Quick Links for Today:
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"A main ingredient in beer may help prevent prostate cancer and enlargement, according to a new study."
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"You've surely heard about the political bogeymen 'Big Oil' and 'Big Tobacco,' but when it comes to your freedom to choose the foods you eat, there's no special interest more powerful than 'Big Tofu.'"
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"What follows is a list of the 50 greatest conservative rock songs of all time, as determined by me and a few others."
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"Humans have 200 million light receptors in their eyes, 10 to 20 million receptors devoted to smell, but only 8,000 dedicated to sound. Yet despite this miniscule number, the auditory system is the fastest of the five senses."
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It's nice to read some good news once in a while.
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"To help you decide whether to make a hybrid your next car (or truck or SUV), we've explored the ins and outs of this technology, then checked out the hybrid models currently on the market and those just around the bend."
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"Fortean Times has posted an interesting article considering whether the biblical Ark of the Covenant, famed for wreaking havoc on the Nazis in Raiders of the Los Ark, could have been a kind of massive battery."
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"This morning's Wired News has a fascinating article on the practice of implanting small, strong rare-earth magnets in one's ring-finger."
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"On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: 'a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes.'"
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"In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every last person in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he's doing it again, creating a unique portrait of heartland America"
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"Impeach for Peace…has researched a method for impeaching the president using a little known and rarely used part of the Rules of the House of Representatives…[that] empowers individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process themselves."
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"Faced with the inability of two bickering attorneys to resolve even the most innocuous scheduling questions without his intervention, a Florida federal judge yesterday ordered the two to meet on the steps of the federal courthouse and resolve their lates
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"Feel free to join the debate, share your thoughts and opinions, disagree, agree, say you don't care, whatever you like."
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Oh, this will do wonders for Christianity's reputation. *rolls eyes*
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I agree that the parents behaved poorly, but the bishop was supposed to be there for the students, not their obnoxious parents. I do not agree with his choice to walk out.
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"Blogs written by so-called citizen journalists are increasingly challenging newspapers for readers."
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"Administrators at a Catholic university in Minnesota last week apologized to students, faculty and parents for comments made by a student commencement speaker who echoed the Roman Catholic Church's position against birth control." APOLOGIZED?!?!?!?!?
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Somebody get this guy a foil hat.
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"[V]oting, for too many of us who actually do vote, is often done as an isolated act, with a short attention span after the fact and usually even before."
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"Mission Statement: To offer education and employment opportunities for 10,000 Girls in rural Senegal, enabling them to develop as self-reliant and capable women, through a self-sustaining organization run by the girls themselves."
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You've "seen" them….They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places.
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"Scholarly essays about the so-called 'Condom Debate.'"
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Sometimes I thnk some people shouldn't be allowed to breed. (No, not really)
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"It should come as no surprise that most Americans with Internet access at work do some personal Web surfing on the job. A new survey finds that half of them would rather give up their morning coffee than forgo that ability."
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I've become a BlogCritic.
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"When exactly is a pregnancy terminated? I realized last week that abortion proponents attempting to answer that question should run into problems. By trying to protect one flank, they've exposed another. Have we ever called them on it?"
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"Though undervalued, linkers are even more essential to the health of the blogosphere than are thinkers. The Internet is already inundated with provocative ideas and punditry. What is most needed is what Hugh Hewitt calls 'cyber-sherpas', bloggers who can
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"[W]hile the studios spend their energy promoting bland blockbusters aimed at everyone, Netflix has been catering to what people really want — and helping to keep Hollywood profitable in the process."
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"A comedy 3,000 years in the making…"
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"The treadmill offers a great workout for a great many people, but too many people are doing it all wrong, say experts in the field."
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"[Expert] runners look smooth and fluid, not stiff. It's the back-of-the-pack runners shuffling along in their lock-kneed manner who look stiff. Nevertheless, a certain type of stiffness is actually a hallmark characteristic of the best runners' strides."
Funky Dung
Comments 1
Who wrote the video game? Ann Coulter?
For me, the weird thing is, I can't tell when there's an electric current, but people with the magnets in their fingers can tell. I suspect the difference is distance. The field around the wire drops off rapidly — the NPR reporter who got the finger implant had to actually touch the wire and have the wire not be too insulated. If my magnetic sense is either in my sinuses or inner ear otoliths, I can't get close enough to sense the wire's field.
The biggest mistake of running on the treadmill is screwing up and getting slammed head-first into the wall or table behind you.
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Posted 14 Jun 2006 at 5:55 pm ¶Post a Comment