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7493 - mostly stumbled links
Jun. 27th, 2005 06:53 am
Back to the game at hand. Not looking forward to workload or the Monday meeting, but it'll get weathered.
Some LEO that doesn't know a browser from his bunghole is trying to tell us to totally redesign our website with no security, so it's easier to use. We'll see how nicely I can package that information for the chief later on.
Didn't get to go out to a movie yesterday, but had a fine time just staying in.
How to win more coin tosses
Always call tails. On U.S. coins, the heads side, with its big, solid portrait, weighs infinitesimally more: In the course of 10,000 tosses, the lighter tails side will come up an extra 50 or so times.
8 Things You Probably thought you knew, but didn't
- An American, Abner Doubleday, invented baseball. This myth was purposely fabricated by the dangerously patriotic founder of the Spalding sporting goods company in the early 1900s. In reality, 250 years ago the British were playing a primitive version called both "rounders" and "base-ball", and Jane Austen refers to baseball by name in 1798's Northanger Abbey, 40 years before its supposed invention at Cooperstown.
- The Sphinx's nose was shot off by Napoleon's troops. Actually, it was busted off in the 1300s by an Islamic militant... they were trouble even then... who considered it a pagan idol and therefore blasphemous.
- A captain of a ship at sea can perform weddings. Seems logical enough, the couple being in international waters and all, but it ain't true: In fact, U.S. Navy regulations, and those of the navies of many other countries, specifically prohibit ships' commanders from joining people in marriage.
- Your hair and nails continue to grow after you die. Nope...but the fleshy parts of your body recede from your hair and nails, making them appear longer.
- Bumblebee flight violates the laws of aerodynamics. Nothing that flies violates the laws of aerodynamics... that's why they're laws.
- Humans use just 10 percent of their brains. Because the brain is highly specialized, we only use a tiny fraction of its cells at any one time... it's closer to 5 percent... but we use virtually all of it over the course of a day.
- Cutting/shaving hair makes it grow faster. Not by the hair of your chinny-chin-chin: How fast hair grows back, like how quickly a man goes bald, is simply a matter of genetics.
- Einstein was a crappy student. You wish. He was gifted at Latin and Greek as a boy, and doing college-level physics at 11. Yes, he got expelled from high school, but only because he couldn't master French...and as a pre-World War German, he probably assumed France would be speaking German soon enough anyway.
Hello, and welcome to my homepage. My name is Ulrich Haarbürste and I like to write stories about Roy Orbison being wrapped up in cling-film.
I spend a lot of time looking a glowing rectangles. Computer screens and windows, mostly.
I've linked to Monster toys before, but I really miss my toy wolfman lately.
Giant Popsicle Melts, Floods NYC Park (If they'd had a giant monkey, this could've been averted.)
NEW YORK - An attempt to raise the world's largest ice pop in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier. ( Read more... )
RAINBOW PRIMATES : Christian fundamentalist monkey breeders. Explore this site at your own risk.
Jello for people that don't want to chomp on hooves -
Dear Customer,
We appreciate your interest in Dole Food Company. We're glad to provide the information you requested and hope it is useful.
DOLE Fruit-N-Gel Bowls do not contain any animal sourced ingredients. The gel is derived from plant. The gel is made of Carrageenan and Locust Bean Gum. The two main ingredients that form the gel in this product are carrageenan (derived from red kelp) and locust bean gum (from the locust tree seed). These polysaccharides are like starch and they form a gel when combined with water. No gelatin is used in our gels and they are free from animal-sourced ingredients.
Try our other flavors:
DOLE Fruit-n-Gel Lime Gel w/Pineapple
DOLE Fruit-n-Gel Orange Gel w/Mandarin Oranges
DOLE Fruit-n-Gel Strawberry Gel w/Peaches
DOLE Fruit-n-Gel Reduced Sugar Pears in Kiwi-Berry Gel
DOLE Fruit-n-Gel Mixed Fruit in Black Cherry Gel.
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Clips from found footage festival - the last bit with the "an accident takes only a second" is pretty morbidly funny.(about the last 1/8 of the movie)
Dumb Laws, by state
Speaking of the law - in the Middle Ages, you had approximately as much authority as the sheriff to make an arrest. Thanks to the legal tradition of posse comitatus, or "power of the county," and our citizens'-rights-preserving Ninth Amendment, you still retain much of that power. Generally speaking, you can arrest and detain a criminal suspect if the crime was committed in your presence or you have good reason to believe the guy's guilty (unfortunately, he can't just look funny); if the crime is a felony; or if you can turn the person over to a real cop in timely fashion. Beyond this, laws vary from state to state: In liberal Massachusetts, you can be sued by your detainee for false arrest/imprisonment, while in badass Kentucky you're actually allowed to kill your suspect if he tries to flee.
Gorgeous landscape picture of Paris by night. If I ever start using 13 monitors, this will be my wallpaper.
1 year ago - le prince bleu, abandoned airfields, warwalking, bus census, Nepal and a sweating god, giganticus / fin fang foom, bro,
2 years ago - new ren & stimpy poor, battlestar galactica back, evil lj typo-site, physical therapy, no-call list,
3 years ago - Arsenic & peg legs, Dan's Dad out of the hospital, Kevin Prescribed daily pills, last bit of magonia (relocation)
4 years ago - nutraceutical, blackguard, caucasians pre amerind?, Santie stays, WO record sheets, Bohemian queen sends me eyeball holos!, evil news, Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass, AOK scripting, Paula Poundstone arrested for child abuse.
5 years ago - Pre-breakup confrontation with April
