Fun fact of the day!

The calendar on Microsoft Outlook 2002 covers these dates:

April 2nd, 1601 to August 31st, 4500

I know some very old people use Outlook, and some very young people who might live quite a while. However, even considering our advances in medical technology, these dates seem a little optimistic to me.

Therefore, I can only arrive at one conclusion: Microsoft has secretly invented time travel.

Funny moment of the day

After starting to read Fast Food Nation on the bus this morning, I
realized that I did not have a bookmark. So I pulled a receipt out of
my wallet and used it. When I got to my stopping point, and looked at
what receipt I had used, it turned out to be from Taco Bell!

Expect more posts on my reaction to this book.

Real pictures, fake story

These pictures are being sent around the internet with the follow subject and intro:

Found At Seaside After TSUNAMI . . .
If you notice, a lot of these critters come from way deep down
Hard to imagine the (non-volcanic) forces that pushed 'em to the surface

Here's what one of my favorite myth debunking sites says about them:

Origins: It seems like any unusual or remarkable photographs connected with oceanic phenomena are being attributed to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, and this collection of pictures is more of the same.

Although they are genuine images of some rather strange deep-sea creatures, these photographs have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami. They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. These photographs can be viewed on Australia's National Oceans Office web site.

Even though the source isn't correct, they are still pretty damn cool pictures!

EDIT: Pictures removed for sake of loading time. You can still find them all HERE

Haven't posted in a while....

Basically it's becuase blogger.com loads pages so slowly during peak hours. Whenever I go to update this blog, it takes 30 seconds + per click. I know that I used to be able to deal with that kind of wait, but I've had broad band for too long to put up with that kind of delay. I'll give it a few more tries, but if it continues to waste my time I'll probably delete this blog.

1000 words

Eat your apple a day.....

... and keep the doctor away. i'm sorry, but i don't trust my health to someone who doesn't have the good sense to get a little bit of sleep every now and then. i mean really... everyone knows that if you don't get enough sleep your preformance drops, right?

Interns at an intensive care unit in a large Boston teaching hospital typically work 77 to 81 hours per week, with up to 34 consecutive hours without sleep. That's a heroic schedule, but one demanded by the culture of medicine and considered a sign of dedication to patients. But is this good for patients?

No, concludes a study by researchers at the Harvard Medical School...

apparently it isn't so obvious. if doctors need a harvard medical study to convince them that they need sleep, maybe we need to look into making some changes.

full story here

Explosives missing in iraq.

Would someone explain to me how you can misplace 380 tons of explosives?

Some 380 tons of explosives powerful enough to detonate nuclear warheads are missing from a former Iraqi military facility that was supposed to be under American control, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says.

Full story here.

madness....

i want to know how i've never heard of this guy before:

India's bandit king died as he lived: in dense forests at the tip of a bullet.
For more than two decades, Koose Muniswamy Veerappan eluded hundreds of police officers devoted to nothing but his capture.

Wanted for the murder of 130 people and for butchering 2,000 elephants, Veerappan taunted state governments, striking defiant poses in combat fatigues with his muzzle-loading rifle and his luxuriant handlebar moustache.

And futhermore:

Policeman, officials, even rival gangs were eliminated in vicious killing sprees. Veerappan once captured a senior forest official, beheaded him and hacked off his hands. He tied grenades to five policemen and blew them up in revenge for the capture of his gang members. He is also said to have strangled his own daughter.

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Bush - the ten year difference

this is a quick vid on Bush's declining ability to speak the english language.

Enjoy

There's one born every day.

I guess some people never learn. The only reason these stupid scams work is that people keep clicking them.

CLICK, AND YOU'LL GET IT...
Becks in FAKE romp with Spanish prostitute
CURIOSITY killed the cat.

In this case, it gets you a virus too.

Gossip-seekers eager to dig up dirt on David Beckham risk ending up at a website that infects their computer with an insidious virus called Hackarmy.

An e-mail doing the rounds claims to link the England football captain to a Spanish prostitute....

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