Shock the Emmys with your top TV moments

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com To commemorate the Emmys' 60th anniversary, the Academy is offering fans the chance to vote for our most memorable dramatic and comedic TV moments. Now, if this were a call-in thing, I'd totally expect something like The Waltons or even Grey's Anatomy to take the dramatic category. However, because they're relying on the Internet, I do think Buffy the Vampire Slayer stands a chance. (Lost and The X-Files might also have a shot at winning, too.) The comedy category includes expected fare like Seinfeld, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Cosby Show, but what could really make people gasp is if the controversial Scientology episode of South Park prevailed.

Obama Says Single-Payer Health Care Makes Sense

clipped from blogs.wsj.com Barack Obama said he would consider embracing a single-payer health-care system sometime in the future as his plan for broader health coverage evolves, the WSJ’s Amy Chozick reports from the campaign trail. “If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system,” Obama told some 1,800 people at a town-hall meeting on the economy in Albuquerque, New Mexico. But critics, including every Republican we can think of, cringe at the elimination of competition and deep government involvement in the private sector. “People don’t have time to wait,” Obama said. “They need relief now. So my attitude is let’s build up the system we got, let’s make it more efficient, we may be over time—as we make the system more efficient and everybody’s covered—decide that there are other ways for us to provide care more effectively.”

Russia seizes four U.S. Humvees

clipped from news.aol.com Russia Flexes Military Might in Georgia Bela Szandelszky, AP Russian soldiers entered the Georgian port city of Poti on Tuesday and commandeered American Humvees waiting to be shipped back to the U.S. This latest incident in which Russia demonstrated its military might left Georgians wondering whether Russia planned an extended occupation. 1 of 6PHOTOS

Illuminate Your Keyboard!

If you are like me and like to work in the dark this is an interesting hack that will light up your keyboard.

Medicare Drug Benefit Premiums Rise, but Less Than Expected

clipped from blogs.wsj.com The average premium Medicare beneficiaries pay for prescription drug coverage will rise 12% next year — though in real terms that’s only three bucks a month more than they’re already paying. Based on bids from the private insurers who provide the Medicare Part D benefit, the feds said yesterday that the average premium next year would be $28 a month. (UnitedHealth, Humana and Cigna are among those providing the plans, Bloomberg notes.) The rise is due largely to people taking more medicines, and to the rising cost of drugs, the Associated Press says. It’s worth noting that many of the most expensive drugs on the market now, such as some cancer treatments given via infusion, are covered by a different Medicare benefit, so the high cost of those drugs doesn’t figure into the Part D premiums.

Science proves that bikinis turn men into boobs

Sexy images rob male brain of ability to make wise decisions. Really.

I bet if the scientist's had taken the picture in this article it would have been more to the point.

As this post and the one below show, scientist are hard at work proving what we already know.

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com You may have known this all along, but now it has been demonstrated scientifically: bikinis make men stupid. This month’s issue of the Journal of Consumer Research features a paper titled “Bikinis Instigate Generalized Impatience in Intertemporal Choice,” which is a neuroeconomist’s (definition in a moment) way of saying that men don’t make good decisions while checking out pretty girls in bikinis. Virgil wrote of the phenomenon 2,000 years ago when he created the epic poem “The Aeneid.” When Venus convinces Vulcan to make some special armor, she …threw her snow-white arms around him As he held back, caressing him here and there, And suddenly he caught fire — the same old story, The flame he knew by heart went running through him, Melting him to the marrow of his bones… She knew her beauty’s power.

'beer goggles'

Maybe we can get these guys working on something really important next time. Hmm, let's see, how about proving scientifically that its easier to get lucky when the other person just finished their fourth "captain".

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com Strangers really do look sexier when you drink booze, science confirms For the first time, scientists have proven that "beer goggles" are real — other people really do look more attractive to us if we have been drinking. Surprisingly, the beer goggles effect was not limited to just the opposite sex among the ostensibly straight volunteers recruited for the study — they also rated people from their own sex as more attractive. After 15 minutes, the volunteers were shown photos of 40 other college students from both sexes. Both men and women who drank booze found these faces more attractive, "a roughly 10 percent increase in ratings of attractiveness," said researcher Marcus Munafo, an experimental psychologist at the University of Bristol in England. "Everyone knows about beer goggles," Munafo said. "But some of our results suggest that there's more going on than we might have thought."   Poll: Have ‘beer goggles’ ever led you astray?