Rapid Realty NYC offers its employees a 15 percent lifetime pay bump for dying a tattoo of the company’s logo on their bodies. And more than 70 of their salesmen and saleswomen have seen Brooklyn Ink Tattoo’s Matt Huff to achieve that pay raise.

“My job’s not to judge what my client gets,” Huff says. “My job’s to respect what they want and do the best that I can.” MORE

Aubrey de Grey, 51, is the man who insists that within a few decades technology will enable us human beings to beat death and live forever. Actually, he’s not the only one to make these assertions​—​that death is a problem to be solved, not a fate to be endured​—​but he is the only one I know of to give eternal life an exciting, just-around-the-corner timeline. “Someone is alive right now who is going to live to be 1,000 years old,” MORE  Can We Live Forever? VIDEO: MORE  Google wants you to live forever MORE  Do these startling longevity studies mean your lifespan could double? MORE

Man sues for the right to marry his porn-laden Macbook, arguing that if gays are allowed to marry then so should other sexual minorities. Chris Sevier, a man from Florida, believes he should be allowed to wed his Macbook. Mr Sevier argues that if gays should be allowed to marry, then so should other sexual minorities. Mr Sevier states he has fallen in love with a pornography laden computer. “Over time, I began preferring sex with my computer over sex with real women,” he told a court in Florida.This appears to be not a passing holiday romance, but a lifelong commitment. MORE

An earthquake struck northern Thailand and Myanmar on Monday, smashing windows, cracking roads and walls, and damaging Buddhist temples. Here, villagers examine a damaged Buddha statue in Chiang Rai province. MORE

Paul Begley: Spiritual warfare is taking place as the Devil is trying to destroy the message of salvation and the messengers MORE

Virtually everything that you do is being watched.  Do you drive a car?  Do you watch television?  Do you use a cell phone?  As you do any of those things, information about you is being recorded and tracked.  We live at a time when personal privacy is dying.  And it is not just governments that are doing this.  In fact, sometimes private companies are the biggest offenders.  It turns out that gathering information about all of us is very, very profitable. MORE

Mile for mile, there are almost as many earthquakes rattling Oklahoma as California this year. This major increase in seismic shaking led to a rare earthquake warning today (May 5) from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

In a joint statement, the agencies said the risk of a damaging earthquake — one larger than magnitude 5.0 — has significantly increased in central Oklahoma. MORE

Included is the ‘selfie’ for the baby. Emily Letts, a 25-year-old abortion counselor who works at a New Jersey abortion clinic, decided she wanted to be an inspiration to other women by filming her own abortion.

A story on Letts from ThinkProgress focuses on her insistence on how pain-free and safe the procedure was – for her. Of course, it wasn’t so pain-free and safe for the baby, but there is no mention of the baby in the entire article – or, for that matter, his or her father. Letts published an essay on Cosmopolitan.com describing how wonderful the whole experience was for her. Letts wrote: MORE

The Associated Press reported Monday that Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast.

There was no comment about whether the aircraft were nuclear capable, but it has not been since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s that Russian patrols have skirted the West Coast and California. MORE

Man walks along a hallway, minding his own business, when a demonic black shadow ghost, grabs his right leg and drags him a few feet before he recovers and runs out.  He might think of making a change in his life, as it seems like an ‘omen’ of some kind. The demon thinking he’s right for the taking, but the man is given more time to resolve some issues.  MORE

It’s come to this. Erratic behavior for those who wish to stay in darkness. When they see even a glimmer of light, their only option is to extinguish it, promptly and violently. MORE

It is one of the world’s most important and best preserved Crusader castles, which once held off a siege by the Muslim warrior Saladin some 900 years ago and was lauded for its beauty by Lawrence of Arabia. MORE

For many years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled groups with values it doesn’t tolerate as “hate groups,” but now the organization is taking its attacks a step further, demanding Amazon and PayPal blacklist bloggers and websites that don’t fall in line with its leftist agenda. Headlined “Financing Hate” in the group’s Intelligence Report publication, the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, listed 91 “hate groups” ranging from those clearly on the fringe to mainstream bloggers and websites such as Catholic Family News, Atlas Shrugs, Jihad Watch, World Net Daily and the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. MORE

The official programme of the Pilgrimage of Pope Francis to the Holy Land was released on Thursday at a Press Conference at the offices of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. The Holy Father will visit three countries: Jordan, the State of Palestine, and Israel. The Holy Father will celebrate Mass in all three countries. VIDEO MORE – Pope Francis Holy Land Pilgrimage schedule released MORE  –  ‘Govt. to Split Jerusalem  MORE – Vatican Pushing for Control of Mount Zion MORE

Odessa’s Jews are prepared to evacuate should the violence in the western Ukrainian city get significantly worse, several community leaders told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. Odessa’s Jewish community numbers some 30,000, down from nearly 40 percent of the city’s population before the Holocaust. MORE