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    In (Bad) Dreams

    February 11, 2008 - By 

    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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    Note the Rhino

    January 25, 2008 - By 

    WorldRider: Journey of Adventure & Discovery Worldrider Allan Karl is in Africa, and having left his BMW “Doc” at the shop, he’s on safari. Photos like this are typical – his blog WorldRider has amazing stuff all the time about travel, food, new friends, and scenic wonders. This one is particularly stunning, and as he helpfully notes, “note the rhino.” [tags]WorldRider, rhino[/tags]

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    Santa Goat versus Saint Nicholas

    December 29, 2007 - By 

    Here’s one version of jolly old Kris Kringle: a cute little white goat with golden horns wishes the whole world a Keroppi Christmas, via Joi Ito’s Web: Merry Christmas [kml_flashembed movie="http://video.sanriotown.com/flaon/us/loader.swf?key=5f1c1545436c043f" width="400" height="300" wmode="transparent" /] And here’s another version, which I also put in a post at the Holy Moly site, seeing as it’s a video of the Feast of St Nicholas as celebrated at Canterbury Cathedral, and we’re actually St Nicholas’ little Episcopal church in Elk Grove Village, IL: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/bjSAn7piFIk" width="400" height="326" wmode="transparent" /] The video is narrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, also known as “the ABC”…

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    Things To Be Thankful For

    November 22, 2007 - By 

    I am thankful that so far, the administration of this country hasn’t found a way to blame the following on a Congress that won’t hand him their war budget on a silver platter: kdka.com – Military Asks Wounded Soldiers To Return Portions Of Signing Bonuses PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases. Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing…

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    HULK’S PUNY HUMAN HANGS UP THE OVERSIZED KEYBOARD

    October 21, 2007 - By 

    HULK’S DIARY THAT IS ON THE INTERNET Hello. Kevin Church here. If you didn’t know, I’m the guy who helps Hulk write this diary and it’s pretty obvious that old Jade Jaws isn’t going to update any time in the foreseeable future.First of all, I’d like to apologize to the fans that (still) come back to check things for not making this post earlier. I’d also like to thank them for their continued support of this silly little project. I do notice that this site still gets hundreds of hits each day, and am very sorry that there’s not been…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Hot Off The Presses

    Fun with Find and Replace

    October 20, 2007 - By 

    After reading Joey’s inaugural Excited States post, I ran across something in David Beard’s Archaeology in Europe blog that got me started thinking about Neanderthals, mice, FOX News reporters, and Democratic Congresspersons. Fooling around with “find and replace” in Wordpad is childish good fun. Neanderthals had key speech gene, researchers say | The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/19/neanderthal_speech/ FOX News reporters may have a reputation in popular culture as a lumbering, grunting people, but researchers have discovered that they did have a gene thought to play a key role in speech. Samples of DNA were retrieved from two FOX News reporter fossils found…

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    Critical Manners: Less Testosterone, More Courtesy

    October 20, 2007 - By 

    Critical Manners Critical Manners: a revolutionary act of courtesy. Come put the nice back in the bike world with Critical Manners! A helmet-wearing, bell-ringing, blinkie-sportin’ good time for you and all your bike friends. Practice synchronized signaling, single file riding, stopping at stop signs and NOT blowing red lights. Critical Manners will brake for pedestrians, trolleys, and even the occasional SUV. If you’ve ridden in Critical Mass, you know about the “testosterone brigade”. Maybe it’s time you rode with Critical Manners — We take obedience of the law ridiculously seriously. As seen at Accordion Guy… my husband David wants the…