Australian thief battered in fish shop – Yahoo News CANBERRA Reuters – A man who attempted to rob an Australian fish and chip shop found himself on the losing side when the angry shop owner threw fish batter and hot oil at him. ADVERTISEMENT “The hot oil missed but the batter hit the offender and he fled empty handed,” South Australian police said in a statement.
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NTSB Report Brief I never knew there were two plane crashes in Lambs’ Canyon, an old family haunt of ours in Utah. This is one of them. (tags: utah plane crash)
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Untitled Document Young woman buys cute cheap Chinese flipflops at Walmart, wears for a few hours, suffers painful burns for weeks.
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U.S. Agency May Reverse 8 Decisions on Wildlife – New York Times 6 kinds of win and awsum!!!1! Another appointee bites the dust (tags: whale WheelsComingOff CorruptRepublicans) Questions arise on FEMA trailer resale – Los Angeles Times (tags: ThrowTheBastardsOut tailspin WheelsComingOff failure Katrina FEMA)
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U.S. to lift ban on lighters on airline flights | U.S. | Reuters WASHINGTON Reuters – Screeners at U.S. airports will stop confiscating common cigarette lighters because authorities now consider them a distraction from efforts to find bombs and other threats, officials said on Friday. …but flame retardant gels will still have to be carried on in a 3.5 ounce bottle, sealed in a Ziploc â„¢ bag.
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Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Concert Series Just noting for future reference: concert venue moved from the Ritz to Napili Kai.
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Judge continues to press pants suit – Yahoo News …because it’s perfect.
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Nominee: Politics wont trump science | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — President Bush’s nominee to become the next surgeon general said Thursday he would resign rather than allow politics to push aside science.
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kink.fm – Homepage Portland, OR’s FM stalward KINK-FM finally gets their broadcast streaming – I’ve been emailing them off and on for… well, years now, begging them to stream their stuff. I used to listen when I lived in Oregon – one place I lived was particularly good for listening to their distant signal from Portland, because it was a third-floor apartment in an old boarding house in Eugene, with a northward facing window and nearly direct line-of-sight. Ah, it’s good to hear this station again.
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CORRECTED: Estonia dominates wife-carrying championship – Yahoo! News It’s not just funny that there’s a wife-carrying championship, or that Estonia is the powerhouse in the sport of wife-carrying, but that somebody cared enough to CORRECT this particular news item. And it keeps showing up in my feed, like it’s undergoing continuous tweaking.