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Oh, dear: Woman’s dream of bomb results in oil rig evacuation - Boing Boing
A woman who works on an oil rig in the North Sea had a dream that a bomb was on the platform. When she was overheard recalling the dream, it resulted in an evacuation.

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One of the blessings of a “mixed” family heritage is that you get to eat comfort foods from more than one buffet line. Case in point: yesterday’s family confab and lunch nosh, which was held at Max’s Delicatessen in Skokie.
I knew going in that on a bitterly cold day, fighting a “bug” and trying not [...]

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Wide BlackBerry Outage Is Reported - New York Times
E-mail service of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry smartphones experienced a “critical severity outage” on Monday, the company told clients in an e-mail.

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US gov wants data on Europe air passengers - Boing Boing
The US government is pressuring 27 European Union nations to agree on new transatlantic air travel security measures which include armed guards on all flights from Europe to America operated by US airlines.
Wait, why weren’t we doing this in the period immediately following 9/11, [...]

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Amphibian eats mother’s skin - Boing Boing
Here’s an appetizing video of baby caecilians, a mysterious subterranean order of amphibians, peeling and eating the skin off their mother’s tail.
Mmmm, yummy, Mummy! If we hadn’t been mammals, but some sort of insectoid, we’d call this “skin-feeding” or “tail-feeding.” I bet some skiffy author will end up [...]

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