“Psychologists have long known that emotions, just like germs, are contagious. People exposed to a person experiencing strong emotions may experience similar feelings, catching them through facial expressions, tones of voice or some other means. But now there is a new means of transmission — social media. Facebook data scientist Adam D.I. Kramer analyzed postings by about 1 million English speakers and their roughly 150 million friends in multiple countries on the social network to show that the words people use in their status updates drive the emotions of their online friends, even days later. Kramer found people who used emotionally loaded words like ‘happy,’ ‘hug,’ ‘sick,’ and ‘vile’ in their status updates sparked similar emotions in later Facebook postings by their friends.” [Via]

“Much of the shift was based on Dr. Mandel’s research into the chemistry of saliva and the changes that occur with different oral diseases, information used in both diagnosis and treatment. For example, until his research, it was not known that levels of protein and electrolytes in saliva differ with various diseases. Also, in researching cavities, Dr. Mandel was one of the first scientists to link acidity levels in saliva to the development of decay.”
 — Besides pioneering preventative tooth-care practices like regimented brushing and flossing, the use of fluoride rinses and regular dentist visits for the “removal of hardened plaque that even scrupulous flossers and brushers cannot erase,” Brooklyn-born Irwin Daniel Mandel discovered many important things from looking at spit under a microscope. Gross. He helped the world.

I just figured if I ignored it, it would all go away, and by “it” I mean Congressperson Anthony Weiner’s digitized genitalia and the Internet trumpeting thereof. But the “story” is zooming well into week two, and one website, which is at this point entirely composed of Weiner alleged naked pic news, is going the extra mile with a promised all-day rollout of new pictures allegedly sent by Weiner to a lady constituent. (Just kidding: I think she lives out of his district.) So if you’re inclined to play along with this spectacle as news, it seems to be beginning here. Why not? If you’d like to participate in the gleeful attempted destruction of a guy’s career via the revelation of unverified and totally legal and consensual private behavior, have at it. (On the downside, the website claims “we will not be releasing all of the material because some of it is of an extreme, graphic nature.” Hmm. That’s a hard case to prosecute if you’re not going to deliver the goods!) Anyway, today’s another good day to remember that you are what you read.

BREAKING UPDATE: “INTIMATE HOME PIC” of Anthony Weiner reveals fully-clothed Congressman sitting on couch with cats. Boy, that is a real CAREER-ENDER.

I have figured out the perfect murder: Kill someone in Seattle and make sure Sarah Linden and Detective Mustache Drug Guy take the case.Mon Jun 06 04:15:55 via Twee2

Alex Pareene
pareene

It was everyone’s favorite arty new TV show, the darling of the AMC set. And now?

That episode of The Killing didnt really happen did it? That was just some notes that got left out on the desk…less than a minute ago via TweetDeck

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Richard Rushfield
richardrushfield

Someone please tell me what this episode of #TheKilling has to do with the actual killing … and if it will stop raining.Mon Jun 06 05:40:36 via Twitter for Mac

Veronica Santiago
veronicas

For one episode there, I was back on board with #TheKilling. After last night, they should rename it #TheBoring.Mon Jun 06 12:50:20 via web

Luke Bruneaux
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This is what you call a filler episode on #TheKilling. Us #Lost fans know it well. Killing time for the finale.less than a minute ago via TweetDeck

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Anthony Quintano
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Well, “everyone,” that is, except for the co-creator of “Lost”! That speaks volumes.

The Killing just killed. If you call that “stalling,” you’re watching a different show than I am. Bravo.less than a minute ago via Twitterrific

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Damon Lindelof
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“Take That singers Mark Owen and Howard Donald were both trapped on a stage robot during their concert at the City of Manchester stadium at the weekend. The pair were meant to be lowered to the stage on the palms of the group’s giant robot man, Om, but the mechanics failed. It meant they were stuck singing Love Love three metres (10ft) above the rest of the band on Saturday night. Ladders were used to rescue Mark Owen so he could continue his performance. Howard Donald was forced to sing lead vocals for the next track Never Forget while still stuck on the robot before being helped down himself.”
 — Good morning! How was your weekend?

• “Canadians booing? That’s like being spit on by an angel.”

• “Make no mistake, this is a pornographic novel. It’s not, oh, it’s the 18th century, and he runs his hand over her heaving bodice, blah blah. It is pure filth.”

• “NBA players get pedicures, so can you… bro.”

• “There is a cat you will be caring for.”

• “I am gonna produce a play called ‘Al Pacino On A Beach’ and it won’t have any actors, it will feature a different audience member reading the script every night doing that Al Pacino impression all humans have within them.”

• “So apparently the most common anxiety dreams are about ‘being chased or attacked,’ ‘falling or drowning’ and being unprepared for an exam. But what about the one where you’re sitting at the bar with all your friends and suddenly you look over and their faces have all melted off but instead of skulls they now resemble the puppets from the early ’80s television series ‘The Great Space Coaster’ and they start singing Desmond Dekker’s ‘Israelites’ to you?”

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Here’s an unsurprising headline: “Gov. Christie calls Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle ‘a jerk’ for criticizing his use of State Police copter”

“The vultures are thought to be better than sniffer dogs at finding bodies when a large area has to be searched and the terrain is difficult, for example if it is densely overgrown. But the experiment raises ethical concerns because of the risk that a vulture could start pecking at a dead body, the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper says.”
 — German police are using three trained vultures to find dead bodies. The birds have been named Sherlock, Miss Marple and Colombo. Just as you would expect.

The best thing about these adorable napping piglets is that they can delight the Internet both right now and then again a little later on when they become bacon!

So now they (and you know who They are) went and changed the food triangle-pyramid to a circle, with this Choose My Plate to remind you that you are fat. Yeah, it’s totally subliminal except I figured it out almost immediately with my subconscious mind because I remember all that stuff about Egypt and The Pyramids, and how they are a source of Great Power and cool-ass Earth, Wind & Fire album covers, so all this time we’ve been down with the Food Pyramid because we (OK, I) figure that One’s Health is 90% mental, like, if I am at least thinking about Health, then I will be Happier, right? Positive mental attitude, man! You want to hang out with a depressed smoker or a happy one? Sorry, cigarettes are not on the new Food Plate, although that extra circle they have next to the main plate with DAIRY on it kinda looks like it could be an ashtray, you know?

Do you see what they are doing with this food plate? It’s exactly like they did with the cigarettes.

For years it was all good and everybody smoked their smokes and got Cancer and died and nobody complained, some cigarette companies came up with ones that would smooth out your Smoker’s Hack and stuff, but it wasn’t like you were sick from ’em or anything serious, just a little dry throat, but then they started saying that cigarettes were Bad For You and the Big Tobaccos generally deny, deny, denied all the Scientific Evidence until Russell Crowe narced on ’em in that movie about “60 Minutes” with Al Pacino. The Insider, it was called, and it was a great movie if you like your Russell Crowe all grey and sweaty yakking it up on the phone talking about paperwork to Al Pacino on a beach with a giant antenna sticking out his cellie. There’s gonna be a movie called The Even More Insiderer-Insider about the lawsuits from all the Brain Cancer errbody gets from all these fucking cell phones, seriously. Also I am gonna produce a play called “Al Pacino On A Beach” and it won’t have any actors, it will feature a different audience member reading the script every night doing that Al Pacino impression all humans have within them.

Anyway, then there were all these years of bullshit where none of the Tobacconists would tell the truth and then there were these lawsuits which were basically the cigarette companies paying out piles of dough to The Lawyers in exchange for getting away with cigarettes being the reason tons of people died from Cancer and then not being responsible for anybody else dying from Cancer because there are now giant labels on cigarettes that say SERIOUSLY THESE THINGS WILL KILL YOU only in more bullshitty ellipticals like QUITTING SMOKING NOW GREATLY INCREASES YOUR RISK OF NOT DYING FROM CONTINUING TO HOOVE ON THESE FUCKERS, REALLY MAN.

So with this Food Plate, anybody who pays the teensy-weensiest bit of attention to what is “good” food knows you need to eat a certain no-fun way, and now it’s official; They will be keeping score. If you want to get some Government Health Care, the Government is gonna look at what’s on your plate, and there’s gonna be a sliding scale, man, if you ate a lot of Beefaroni, you are gonna have to get a Lawyer to argue in some Claims Appeal thing that you didn’t get whatever you got because of Chef Boyardee, you know? Meanwhile, what happened to Chef Boyardee cheese raviolis? Seriously, you try to eat just the slightest bit on the healthy side with this shit and they discontinue the product, I swear, they got it on Amazon, but c’mon, you gonna buy cheese ravioli off Amazon? It’s kinda embarrassing. I don’t get it, what’s the deal, Boyardee? Why are you denying the cheese? And don’t tell me to eat that “Whole Grain” stuff you’ve been making, I tried one of those “Whole Grain” Beefaronii and it was nasty. And I eat Beefaroni, so that will give you an idea of how nasty it was if an avowed Beefaroni Enthusiast can’t choke it down, you know?

Look, I’m all for making health care available to everybody and more affordable and cutting out the middleman and replacing the middleman with a new middleman, but you need to wake up and smell the ‘roni if you don’t think this new Plate deal isn’t just another way to get us (as in U.S.) in line for another milking before taxes. Meanwhile they got 12 tacos for ten bucks at Taco Bell. You can stick that on your new Food Plate and see what happens. I’m just gonna eat it outta the box and then take a nap.

Mr. Wrong can instruct you via many medias.