The week in wildlife pictures Video of a threetoed sloth crossing busy road Costa Rica Sluggish tries to cross Lunch break Why did the BBC under fire for 'censoring' Palestine lyric Sloth Pride Anger Gluttony Lust Greed and Envy Reading List Gack Sports Parody Emmitt Smith Keith Hernandez Walt Frasier Ad Bank.net A British economy near brink puts its faith manufacturing Elena Kagan Is Supreme Court's Laziest Justice [Sloth] 5 Reasons Love Breaking In Funny And Fine Comedians Who Catch Our Eye Scientist at Work Do Animals Sleep Paris Hilton Celebrates Her 30th Birthday with Wild No Really! My lust Valentine's Day confession psychology infatuation Canadian slain battled poaching Seven 'Deadly' Airline Fees

From a gibbon found in a suitcase to a gecko that travelled by post - a pick of this week's best images [Video Link] (Via Cynical-C)... Video shot by a tourist to Costa Rica shows a three-toed sloth attempting to cross a busy street. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports. (TODAY) I don't know, but it took _forever_. Read full article >> Mic Righteous's improvised set on BBC 1Xtra met with complaints after corporation masks the words 'free Palestine' The BBC is under attack for using sound effects to mask the lyric "free Palestine" from a performance by rapper Mic Righteous on BBC Radio 1Xtra. The corporation is being accused of bias after effectively editing the words from Mic Righteous's improvised set, in which he expressed his views on subjects ranging from the American government to poverty and the floods in Pakistan. The song was recorded for Charlie Sloth's late night hip-hop show on 4 December, but protests have been mounting since the performance was rebroadcast as part of a "best of" from the show on 30 April. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign on Wednesday posted a statement on its website urging listeners to write to the BBC and the Radio Times to complain, and to post their views on Sloth's 1Xtra home page. Describing the edit as an "extraordinary act of censorship", the campaign asked why the BBC did not ban the song "Free Nelson Mandela" when it was released in 1984. At the time, Mandela was still considered a terrorist by many western governments. A BBC spokesperson said a ... New York City Ballet revisits the seven deadlies... - Seeing Things A collection of hedge-fund heavy hitters was asked what they read first thing each morning. Their answers were, well, motley. You've seen those annoying Sports Legends ads, featuring Emmitt Smith, Keith Hernandez and Walt Frasier hocking Just For Men Brush-In Color Gel? The ones that supposedly turn you from geriatric sloth into sex machine lothario by simply coloring your hair? "Your beard is weird. Your stache is trash" Yes, they're pretty bad, and long over [...] You've seen those annoying Sports Legends ads, featuring Emmitt Smith, Keith Hernandez and Walt Frasier hocking Just For Men Brush-In Color Gel? The ones that supposedly turn you from geriatric sloth into sex machine lothario by simply coloring your hair? "Your beard is weird. Your stache is trash" Yes, they're pretty bad, and long over [...] Can exports lift Britain out of its economic sloth? The chancellor believes that they can – but this week's quarterly growth figures will be a critical test for his policies after December's alarming contraction in GDP George Osborne has seized on every piece of bad news from overseas in recent weeks, from America's threatened credit downgrade to Portugal's bailout bid, as evidence that he has set Britain on the right course. But this week, the spotlight will swing back home, when the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals how quickly – or slowly – the economy grew in the first three months of the year. When it emerged in late January that GDP contracted sharply in the final three months of 2010, apparently bringing an abrupt halt to the economic recovery, Osborne was quick to dismiss it as a weather-related blip. Since then, he has stressed that the journey out of the deepest recession in a generation was bound to be "choppy". But another weak number this week would confirm the picture carefully built up by shadow chancellor Ed Balls in recent weeks of a nascent recovery clobbered by the coalition's cuts. It will take growth of ... Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was a no-show for one-third of the cases seen by the Court in her first term. She had an _excuse_--something about recusing herself from cases she worked on as solicitor general in the White House--but come on! Roll out of bed once in a while, lady. More » Day three of WonderCon had me sitting down with the cast of Breaking In, the upcoming comedy from Fox premiering April 6 at 9:30 p.m. Airing after American Idol, the show is bound to do pretty well for itself, but I think it's the funny characters, hilarious situations, and total geek cred that will make the show a hit. Christian Slater (who needs no introduction), Odelle Annable (**Cloverfield**), Bret Harrison (**V**), and Alphonso McAuley (**Pride**) star, and after talking with them about working together, office comedies, and tech toys, I found five reasons geeks should tune in. Check it out below. * **The writers** - The writers of **Breaking In** are totally legit in their geek cred. Adam F. Goldberg wrote Fanboys and **Revenge of the Nerds** among others, while Seth Gordon directed such nerdy films as The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, and lent his geeky touch to episodes of The Office and Modern Family. So you know all those geek culture references you find riddled inside the **Breaking In** trailer are coming from the right place. * **Geek culture nuggets** - **Breaking In** is about a ... When you think about the qualities you want in a man you usually think about the serious ones first. You know, is he honest, loyal, respectful and kind? But once you get past the 'is he genuinely a good person' part you'll want to be sure he's not BooorrRinng!! Because as many of you know [...] A male three-toed sloth showing off his new EEG hat. We use converted APS film canisters to house and waterproof the sleep logger. In today's digital world, locating stockpiles of these canisters is something of a treasure hunt. • Paris Hilton got a jump on her 30th birthday celebration with a Moulin Rouge-themed bash at V-Moda Fortress in L.A. Besides close friends and family, like sister Nicky and beau Cy Waits, the heiress partied with animals … literally. There was a petting zoo with a lynx, porcupine, squirrel monkey and sloth, set up in the venue for guests to enjoy along with absinthe and an aerial show. And all the festivities were taped for Hilton's upcoming Oxygen reality show. Author's Note: The following was originally posted at The Psychologist website as part of their "Sin Week." Once you've read my confession on the sin of lust , be sure to check out my colleagues' shameful confessions about their own gluttony , sloth , pride , wrath , envy and greed at the BPS Research Digest. I have been happily tasked, on this Valentine's Day, with writing about the sin of lust. But before I expurgate my lascivious soul, let us first get the concept of lust straight--and I should warn you that this will be the only thing straight about my confession. [More] Friends of Kimberley Blackwell, a Canadian who was killed last week in Costa Rica, described her as an animal lover who had campaigned against sloth poaching in that country. Pride, sloth, envy, and more: The airlines have them all! We've paralleled the seven deadly sins with their most appropriate airline fee counterparts, and then show you how to avoid paying them.
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