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google rules
google does cool stuff. it now has a built-in calculator. and that's only a very small part of the cool part. it does conversions. so you could type in something like 4000 feet in meters or 25 feet per second in miles per second and it'd spit the answer out to ya. here's the details.
kansas: actually flatter than a pancake
a great study has been done to show that kansas actually is flatter than a pancake.
in kansas' defense, there are some pretty landscapes up here and lawrence, home of KU, is a nice city. also, the rich suburbs of kansas city are on the kansas side. however, it's still flatter than a pancake.
i hope our tax dollars didn't pay for this study.
power from blood
Researchers in Japan are developing a method of drawing power from blood glucose, mimicking the way the body generates energy from food.
Theoretically, it could allow a person to pump out 100 watts - enough to illuminate a light bulb.
now i really could light up a room.
riaa hit list
the record industry appears to be serious this time. they're sending out subpoenas at the rate of something like 70 a day to folks they can track down who are downloading illegal music, including a grandfater and "unsuspecting father". wanna know if you're next?
metallica sues
apparently they've been sharing their drugs with their lawyers.
school bans farting
Children caught breaking wind at Hu Zhuang Elementary School in Beijing are fined about 50p.
Zhang, a school teacher, said: " We use the regulation to help students get rid of their bad habits. And nobody has been fined so far."
chinese must have a better control of bodily functions than we do.
spray-on stockings
"This product is really easy to use; it dries very quickly - you just have to spread it over your skin," explained Hanae Seki, the cosmetics manager at the Sony Plaza store in Tokyo's Ginza district.
The stocking is simply sprayed onto the leg "It's perfect for Japan's summer season, when traditional stockings are too hot. We're selling several hundred bottles a month - people are coming from all over Japan to buy them."
The product is called the Air-Stocking - a fine, silk aerosol spray.
animal ringtones
Wildlife recordings from the British Library's sound archive have been turned into mobile phone ringtones.
The library has sold 40 of the 100,000 sounds in its archives, including the noises made by bellowing hippos and cobras attacking.
Some of the ringtones can be downloaded already and others will become available later in the year.
is that a cow in your pocket???
patient's face catches on fire
if you've ever had surgery you know that prior to surgery you have to have a consultation where they tell you everything that could possibly happen. when i had my wisdom teeth out they told me that it was possible that they could cut a nerve and one whole side of my face would become paralyzed. i didn't want to hear that. i wonder if the doctors told this poor lady that this could happen.
consitutional amendment to ban gay marriage
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As drafted, the proposal says:
"Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution nor the constitution of any state under state or federal law shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."
To be added to the Constitution, the proposal must be approved by two-thirds of the House and the Senate and ratified by three-fourths of the states.
clear duct tape
at last there is an alternative to the silver.
ashton kutcher to play batman
no, you're not being punked. i thought george clooney really blew it but i'm sure ashton will screw it up even worse.
new airport xray
Susan Hallowell, director of the Transportation Security Administration's security laboratory, sacrificed a large measure of her own modesty Wednesday to demonstrate the problem.
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The agency hopes to modify the machines with an electronic fig leaf - programming that fuzzes out sensitive body parts or distorts the body so it does not appear so, well, graphic.
something tells me they're gonna have to get the level of detail on this waaay down before the general public is gonna be cool with them using it.
ps3 cell chip getting closer
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Sony is thought to be working on the development of an entirely new operating system to take advantage of the parallel processing and high speed networking capabilities of Cell, and this would be expected to feature on all devices powered by the processor.
Some commentators have speculated that if Cell products are being demonstrated by next March, an appearance by PlayStation 3 at E3 the following May is likely; however, going on previous track record, Sony is unlikely to use E3 2004 as a showcase for the PS3, preferring to emphasise the PlayStation 2 range and, of course, the forthcoming PlayStation Portable. An unveiling at a special event later in 2004 is a much more likely option for our first glimpse of PlayStation 3.
rent jose
you too can rent jose canseco for a day.
Canseco has set up one of the most compelling shopping carts on the Web. Any youngster with $2,500 to spare can rent Canseco for an afternoon and frolic with the former All-Star and home run champ at his Florida pad.
imported cow waste
don't we already have our own supply of this.
They will use the dung and urine produced by the thousands of stray cattle on the city's roads.
The dung will be processed into compost while the urine will be converted into a biopesticide.
The city council estimates it will be able to produce 160 tonnes of compost and 70,000 litres of bio-pesticide each day.
glow-in-the-dark fish
when these are available here, i'll try the fish thing again. i think the lighting was my trouble all along...
xbox 2 in 2006
sticking with the ps3 i think.
girl marries dog
proud to be an american and not a member of the santhal tribe.
ps2 to wireless network
linksys has introduced a device that will get your ps2 onto your wireless network the WET11 bridges any enthernet-equipped device to a wireless network.
cool.
careful what you download
you may end up with a damaged computer.
ama says cloning ok
the ama says cloning is "medically ethical for research purposes only." no it's not.
no more roe v wade?
i just saw norma mccorvey, aka jane roe, on fox news. she has filed to have roe v wade overturned. apparently she has had a change of heart...good.
hatfields and mccoys feud no more
Descendants of the Hatfield and McCoy families gathered Saturday in Pikeville to sign the truce, making a largely symbolic and official end to a feud that had claimed at least a dozen lives from the two mountain families.
phew...glad that's over.
naked man scares shark to death
thieves steal fake phones
“What the thieves did not know is that they were dummy display phones,” said Andrea Iraheta, spokeswoman for the company.
idiots.
wal-mart dvd rental
in case you missed it wal-mart has its own dvd rental service which is very comparable to netflix. basically you rent unlimited dvd's for $15.54 a month. netflix's lowest rung is $19 but you get to have 3 DVD's out at a time, as opposed to wal-mart's 2.
i'm a fan of free enterprise and all but i hate to see wal-mart jump in to a new market, copying someone elses business model and then sink them. maybe it won't happen.
transformers the movie
i'm so there.
of course...i guess you have to consider the source.
internet don juan
You get the idea.
Col. Kass Saleh of the U.S. Army was part of the force that fought the Taliban in Afghanistan, work fraught with peril and often lonely. But apparently not that lonely. The Army said Wednesday it is looking into allegations that he managed to line up dozens of prospective wives back in the United States and Canada whom he met through Internet dating services. Virtually all of them posted ads on a site called tallpersonals.com, which specializes in men and women who are taller than average.
In recent days, as his chronic courting has come to light, some of the betrayed women have compiled a list of 49 women who were romanced by him. The women are heartbroken and intent on revenge. They have complained to the Army that they want to see him court-martialed.
well i hate to say that's what they get but...i will. that's what you get.
suicide chicken
A member of the public alerted the authorities after seeing a fanatical fowl charging around the city sporting canisters and wires. Quite rightly, the police responded in force and, after cornering the bird in an alleyway with the aid of the bomb disposal squad, safely "put down" the terrorist threat. No explosives were subsequently found.
cool camera
very small, very cool, very powerful and very expensive digital camera. only available in japan though.
junk food tax
i really hope no one in washington notices this.
The British Medical Association (BMA) is discussing a proposal to charge 17.5% VAT on high-fat foods such as biscuits, cakes and processed meals.
250th post!!
mt-refsearch
i just added eliot landrum's mt-refsearch. basically search engines do a pretty crappy job of indexing blogs. people come here via google or what not and are directed to the home page instead of the archives where the information they have come in search of lives forever. mt-refsearch detects that the user has come from a search engine and then automatically searches my blog for those same terms and returns the top 5 entries matching those terms. if you wanna see it in action use this search or this one.
this is the first of many improvements and elements of redesigning i'm working on. basically cause i want to make a change. if you have any suggestions leave a comment.
gollum wins
if you didn't know, gollum, from "lord of the rings the two towers", won "best virtual performance" at the mtv movie awards, beating such notables as scooby doo, yoda and kangaroo jack. his acceptance speech is definitely worth seeing. there's a bit of bleeping out but it's pretty funny.
grinding nemo
it's all a hoax. flushing fish does not result in them being freed to the ocean as disney & pixar would have us believe.
A company that manufactures equipment used to process sewage issued a press release Thursday warning that drain pipes do lead to the ocean -- eventually -- but first the fluid goes through powerful machines that "shred solids into tiny particles."
duh.
teens teaching fbi
three teenage girls are teaching the fbi how to chat like them so they can catch pedophiles online.
"They're, like, do you like Michael Jackson?" said Karen, 14, rolling her eyes at just how out of it adults can be.
Probably the youngest instructors ever in an FBI classroom, the girls have become an invaluable help to Operation Innocent Images -- an initiative that tries to stop people from peddling child pornography or otherwise sexually exploiting children, FBI officials said.
say it ain't so bad sammy
according to wired, corking bats isn't such a big deal. well, except for the whole being against the rules thing.
"You have a slightly lighter bat, and you're going to hit the ball a little less far," said retired Yale professor Robert K. Adair, the author of The Physics of Baseball.
submit your nominees
They're all nominees for the first annual World Stupidity Awards, a dubious honour to be bestowed June 6 - whether they like it or not - on some of Canada's, and the world's, most recognizable public figures. "Some people think we're joking with these awards," organizer Albert Nerenberg said Friday in a news release.
dead man talking
so this candid camera shoot didn't go exactly as expected.
just do the time
all this for 3 months in jail...
Remi Tsolakis was taken to a hospital and received surgery to try and restore his eyesight, doctors said.
Tsolakis was arrested late Monday after flying to Athens from the island of Rhodes. Airport authorities discovered he had an outstanding three-month jail sentence for a minor offence.
meat bearing trees
when they have cows bearing grapefruits, then they will have gone too far.
Fruit from the new Meat Trees, developed by British scientists using gene-splicing technology, closely resembles ordinary grapefruit. But when you peel the large fruit open, inside is fresh beef.
iloo was a hoax..well maybe not
In a statement issued last night Microsoft UK had this to say.
The MSN iLoo was not false or a hoax.
It follows a UK strategy to bring the Internet to as many people in Britain as possible and encourage debate about how the Internet can affect our lives now and in the future.
It follows other initiatives such as MSN Street and MSN Internet Bench where we placed the Internet in real world scenarios.
The press announcement was a UK story about a UK market initiative and naturally was aimed at British culture and humour. However it was a serious concept that came about after the success of MSN Internet Bench. It was properly researched to concept stage with product designers and specialist manufacturers to see how people would react to it in the UK. It was always meant to be a one-off pilot not a major manufacturing project.
The attention the story generated has made us sure that the concept is valid, however there was some misunderstanding about the context of the initiative along the way and therefore it will not be built.
once again microsoft proves itself.. something
deadly dead fish
apparently these frat boys didn't practice their skit beforehand.
Junior business economics major Kevin Sanderson was sent to the hospital Sunday after a mishap in the belly flop competition at the Delta Gamma Anchor Splash. Sanderson entered the competition with three of his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers - Jeff Thorp, Sten Ericson and Gavin Kelly - and three dead catfish. During the course of events, Sanderson ended up with a fish stuck to his face and a trip to the hospital.
"It was hilarious," Sanderson said. "The guys were laughing and I was laughing too, but the girls were all screaming."
As part of their performance, the fraternity brothers threw the three catfish into Campus Pool, performed their belly flops, swam after the fish and then planned to beat each other in the head with them. Unaware that their fish of choice- the catfish - have sharp, pronged spines in their pectoral and dorsal fins, Thorp began pummeling Sanderson over the head with one of the fish.
"It was part of the skit to hit each other," Thorp said. "If he hadn't hit me, I would have hit him."
The final blow came when one of the fish's inch-long spines got stuck in Sanderson's forehead.
priceless.
superman name is a no-go
just in case you ever thought about naming your kid "superman"
Aside from collecting taxes, the authority also oversees rules for names in the Scandinavian country. Officials have nixed the plan of a couple to name their baby Superman.
mike price mess
this whole thing with mike price has brought quite a bit of negative attention to the university. i think they made the right call, especially with some new info that has come out in the sports illustrated article about it. the best quote from the article is from the owner of "arety's angel's", the infamous strip club where price spent his evening in florida.
i feel for price, but if he does has an alcohol problem, which this incident and some previous incidents may indicate, this is probably best for him. i wish him well and of course can't wait to see what mike shula can do with the tide now.
roll tide.
monkeys can't write shakespeare
Lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth wanted to test the claim that an infinite number of monkeys given typewriters would create the works of The Bard.
A single computer was placed in a monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo to monitor the literary output of six primates.
But after a month, the Sulawesi crested macaques had only succeeded in partially destroying the machine, using it as a lavatory, and mostly typing the letter "s".
glad we got that myth cleared up.
microsoft and bestbuy being sued
According to Reuters, Kim went into his local Best Buy and made a purchase using his debit card. Along with Kim's purchases, the checkout clerk scanned an MSN free trial disk. Kim says that he questioned why the disk was scanned and was told it was for stock-keeping purposes. He thought nothing more of it... For a while.
Some time afterwards he discovered that money was being debited from his bank account. It was going to MSN. Best Buy had passed Kim's debit card details to the Microsoft division and it had activated an account for him.
Kim says that he never asked for that account, never used the disk and certainly didn't want it. But he has been unable to get a full refund and has reached the end of his tether. He is also concerned that many others could have been caught in this trap.
crooks.
british superman
The Kent and Sussex Courier said it had received letters from "stunned residents" of the town of Tunbridge Wells, southeast of London, who saw the man in a brown mask and cape scare off hooligans and return a woman's dropped purse.
satellite-guided shopping cart
i hope the stores here get these. there's some things i can just never remember where they are.
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GPS, initially designed for the U.S. military, will guide shoppers by showing arrows on a screen that shows them the correct shelf.
stomach pains
this kid had stomach pains. turns out he was pregnant. yes he was pregnant...kinda. and with his own twin brother.
Doctors at Chimkent Children's Hospital in Kazakhstan originally believed Mourat Zhanaidarov was suffering from a cyst.
But during surgery, they discovered he was in fact carrying the dead foetus of his twin brother.
The foetus had developed into a tumour but was found to have hair, nails and bones.
game consoles going on sale
if you're thinking of getting a ps2, xbox or gamecube wait a couple of weeks.
new 25 letter alphabet
i'm up for dropping a couple of letters from the english alphabet.
"As I sat down to re-evaluate the English language, I was struck by the letter 'C' and its basic lack of function in the language," writes Nielsen. "The sheer uselessness of a letter which just mimics the sound of not one but two different consonants is staggering. It only causes confusion and is probably costing companies millions every year."
college basketball coach joins the party
definitely "poor judgment"
Bruce Van De Velde, Iowa State's athletic director, said Eustachy came to him and university President Gregory Geoffroy this month after learning that a student at the party had provided photographs of Eustachy to The Des Moines Register.
The 12 photographs show Eustachy during the early hours of Jan. 23, with beer, and in several photos embracing and kissing women on the cheek or being kissed on the cheek.
here are the photos.
not a good day for donuts
Douglas Fitzpatrick, 59, of 3 Rayhill Road told officers he stepped on the wrong pedal of his Toyota Avalon when he attempted to pull into the Rte. 126 doughnut shop at about 2:05 p.m., Lt. Lou Griffith said.
"I don't think there was much damage (to the car) to make it inoperable," said Griffith. "I think the guy was a little shook up - startled that it happened."
and in related news...
Bond was set at $3 million on Monday for Alfredo Natal, 48, who cleans CTA buses. Natal thought the clerk, Sukhdev Dave, an immigrant whose wife was pregnant, was pouring too much sugar in his coffee in retaliation for an earlier service dispute, Grand Central Cmdr. Lee Epplen said.
the moral of the story : "donuts, they're more dangerous than we thought"
a likely story
The colorful story lacked details — such as where he was abducted, who the men were and what kind of car they drove — but the man's previous burglary convictions have given police a different scenario.
sounds perfectly logical to me.
german squirrels
apparently german squirrels don't take kindly to squirrel fishing.
Lisa Fremmel climbed on to one of the lower branches of a pine tree at Krumbach in Germany when the squirrel appeared below her and tried to bite her shoe.
The squirrel made so much noise and was so aggressive the 10-year-old climbed further up the tree to try and get away, but the squirrel followed her.
i scream you scream
alright ice cream fans it's your lucky week. baskin-robbins and ben & jerry's are giving away free scoops of ice cream this week. ben & jerry's free cone day is tuesday, april 29 from noon - 8 and baskin-robbins is wednesday, april 30. check their websites to find local stores.
unfortunately neither one of them are near me...dangit. welp enjoy.
france briefed iraq on war
just one more reason why the french have been basically useless since the revolutionary war.
The conservative British weekly said the information kept Saddam abreast of every development in US planning and may have helped him to prepare for war.
bush will be a write-in
this is crazy.
The GOP's unusually late nominating convention -- it does not begin until Aug. 30 -- is the problem. Bush is not scheduled to accept his party's nomination until Sept. 2, 2004. That falls after the deadline for certifying presidential candidates not only in Alabama, but also in California, the District of Columbia and West Virginia. There are bills in the Alabama legislature to move its deadline from Aug. 31 to Sept. 5. But if, for some reason, they don't pass, the president would be forced to run there as a write-in candidate.
bush needs to just accept the nomination earlier and then do whatever hooplah he wanted to do on sept 2 then.
telemarketer tricks revealed
more reasons to just hang up when you get calls from telemarketers. the more time you spend on the phone with them the better chance something like this will happen to you.
no show for o.j.
it looks like neither of those reality shows i talked about earlier are gonna happen now.
"I have no plans in any way to do a reality show even though people have approached me about it," Simpson said on Thursday.
guess i'll have to stick with mr. personality
new reality shows
can you guess which one is the fake?
the o.j. simpson show or appointed by america : who will be the new leader of iraq?
senator santorum
in case you've missed it senator rick santorum, a republican from pennsylvania is getting blasted in the news and most media for stating what the majority of the american public holds to be true. below is the specific part of the interview he's being hung for, follow the link to more of the conversation. AP is the associated press reporter.
SANTORUM: I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts. As I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships. And that includes a variety of different acts, not just homosexual. I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. The question is, do you act upon those orientations? So it's not the person, it's the person's actions. And you have to separate the person from their actions.
AP: OK, without being too gory or graphic, so if somebody is homosexual, you would argue that they should not have sex?
SANTORUM: We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose. because, again, I would argue, they undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family. And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold -- Griswold was the contraceptive case -- and abortion. And now we're just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more you -- this freedom actually intervenes and affects the family. You say, well, it's my individual freedom. Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that's antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality --
peta's plea
do they actually think that this is going to work? or that it actually matters?
not a double murder
the national organization for women (NOW) aren't really all that concerned with protecting women. in fact, they're not at all concerned about protecting pregnant women. it stands to reason that in the case of laci peterson and her unborn child, the killer should be charged with two murders. but NOW doesn't want that, cause that hurts their stand that abortion isn't murder.
"If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark said on Saturday.
fullterton's finest
shame, shame, shame
One officer squatted near her face and passed wind and said, "This ought to wake her up," according to a portion of the memo made public.
pizza hut and burger king capture baghdad
apparently the remaining pockets of resistance aren't enough to keep out fast food.
The arrival of the two restaurants - sited inside giant trailers on a British military base near Basra - won a rapturous welcome from soldiers, whose limited range of rations lost their appeal many weeks ago.
time traveler outrage
this is an outrage. i'm sure there's nothing really illegal at all about this.
Andrew Carlssin, 44, claims in his defence that he is a time-traveller who has come back from 2256, when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history.
flipped bell
only the true geeks will find this remotely interesting. the bell curve is getting flipped.
obituary oops
there was an apparent rash of deaths of famous people this last week.
The mock-ups had been on a development site meant for internal review. But the public briefly had access to them after the password protection got disabled.
good thing it was a mistake.
new constitutional amendment
thank goodness this wasn't proposed until slick willie got out of office. it's a consitutional amendment to repeal the 22nd constitutional amendment. you don't know what the 22nd amendment is do ya? i didn't either. it's the one that limits presidential terms to 2.
revenge
not to give anyone any ideas but...
got hacked?
got broadband internet (dsl or cable) and no firewall or router? might wanna think about investing in some protection. these guys set up computers on the net and watched them to see how long and how they were hacked.
turn anything into oil
if this really works, and of course since it's on the internet it must be true, turkeys everywhere should be concerned.
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If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water.
honda commercial real
did you watch the honda commercial i linked to? no..well go watch it. when you're done watching it you'll be much more impressed with the fact that it was not done with trick photography, it was actually set up and took 606 takes to get it right. impressive huh?
"iraqi most wanted" playing cards
you may have heard aobut the army issuing playing cards with pictures of iraqi leadership to soldiers in iraq to help them identify iraqi leaders still at large. well now you can own your very own set
saddam's loveshack
appears mr. saddam was into the retro decorations.
Troops thought it was the home of Saddam Hussein's mistress, though on the wall and in the bedroom were photos of the former Iraqi president and a woman who appeared to be his wife. The company commander suspected they had found one of Saddam's many safe houses.
billion $ monkey
as a new promotion, pepsi will be entering the reality tv game show market and using a monkey as its gimmick.
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"An unusually dexterous monkey" will do the picking, says executive producer Matti Leshem. "It's the ultimate slap in the face to evolution: the fate of a billion dollars will be in the hands of a monkey."
as is pretty much par for the course, the wb network will be airing the 2 hour show. no offense 7th heaven and buffy fans.
wanted : one dictator with beautiful smile
well at least we know that he has good teeth.
But one patient sticks out in his mind, even though Uthman saw him just once, 30 years ago, while serving as dean of the Baghdad Dental College.
Uthman was Saddam Hussein's dentist.
100th post!!
mystery callers lie about troop's deaths
this is basically as low as you can go.
No arrests have been made.
murdered woman found alive
this will definitely put a dent in the prosecution's case.
Natasha Ryan, now aged 18, was found by police just a half-mile from her mother's home in Rockhampton, in the northern Australian state of Queensland.
Just nine days before she was found on Thursday, Leonard John Fraser, 51, went on trial in the Supreme Court of Brisbane, charged with murdering her and three other women.
hong kong will take your breath away
hong kong is launching a new ad campaign to promote tourism. unfortunately their new slogan brings up thougts of the sars epidemic. something tells me the guy who came up with this one won't be getting a raise.
knife thrower aims low
when you sign up for something like this there's definitely some accepted risk involved.
Circus performer Jayde Hanson – who set a world knife-throwing record only days ago – left his assistant with a gashed scalp after a blade hit her.
Stunned This Morning presenter Fern Britton rushed over to check the shaken woman and screeched: “Oh my God, there’s blood.”
university name criticised
before you go out and blow thousands of dollars on a survey, maybe you should just stick with what you got.
The University of Bradford and Bradford College are joining together to create an institution with up to 50,000 students.
But after more than three months and £20,000 the study produced three alternative names - Bradford University, University of Bradford and The University of Bradford.
those creative brits!
autocomplete - oops
if you use outlook or outlook express or any other mail client that helps complete people's names or email address after you've entered only the first few letters you may want to make sure it's completing the right thing.
giant squid
i'm rethinking this whole diving thing. i mean it's alot of fun, but if there's any chance i'm gonna run into this, maybe not. check out the video in the left sidebar.
finger lost and found
if you're missing a finger and you've been to minnessota lately, they found it.
cooperstown takes a stand
it's about time these celebrities were put in their place for their ignorant comments on the war. to intelligently not support the war is perfectly fine, however to make ignorant comments about the war or to not support our troops is completely unacceptable.
Hall president Dale Petroskey sent a letter to Robbins and Sarandon this week, telling them the festivities April 26-27 at Cooperstown, N.Y., had been called off.
Petroskey, a former White House assistant press secretary under Ronald Reagan, said recent comments by the actors "ultimately could put our troops in even more danger."
Reached Wednesday night, Robbins said he was "dismayed" by the decision. He responded with a letter he planned to send to Petroskey, telling him: "You belong with the cowards and ideologues in a hall of infamy and shame."
spontaneous war celebration
now this is what winning a war and toppling an evil dictator is all about.
honda commercial
this new honda accord commercial is cool. if you're familiar with rube goldberg machines you should find it pretty cool. also, the domino effect comes to mind.