30 November 2003
I'm into downward
mobility.
What NOT to do with your
microwave oven.
Padre Island National Seashore, according to a nationwide survey
completed in 1993 by the National Parks Service, receives
more trash than any other national park along the U.S coast.
29 November 2003
What was God doing before
he created the world?
There is now an overwhelming case that cannibalism is a worldwide phenomenon, stretching back
to our evolutionary origins.
Thank you for your letter rejecting my application for employment with
your firm.
Welcome, friends of the asinine, to the wide and wonderful world
of Rude Food.
Bio-chip implant
"VeriPay" arrives for cashless checkless society.
~!@#$%^&*()_+!!!
Three cheers for beer ads.
23 November 2003
Speed
is becoming an increasingly crucial component of how American forces fight.
Why a 145-pound man can outeat a
former Defensive tackle nicknamed "the fridge."
Mythology considered lightning the plaything of "the
gods." Science explained its atmospheric physics. Now research shows it also can be shaped by human hands.
A disastrous string of preventable communication failures,
software misuse and power line shut-downs caused the landmark electricity blackout
that struck North America in August.
An appeals court this week put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique
that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert
eavesdropping device.
Strange
things happen in the 700 miles of mostly wet wilderness that comprise the Okefenokee
Swamp.
Autistic savants are born with miswired neurons - and
extraordinary gifts. The breakthrough science behind our new understanding of the brain.
How do you know that you are not a brain in a vat?
Philosophical humor
Looking for a holiday gift?
The most powerful conventional bomb in the U.S. arsenal exploded
in a huge, fiery cloud on a Florida test range on Friday after being dropped by an Air
Force cargo plane in the last developmental step for the nearly 11-ton"mother of all bombs."
19 November 2003
Scientists have found a sub-atomic particle they
cannot explain using current theories of energy and matter.
18 November 2003
Singapore, where
prostitution is legal and oral sex is a crime, is doing some soul searching over morality,
sexuality and the law.
For the hundreds of U.S. helicopters ferrying troops and supplies
around Iraq, one of the most persistent dangers is also an old one: rocket-propelled
grenades.
Aluminum
foil hats will block the signals emitted by the radio tags that will replace bar-code
labels on consumer goods.
Charles Burwell, a native Houstonian artist, produces a diverse body of art that attracts an eclectic group
of clients and collectors.
17 November 2003
You can now get a ticket in Cleveland for driving a motor vehicle
while smelling of alcohol.
No matter if you pass the Breathalyser with flying colors, they can and will fine you.
(Thanks to Val)
Ladies Against
Women
16 November 2003
An ancient ear of corn shows that farmers made drastic genetic
modifications to corn at least 4,400 years ago.
Pennsylvania Hepatitis Cases Linked to
Restaurant Climb Past 500, Likely to Rise; Three Dead.
The sun
is demanding everyone's attention, three weeks into perhaps the most dramatic and
unexpected chain of eruptions ever observed venting from its seething, bubbling surface.
A panel of outside experts told the CIA that advances in
technology due to genomic research could produce the worst known diseases and the
"most frightening" biological
weapons, a CIA report said on Friday.
Alternative and future history.
Sponsored by Cornell University's Institute for Digital
Collections (CIDC) this image-bank provides a visual resource for the study of the Fantastic or of the supernatural
in fiction and in art.
I finally got around to posting this.
Chinese cricket
culture
Champions of Nonviolence
11 November 2003
Overworked employees are fed up: a survey finds 8 out of 10
Americans want a new
job.
10 November 2003
The idea that you should not telegraph
your punch applies to a great many things.
9 November 2003
Biologists have linked a mysterious, underwater farting sound
to bubbles coming out of a herring's anus.
What might have happened if the US had not
gotten involved in WWII.
Veterans Day, 11
November 2003, is the day set aside to thank and honor ALL those who served honorably in
the military - in wartime or peacetime.
A 13-year-old boy accused of giving a girl a hickey
at Richland Middle School is facing a misdemeanor assault charge.
Not Enough
Troops for Veterans Day Parades.
Who are the Arabs?
In incident after troubling incident, federal agencies have been
quietly censoring
information that previously had been available on their Web sites and otherwise
curbing public oversight.
Perhaps no choice has divided mankind more than Ginger vs. Maryann.
Scientists say they have found the first evidence of a brain tumor
in a dinosaur.
Fish on Prozac? How
depressing!
Kill Them All, Let God Sort Them Out!
Study reveals why beer bars are more fun
than wine bars.
The Troops Need Your Help.
Jessica
Lynch Says Military Manipulated Her Story.
The labyrinthine and surprising
ties between the Bushes and the Bin Ladens.
Experts have debated for several years now whether expression in China is
opening up or whether a steady stream of key arrests or removals of Chinese writers and
editors means that speech is being diminished.
America's fiscal position has deteriorated
fast during George Bush's presidency. It will not be easy to reverse.
2 November 2003
Attack of the killer grasshoppers
Web-site porn
attracts women by the millions.
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