In a rare piece of good news for those who like a pint, Spanish researchers say beer can help someone who is dehydrated retain liquid better than water.Prof Manuel Garzon, of Granada University, also claimed the bubbles in beer help to quench the thirst and that its carbohydrate content can help to replace lost calories. [here]

erm. this is really news? i even had soccer coaches in high school tell me that beer was probably one of the best sources of carbs if you were old enough to drink. shrug. i’d rather drink beer than eat something 75% of the time anyhow. mmmm beer.

hrm. this guide was originally printed in 1943. if you were wondernig what US servicemen were doing in iraq in 1943, they were there to woop some hilter ass. atleast someone in the war dept was nice enough to print out a handy-dandy quick guide about iraq. there’s even some commonly used translations towards the end of the pdf file. i like how they even scanned in the checkout log so you can see this book was checked out a total of 2 times before being scanned. [ wonkette ]

remember ransomware? instead of having to pay hundred of dollars to unlock your files, now you can pay $10.99 to stop a trojan from deleting all of your files. and the trojan will delete some files to show you that they’re serious. heh. help, my computer is holding me ransom!

oh yeah, check out the readme that comes with one of the trojans.

Hello, your files are encrypted with RSA-4096 algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA).

You will need at least few years to decrypt these files without our software. All your private information for last 3 months were collected and sent to us.

To decrypt your files you need to buy our software. The price is $300.

To buy our software please contact us at [e-mail address varies] and provide us with your personal code [code varies]. After successful purchase we will send your decrypting tool, and your private information will be deleted from our system.

If you will not contact us until 07/15/2007 your private information will be shared and you will lost all your data.

Glamorous team

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