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Wasn’t there a Disney movie in the 60’s about a space cat?

UFO could have been electrocuted cat

“Experts say a reported UFO sighting in Norway was probably an electrocuted cat.”

A few weeks ago, I thought about blogging an Ebay auction in which a man was selling a giant Cheeto. I eventually decided it was silly (which is good), but pretty uninteresting. Well it looks like I’ve been proven wrong. Then again, nobody’s ever gone broke underestimating the tastes or the intelligence of the American people.

Crunch! Giant Chee-to spurs online frenzy
Small Iowa town to put it on display
By Jeordan Legon

“(CNN) — It’s believed to be the largest Chee-to in the world. The cheesy glob of fried cornmeal that Navy Petty Officer Mike Evans found last week in a bag of the snacks is about the size of a small lemon and weighs in at about half an ounce. “

Perhaps someday soon we’ll all have housekeeping robots like the Jetsons.

Making robots more like us
By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

“Call it crazy, but Monica Nicolescu has taken a robot under her wing. At a robotics laboratory at the University of Southern California, she puts the two-wheeled machine through its paces, leading it through a maze of short plastic pillars to an orange box on the floor. It follows her around the lab, observing and reproducing her every step.”

This is a request for help from my readers (both of them 😉 ). I’m getting married in October 2004 and I want to rent kilts for my groomsmen. I’m having considerable difficulty finding anyone in the Pittsburgh or Erie regions who rent kilts or someone who can ship rentals from outside those regions.

I need these tartans:

Irish National
Scottish National
Royal Stewart

Please send any ideas you have through the comments system. Thanks. 🙂