Hasta La Gadget!

To celebrate National Coming Out Day, a screening of “Prayers For Bobby” was held in New York City on Friday night with the film’s star, Sigourney Weaver, in attendance to talk about the making of the film and the impact it has had.

“Prayers For Bobby,” based on the book of the same name, tells the true story of Mary Griffith, a religious mother who is unable to accept her gay son, Bobby. He commits suicide and in the wake of his death, Griffith comes to terms with her own homophobia and finds support in new community in groups like PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians And Gays).

When the movie premiered on Lifetime in 2009 it was met with universal acclaim and was eventually nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Made for Television Movie and an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie nomination for Weaver (her role also garnered her a nomination for Best Actress at the Golden Globes and Screen Actor Guild Awards).

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Predators are the galaxy’s most fearsome and brutal warriors. They will rip your spine clean out, with your skull still attached. And they like to take trophies to remind them of their hunt. So a Predator would just love this tree with a predator head carved into it.

This entire carving took about 90 hours to complete and is the work of one Simon Patel from Walsall, UK. He is one ugly mother! No, not Simon, silly, the tree. Quick get to da choppa! Wait its just a hunk of wood. It’s all cool.

Bonus: his head is flat, so you could give him a different hat every day if you were so inclined. An Abe Lincoln hat, a beanie. Now that would be cool. It would also make this guy far less terrifying.

[via Obvious Winner]

I’ve always daydreamed about what working at IKEA must be like: Creating whimsical reindeer-shaped furniture, testing new meatball recipes, and dreaming up adorable product names. But as the Wall Street Journal reveals today, the process of developing products at the world’s largest furniture retailer is an epic, efficiency-driven numbers game.

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WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — You hear the same proud claim every time Washington wrestles with the debt limit: The United States has never defaulted. But the record’s not that clean. America has stiffed creditors on at least two occasions.

Once, the young nation had a dramatic excuse: The Treasury was empty, the White House and Capitol were charred ruins, even the troops fighting the War of 1812 weren’t getting paid.

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Making sure to get that workout in could help lower your risk of developing esophageal cancer, according to a new study.

Mayo Clinic researchers found an association between physical activity and risk of the cancer, with physically active people having a 32 percent lower risk of developing one of the two forms of esophageal cancer, called esophageal adenocarcinoma (cancer that starts in the mucus-producing cells).

“Although the incidence of esophageal squamous cell cancer is declining worldwide, the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma has been rapidly rising. This increase may be partly attributable to the obesity epidemic,” study researcher Siddharth Singh, M.B.B.S., of the Mayo Clinic, said in a statement.

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