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- Over a half of Republicans currently don't think Obama was born in the US or think it's a matter open to debate.
- Selling crap online, and claiming that it has medical value, is illegal. This is just and proper, because it’s wrong to con sick people out of money. Yet it’s so profitable to do so that it remains a flourishing business. Report medical quackery to the FDA.
- CAKE will be performing at the Pipeline in Honolulu on April 2-3. Pipeline concert tickets are available at the following retail locations ($1 facility surcharge): Pipeline box office, located at 805 Pohukaina St. Honolulu, HI 96813 (rear of the venue, right hand side) Tel. 808-593-9603 e-mail: events@Pipelinecafehawaii.com.
- An old CAKE video you've probably never seen.
- If the US continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared?
- Congratulations to Jacob Ingram of Overland Park, KS. He is February's raffle winner! Jacob will be receiving an autographed poster from our recent appearance for The Bill Graham Memorial Foundation in San Francisco, CA. You too can win future month's prizes by joining our mailing list.
- Holy Cow! The Department of Justice approves Ticketmaster + Live Nation. Time for musicians to start selling their own tickets online?
- Recent management and conservation issues have arisen concerning false killer whales in Hawaiian waters. Two demographically isolated populations have been identified, a small (estimated 123 individuals) island-associated population around the main Hawaiian Islands (hereafter Hawai‘i insular stock) and a larger (estimated 484 individuals) offshore population (hereafter Hawai‘i pelagic stock). Individuals within the Hawai‘i insular stock regularly move among islands and have been documented at distances of 110 km offshore. Less is known of movements/range of individuals from the Hawai‘i pelagic stock; one group has been documented 42 km offshore and individuals likely move beyond the Hawaiian Exclusive Economic Zone. No information is available to assess trends in the Hawai‘i pelagic stock. For the Hawai‘i insular stock, a significant decline in sighting rates from aerial surveys conducted between 1993 and 2003 suggests a large decline in population size. Other available evidence also supports a decline in population size for the insular stock: a reduction in sighting rates from boat-based surveys since the mid-1980s, lower than expected survival based on photo-identification data, and much higher sighting rates and larger group sizes in a 1989 aerial survey compared to boat-based surveys since 2000. False killer whales in Hawai‘i feed primarily on large game fish that are also the target of commercial and recreational fisheries. A number of potential conservation threats have been identified. Individuals from the Hawai‘i insular stock have elevated levels of persistent organic pollutants. Three of nine individuals sampled had levels high enough to potentially influence health. Because of the overlap between false killer whale diet and commercially harvested fish, reduced prey size or abundance could influence false killer whale foraging success or nutritional levels. Significant declines in body size and/or catch per unit effort have been documented for several false killer whale prey species in Hawaiian waters. False killer whales have been documented taking fish off lines in both nearshore and offshore fisheries. Depredation of caught fish may lead to retaliatory shooting by fishermen although, given potential fines and penalties, such shooting is not likely to occur where it may be witnessed; thus there is no information available to assess the potential for this to influence population dynamics. With the overlap in diet with commercially and recreationally harvested fish, the potential for hook ingestion, either from depredation or from free-swimming hooked fish, is relatively high. Based on studies elsewhere, hook ingestion would have a high likelihood of leading to mortality. Bycatch may occur in nearshore kaka line or shortline fisheries that use similar, but shorter gear to offshore longline fisheries, but there is no observer coverage of nearshore fisheries. False killer whales are the most frequently recorded bycaught cetacean in the Hawai‘i-based offshore longline fishery. Rates of serious injury and mortality have exceeded the potential biological removal (PBR) levels since bycatch rates and population levels were first available in 2000. Bycatch rates are underestimated as they do not take into account individuals that are not positively classified as to species or individuals that may break free with gear attached before being documented by observers. A number of research recommendations are presented to help reduce uncertainty and to clarify factors that may be influencing the population trajectories of both the Hawai‘i insular and Hawai‘i pelagic stocks, as well as to provide information that could be used to reduce bycatch rates or otherwise mitigate anthropogenic impacts on these populations.
- Gabe is tuning Xan's guitar.
- 140,000 different species are now going extinct every year--a rate 100 to 1,000 times greater than the average extinction rates throughout the Earth's history. That's one species every three hours.
- Severe frostbite is caused by numbing of the skin so that a sufferer will not be aware of the damage taking place; permanent disfigurement and possible amputation are the consequences.
- Whales save seals from Orcas?
- Bright indoor lighting has been proven to reduce the incidence of mild depression during winter months.
- Compensation arrangements with lawyers can be an hourly rate, a contingency fee (payment depending on the case's outcome), a flat fee, or an agreed upon retainer. Most perilous is the hourly rate, which gives an attorney an economic incentive to drag out the proceedings.
- CAKE is in the studio, getting ready to shred now.
- Foods from which international travelers are likely to get diarrhea are those with sauces, salads, buffet items, or anything moist that sits at room temperature.
- The 30 year obesity epidemic in the U.S. has finally reached a plateau!
- Humidifiers have few real benefits, but if they are not cleaned regularly they may spread common infections or make those with respiratory ailments feel worse.
- CAKE's Vincent Di Fiore is now tracking euphonium.
- Are you tough enough to grabble?
- Six in seven white collar criminals are never charged with the crimes they commit.
- The average public library has less than 1% of the volumes written in the last 100 years.
- This new year, add a request for a "mystery item" from the CAKE Store. For only $5 you'll receive a shirt, hat or sweatshirt from our backstock of discontinued merchandise (while supplies last). No one is guaranteed anything in particular, but give us your size in case and be surprised.
- CAKE has landed in Seattle.
- CAKE entering Seattle.
- As a general rule, if you are feeling worse instead of better after forty-eight hours on a drug, you are on the wrong medication.
- Roller skating, basketball, billiards and baseball produce the most injuries of all sports.
- Be very careful about The Angriest Dog In The World.
- CAKE recommends humor.
- Since the IPCC released their Fourth Assessment Report in February 2007, NOT A SINGLE national or international scientific body has maintained disagreement that "most of the warming over the last 50 years is due to human activity."
- CAKE still can't seem to finish the album.
- Charles Dickens always aligned his bed to face north. He also faced north whenever he wrote.
- 1200 imported limos in Copenhagen? Perfect.
- A person uses 72 muscles to speak a word.
- There are nearly seven billion human beings living on the Earth and the population is increasing by more than two people every second, 200,000 every day and nearly 80million every year. Each extra life needs food, energy, water and shelter.
- Carefully-sited offshore wind power can make a critical contribution to reducing global warming pollution and cleaning up our nation’s energy supply. As America’s first offshore wind farm, Cape Wind would generate the equivalent of 75 percent of Cape Cod’s energy and would set an important precedent for the future of clean energy development in this country. More than seven years’ worth of state and federal assessments have found that Cape Wind would have overwhelmingly positive environmental effects. Now it needs to clear one last hurdle, a favorable ruling by the Department of Interior. Please urge Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to let Cape Wind finally be installed.
- CAKE believes in fairness and realness.
- CAKE values your continued interest in the CAKE STORE. Our effort to provide substance is ongoing. As always, there is free shipping with orders of $60 or more. To further show our appreciation, this holiday season we're also adding a free MOG poster with orders of $75 or more.
- Did you really think you were going to get a decent health care system? Here are the Senators who are most bought and paid for by insurance company money.
- The United States creates twelve times the average monthly tonnage of garbage during the month of December.
- CAKE working in the studio today.
- Congratulations to Devin Nanni of Richardson, TX. She is the December winner of our mailing list raffle! Devin will be receiving an autographed poster from our recent appearance on the Etown radio show in Boulder, CO.
- CAKE rehearsing now for the show tonight at the Blue Lamp (9.30PM).
- Good things happening in the studio today.
- CAKE believes in the value of hard work today.
- Barack Obama's healthcare reforms should avoid squandering a rare opportunity, but probably won't.
- The CAKE STORE is offering special limited edition New Year's Eve T-shirts designed by Aesthetic Apparatus.
- Available now in the CAKE online store: Limited Edition 11"x17" Glow-in-the-Dark moon posters designed by Aesthetic Apparatus especially for our upcoming New Year's Eve show in Seattle.
- President Theodore Roosevelt would be happy to know the brown pelican is back from the brink of extinction.
- Currently there are at least five CAKE stickers posted in public places in the "eternal city" of Rome, Italy. Be the first to find one of them, send us a photo including precise location to info@cakemusic.com, and you will win free concert admission for two during the entirety of 2010!
- Aquacalypse now.
- CAKE RAFFLE - Congratulations to Gerry Gartland of Haddon Township, NJ. He was chosen randomly, through the November mailing list raffle, to receive some gladiator wrist armor. This item was worn during intense battle footage in our video, "Rock and Roll Lifestyle." .Sign our mailing list to receive free ring-tones from our upcoming album, and to be eligible for this free raffle.
- GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH HOLIDAY SALE! Don't let your plastic water bottles end up in the Pacific Garbage Patch. Instead, purchase our durable, reusable "Lonely Spaceman" Klean Kanteen for only $15 dollars, now through the end of the year in the CAKE STORE.
- Anne C. Heller’s biography conveys the conviction and odd charisma of Ayn Rand, whose individualist message is still resonant for American conservatives.
- So that the US can become more consistent, CAKE wants to end socialized police and fire protection now! Let the magic of free market competition improve all services!
- "A poll performed by Peter Doran and Maggie Kendall Zimmerman at Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago received replies from 3,146 of the 10,257 polled Earth scientists. Results were analyzed globally and by specialization. 76 out of 79 climatologists who "listed climate science as their area of expertise and who also have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change" believe that mean global temperatures have risen compared to pre-1800s levels, and 75 out of 77 believe that human activity is a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures."
- Conscience? Lieberman's wife Haddassah worked for a health care/pharmaceutical lobbyist?
- What?! You've never watched I, Claudius? CAKE wholeheartedly recommends it.
- California's per capita energy consumption levels have remained about the same since the 1970s--while every single other state saw their levels rise by up to 40%.
- Saturday, October 17th, is Home Movie Day. Find the Home Movie Day event nearest you.
- CAKE RAFFLE - Congratulations to Clay Bourgeois of Vidor, TX. Through our monthly raffle he has won a Yankees jersey from the team we sponsor at Rancho Cordova Little League. Our handle cakemusic.com is decaled on the back. To be eligible for one of many prizes, sign the CAKE mailing list.
- Listen to Killer Whales in real time. Right now.
- Pseudorca, or false killer whales, are large toothed whales that live in the tropical and sub-tropical open ocean. In Hawaiian waters there is a small, fast diminishing, population that are long-term residents. Pseudorca have long-term bonds. They share their prey, not only with their companions, but also with humans.
- Blue Cross of Massachusetts employs more people to administer coverage for 2.5 million New Englanders than are employed in all of Canada to administer single payer coverage for 27 million Canadians.
- Americans toss out 7 million tons of clothing and footwear annually.
- Holding a cell phone just 6 inches away from your head reduces the absorbed electromagnetic radiation 10,000 fold.
- Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large U.S. health-insurance companies: +87
- Nearly a third of all health care costs are associated with wasteful administration. Fully $350 billion a year could be saved on paperwork alone if the U.S. went to a single-payer health care system -- more than enough to pay for the entire system.
- CAKE RAFFLE - An autographed copy of our last "Prolonging the Magic" cassette goes to Evan Laundrie of Anaheim, CA. To be eligible for one of many prizes, sign the CAKE mailing list.
- Do 87 million Verizon Wireless customers know that the company is a sponsor of a major climate-change-denying, union-busting, pro-mountaintop removal Labor Day rally staged by Massey Energy in Logan, West Virginia?
- Less than 3,000 Americans died on 9/11/2001. This year over 18,000 preventable deaths will occur resulting from lack of basic health insurance.
- Nobel Prize winning Paul Krugman analyzes why there is probably no hope for healthcare in America.
- Americans buy about three billion household batteries annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency—and nearly all of them end up in landfills. The next time you need to power up your gadgets, choose rechargeable batteries.
- With the UK economy in shambles, everyone expected the Labour Party, headed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, to be defeated soundly in the next elections there. However, US Republican Party attacks on the British National Health Service as part of their campaign to discredit US health care reform are receiving wide coverage there and are causing a backlash. The NHS is so popular in the UK that virtually all politicians, including conservatives, support it, but British Conservative Party links to the US Republican party are causing it to lose popularity quickly.
- According to the American Cancer Society, those who have never acquired a cigarette habit live seven years longer than a smoker.
- A sure sign that you are more physically fit now than before is a marked increase in the amount of perspiration during a rigorous workout.
- It is not unusual in a developing girl for one breast to develop before the other; however, it usually evens out within a year or two.
- Teasing or shaming a fearful child has been shown to bring on chronic withdrawal or belligerence
- Mild exercise of stiff joints, though painful at first, can cause a substantial easing of arthritic pain within two or three weeks.
- CAKE RAFFLE - This month's raffle winner Jeff Newman of La Mesa, CA, will receive a signed limited edition Never There single which includes extra songs and a video. If you haven't signed our mailing list, do so now to be eligible for random gifts from the band.
- Find and support independently owned stores in your neighborhood. Just enter your zip code and choose a type of store.
- Conventional wisdom has it that the first animals evolved in the ocean. Wrong.
- The bluefin tuna is being grossly overfished, and is on its way to extinction. The reason? Vanity.
- The English language makes a distinction between blue and green but some languages do not. Of these, quite a number, mostly in Africa, do not distinguish blue from black either, whilst there are a handful of languages that do not distinguish blue from black but have a separate term for green. Also, some languages treat light (often greenish) blue and dark blue as separate colors, rather than different variations of blue, while English does not.
- The health industry is currently spending $1.4 million a day lobbying in Congress on health care reform.
- 70% of all antibiotics sold in the US are used in farming livestock.
- An alarming study published in the Journal of Biological Science this week points toward serious health hazards from genetically engineered foods and pesticides. The research, conducted by scientists from France, Italy, New Zealand, U.K. and U.S., corroborates the decade-long criticism by public interest organizations such as the Organic Consumers Association, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth that European Food Safety bureaucrats and the U.S. FDA have used unreliable tests to assess the safety of food and products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). GMOs are now found in more than 80% of (non-organic) foods sold in conventional grocery stores in the U.S., as well as the majority of animal feed in the EU.
- Did you know that private insurers in the US spend as much as 40 percent of every health care dollar on administrative overhead and profit?
- Senator McConnell recently went on Face the Nation and claimed, with a straight face, that health care reform might crowd out "all of the competition that we have among insurance companies today." What world is he living in!? The truth is that even if you have been paying your insurance premiums and playing by all of the rules, your choices end the moment you get sick. At that point, you're stuck with your current insurer, even if they raise your rates, because your "pre-existing condition" will prevent you from finding an affordable alternative. The truth -- no matter what the rhetoric -- is that there is no competitive market in health insurance today. There are no real choices for too many when it comes to getting quality, affordable health care. Today's insurance industry model is to compete for the healthiest and wealthiest customers, hold them hostage to skyrocketing premiums once they get sick, and pocket the excess profits. We can do better. Tell Congress to enact real reform that gives consumers real choices.
- Every musician feels differently about having their studio work reduced to zero value. Kid Rock says he doesn't care, steal everything.
- Even "pure" or "filtered" honey contains tiny amounts of bacteria that can lead to botulism if fed to infants, although the bacteria is usually harmless to older children and adults.
- Facebook has agreed to let a third party advertiser use your posted pictures without your permission. Click on SETTINGS up where you see the Logout link. Select PRIVACY SETTINGS. Select NEWS FEEDS AND WALL. Select the tab that reads FACE BOOK ADS. There is a drop down box, select NO ONE. Save your changes.
- REMEMBER NATURE CLEARLY -- Fireflies are disappearing worldwide due to habitat loss, pesticides, and light pollution. Those who live in humid climates where fireflies once thrived can try to bring them back by turning off exterior lights, planting trees and tall grass, and shunning artificial fertilizers and pesticides.
- Food cravings, like commands, tell people what to do, but the command lasts only 20 minutes before it subsides.
- One in five teenagers is armed with a gun, a knife or a club.
- Winds from the east and a falling barometer usually indicate foul weather; winds shifting to the west indicate clearing and fair weather.
- Freedom isn't free.
- Things are not so great in Iran, where it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin. Therefore a "wedding" ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard - essentially raped by her "husband."
- Never Gonna GIve Your Teen Spirit Up. Don't do it.
- Filling unused spaces in the freezer with milk cartons filled with water is the most energy-efficient way to use the freezer.
- Salt contains two elements, sodium and chloride, crucial to existence. Excessive avoidance of salt, especially in hot weather, can be damaging to the body and drain energy.
- CHICKEN MCNUGGET PASTE
- It looks as if House Democrats want to create a new tax bracket, for individuals earning $280,000 or more and couples earning $350,000 or more. The rate would be even higher for individuals earning at least $400,000 and higher yet for individuals earning at least $800,000. (The cutoffs for couples would be $500,000 and $1 million.) Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this proposal is that it would make the tax code more similar to the way it used to be.
- Poor? Pay up.
- Fifty percent of all Americans will have a car stolen from them.
- China is becoming so permissive.
- CAKE are in the studio this week, working in earnest to provide listeners with an album of new songs.
- Ants may be the undead.
- Obesity in dogs due to overfeeding is the most common disease among canines, and there is a tendency for them to have overweight owners.
- Holy shit. He died.
- One in three women cohabitate with a man before marriage.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- If you haven't signed our mailing list, do so now to be eligible for random gifts from the band. This month Jennifer Frederick of Allen Park, MI will be receiving a Lance Armstrong Foundation Newsletter autographed by the band.
- Eight quarts of dried beans will feed one hundred people.
- Medical bills are involved in more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, an increase of 50 percent in just six years. Read more about it.
- But have you read the Declaration of Independence lately? Happy Independence Day from CAKE.
- Healthcare reform: Here we go again!
- One out of every six airline flights arrives late.
- Bio-fuels are an important resource, but the zeal of converting forests and grasslands into farmlands could create substantial global warming pollution.
- The reproductive cycle of bees is fascinating - and complex. But could this be why the honey bee seems to be disappearing?
- Take a few seconds each day to help abused and neglected animals. By going to The Animal Rescue Site and clicking the purple food fund box, food will be donated to animals in need. No personal information is needed and it's free!
- Forget about seku hara. Japanese men are changing.
- The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles, which is a few thousand square miles larger than Maryland. This is less than 1/7 the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000.
- Are you still against "gay marriage" because of religious reasons? Deuteronomy 22:28-29, states that if man rapes your daughter, he must marry her and pay the father 50 shekels because she has been "humbled" and her value is diminished. In Samuel 18:25-27, King Saul sells his daughter to David, but rather than asking for shekels, he asks for 100 foreskins from Philistine men. David, being the overachiever that he was, went the extra mile to win the hand of Michel, the king's daughter, by snipping the foreskins off 200 unfortunate Philistines! Later David, now King David, has an adulterous affair with Bathsheba, whom he impregnates, and then arranges for her husband, Uriah the Hittite, to be murdered. He also has at least 10 additional wives and concubines. 1 Corinthians clearly states that women should be silent in church and if they have any questions they are to ask their husbands, but only after church. It is also noted in 1 Timothy, and again in Ephesians, that women are gullible, conniving, and must be submissive to their husbands and fathers at all times.
- The pastor of Kentucky's New Bethel Church is inviting people to bring their guns to church to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment. There will be a handgun raffle, patriotic music, and information on gun safety.
- Hearty congratulations to Chris Rogers of San Francisco, who has won a Kim Carnes songbook autographed by the band. If you would like to be a part of our monthly raffle, simply join our mailing list!
- CAKE wholeheartedly recommends This American Life. Subscribe to the podcast. If you haven't listened already, what is wrong with you?
- Covering a toilet seat with paper is needless, since diseases almost never are transmitted by skin exposure in public facilities.
- An estimated 20-40% of all state highways are not wide enough for today's wide trucks, accounting for many collisions with cars.
- Last week Scientists unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
- Next to bars, work is where most people find new dates.
- Chances of being involved in a fatal auto accident rise nearly fourfold at night.
- Deaths from residential fires occur most often in one of the lounging areas and bedrooms of the home, with smoking being the chief cause.
- Food cravings, like commands, tell people what to do, but the command lasts only 20 minutes before it subsides.
- If you must have a lawn, don't mow it like a sissy.
- Congratulations to the CAKE Major Yankees on their current first place standing this 2009 Little League season!
- It's time to learn about oxygen.
- The largest mental health facility in the United States is the Los Angeles County Jail.
- CAKE believes in waking up early in the morning. Don't wait until the day is half finished to get up and do things IN SPACE.
- CAKE endorses "Solid Potato Salad."
- CAKE concert tickets for the Los Angeles (8/26) and Pomona (8/27) shows can be purchased with considerably reduced surcharges at the following locations:
Fonda Theater Box Office
6126 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Hours: Monday-Friday 10AM - 6PM
Glass House Record Store and Box office
248 W. 2nd Street, Pomona, CA
Hours: Monday - Saturday 3PM - 8PM (open later on show nights)
- CAKE RAFFLE -- This month's raffle winner Kyle Putnam of Shawnee KS, will receive a unique t- shirt designed specifically for the event staff of our concert at Middlebury College.
- RINGTONES COMING SOON -- You may have heard by now that we are recording our first studio album in years. We thought we'd show our appreciation to you, our listeners, by offering you the first opportunity to hear what we are doing for yourselves, on your cellphones--long before the album is even released. We will soon be giving away a series of free ringtones culled from our current studio sessions. If you still haven't yet signed our mailing list, now might be a good time.
- CAKE humbly accepts acknowledgment for our efforts to reduce our impact on the natural environment.
- CAKE recommends that goth people not buy lizards and crank up really loud goth music with the lizards nearby. They have extremely sensitive ears and it damages them.
- Bill Nye "The Science Guy" was booed in Waco, Texas for suggesting the Moon did not generate its own light, but reflected light from the sun. Trouble started when the children's entertainer brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars," and pointed out that the lesser light was actually a reflector. At this point, several people in the audience stormed out, including woman with three small children who shouted, "We believe in God!" and left.
- Get your religion out of our government? Colorado Republican David Schultheis took a moral stand against HIV testing. For pregnant women. According to the Denver Post, Schultheis said he voted against a bill requiring pregnant women to be tested for HIV because, he said, it would wrongly protect women and their unborn children from the consequences of “sexual promiscuity.” “We do things constantly to try to remove the negative consequences of poor behavior, unacceptable behavior, quite frankly,” he said. In other words, if a pregnant woman has HIV she is bad, and should be punished (which is somehow the government's job) by allowing her to give birth to a baby with (or without) HIV, minus any medical treatment that could (for example) prevent the baby from contracting HIV, which would just end up costing the taxpayers lots of money, by the way.
- Tropical deforestation is responsible for about 20 percent of all global warming pollution. With tropical forests disappearing at the rate of 1 acre per second, it is crucial that we protect this vital resource. Urge your representative, a member of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations subcommittee, to tell the chair of the subcommittee that this funding must be included in the foreign assistance budget.
- Did you just enjoy paying your taxes? President Obama has proposed a budget that closes the loopholes that allow corporations to set up off-shore tax havens. But lobbyists for many of these powerful interests are lining up to make sure they keep these loopholes intact. Congress is preparing to debate the president's budget right now. They need to hear from us ASAP.
- Were Vikings exceptionally cruel and bloodthirsty? Vikings were indeed sometimes very violent. However, to address exceptionality, the question is whether Christian armies of the time acted in any substantially different manner. For instance, Charlemagne, who was Vikings’ contemporary, virtually exterminated the whole people of Avars. At Verden, he ordered the beheading of 4,500 Saxons. Vikings certainly were not as bloodthirsty as many Christians of their time. Learn more about Vikings.
- This will convert you to Christianity.
- The Red Cross apparently thinks that a number of senior Bush Administration figures belong in jail.
- RINGTONES COMING SOON -- You may have heard by now that we are recording our first studio album in years. We thought we'd show our appreciation to you, our listeners, by offering you the first opportunity to hear what we are doing for yourselves, on your cellphones--long before the album is even released. We will soon be giving away a series of free ringtones culled from our current studio sessions. If you still haven't yet signed our mailing list, now might be a good time.
- Should Asian-Americans be forced to change their names?
- Fire departments report that a common cause of household fires are clothes dryer lint filters which have not been recently cleaned.
- CAKE recommends The Story of Stuff. Hurry, before it's too late.
- Seven in 10 men who earn over $60,000 cheat on their wives.
- CAKE is about to stop giving away trees at shows because tree winners are not holding up their end of the bargain and sending in photos of those trees. If you know someone who has won a tree but not sent in a photo, please admonish them for being a weasel and not keeping their word.
- Dog overboard!
- Night after night, week after week, Fox News' Glen Beck rails against the president while denouncing him or his actions, alternately, as Marxist, socialist, or fascist. He felt entirely comfortable pondering whether the federal government, under the auspices of FEMA, was building concentration camps to round up Americans in order to institute totalitarian rule.
- Hurry, before it's too late. CAKE wants you to learn how to knit.
- The Red Cross apparently thinks that a number of senior Bush Administration figures belong in jail. Its report on “high-value detainees” from February 2007 has just been published by the New York Review of Books. Read more.
- CAKE recommends tonight's Frontline on PBS.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Congratulations to Parker Kelly of San Mateo, CA, our April mailing list raffle winner. He will be receiving an autographed souvenir program from our appearance at the 2005 Fuji Rock festival in Japan. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- Adult Americans spend an average of more than eight hours a day in front of screens -- televisions, computer monitors, cellphones or other devices, according to a new study.
- For those of you who enjoy the fast paced information world of Twitter, we are posting news, updates, and conversation occasionally through the username CAKEMUSIC. Follow along.
- Economist Nicholas Stern believes that without urgent action, we could be committing ourselves to a planetary increase of four to six degrees Centigrade. Even at a more modest four degree rise, Stern predicts that 85% of the Amazon rainforest will be destroyed, leading to catastrophic shortages of fresh water and mass failures of food harvests. As many as half of all species on Earth may become extinct. A 2009 peer-reviewed study published in Science concludes that the planetary effects of Antarctic ice melt could lead to wildly uneven sea level increases. In the Northern hemisphere sea level increases as high as 21 feet may threaten New York, London, and Tokyo with total inundation -- creating tens of millions of refugees.
- 76% of all electricity generated by coal plants in the US goes to operate buildings.
- Biotech companies are blocking scientists from researching the environmental impacts of GMOs. Read more about this seedy move -- then come discuss it.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Congratulations to our March mailing list raffle winner Mickey Collins from Lake Oswego, Oregon. He'll be receiving the very first tambourine ever used in CAKE. The road worn tambourine, originally used in Vince's mom's public school music teaching, will be signed by all the band members. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- Some 6 million Americans are monitored by computer on the job, many unknowingly.
- Two in three people will survive their first heart attack. Unmarried victims are three and one-half times more likely to die.
- Grow edible watercress.
- Some 25 million ex-smokers in the U.S. and Canada have switched to snuff and chewing tobacco, which have been linked to mouth cancers, bad breath and serious damage to gums and teeth.
- Boiling a favorite dish or plate in milk for 45 minutes usually will remove hairline cracks.
- Men who are self-conscious at public urinals and have trouble urinating while watched will get quick relief by multiplying numbers in their head, a technique developed by the Psychiatry Department at Georgetown University.
- Can this new Hindu soft drink possibly compete?
- If the government transmitted all entitlement payments electronically, rather than by mail, estimated taxpayer savings would be $6 million monthly.
- Let’s rock! Even newborns can follow a rhythm.
- Mothballs are pesticides. They may look and smell like candy to a child, but they are poisonous when eaten and can produce seizures in less than an hour.
- What?! You haven't read Sacramento, CA author Joan Didion's The White Album? We enjoy her sharp observational musings on the absurdity of 60's and 70's California.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Annie Abell of Columbus, OH has won February's raffle! She will receive a rare original rough edit of CAKE's Short Skirt/Long Jacket video autograhed by the band. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- The climate trend that is raising temperatures across most of the world is warming all of Antarctica despite earlier signs that most of the ice-covered continent has cooled during the past 50 years, researchers are reporting today.
- A dash of salt in coffee that has cooked or stood too long will remove the bitter taste.
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