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4 people were injured when a large older man in a fez lost control of his tiny ‘57 Chevy Bel-Air at a Fourth of July parade.
Okay, I’m making the assumption that the car was driven by a large older man in a fez, based on my vast experience with Shriners (my brother-in-law Frank is [...]

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Pop-bottle snap-on cup makes ice cream floats on demand - Boing Boing

The Fizz Cup is a cup that screws on to the top of a pop bottle. You fill it with ice-cream and squeeze the bottle and the soda rushes over the ice-cream and turns into an ice-cream float that fizzes out and into your [...]

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Evidence Supports Earlier Date for People in North America - New York Times

Exploring Paisley Caves in the Cascade Range of Oregon, archaeologists have found a scattering of human coprolites, or fossil feces. The specimens preserved 14,000-year-old human protein and DNA, which the discoverers said was the strongest evidence yet of the earliest people living in [...]

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I don’t pay much attention to what goes on around me at work - I have enough to do trying to maintain focus and stay on task without getting into dishing the dirt much about colleagues. But sometimes, a topic just begs to be explored.
Yesterday, a co-worker who’s now a kind of tech services/general upgrades [...]

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Salt Lake Tribune - As Cottonwood Mall is demolished, firefighters will train in the crumbling buildings
As shoppers flood stores in search of last-minute gifts, firefighters already have bagged the perfect present: They got a mall.
Through the end of January, the Unified Fire Authority will conduct extensive training exercises in Holladay’s now-nearly-empty Cottonwood Mall at [...]

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