Category: humour

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Can hiking cure the U.S. health-care crisis?

Tom Mangan ponders a future where your Boss at work demands:

… take up hiking or we yank your health coverage.

Sounds extreme? I call it a logical extension of what we already know:

• The U.S. has no political will to confront spiraling health costs.

• Prevention is the only proven way to keep the doctor away.

• Simply going on walks regularly can significantly improve physical health and reduce risk of developing expensive maladies like heart disease and diabetes.

read more on Two-Heel Drive


(via Boing Boing)

Brilliant.

It reminds me of my own bold proposal to end racism by making inter-racial marriage mandatory.

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smoking banned on hiking trails

I hate second hand smoke.

So this legislation sounds good to me.

The Recreation and Parks District board in Pleasant Hill, California is planning to ban smoking on hiking trails within the district, as well as other open spaces like parks. …

If the Pleasant Hill no-smoking ordinance is passed, it will not be the first in California of it’s kind. Districts like Hayward and Livermore already have similar ordinances in place. …

Daily Hiker – California district to ban smoking on hiking trails

It’s nice to see California politicians have enough free time to work on forward thinking proposals like this. 🙂

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How to Hunt a Bear

Funny.

Hunting bears has long been a rite of passage in almost all civilized societies. In Greek times, bear hunting was part of the Olympics and they were naked.

Unfortunately, many of today’s young men have never known the sportsmanlike glory of sneaking up behind a majestic ursine creature and shooting it in the back while nude. Here’s how you can help keep this grand tradition alive. …

read the SECRETS on The Content Farm – How to Hunt a Bear

That site spoofs articles from “content mill” or “content farm“ sites, low quality crap customized to gain a high Google ranking. Monetized by ads.

related – Read Write Web – Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried

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Mountain biker set to ride up Everest

What an AWESOME project.

I’m so inspired.

… literally hundreds of climbers have stood on top of the mountain, but not a single mountain biker has ever managed to conquer it. One man hopes to change all that this year.

… Goldstein knows that his task won’t be an easy one. He’ll have to navigate through the dreaded Khumbu Icefall, riding his Huffy across ladders precariously placed over crevasses in the glacier. Once on the other side, he’ll start the long, slow, grueling climb up the South Col and eventually to the top. “I’m pretty sure I’ll only be using the first three gears,” he says. …

Kraig Becker on Gadling

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one year walk/beard grow time lapse

Trying to research the “Pinggu International Walking Road” in China, reportedly the first trail at “international standard” … I stumbled on to bigfatspringroll aka Christoph Rehage.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

November 9th 2007 – November 13th 2008
one year on foot – 4646km through China

His website is The Longest Way.

… I never did find information in English on the “Pinggu International Walking Road”. Leave a comment if you know something about it.

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President Palin did something STUPID

OK, it’s a slow news day.

In her television show tonight, Sarah Palin casts herself as a can-do superwoman of the natural world. She fishes, hikes across glaciers and preaches “respect for the elements” from a speedboat while clad in a yellow cagoule. But the programme has already plunged the Mama Grizzly-in-chief into controversy after a leading conservationist in her adopted home of Alaska accused her of flagrant irresponsibility by fishing too close to protected brown bears. …

Find out whether she survived the encounter on Guardian – Sarah Palin accused of breaking countryside rules in TV nature show