Vitamin C Fortified: October 2007

Monday, October 29, 2007

Tragedy hits Rowan University

The beating death of a Rowan University student turned a frolicsome homecoming weekend into a tense day and night yesterday with security and students on high alert.

The attack on Donald Farrell, 19, of Boonton Township, Morris County, was eerily similar to a fatal assault on a Kutztown University student early this semester.

Farrell was walking from his off-campus apartment complex with three friends shortly after 9 p.m. on Saturday when five men approached the group and asked where they could find a campus party, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office.

Drexel hosting Democratic debate

Tomorrow, the political circus comes to town.

Seven Democratic presidential candidates, accompanied by their entourages and the national press corps, will descend on Drexel University for a two-hour debate.

No public tickets are available for the event, which will be televised by MSNBC, starting at 9 p.m., from the Main Building Auditorium at 32d and Chestnut Streets.

McDonald's pizza - one word... befuddled

My friend Richard sent me these photos tonight, saying

“I don’t know where these came from but they’re going around the
net. If you haven’t seen them already, I know you will enjoy them. Don’t ask questions, just marvel.”

And marvel I did. My God. Have a look - ingredients and buildup here, the shocking conclusion after the jump.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

What would NPH do?

Funniest movie death scenes

3-year old boy gets cone stuck on head

To Charlie Thomas, it must have seemed like a wizard idea.

Spotting a discarded traffic cone, the imaginative three-year-old immediately saw its potential as an impromptu Harry Potter outfit.

But after placing it carefully on his head to show his family, the magic soon disappeared.

I'm all about the environment

Ladybugs invade New York

Late Thursday afternoon, the newly arrived pest-control troops swarmed over Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. In their flashy red and black jackets, they fanned out among the flowers and shrubs, searching for aphids, mites and other threats to the greenery at the heavily landscaped campus of Manhattan’s most famous middle-income rental complex.

Their intention was to eat them.

The troops were ladybugs. Some 720,000 of them were released by groundskeepers at the complex, which occupies 18 square blocks northeast of First Avenue and East 14th Street. The ladybugs are part of an effort by the complex’s new owners, Tishman Speyer, to move away from using chemical insecticides to protect the plants and grass that cover 40 acres there.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Karate nuns

In 1991, a group of French nuns arrived in New York to open a mission. All of them were from the Order of Fraternite Notre Dame. Not one spoke English. Their first plan was to establish a soup kitchen for the poorest of the poor. They chose a storefront in Spanish Harlem and started working. Within a short period of time, they arranged to have food that was not sold by bakeries and restaurants donated to the mission. This was then served to the visitors of their kitchen. Other activities of involvement include dispensing food to the homeless in Times Square and caring for AIDS patients at nearby hospitals. A warm and friendly relationship has developed with the surrounding community. Neighbors enjoy their presence on the block and seem to look out for them. They do not proselytize, preferring to let their work quietly speak for itself.

Shortly after their arrival, they began to study the martial arts...

Friday, October 12, 2007

Most terrifying foods in the world

Humans are like goats. We'll eat any damned thing. Just ask the people who make PowerBars.

In fact, you'll find foods in this world that don't even seem possible. Not just that they could exist, but that people would actually stick this stuff in their mouths without a gun to their head.

We've found six dishes that seemed to have sprung from Satan's own cookbook.

Gali the alligator

13 best haunted house attractions of 2007

It's Halloween season and you know what that means: time for what has become our annual 13 Best Haunted Houses list! There have been a few additions and subtractions from last years list , but, as always, each one has their own unique characteristics that make it a worthy haunt for even the most seasoned of haunted housers.

So let's get started with this year's list.

Found!

Friday, October 05, 2007

Lamest video game endings

Mostly NES titles. Suprised to see Halo 3 didn't make the list.

Animal scale

Step on and see which animal you weigh.
You could be anything from little baby rabbit to a bear!

Buy it.

World's largest swimming pool

Construction of the world's largest crystal-clear seawater lagoon has been successfully completed. Upon execution of the last expansion stage, this lagoon –San Alfonso's signature amenity- has reached its final size, i.e., over one kilometer long, 8 hectares in surface and 2.5 million liters of water. Too big to picture? Let's put it this way: the size of the lagoon is equivalent to 6,000 regular, 8-meter long swimming pools.

DOORS obstacle course

It's like Ninja Warrior, only with bike-riding across a large body of water.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Get ready for Halloween

This link courtesy of Tim.

Monday, October 01, 2007

Broken?

Why Rob Paravonian hates Pachelbel's Canon

Where aren't they now

So do all old sitcom stars wind up in a pit of drugs and despair? You’d be surprised...

Just incase you missed it

The Phillies made the playoffs!!