Thursday, July 9, 2009
Harper: You embarrass me!
You are a complete dick. Let me tell you a couple of things: 1) It is inexcusable for you to have pocketed the host during the catholic mass...
Friday, July 3, 2009
Thats all I have to say about that!
You know, they even did a poll to canvass whether the media wasted too much coverage on his passing.........
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Random Thoughts
The true secret to his popularity. Ancient Bling! Sophisticated dentistry allowed Native Americans to add bling to their teeth as far back a...
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Today's History Lesson: Isreal
On May 14, 1948, the State of Isreal was proclaimed. For those of us who have always lived in a world that contained Isreal, the origins of ...
Friday, May 1, 2009
In the news this week......
Well a couple of news items this week left me chuckling to myself. First of all was the ill-advised photo op of Air Force One over New York....
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Treasures of the Web: New Digital Library
National libraries around the world, in connection with the UN education agency, put some of humanity's earliest written works online to...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Another Robin Hood?
The more people tell me that there's no such thing as an original idea in Hollywood, the more I believe it. I saw this picture on the we...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
No Pardon for William Wallace (Again)
In the news this week: Two miscarriages of justice watchdogs have ruled that the name of Scots hero William Wallace can never be cleared. Th...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
On This Day: The Red Baron is shot down by a Canadian
On this day in 1918, in the skies over France, Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as "The Red Baron," i...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Auto Maker Bailout Would be Unnecessary If:
Instead of producing this crap for years, GM had produced this type of product: Demand equals sales. Sales equals revenue. Revenue equals jo...
Friday, March 20, 2009
Cool Stuff from the Past 2: A Roman Joke Book
We were talking in the office the other day about how old jokes keep recirculating and sometimes the punch line varies depending on the audi...
Friday, March 20, 2009
Cool Stuff from the Past: Fish Trap
Google Earth is good for something. Recently, an amateur archaeologist found this 1,000 year old fish trap in Britain. It was designed to ac...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Vampire Found: Lestat or Edward?
Neither. This one is a female. This month, a skeleton was exhumed from a grave in Venice and is being touted as the first known example of t...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Austrailian Wildfires
Australia is really suffering under this season's wildfires. They are the worst in decades and have already claimed close to 200 lives. ...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The Day the Music Died.
On this day in 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed when their plane crashed minutes...
Monday, February 2, 2009
It's Groundhog Day!
In 1887, Groundhog Day was celebrated for the first time at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. According to tradition, if a g...
Monday, January 26, 2009
Cool Panoramic Picture of the Inauguration
Now this is cool. Last year, I posted a similar picture of DaVinci's last supper. (Spelling corrected. Thanks Paige) If you go here , yo...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Comes a Time.
Like many people, I have watch this weeks inauguration with awe. Like many people, I have had dozens of thoughts on the new President. Here ...
Monday, January 19, 2009
Edgar Allen Poe
Born on this day in 1909. It would make him 200 years old today. Died October 7, 1849 at the age of 40. He lived a rather sad, alcohol ridde...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Do sunken aircraft make good fish sanctuaries?
Sorry for the double post on the same news story, ya' just don't see this every day! So how deep is the Hudson River? How the heck a...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Hero
Shortly after taking off from a New York airport, this commuter jet ran into a flock of geese and lost power (I am still suprised what birds...
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