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31 October 2003

Mexico's Day of the Dead - Dia de los Muertos

What your Halloween costume says about you.

How Halloween works.

Hope you have one of these.

Facts about Halloween from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Halloween safety.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Oops!!!

Nice

What's the deal with witches and broomsticks?

We all know that one day the zombies will come.

The inside of the pumpkin represents the sin in our life.

d-witch.gif (345 bytes) Halloween has nothing to do with Devil worship.

nono.gif (234 bytes) Learn to fight Satan on his own birthday, October 31, by educating yourself on the Devil's trickery!

Jack-O-Lantern.gif (376 bytes) How did the jack-o'-lantern originate?

How "deviled eggs" got their name.

d-witch.gif (345 bytes) Halloween Babes Gallery

Pumpkin carving is reborn.

Ghosts need love, too.

Some real horror.

Is the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas haunted?

How about the El Camaroncito Nite Club in San Antonio?

There might even be ghosts in Houston.

 

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30 October 2003

New rifle can shoot around corners.

The President's Commission on the United States Postal Service recently recommended the use of sender identification for every piece of mail.

As of this summer, doctors have the US government's approval to make humans taller.

Our little corner of the universe is even smaller than we thought.

Take this true/false quiz.

A soldier with Fort Carson’s 10th Special Forces Group has been charged with cowardice for allegedly refusing to do his duty in Iraq.

More than 400 sick and injured soldiers, including some who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, are stuck at Fort Knox, waiting weeks and sometimes months for medical treatment.

Rosemary Bishop reckons one of her chickens is barking mad - because it seems to think it is a dog.

Global geophysical events, such as huge tidal waves or volcanic super-eruptions, could devastate the planet - so why doesn't anybody care?

fart.gif (342 bytes) Massive gas bubbles rising from the sea floor may be capable of sinking ships.

The technology behind space ship lasers and force fields is a lot closer to reality than many think.

Need some help navigating the Net? Your best consultant might be a kid.

Porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing.

Robots are people, too.

Cosmologists have proposed that a mysterious substance called quintessence can explain why our universe is accelerating.

Media Whores Online takes an unbiased, in-depth look at the vast myriad of whores who call themselves "journalists."

Tired of having to hunt down all the news and information related to the dark side of Arizona?

All nude teen stick figures!!!

Murphy's Laws Of Combat

The purpose of God-U-Like is to take an irreverent but fair look at the whole faith industry and quite often, give a few of them a good kicking.

Here is the most extensive collection of images and information on Victorian-era robots to be found in the whole World Wide Web.

A 20-year-old man burglarizing an apartment pried open a tackle box and found nude photos of young girls, including his little sister.

Drive-thru fit proves costly.

 

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26 October 2003

Software cyberbabes, created by powerful computers, sophisticated modelling packages and active imaginations are getting extremely human-like.

The top 9 e-mail hoaxes

Locust outbreak threatens Africa.

Erik the Red skipper 'Iceman' kills shark with bare hands.

Dog lovers in Japan will soon be able to receive mobile phone text messages from their pets.

We all know that one day the zombies will come.

A Boston University medical school study done in China says eating with chopsticks every day increases the risk of causing joint problems in the hand.

What time is it?

Police arrested a man for stealing shoes at a southern Japanese hospital then found a collection in his home of 440 women's shoes — all for the left foot.

Weapons of singing destruction

Survey: Porn Found Often On Work Computers. I'm shocked!!!

New evidence of a rise in Arctic temperatures may be a further warning sign of global warming.

Ramadan calls Muslim faithful to fasting, prayer.

People who spend many hours every day sitting in front of a computer could be at risk of developing deep vein thrombosis.

Those who oppress the needy insult their maker.

The inside of the pumpkin represents the sin in our life.

Medical office novelties

Techies and theologians are talking about the spiritual implications of the Web.

Why McDonald's fries taste so good.

The #1 energy drink

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
-- Albert Einstein

Barbie now has her own computer operating system.

Quite a few butterflies prefer urine to flowers.

Phony priest ordered to jail.

8-year-old receives ticket.

Man dies with fish in mouth.

 

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21 October 2003

Doctors have warned Australians not to eat slugs.

d-witch.gif (345 bytes) Halloween has nothing to do with Devil worship.

nono.gif (234 bytes) Learn to fight Satan on his own birthday, October 31, by educating yourself on the Devil's trickery!

Welcome to the White House.

clock.gif (1905 bytes) Don't forget to fall back at 2 AM on Sunday.

Can Water Power Your Cell Phone?

Jack-O-Lantern.gif (376 bytes) How did the jack-o'-lantern originate?

You don't have to use the software that came with your computer. There are tons of free programs available which are better.

Sexual identity is wired into the genes.

No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head.

How "deviled eggs" got their name.

I have been amazed to see ants emerge seemingly unharmed after being zapped in the microwave, usually after hitching a ride on my coffee cup. They seem to run around quite happily while the microwave is in operation. How can they survive this onslaught?

Giant jellyfish off Japanese coast.

Mattel is trying to keep girls from giving up their Barbies.

Lap dances may now be illegal in Los Angeles, but don't tell that to Carmen Electra.

Woman survives after shooting herself in heart with nail gun.

snoopy.gif (1045 bytes) Dog Shoots Owner in North Idaho.

Guangzhou restaurants given go-ahead to serve civet cat.

 

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19 October 2003

FORT STEWART, Ga., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Hundreds of sick and wounded U.S. soldiers including many who served in the Iraq war are languishing in hot cement barracks here while they wait -- sometimes for months -- to see doctors.

maleicon.gif (157 bytes) Men get a rise out of coffee.

A lone turtle living in a Vietnamese city lake could be the last of its kind.

grishnock.gif (1562 bytes) Animal control suspects mountain lion loose in Montgomery County, Texas.

beer.gif (1645 bytes) Police Nab Vicious Crow by Getting It Drunk.

A man was burned by a Nokia mobile phone in Vietnam, three days after another Nokia phone exploded and injured a woman in southern Vietnam.

There is no such thing as a "beer belly", according to scientists.

d-witch.gif (345 bytes) Halloween Babes Gallery

 

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17 October 2003

There is a longstanding myth that the Great Wall of China is the only manmade object visible from space. It and several variations on the theme are great fodder for water cooler arguments. In reality, many human constructs can be seen from Earth orbit.

Strawberry Pop Tarts may be a cheap and inexpensive source of incendiary devices.

It seems as if we've won the war but are losing the peace... in Europe, in 1946.

Make your own angel ornaments.

Find a flu shot location near you.

Levels of intelligence far greater than our own are going to evolve within this century. But probably not where I work.

The Official Purple Frog Appreciation Page.

The Official Maria Spiropulu Appreciation Page.

The flap of a butterfly's wings in Central Park could ultimately cause an earthquake in China.

Three things you can count on in life: death, taxes, and screwing up.

Pumpkin carving is reborn.

The Top 100 web sites according to PC Magazine. Didn't see mine on the list (?).

Truth, War and Consequences

20 great Google secrets

People are returning to their patriotic, American roots, and to focus on home and family.
(Thanks to Dan)

 

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12 October 2003

Did Columbus “discover” America?

What's the deal with witches and broomsticks?

The Mystery of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam".

Was God superimposed on a mid-sagittal outline of the human brain in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting of "The Creation of Adam"?

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Scientists have announced tantalising hints that the Universe is actually relatively small, with a hall-of-mirrors illusion tricking us into thinking that space stretches on forever.

Scientific Study of Consciousness-Related Physical Phenomena.

Florida, the lightning capital of the nation, lived up to its reputation when 20 prized, pregnant cows were killed by a bolt that hit an oak tree they were huddled under at a north Florida farm.

Why a broken heart hurts so much.

Crayola to Introduce Four New Colors.

Ode To Beer

The astronaut aboard China's first ever manned space mission will be armed with a gun and knives in case the capsule comes down in hostile territory. Phasers on stun!!!

Swarms of ladybugs are attacking golfers.

A drunken-driving suspect died after he kicked out a police car window, jumped out of the moving vehicle and was run over by two other patrol cars.

 

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8 October 2003

A scientist and a civic-minded activist, Benjamin Franklin called upon his scientific intuition and skills to address broad societal questions at the time the US was founded.

Pareidolia is a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct.

This page investigates how common phrases came to be.

In an era of cost cutting, Hewlett-Packard has leased two new Gulfstream jets for its executives to use.

Angelina Jolie likes to eat cockroaches.

This is broken.

One out of five insects is a species of beetle.

Beer is food.

Expert who once called bears harmless is fatally mauled.

How about a refreshing beverage from Taiwan?

Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic™ knows.

Biological basis for creativity linked to mental illness.

Oil and gas will run out too fast for doomsday global warming scenarios to materialize.

How to cook an alien.

Sound can travel through space, because space is not the total vacuum it's often made out to be.

Sleep position gives personality clue.

Weird, Strange & Just Plain Bad Art Collection.

Throughout the ages, man has pondered the question, "How much is inside?"
(Thanks to Dan)

Blessing of the Pets can look a bit like the christening of Noah's Ark.

13 tons of pigeon doo toted from building.

 

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