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We Are Under Attack!

July 1st, 2005 · No Comments · Funnies

Mozillas and Gnus attack IE! Aiyee! If you click it, they will come. Eventually, Bill pops up in panic mode.
Via the fabbleous Boing Boing, natch.

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The Nation: Beyond Gay Marriage

July 1st, 2005 · No Comments · Good and Joyful Things

Ironically, by overreaching with the state marriage amendments, the right wing may have provided the gay movement and progressives with an ideal starting point for just such a campaign. By showing the sheer number of households affected by such broad constitutional amendments, progressives can demonstrate just how narrow and extremist the pro-marriage agenda is. Defense [...]

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Hybrid Cars: Safety Issues

July 1st, 2005 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

I ran across the following via Neat New Stuff:
Are rescue workers in your town trained to deal with car crashes that involve hybrid cars? These new “green” cars could endanger untrained rescue workers if they unknowingly cut through electrical lines that could still be hot.
A couple of interesting links:
500-volt hybrid vehicles pose electrocution risk [...]

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Duncan MacLeod of the Executive Producer MacLeod

July 1st, 2005 · No Comments · Clan: McTiVo

Adrian Paul to executive produce Highlander 5
The Highlander fan list, HIGHLA-L, has been batting this dead pony around in a desultory way for a couple of weeks now. Actually, discussion has been revitalized in the last month, with actual stuff to discuss, whether on-topic or not. It’s been nice to see some old friends ride [...]

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United Airlines Slowdown: Deadheads In Uniform

July 1st, 2005 · No Comments · SABRE2th Tigress: Book 'em, Dano.

A co-worker who’s trying to fly United today is stuck at O’Hare because she was told she’d checked in juuuuust a couple of minutes too late to check baggage and was bumped from her flight. Then she was told that the next flight she was standing by for was oversold, but the airline is putting [...]

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