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Latest Articles: Miscellaneous
Sad News. Bob Chapman Near Death
Post Date: 2012-06-03 19:16:50 by christine
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Al Adask reports that Bob is dying from pancreatic cancer. I am so, so sorry to hear it. He's always been one of my favorites and one of the good guys.
Phoenix police say mom forgets baby on car roof
Post Date: 2012-06-03 03:12:04 by Tatarewicz
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PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have arrested a woman who allegedly drove off after forgetting that her 5-week-old baby was in a car seat on the roof of her vehicle. Officer James Holmes said officers were called out early Saturday after witnesses found a child strapped in a safety seat in the middle of an intersection. The boy wasn't hurt. He's now in the custody of Arizona Child Protective Services. Authorities say the child's mother, 19-year-old Catalina Clouser, her boyfriend and their friends had been smoking marijuana earlier in the evening at a nearby park. Upset that her boyfriend was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence, police say Clouser went ...
All Grown Up, How Time Flies
Post Date: 2012-06-02 13:35:05 by James Deffenbach
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The Power of Words
Post Date: 2012-06-02 12:07:21 by James Deffenbach
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Dad faces poaching charge for fake fishing
Post Date: 2012-06-02 05:34:19 by Tatarewicz
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A German dad who tried to impress his kids while on holiday by “catching” a couple of fish that he had actually bought at a supermarket - could face prison after being prosecuted for poaching. Alexander Donninger was on holiday in Austria with his family when he decided on the trick to make his kids think he was a top fisherman, newspaper Die Welt reported on Tuesday. He went to a supermarket in the Kufstein district and bought two frozen trout – already gutted and ready to cook - not anticipating how tangled his lines were about to become. Once back at the lake where he and his kids were “fishing” he tied them to the end of lines and dangled them in the lake ...
Natural disasters that might destroy our planet
Post Date: 2012-06-01 04:56:38 by Tatarewicz
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1, Super volcano 2, solar flares 3. Methane hydrate gun hypothesis... See remaining seven (with illustrations) at link. Click for Full Text!
The human penis is a puzzler, no bones about it
Post Date: 2012-06-01 02:07:26 by Tatarewicz
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The penis. It comes in so many different shapes and sizes … and that’s just in humans. As you would imagine, different species have very different penises. The males in most mammal species, including cats, dogs and rats, have a bone in their penis called a “baculum”, or “os penis”. Of course human males don’t possess an os penis – in fact, humans are the only primate species besides the spider monkey to be lacking in this department. But we aren’t the only mammal not to have one: whales, horses, rhinos, rabbits, elephants, marsupials and hyenas all go without. So, why do some species have a penis bone? Well, simply put, to help males ...
Oregon marriage proposal raises the bar, goes viral on YouTube
Post Date: 2012-05-31 14:45:16 by Ferret
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Was there any doubt she’d say yes? If there’s one thing YouTube has taught us, it’s that Americans like a good love story with ridiculous choreography. Following that trend, a couple in Portland, Ore., raised the bar for marriage proposals In a video going viral, Amy Frankel sits in the open back of a Honda CRV wearing a pair of headphones as the car slowly drives down the street. A song starts playing. It’s Bruno Mars’ “Marry You.” Soon people start marching in the street behind the car, lip-syncing and dancing to the music — first two, then four, then six, then 16, then many, many more. At the end of the song, the crowd parts, and her ...
Special Scent of Age: Body Odor Gives Away Age
Post Date: 2012-05-31 04:25:59 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 30, 2012) — New findings from the Monell Center reveal that humans can identify the age of other humans based on differences in body odor. Much of this ability is based on the capacity to identify odors of elderly individuals, and contrary to popular supposition, the so-called 'old-person smell' is rated as less intense and less unpleasant than body odors of middle-aged and young individuals. "Similar to other animals, humans can extract signals from body odors that allow us to identify biological age, avoid sick individuals, pick a suitable partner, and distinguish kin from non-kin," said senior author Johan Lundström, a sensory ...
Debunking the Myth of Intuition
Post Date: 2012-05-31 03:40:53 by Tatarewicz
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Can doctors and investment advisers be trusted? And do we live more for experiences or memories? In a SPIEGEL interview, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman discusses the innate weakness of human thought, deceptive memories and the misleading power of intuition. Info SPIEGEL: Professor Kahneman, you've spent your entire professional life studying the snares in which human thought can become entrapped. For example, in your book, you describe how easy it is to increase a person's willingness to contribute money to the coffee fund. Kahneman: You just have to make sure that the right picture is hanging above the cash box. If a pair of eyes is looking back at them from ...
California's Senate passes bill to ban gay therapy
Post Date: 2012-05-31 02:41:01 by Tatarewicz
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SACRAMENTO, May 30, 2012 (Reuters) — A bill that would ban a therapy that aims to reverse homosexuality in children and teens passed California's Senate on Wednesday, moving the state a step closer to becoming the first in the nation to ban the controversial treatment. The 23-13 vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate marked a major victory for gay rights advocates who say the therapy has no medical basis because homosexuality is not a disorder, and that it can cause depression and lead to substance abuse and suicide. The bill still needs to be passed by the state Assembly and signed by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown before it can become law. It is expected to be taken up by ...
Zinger Mencken Quote
Post Date: 2012-05-30 10:52:23 by christine
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Volvo’s self-driven car convoy treks 125 miles across Spanish motorway
Post Date: 2012-05-30 03:35:03 by Tatarewicz
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Motorists may soon be able to use their cellphones while driving without fear of getting a ticket. In fact, they may be able to take their eyes off the road completely. Volvo has successfully completed a public test of a self-driven convoy of cars. A human driver led the convoy of three self-driven vehicles, which mimicked the lead driver's actions through a wireless link. "Driving among other road-users is a great milestone in our project. It was truly thrilling," Linda Wahlstroem, project manager for the Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) project at Volvo Car Corp., told the BBC. "We covered 200km in one day and the test turned out well. We're really ...
Bill Bonner's alternative university grad lecture
Post Date: 2012-05-28 06:55:02 by Tatarewicz
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We spent the weekend in Charlottesville, VA…at the UVA graduation for our son, Henry. The University of Virginia is probably the most handsome campus in America. Especially in May. It has a green central esplanade bordered by columned buildings in the Greco-Roman style. At one end is the famous Rotunda. Flowers and trees bloom everywhere. We know of no other president who achieved anything equivalent. Some waged dubious wars. Some launched weasely social welfare programs. The best of them idled away their careers, shaking hands, making deals, and otherwise shuffling offstage leaving it no better or worse than it was when the curtain first went up. But Mr. Jefferson left an ...
US behind Russia plane crash: Russian military intelligence org.
Post Date: 2012-05-28 03:49:36 by Tatarewicz
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We know that they have special equipment that can cut communications between an aircraft and the ground or interfere with the parameters on board.” A general with Russia's military intelligence agency (GRU) Russia’s military intelligence organization (GRU) believes that Washington was behind the crash of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane in Indonesia earlier in May, which killed 45 passengers onboard. “We know that they have special equipment that can cut communications between an aircraft and the ground or interfere with the parameters on board,” Christian Science Monitor quoted a GRU general as saying, without mentioning his name. The Superjet, which was ...
British Cookie law set to come into force
Post Date: 2012-05-27 03:38:34 by Tatarewicz
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Computer hard drive The cookie laws were drawn up to help privacy on the web Thousands of UK websites are expected to be in breach of a law that dictates what they can log about visitors. European laws that define what details sites can record in text files called cookies come into force on 26 May. Cookies are widely used to customise what repeat visitors see on a site and by advertisers to track users online. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it would offer help to non-compliant sites rather than take legal action against them. Action plan The regulations say websites must get "informed consent" from users before they record any detailed information in ...
Woman fined for blowing whistle into phone
Post Date: 2012-05-26 08:59:02 by Tatarewicz
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A 61-year-old German woman has been fined €800 for blowing a whistle down the telephone at a call-centre worker and damaging her hearing - after she got fed up with constant cold-calls to her house. The unnamed woman from Pirmasens in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate told a judge in a local court that she was so annoyed by the unending stream of calls from marketing companies last August that she snapped and blew a whistle into the receiver. She was hoping just to deter the company from calling her again, but ended up giving herself a criminal record - and the female call-centre employee long-term hearing problems and tinnitus due to the effort she put into the ...
Back to EDEN Gardening Video)
Post Date: 2012-05-22 21:32:57 by Itistoolate
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Back to Eden
Speech by members of Congress drops a grade level due to conservatives and new members, according to study
Post Date: 2012-05-22 00:45:02 by Tatarewicz
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Are members of Congress dumbing down their discourse? The Sunlight Foundation determined that Congress is talking at nearly a full grade level below the level at which members spoke seven years ago, according to its study of the Congressional Record—the official record of members' proceedings and speech. The foundation applied the Flesch-Kincaid grade level test to congressional conversations and found that today's Congress speaks "at about a 10.6 grade level, down from 11.5 in 2005," senior fellow Lee Drutman wrote in his analysis. Sunlight also found that the newest as well as the most conservative members of Congress on average speak at the lowest grade level. ...
Urgent PC Request
Post Date: 2012-05-21 10:51:03 by Eric Stratton
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My laptop just shit the bed. It's fine, it's 7+ years old (or maybe even 8+, not sure it's been so long) and I've gotten far more than average life out of it. Nevertheless, it needs to be replaced. It's the physical aspects of it that are crumbling, not the internal or s/w ones. All I really need is a "blank" laptop since all the new ones come w/ Windows 7 which I hate. I own XP so I can reinstall that over anything that I buy. But where can I get a list of which programs work w/ Linux? Should I consider using Linux? (I don't need a litany of reasons, just whether or not it's practical, etc. I know it's better by my understanding than Windows.) ...
An interesting game: Fantasy Finance
Post Date: 2012-05-21 09:40:33 by PSUSA2
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I just started a few days ago and already I've been in the top 1%. I didn't know I was a financial genius. Click for Full Text!
Zuckerberg's post-IPO wedding is smart legal move
Post Date: 2012-05-21 05:23:03 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2012 (Reuters) — Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, with the timing of the wedding, the day after the company's initial public offering, potentially proving particularly advantageous, California divorce lawyers said on Sunday. Assuming the couple signed a prenuptial agreement, as most wealthy Californians do, Zuckerberg and Chan would have agreed exactly how to split assets, including his Facebook stock, if their marriage dissolved in future. Even without a prenup, the wedding's timing would help establish the value of their assets in the event of any future divorce battle, ...
Honey Bee Removal - Video
Post Date: 2012-05-20 22:18:03 by Amandil
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I was working on an upgrade to a client's web site and ran across a bunch of raw video, once tinkered with enough, I put it up at youtube ... I'm kinda impressed at what this guy does for a living.
Credit score scam
Post Date: 2012-05-20 10:33:21 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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About four years ago my baby brother was laid off from his job and had trouble finding another one in his field, so he took the first job he could get and went from 70k a year down to about $11.00 an hour. It took him about a year to find a job in his career field and get back up to his previous salary. In that year though he lost his house and got behind on all of his credit card bills to the point that he was forced to go to one of those consumer credit places in order to work out a payment plan. He did keep up on his two car payments though. To make a long story short, he completely paid off all of the bills he was behind on about 18 months ago. In the meantime his wife finished up her ...
Beating the traffic ticket in France
Post Date: 2012-05-20 05:40:55 by Tatarewicz
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A couple in the southern town of Cannes have been able to escape a string of parking fines by registering a car in the name of their four-year-old son. Local newspaper Nice Matin reported that a quirk in French law allows a minor to be named as the legal owner of a car. The law, dating back to 1984, was designed to allow 16 and 17 year old learner drivers to be able to have a car. Instead, the canny couple took advantage of the rules to put their car in the name of their son. All that's needed to do so is proof of address and an identity card. No driving licence is required. Since registering the car in his name a total of 70 different driving offences have been notched up. ...
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