24 October 2008

When your body is "not yet fully formed..."

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No blog finds news stories about bumbling bureaucracy better than Arbroath , whence the image above and the text below (more at the link)......

A hill on the Alcan Highway

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No switchbacks for these engineers; this was a job on a tight time schedule. Considering the vehicles of the time (1940s), climbing that hi...

Captain Obvious works for the highway department

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Photo found at Nothing to do with Arbroath .

Fake political hate crime - or dyslexic robber?

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Look at the "B" on her face. "McCain supporter assaulted. African-American robber sees the McCain bumper sticker on her car ...

"Two roads diverged... "

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A slightly frustrating situation for those of us in the center .

... in a "yellow wood"

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There aren't two roads diverging here, but this is what Robert Frost had in mind when he wrote "The Road Not Taken." With the...
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22 October 2008

Scotch tape can produce xrays!!

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UCLA physicists demonstrated that if you pull off a piece of Scotch tape inside a vacuum chamber, the tape releases enough X-rays to image b...

Blackwater has its own warship

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BLACKWATER Worldwide — the US private military contractor embroiled in controversy over its actions in Iraq — has sent a private sector wars...

Hi tech, 1955

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Dianne Daniggelis, Miss Illinois of 1955, displays the new concept of portable televisions. The 45-pound Zenith televisions, which use a sho...

Fascinating pie chart

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Probably applicable to many groups... (found here )

Faces in the broccoli

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She handed me the box and I studied it carefully, squinting, even allowing my eyes to blur, to try and see what I was missing. She pointed- ...

Borromean rings

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Three circles which are linked together - BUT - no two circles are attached to one another. The name "Borromean rings" comes from ...

The Obama family wardrobe

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Interviewed by "Access Hollywood" midcampaign in early July. One of the topics discussed was the Obama's status as style icon,...

Obama panders to World Series fans in the swing states

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He'll be rooting for BOTH Tampa Bay and Philadelphia in the World Series. Typical political pandering, and McCain nails him on it. Ca...

Palin's scarf - the Democratic scarf!

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Photographed yesterday, October 21, in Reno, Nevada. A politically-themed silk scarf, with "VOTE" and ... the donkey symbol of th...
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