Masochism

Masochism means "gratification gained from pain, deprivation, degradation, etc., inflicted or imposed on oneself, either as a result of one's own actions or the actions of others, especially the tendency to seek this form of gratification."

Payday loans

A payday loan (also called a paycheck advance or payday advance) is a small, short-term loan that is intended to cover a borrower's expenses until his or her next payday.

Spinach

Spinach may help protect the brain from oxidative stress and may reduce the effects of age-related related declines in brain function.

Logic bombs

A logic bomb is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met. For example, a programmer may hide a piece of code that starts deleting files (such as the salary database), should they ever leave the company.

Samuel Armas

Samuel Armas is the child who was featured in a famous photograph by Michael Clancy as he seemed to grasp his surgeon's hand from a hole in his mother's uterus during open fetal surgery for spina bifida.

The Nine Nations of North America

The Nine Nations of North America is a book written in 1981 by Joel Garreau. In it, Garreau argues that North America can be divided into nine regions, or "nations", which have distinctive economic and cultural features. He argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his "nations" provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society.

Fetus in fetu

Sanju Bhagat is a man living in Nagpur, India whose stomach was once so swollen that he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. He had an extremely rare and bizarre condition called fetus in fetu.

Fetus in fetu happens very early in a twin pregnancy, when one fetus wraps around and envelops the other. The dominant fetus grows, while the fetus that would have been its twin lives on throughout the pregnancy, feeding off its host twin like a kind of parasite. Usually, both twins die before birth from the strain of sharing a placenta.

Doctors removed the fetus from the stomach of the 36 year-old in 1999. He is fully recovered now.

Larry Davis

Larry Davis was a drug dealer who shot six white police officers as they closed in to arrest him, then fled into the night and eluded capture for more than two weeks. He was murdered in a New York state prison on February 20, 2008.

Mills Mess

In juggling, the Mills Mess is a popular toss juggling pattern, typically performed with three balls although the number and objects can be different. It is considered somewhat of a milestone in juggling, "a mind-boggling pattern of circling balls, crossing and uncrossing hands, and unexpected catches."

Uma Thurman's dad

Uma Thurman's father was the first American to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk.

Citrus fruits

Citrus fruits appear to offer the most significant protection against esophageal, oro-phayngeal/laryngeal (mouth, larynx and pharynx), and stomach cancers. For these cancers, studies showed risk reductions of 40-50%.

OpenOffice

You can export an OpenOffice document as a Word document. It also works for PowerPoint, Excel, and anything else. I love Linux.

Al Gore is a superdelegate

Wow, I didn't know that. If he was absolutely sure Hillary would be the right fit for president he would've endorsed her a long time ago.

Anthony Hopkins' luck

In 1973 actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in The Girl From Petrovka, a movie based on a novel by George Feifer. Unable to find a copy of the book anywhere in London, Hopkins was surprised to discover one lying on a bench in a train station. It turned out to be George Feifer’s own annotated copy, which Feifer had lent to a friend, and which had been stolen from his friend’s car.

The giant salamander

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

Iron pillar of Delhi

The iron pillar of Delhi in India is the only remaining piece of a Hindu temple which stood there before being destroyed in a Muslim raid.

Fruits

Data indicates that 3 or more servings of fruit per day may lower the risk of vision loss in older adults by 36%, compared to people who consume less than 1.5 servings of fruit daily.

Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman is a software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. He pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.

Lasik

The earlier you get Lasik the better because if you get it after you're 40 years old you most likely have to wear reading glasses for near objects.

Macaca

Macaca is a term for dark-skinned people commonly used by the French colonists in North Africa.



And oh yes, former senator George Allen's mother was raised in a French colonial community in Morocco.

Cotard delusion

The Cotard delusion is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that he or she is dead, does not exist, is putrefying, or has lost his/her blood or internal organs. Rarely, it can include delusions of immortality.

Seven blunders of the world

The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mahatma Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi written on a piece of paper, on their final day together not too long before his assassination. The seven blunders are:

- Wealth without work
- Pleasure without conscience
- Knowledge without character
- Commerce without morality
- Science without humanity
- Worship without sacrifice
- Politics without principle

Cult of the Dead Cow

Cult of the Dead Cow is a computer hacker and DIY media organization founded in 1984 in Lubbock, Texas.

Amaranth

Amaranth is a moderately tall, broad-leafed, bushy type of plant that produces a brightly colored flowery head containing a very large number of seeds.

Tybee bomb

The Tybee Bomb is a 7,600 pound hydrogen bomb that was lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia on February 5, 1958. The bomb is one of fourteen nuclear weapons known to be missing from the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Klaus-Peter Sabotta

Klaus-Peter Sabotta was an extortionist who sabotaged German railways and demanded a ransom of DM10 million in December 1998. His motive for the crime was a need to pay off heavy debts he had incurred in his business activities.

Hewlett Packard

One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.

The Clintons and Tony Rezko

The man Hillary Clinton called a "slum lord" posed in a photo with her and Bill during Bill's presidency. On Friday, January 25, 2008, Hillary Clinton appeared on NBC's Today show and was asked if she remembered taking a photograph with her husband and Tony Rezko. Clinton commented "I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. I wouldn’t know him if he walked in the door. I don’t have a 17-year relationship with him. There’s a big difference between standing somewhere taking a picture with someone you don’t know and haven’t seen since and having a relationship that, you know, the newspapers in Chicago have been exploring."

She later added, "I took a lot of incoming fire for many, many months and I was happy to absorb it because obviously, you know, I felt that was part of my responsibility. But toward the end of a campaign you have to set the record straight. I try not to attack first, but I have to defend myself -- I do have to counterpunch."

MoveOn.org

MoveOn.org was formed in response to the impeachment of President Clinton.