.”

“From a military perspective, I believe in vengeance. I don’t consider Satan to be an intelligently external force in my life; instead I consider it an empowering internal force.

“If I were asked if I were evil, I would say yes — by virtue of the common definition. However, if you asked my family and friends you would hear a resounding ‘no’. I get a massive amount from my career.”

Satanic rules

The Church of Satan was established in San Francisco in 1966 and LaVey was its high priest until his death in 1997.

Members of the church, which rejects Christian ideas of God and the Devil, follow 11 “Satanic Rules of the Earth.”

The belief system has been condemned as a cult by some religious groups and at least one opposition politician expressed dismay after Cranmer won permission to practice Satanism aboard a Royal Navy ship.

“I am utterly shocked by this,” Conservative parliamentarian Anne Widdecombe told Reuters.

“Satanism is wrong. Obviously the private beliefs of individuals anywhere including the armed forces are their own affair but I hope it doesn’t spread,” she said.

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