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What I did today.
Success! I have found the most hideous glider ever to grace a baby's bedroom! And it's $1,280!
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And now for something completely different.
This article was linked on Fark today: What on earth are escape goats?
My favorite blunder: "Control of infectious diseases is very important in case an academic breaks out." -
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Three links I've been meaning to post about the war, linked by various people I can't recall anymore.
WWII's quiet men speak out against torture."We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture," said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in ( Read more... ) -
Beause tax cuts for big business were more important.
Apparently, troops can use silly string to detect possible tripwires on IUDs. The troops spray it across a room; if it hangs in the air it may have caught on a tripwire. It was linked at Fark. It's brilliant and hilarious and so sad it makes me want to cry.
Why does a private citizen have to fight through layers of military bureaucracy to ship ( Read more... ) -
News of the weird
"RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Police said two women dressed as ninjas were responsible for the hold-up of a Richland Township gas station Saturday morning using a samurai sword." -
Take THAT, homophobes!
Woot woot woot woot woot WOOT!!
I am so happy to be living in my state. Now my county just needs to follow suit! C'mon! -
Gay panic defense
You need to read this.
He was beaten over 75 times over a course of six hours, then left naked to die in a field.
The father of one of the three suspects, the deputy coroner of the town, lives in the house where the beatings occurred and apparently did not notice the bloodstains spattered all over his home.
The suspects' defense is that they ( Read more... )
