The Dead Kermit the Frog outfit.

Presented by someone named Lady GaGa, who is apparently some type of pop music performer.

For a video of the frog suit in action, see below…

h/t Junior

Let’s start with the basics, shall we?

An antiperspirant is a substance which prevents perspiration from happening.

A deodorant is a substance which allows the perspiration to happen, but attempts to mask or eliminate the odor through voodoo and perfumery.

Antiperspirants are considered a drug in the United States, due to the fact that a function of the body is altered. Deodorants, on the other hand, are regulated as cosmetics.

Many brands contain both an antiperspirant and a deodorant. So even if you sweat it theoretically won’t stink. One whiff of Tom will prove that the effects can sometimes be less than effective.

The most commonly used active ingredients in antiperspirants is Aluminium zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly. This concoction works by clogging the pores and preventing them from releasing sweat. The material is also hygroscopic, meaning it can absorb some of the sweat that does escape.

This chemical is also the cause of the yellow stains in the underarms of undershirts. When the sweat/AZTG mix, the yellowing occurs.

Some studies have linked the use of Aluminum based antiperspirants with cancer, but the results are widely disputed.

If you are a super sweater, you may want to consider applying your antiperspirant at night. According to this article, most people sweat less at night, which allows the AZTG to get more absorbed into your skin. The effects are supposed to survive morning bathing.

Source: Here, Here, and Here.

For an unfortunate first person account of one woman’s experiment with different deodorants and antiperspirants involving one shaved and one hairy pit and smell tests by co-workers, click here.

For a tutorial on how to wear an undershirt, click here.

Man With Workout-Ball-Slashing Fetish ChargedDULUTH, Minn. (WCCO) ―

Court documents say Bjerkness told police he slashed the rubber balls
to satisfy a sexual urge.

The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office says a man with a self-professed
sexual fetish for slashing rubber balls was arrested and has appeared in court.
Police started looking for 31-year-old Christopher Bjerkness after surveillance
tape allegedly showed him breaking into a fitness clinic in May and slashing
exercise balls.

Authorities are familiar with the Bjerkness. A criminal complaint released
last week says he was convicted in 2005 of breaking into a sports facility at
the University of Minnesota in Duluth and slashing about 70 balls. Each ball
cost between $30 and $60.

The complaint says when he pleaded guilty in that case, he admitted to
slashing more than 40 other balls at two clinics.

Court documents say Bjerkness told police he slashed the rubber balls
to satisfy a sexual urge. Experts said he has an unusual attraction to
inflatable exercise devices.

Bjerkness appeared in court Monday morning and his bail was set at $10,000,
according to the Sheriff’s Office. He’s scheduled to return to court in a
month.

I’m just speechless!

Source: Ed, who sent me to this article.

I know all you Christian ‘Harry Potter’ fans were conflicted and worried about your everlasting-souls due to previous comments by Cardinal and future Pope Joseph Ratzinger when he stated that, “the “Harry Potter” novels contained “subtle seductions” that could “deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly.””

But good news!

On Wednesday, L’Osservatore Romano, the newspaper of the Holy See, wrote that “Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth entry in the film franchise adapted from the J. K. Rowling novels, was “the best of the series.” It added: “The mixture of supernatural suspense and romanticism sets the right balance, making the adventures of the protagonists more credible,” according to Agence France-Presse.

Most are taking this article as a nod to all you Christian’s that you can now worship the golden cow named Harry, then go home to work on your wand techniques. I mean… tame your dragons. Err… beat your bludgers? This post just took a turn for the worse!

Source: Dave Ryan and here.

It’s monsoon season over here (pronounced mon-soooooooooooooooooooooooooooon), and that means an occasional break from the normal sunny and hot weather pattern.

Somehow, we made it through all last year without experiencing a Dust Storm. This year we’ve already had two.

For those of you not familiar, a dust storm is kind of like a blizzard. (The weather kind, not the $9.95 for a small at Dairy Queen kind.) The main difference is that instead of snow and ice blowing around, you get dirt and sand.

Basically, there is a brown haze over everything. And it sounds like it is raining, but that’s just the larger dust particles (more like small pebbles) hitting the windows.

We happened to be driving during one of the storms, and I had about 300 feet of visibility on the interstate.

Below, some pictures of dust storms in Phoenix from AZCentral’s best monsoon pics slide show.

Also, we had a huge storm last night. We had thunder so loud that it repeatedly set off multiple car alarms in the neighborhood. It was awesome.

Sometime last week, I noticed a new Wiiware (a downloadable game designed for the Nintendo Wii) called Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. Final Fantasy IV, or Final Fantasy 2 in America, is one of my favorite games of the franchise. It has fantastic story, characters, music, etc., and I logged quite a few hours playing that game.

For those of you that don’t know, even there are numerous games bearing the “Final Fantasy” name, each incarnation is generally not a continuation of the next as you typically see. They generally don’t use the same characters, plots, maps, worlds, etc., and instead all tend to share a similar overall unifying theme (the world is in peril, you need to save it, you embark on an epic quest, etc.), which serves as the continuity between games.

So when I saw a “sequel” to FFIV which did include all my favorite characters on a new quest, I was excited! I downloaded it yesterday morning. The plot is essentially that it is 17 years after the end of the first game and 2 of the main characters, Cecil and Rosa, have had a child together named Ceodore. The game begins with you taking control of Ceodore on this test to become a full fledged knight of the Red Wings. The story takes off from there.

The good news is that I, who LOVED the original, was totally satisfied by returning to my old familiar maps, music, and favorite characters.

Or at least I was… until I beat the game on my second sitting. My timer read 5 hours 30 minutes. For $8, that’s a better cost/minute ratio then going to the movie theater, but not great considering I’d still be playing the original FFIV if I had downloaded that for [probably] the same $8 on the virtual console (if it were released yet, that is).

Also, did I say that I beat the game? Well… kinda. I beat what I downloaded. If I want to play the rest of the game, I have to download each additional chapter (13 of them at $3 each) and then buy the final chapters to wrap them all up ($8 extra dollars). So the total cost for the whole game is $36! That’s almost the cost of a new Wii game… and this one is in 16-bit graphics!

You know, maybe I could even justify the cost. But then again, since it’s a Wiiware game, I can’t even send it to Jeff when I’m finished so he can play it. It’s stuck to my Wii. Pretty clever, Wii, but pretty lame too!

The worst part is… I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until I start buying the additional chapters!

Because it’s your fault that they are emitting carbon. At least according to the Feckless Administration…

“It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

Yeah… that sounds like a good idea. Not sure exactly how we’re supposed to pay for it.

The Commerce Department later “clarified” the Secretary’s statement, as seems to be standard practice in this administration when someone (see Biden, Joe) accidentally speaks their true feelings about something.

Besides national bankruptcy, I can’t really see what this administration’s end game is supposed to be.

via Hot Air

Teen actor Jamie Waylett, who plays Vincent Crabbe in the Harry Potter movies, admitted to growing marijuana in a London court, the AP reports. Police reportedly found eight bags of pot during a search of a car in which the 19-year-old Waylett was riding. By pleading guilty to producing cannabis, Waylett faces a maximum of 14 years in jail. He’s due to be sentenced on July 21.

Also, it’s old news, but Ron ate a bad ham samm’ich and got the Miss Piggy disease.

Source: here for Crabbe, and here for Weasley (actually I heard about both of them first on Dave Ryan)

Whoopi Goldberg, is one of only 10 people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award (counting Daytime Emmy Awards).

Inspired to become an actress by watching Nichelle Nichols’s portrayal of Uhura on “Star Trek,” she later dropped out of high school and got addicted to heroin. After she married her drug counselor, she got cleaned up and divorced him. Later inspired by Uhura’s interracial kiss with Kirk, Goldberg decided to date Ted Danson.

She asked Roddenberry for a job on TNG, got cast as Guinan, and how has 4 action figures made after her.

Source: IMDB

College drop-out and famed news reporter Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. passed away yesterday from complications relating to dementia.

As anchor of the CBS Evening news, he covered such events as the Cuban missile crisis, JFK assassination, Vietnam War, Apollo 11 landing, Apollo 13 crisis, Watergate scandal, and the Iran hostage crisis (adding the length of hostage captivity to the end of the broadcast).

Source: Kalena and his wiki.