Propeller.com Stories voted on by TweekerchickQC

11 Celebrity-Inspired Fads We'd Like to Forget

TweekerchickQC — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:21:17 EDT

While fads come and go (and occasionally come back as retro),the availability of MTV and the internet to recent generations means that a newly-minted style can go from "in" to "out" faster than you can process your online order at PacSun, replaced by some other pointless fad. Who's behind these trends that spread like wildfire?

Channel: Humor Tags: humor fads celebrities dark times fad pop culture popular culture

World Traveler's Luxury Deals

TweekerchickQC — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:46:07 EDT

The well-traveled know that off-season trips,such as a May journey to Thailand, at the height of monsoon season, offer the best rates. But a trip like this also means spending much of the time in your hotel room.The desire for a vacation outweighs the allure of huge savings,it doesn't have to. The smartest travelers are finding both.

Channel: Travel Tags: travel deals vacations savings luxury budget

The Top 10 cocaine songs of all time

TweekerchickQC — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:43:09 EDT

Here we have compiled a list of the Top 10 Cocaine Songs of all time - songs about, influenced by, and more than likely written on clouds of Peruvian marching powder:

Channel: Music Tags: music drugs cocaine songs song

9 Video Game Super Powers We'd Love to Abuse

TweekerchickQC — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:40:00 EDT

Imagine for a moment what you could accomplish if you were able to take those incredible game characters' powers out of the game itself and use them in real life. We've selected 9 video game super powers that we'd love to use in order to rule at real life.

Channel: Video Games Tags: video games games game humor super power

The AFI Top 100 Movies... In 5 Words Each

TweekerchickQC — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:37:09 EDT

Because the only way to truly enjoy cinema classics is to reduce them to hollow shells of what they used to be. The rules are simple: 5 words each, no more, no less. Think of them as "movie captions." Be forewarned, some SPOILERS lie ahead:

Channel: Movies Tags: movies afi top movies afi top movies classic movies film films classic films

FOX News Doctors NY Times Photos

TimALoftis — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:25:05 EDT

Fox News has sunk to a new low. On Wednesday, the network displayed photos that its editors had doctored of two New York Times employees--reporter Jacques Steinberg, and editor Steven Radcliffe. The before and after photos can be seen here.

Channel: Television Tags: fox news fox and friends

FBI might use profiling in terror investigations

TechnologyExpert — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:45:57 EDT

The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.

Channel: Politics Tags: Bush FBI Justice Department

Pentagon's top investigator to resign

bubba2 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:42:05 EDT

The Pentagon's inspector general, Claude Kicklighter, is resigning after just over a year in the job and at a time when defense spending has skyrocketed but personnel shortfalls in the oversight office have strained its ability to probe allegations of waste, fraud and abuse.

Channel: Politics Tags: Pentagon inspector general Claude Kicklighter defense contracts fraud Defense Department waste abuse

Americans & Colombian hostage Betancourt freed

SunnyDays — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:22:15 EDT

French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages held by rebels in Colombia have been rescued by government troops.

Channel: News Tags: Colombia Colombia hostage Betancourt freed Americas

Britons 'need Â£13k' to earn a decent standard of living

digitalfever — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:40:24 EDT

It is no longer possible to fund an 'acceptable standard of living' on the National Minimum Wage, a new study has revealed. Implying that thousands more households than previously estimated are left coping with life below the poverty line.

Channel: News Tags: UK poverty standard of living income Britain

117 degrees in L.A.? Experts see future shock

TechnologyExpert — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:56:36 EDT

A computer model developed by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute estimates that by the end of the century, high temperatures for once-in-a-generation heat waves will rise twice as fast as everyday average temperatures. Chicago, for example, would reach 115 degrees in such an event by 2100. Paris heat waves could near 109 with Lyon, France, coming closer to 114.

Channel: Science Tags: Temperatures Global Warming HEat Wave

10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas

JessicaLaurie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:50:49 EDT

The world had long assumed that Americans were just unrepentant energy pigs. If gas prices went up, well, we kept our Explorers aimed at the horizon, and little changed.

Channel: Money Tags: gas money

Fugitive hedge-fund swindler in federal custody

MyWayOnNow — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:16:33 EDT

A fugitive hedge-fund swindler who faked suicide on a Hudson River bridge and went on the run to avoid a prison sentence surrendered Wednesday in Massachusetts, the U.S. attorney's office said.

Channel: News Tags: hedge fund swindler fugitive samuel israel

High gas prices threaten to shut down rural towns

STONERS — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:32:57 EDT

This community may be an extreme example of how rising gas prices are hitting rural Americans particularly hard, but people in small towns from Maine to Alaska are in a similar bind as those here.

Channel: Money Tags: High Gas Prices Threaten Shut Down Rural Towns

The 10 Worst Women in Refrigerators (i.e., Cases of Violence Against Women in Comics)

TweekerchickQC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:51:56 EDT

Outside of comic books specifically written for women, female characters in superhero books have a pretty tough time of it.By "tough time,"I mean horrible, horrible things happen to them so much so that the term "Women in Refrigerators" has been coined to describe the phenomenon (Why? Wait until you get to #2).

Channel: Humor Tags: humor comics comic women Women in Refrigerators comic book comic books

13 Last Requests That Prove It's OK to Laugh at Dead People

TweekerchickQC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:49:42 EDT

All of us will die some day. We think we'll start every article with that from now on, just to set the right tone. But death isn't all bad. Because in addition to ungrateful kids and a foul smell, you get to leave behind insane requests that people pretty much have to honor.

Channel: Humor Tags: humor death dying cracked last wishes

The 10 Worst Trading Card Sets Ever

TweekerchickQC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:46:14 EDT

There was a lot of terrible, simply unexplainable crap that also made it into little packs with this razor-sharp sliver of pink gum. Here are the 10 most mind-bogglingly awful card set ever made, and we pity you if you collected 'em.

Channel: Humor Tags: humor trading cards trading card

The 10 Best Moments Of Celebrities Playing Sports

TweekerchickQC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:45:17 EDT

How do celebrities truly perform athletically without the help of slick camerawork and CGI technology? After extensive investigative journalist, interweb research, and polling 279 random hot girls on the street, I've found the results to be surprisingly mixed. Some celebrities have got some serious game while others suck really bad.

Channel: Sports Tags: sports celebrities celebs celebrity sport

The Ultimate Man's Guide to Fireworks

TweekerchickQC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:58 EDT

The operative word in fireworks is fire, the basic element to which all men experience a primal attraction. Even when you're grown and have kids of your own, nothing can kill your boyish desire to make a racket with fireworks. So in honor of the 4th of July the Art of Manliness presents the Man's Guide to Fireworks:

Channel: Men Tags: men humor fireworks fire work fire works art of manliness

Top 10: Beach Cities

TweekerchickQC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:40:11 EDT

As summer approaches, we track down some of the world's best beachside cities (which we've narrowed down to settlements of more than 100,00 people), whose sandy fringes act as an integral part of their structure, atmosphere and overall identities. So slap on that sunblock, slide on those shades and head to one of our top 10 beach cities.

Channel: Travel Tags: travel beaches beach beach cities city

Picking The Right Suit For Your Body

TweekerchickQC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:37:51 EDT

We reinterpret these three traditional suits to show you how each type in its modern incarnation is suited to different body shapes. In picking the right suit for your body, find out which suit will fit you best and pick up valuable tips for dressing your body to its best advantage.

Channel: Men Tags: men style fashion suit suits body type

Top 10: Inexpensive Or Free Date Ideas

TweekerchickQC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:35:40 EDT

Newsflash: Women have been on hundreds of dinner dates. They aren't cheap, and they sure aren't that impressive to a woman who's been taken out to every restaurant under the sun. Here's how to set yourself apart and show her a completely original experience that she can't help but remember with these top 10 great inexpensive or free date ideas.

Channel: Love & Personals Tags: men women dating love relationships relationship date

Top 10: National Parks

TweekerchickQC — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:29:45 EDT

With a giant landscape to work with, the US holds a multitude of national parks for local and international tourists to sample any time of the year. Depending on when you visit and where you visit, chances are you'll see something new each time, and certainly something vastly different from the city life that some of us have grown accustomed to.

Channel: Travel Tags: travel vacation park parks US national parks national park

Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017

idyll — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:17:13 EDT

Oil is just an organic substance that was created by natural biological processes; we know that we have a lot of it, but we're using it up very rapidly, no more is being created, and someday it'll be gone. The disappearance of elements, though, that's a different matter.

Channel: News Tags: rare earth elements shortage propeller eco news

Military service: A diminished campaign asset?

TechnologyExpert — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:26:35 EDT

For McCain, getting shot down and enduring as a POW has been a political asset. Now Clark was suggesting that the "getting shot down" part was an irrelevant--at least as far as being a credential for the White House.

Channel: Politics Tags: Clinton Obama 2008 Presidential Race McCain

Starbucks to close 600 stores in the U.S.

JamesMarcus — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:34:08 EDT

Starbucks, known for its kudzu-like proliferation, will now close 600 of its US outlets. The company has acknowledged that it may have lost some of its luster during a long period of rapid store openings and expansion into everything from breakfast sandwiches to movie promotions.

Channel: Money Tags: starbucks closures coffee

Big brother is watching you and his name is AT&T

populist — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:24:30 EDT

Sometimes he goes by the name of BellSouth and at other times he is known as AOL-Time-Warner. Big brother goes by a lot of names. He is listening to you while you talk and watching you while you type. Everything you say could be recorded so he can look at it somewhere down the line.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: big brother spying att bellsouth telecoms 4th amendment fisa wiretaps populist party liberty

Coalition troop deaths in Afghanistan surpass Iraq

alphomega — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:44:57 EDT

May and June death tolls for foreign troops were higher in Afghanistan than Iraq 46 U.S. and allied troops died in Afghanistan in June; 31 in Iraq Afghan deaths included troops from U.S., U.K., Canada, Poland, Romania, Hungary Same trend seen with civilian deaths, analysts say

Channel: News Tags:

Why one girl refuses to remember

alphomega — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:35:41 EDT

Girl struggling after experiencing tragedy in Myanmar cyclone Aid groups develop approaches to help child survivors of disasters Some traumatized children never learn to be children again

Channel: News Tags:

Prisoner death 'vigilante justice,' county official says

alphomega — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:30:22 EDT

NEW: FBI opens civil rights investigation 19-year-old held in connection with death of police officer Ronnie White died of strangulation White was in solitary confinement at Prince George's County Corrections Center

Channel: News Tags:

The Negative Aspect Of Outsourcing!

omerazam — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:52:48 EDT

Outsourcing is subcontracting work to a third-party company, either for product creation, design or some service. Outsourcing has always been carried out by many major businesses as well as smaller companies. As far as corporations go, this means business process outsourcing

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Negative Aspect Outsourcing

Baseball, apple pie, and kicking your ass: 21 hilariously hyperbolic pro-America songs

TweekerchickQC — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:07:16 EDT

In America it seems like being patriotic and getting into physical altercations go hand and hand. Here are 21 songs that celebrate that. Some NSFW language.

Channel: Music Tags: music humor america patriotic

7 People From Around the World With Real Mutant Superpowers

TweekerchickQC — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:03:41 EDT

They walk among us! Some even fly among us! They may even take the bus among us from time to time! Homosapiens-Superior is here, and can do things that have scientists scratching their heads. We're carefully tracking their progress, so that one day soon we may gather them together and fight crime. Or maybe commit crimes. We haven't decided yet.

Channel: Humor Tags: humor super powers superpower superpowers cracked

10 Excellent Examples of Parkour in Film and Television: Urban Acrobatics and Mainstream Media

TweekerchickQC — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:02:17 EDT

David Belle has said the philosophy behind parkour is "You want to move in such a wayÃ¢â;¬Â¦as to help you gain the most ground onÃ¢â;¬Â¦something, whether escaping from it or chasing toward it." lending itself perfectly to the narrative structure of a great a

Channel: Sports Tags: sports parkour film television

Debt Consolidation Mistakes

TweekerchickQC — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:58:11 EDT

Debt consolodation can be an effective strategy, but also a potential trapdoor to a slew of other problems and hiccups that could actually leave you worse off than you were to begin. Avoid these common debt consolidation mistakes when taking on a debt consolidation loan.

Channel: Money Tags: money debt debt consolodation

Mafioso: Rites Of Passage

TweekerchickQC — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:55:58 EDT

Brotherhood, loyalty, honor, and fraternity are all crucial elements in creating and fostering trust between you and your capo or whatever elements of senior management you want to impress

Channel: Men Tags: men mob mafioso mafia rites of passage work

Signs You Don't Want The Job

TweekerchickQC — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:52:07 EDT

What people always seem to forget is that it's crucial that you get a sense of your potential employer. After all, what good is an offer from a company you'd desperately want to leave after just a few days? The next time you embark on an interview for employment, make sure you watch for these signs you don't want the job.

Channel: Careers & Jobs Tags: careers jobs career job employers employer job interview job hunting

The Zimbabwe of Memory, Eroded in a Deluge of Troubles

sinstun — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:54:05 EDT

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe is officially sworn in as president after a sharply criticized runoff vote that was boycotted by his only rival, Morgan Tsvangirai

Channel: News Tags: Morgan Tsvangirai zimbabwe mugabe

Iraq sues companies over oil-for-food kickbacks

STONERS — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:11:12 EDT

The Iraqi government sued dozens of companies, including oil giant Chevron Corp., for more than $10 billion on Monday, saying they paid kickbacks to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's government under the U.N. oil-for-food program.

Channel: News Tags: Iraq Sues Companies Oil For Food Kickbacks

Timing of VP Selections Will Be Tricky

bigurn — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:58:02 EDT

Each candidate is due to pronounce his running mate. The timing is difficult, because of the Olympics and because of each party's convention.

Channel: Politics Tags: obama mccain vice president candidate