After a flurry of google searches and a tip from Nero, this issue has been brought to my attention. And clearly, it needs to be brought to the nation’s attention. I have found a grand total of TWO articles detailing some news that I find very disturbing:
North Korea may be firing a missile at Hawaii [...]

My goal is to live forever.
So far so good!
In all seriousness, a long, healthy life is an admirable goal. No, it’s more than admirable- it’s the ultimate goal. The goal of all goals. It’s the one mission that everyone subconsciously strives for.
Is YOUR goal to live forever? Well then stop searching for the fountain of [...]

In any disaster movie, traffic is ALWAYS awful. People freaking out, trying to get somewhere, and the highways are backed  up for miles.
Tips:

Back roads are your friends! Out of the way roads can help you get somewhere more quickly than the clogged freeways. Just watch out for gathering zombies!
Don’t waste any time- get to where [...]

Cake is awesome. Sure, the processed flour turns to sugar in your bloodstream. Sure, as a result of that your fat metabolism is slowed down. Despite all that, I love cake as much as the next person.
Why? Well, our culture has turned cake into the official birthday food! You never see balloons and smart aleck [...]

It is June…and the theme of the month is Apocalypse (a.k.a. “the end of the world)! I was just randomly Googling “Apocalypse” and I happened to come around to this website www.apocalypse2012.com. Personally, I do not believe the world is going to end in 3 short years, however, I was intrigued by this website and [...]

This tip comes from my favorite Twilight Zone episode, “Time Enought at Last”. In the episode, the main character is the last person on Earth after a nuclear attack. This is good news for him though, because now he has enough time to read. But then, at the very end of the episode, he breaks [...]

If you keep up with the television show American Idol, you would have already known that Kris Allen won the title as the “American Idol”. Of course I do not agree with this. I started writing a whole entire article saying why Kris Allen did not deserve it and analyzing every little detail. I got [...]

Inevitably the end of the world is going to come. And the end of the world calls for elaborate and questionably legal maneuvers to survive! …for a little while, anyways.
Whether the threat may be from flesh eating zombies, natural disasters, creepy religious cults launching a terrorism attack, nuclear bombs, or war, there is one place [...]

Today, Wednesday, April 22, is national Earth Day. This is what The Nearby Future is all about, saving the planet! We are all about protecting the future, the years to come, whether we are alive or dead. Our kids and generations to come are all affected by our every action and move. This day is [...]

Some days we win. Some days we lose. Sometimes both happen in the same day and we get handed a blended mix of things to deal with.
You’ve felt this way more often recently. The economy is not everyone’s friend, and it’s a trying time for all.
What’s this? Oh! I know! Inspirational story time with Rika!
Today [...]

Hannah Montana: The Movie. Wow…what an original name for a movie title. Anyways, this weekend in Harkin’s Theatre’s box office, the Hannah Montana movie came in first with a whopping $32,324,487. That is $50,86,582 more than Fast and Furious in which came in second! Hannah Montana was just released this weekend, where Fast and Furious was [...]

What’s a better Easter story than pirates raiding American boats and taking the Captain hostage?
Modern day pirates have taken a step backward from the swashbuckling heroes in Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Somali pirates and their guns do not have the same mystic allure as swords and broken compases and cursed Aztec gold.
The picture [...]

It’s not just Stephen Colbert who is wagging his finger at others.
Beijing recently blamed consumers for their pollution.
Really Beijing? Consumers are your friends. If you can’t find environmentally friendly ways to manufacture your products, that’s your problem.

Picture by “jaaron” via Flickr

Meanwhile back at the ranch, the FDA is getting in over it’s head. Despite the [...]

From the people who brought you NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a new adventure has arrived.
Script Frenzy. 30 days. Hardly any sleep. Lots of caffiene. Lots of fun. Lots of chocolate. 100 pages of a script.
Script Frenzy was created so that people could give themselves a month to let their imaginations run wild.
“After shrinking [...]

First of all, I wanted to apologize for not picking a theme. Now I would like to give you my excuse: life got crazy. Rika is a crazy person who can run on almost no sleep, but I sure can’t! Also I usually don’t write that often.
So the theme of this month is “things that should be [...]

Most people have heard about the Rihanna and Chris Brown story;  supposedly he hit her with an umbrella (ironic, I know)  from inside a limo and caused damage to her face and neck. If you have seen the pictures, it is devastating and I do not believe anyone deserves to be treated like this. Domestic violence [...]

Ladies and gentleman, here at The Nearby Future, we would love nothing more than to run rampant with glitter and turn our homepage into a tinsel-y mess of fantastically sparkling pictures that resembles a Christmas tree decorated by a four year old.
But we don’t.
We consider glitter on a homepage a sign of weakness.
Or desperation.
But what [...]

We’re in a recession. Can’t you smell the desperation in the air? If you want to tell which companies aren’t doing so hot by simply perusing one of their products, count the number of adjectives. The more adjectives, the more debt the company has. A company goes through a verb phrase before they unconsciously turn [...]

The nation’s had it’s fair share of misleading health trends, and it’s great to see things beginning to shift.
With the high fructose corn syrup commercials, it had seemed as if corporate America had once again staved off the health research and all movements towards healthy eating. But all is not lost, as there is a [...]

If you take a look at a modern day textbook, you’ll find a disturbing trend: they pack a lot of useless information in a sentence that could be written ANY other way and it would make more sense.
Example: “…Isotopes are atoms of an element that have the same number of protons but a different number [...]

It’s a common situation: you’re in your car, perusing the radio stations when a particular topic comes up that interests you. Today, there’s a good chance it might have been about Obama’s speeches.
Listening to a political commentator after I left the house today, I remembered a phrase an old language teacher held dear to her [...]

Narcolepsy is one of those conditions that makes me grateful for my ability to stay awake during the day. It also can be unintentionally humorous and hard to spell.
1 in every 2000 Americans experience this, and despite how random it may be, it is very serious. Other symptoms may include insomnia, sleep paralysis and hallucinations. [...]

So…it’s “Pet Peeve” week. Now let’s see if I can make up a list of things that bug me…

Honestly, my first is guys wearing sandles…I don’t know why
People who chew with their mouth open and when you can actually hear it and see it…I just find that rude
When someone has the same first name as you, [...]

So apparently I am not allowed to say the “P” word so instead of what ticks me off, I’ll write about what “bugs me”. (Plural = “Buggers”) (I know used quotation marks *gasp*)
Buggers:

People steal your book and threaten to read the end and then tell you.
Random things not in the correct order, like books not [...]

What is your pet peeve?
Mine is the phrase, “pet peeve”. That ticks me off. What does it even MEAN? Pet is an animal. Peeve? What kind of word is that!
So whoever is the GENIUS on the staff who coined that phrase for this week ought to spend a whole hour blowing up 99 red balloons [...]

So today my thoughts began to wander.
What do you call nightmares during the day? Daymares?
Oooh. Deep.
All puns aside, what I really wanted to talk about was growing up. Whether you’re 9 or 90, we’re always growing. With each and every day we learn so many new things (whether we realize it or not). We look [...]

Yep. It’s the inevitable post about our new layout.
Isn’t it funny how bloggers always love to update you on how the website has changed, when probably you readers don’t care?
Alright, it’s not funny. Kind of like getting hit by a Dodge. Ironic, but not funny.
Right. Abandoning metaphors.
In other news, the staff contest is ending so [...]

Congratulations Jala! You won!
Here are the results:

Jala
Piratical Lord of the Guitars
Rika, Cal and Calister F. Wells all tied for third
Hope
JD and Jennith
Socrates

Jala gets to chose the theme for the rest of the month of February and for the month of March! Also she gets a brownie. Brownies are better then Valentines Day, so she’s in [...]

Love is in the air for some people. Whether you are single or in a relationship, love the holiday or hate the holiday, February 14th is still going to come and go by like a slow moving turtle, or like the speed of light (yeah…someone really needs to help me with similes).
But with all the [...]

Here’s a radical idea for you: what if there was no time?
Considering that timing is everything and time is money, where does that leave us? Broke and without anything?
Turns out, this idea might not be as radical as you think. I was reading the Discover magazine today, and I found an interesting passage:
“There may be [...]