tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142310602011-04-21T17:04:08.256-05:00Feeding you information on a Don't-Need-To-Know Basis since July 2005. This is where I put things that grab my attention as I go through my daily show preparation process for the morning show on WAOR-FM. This is ALSO my place to (1) bitch about how the world is wrapped up in unimportant trivial pap...and (2) post my very own favorite unimportant trivial pap...Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.comBlogger6391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-24503419056106738422007-10-22T20:50:00.000-05:002007-10-22T20:54:30.430-05:00

The Record Button, or at least this incarnation of it, is now closed.All updates will now be posted at http://www.tommieandthebartender.com or in the blog at my myspace page, until it bores me (which may not be so far off).

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(found at Warren Ellis Dot Com)Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil’s Bible ? a medieval manuscript said to have been written 800 years ago with the devil’s help ? has returned to Prague after an absence of 359 years.The priceless piece, considered the biggest medieval book, was taken from the Prague Castle by Swedish troops at the end of the Thirty Years’ War in 1648. It is in Prague on loan

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A webserver I've been borrowing from a friend in Tampa SINCE 2001 seems to have forsaken me, which is why there's so many little red x's in little red boxes right now. And no header. And no background. Nada. Almost all of the artwork I use on my various sites was stored there.However, as I'm too lazy/busy/pick your favorite excuse to move my files or redesign this page...it'll look like this for

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Having trouble sleeping, so I'm trying something a little different before I go out and invest in a bunch of hot tea varieties.A generous snort of scotch whisky, Isle Of Jura, aged 20, not too peaty, just enough bite to make my neck snap a little after each sip.I anticipate some success with this method, but don't intend to make a habit of it.And it won't be nearly as tasty as Friday Night's

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I deeply appreciate the myriad of unique and unusual forms of life on this planet. Especially in tasty, convenient stick form.

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Tonight marks 50 Days since my last cigar.To observe this, for no reason whatsoever, I have developed a nasty cough.Yeah. That seems fair.Anyway...I have decided there are two words that we have all deemed archaic that I would like returned to general useage.The first is lollygag. This was a perfectly good word, fun to say and everything, which was cast aside around 1954 or so. It's a perfect

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Next year I am going to launch a festival called DEAD EARTH. And yet, weirdly, it will have a smaller carbon footprint than Live Earth.Because the only way I could achieve a larger carbon footprint than Live Earth would be to drop an asteroid on Australia. And that's just a little outside the range of my capabilities right now.Still, it's good to have ambitions.

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“It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”– Alfred North Whitehead

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Most likely, at some point in the last year, you heard about the movie with that title.A lot of people immediately reacted with shock and disgust at the thought of British Filmaker Gabriel Range creating a film that marries actual footage and CGI to create the assassination of George W. Bush. The fact that Lions Gate...the studio that took a chance on Dogma from Kevin Smith and several other

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The status of this place is under review. I'm stretched a bit thin, spending more time at myspace than anywhere else, and starting to get sick of that hole anyway. I'm not intersted in getting back into livejournal, either. And Tommie & The Bartender dot com is getting daily attention, because it has to. But I like having a place to myself, that isn't attached to the station.More later.

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Warren Ellis found this, and I agree: it's really, really well done. It's the final exam of a student in an animation class:

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The Problem With Time Travel

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Exceptional journal entry about the passing of an era at his myspace blog:I went to Sony Studios this morning to watch Michael Giacchino score Ratatouille. The score mixer was Dan Wallin, this smiling dude in his 80's who's mixed films like, oh, BONNIE AND CLYDE, WAIT UNTIL DARK, COOL HAND LUKE, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, BULLITT, THE WILD BUNCH, WOODSTOCK, THX 1138, DIRTY HARRY, ENTER THE

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Hate Makes a ComebackGroups Like the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis Target Mexican Immigrants

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"Son...you're making the same mistake in Iraq that I made with your mother. I didn't pull out in time, either..."

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Chicago White Sox Postgame Alert---------------------------------------April 18, 2007Texas 0, Chi. White Sox 6 at U.S. Cellular FieldTexas Record: (6-8)Chi. White Sox Record: (6-7)Winning pitcher - Mark Buehrle (1-0)Losing pitcher - Kevin Millwood (2-2)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H ETexas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2Chi. White Sox 0 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 X 6 7 0TEX HR - NoneCWS HR - J. Dye (3) J. Thome 2 (5)Next Chi.

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Police have briefly arrested Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov at a banned anti-Kremlin rally in Moscow.

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No one should think I didn't feel the pain as much as anyone else last year. I didn't like 4-12. I never dreamed we would own a 4-12 football team - but we did last year. I don't want to see that again. But things happen and now we move on. We still feel good about the direction of our organization. You have to be realistic about what you have, not make excuses, correct the mistakes and move

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(because God knows you won't find any on the fucking television today)(all courtesy of the BBC, where NEWS is)Jail for Serb video death squadA court in Serbia sentences four paramilitaries filmed killing Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.Ethiopia admits terror detentionsEthiopia admits it has detained 41 foreign "terror suspects" who were captured in neighbouring Somalia.Woman

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At last. Mumblefuck makes sense to me.Courtesy of The Dale.Clickity.

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At the extreme end of the projections, a 7- to 9-degree average temperature increase, the chart predicts: "Up to one-fifth of the world population affected by increased flood events" ... "1.1 to 3.2 billion people with increased water scarcity" ..."major extinctions around the globe."

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Post-Soviet Union Pop Stars performing the old Soviet National Anthem...differently... (1991)

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Smugglers 'drown' scores in YemenAt least 29 migrants have died after smugglers forced them at knife-point to jump into the sea off the coast of Yemen, the UN refugee agency has said.The UNHCR said another 71 people - from Somalia and Ethiopia - were missing after Thursday's incident.Some of the migrants were attacked by sharks, and several recovered bodies showed signs of severe mutilation, the

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248-dimension maths puzzle solved

Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-30490464737188218332007-03-15T05:42:00.000-05:002007-03-15T05:48:32.616-05:00

Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead is 67 today.In honor of this, you should take something that you can usually do in five minutes...and stretch it out into 17...

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Just go. Right now.

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Lesbian KoalasFemale koalas indulge in lesbian "sex sessions", rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time.Cyborg PigeonsYes. Cyborg Pigeons.

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Nice article found at the Chicago Blackhawks website this morning.

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Makes you wonder: when WILL comedians ever get their due?Not that the Academy gets it consistently right, anyway...

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New footage of JFK's last moments (BBC)The film shows a clear view of Jackie Kennedy A previously unreleased film of President John F Kennedy's motorcade has revealed new details of the final moments before his assassination.The silent film shows the president and his wife Jackie shortly before the fatal shot was fired.Amateur photographer George Jefferies held onto the film for more than 40

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Found this last night at Wal-Mart: Don't ask why I was there, I'm never proud of it when I am...Dokken's Definitive Rock Collection.Say...I like Dokken. George Lynch was The Man. And Don had a great voice. I was even willing to forgive them for that Dream Warriors music video, where Freddie Krueger shook his groove thing.And what a deal! Marked from $14.88...down to $15.00!Sold!Dontcha just love

Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-75110733620689590742007-02-15T10:52:00.000-05:002007-02-15T10:57:22.815-05:00

Cingular/The New AT&T has just sent Craig and I the brand-new Samsung Blackjack phone. They gave us RAZRs last year, and decided it was time to upgrade us.We found out this was happening on Monday, and began weeping with joy immediately.I intend to find out every single thing this device can do over the next week or so. I am a kid in a candy & electronics store right now...

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Ragz found this, for Ragz = Tha Man.Enjoy. And expect the chorus to stay with you, for it is mighty.

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Some great shots here, brought to my attention (as most great items are) by The Dark Lord Warren Ellis.I was asked recently why I have this amazing fascination with Antarctica. Why my novel (still in rewrites, be patient with me) is set there. Why I have so much interest in our planet's floor-level freezer.The answer is that I have no freaking idea whatsoever. It's the same reason why I love

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Just because I found it while looking for something else.And because the man was never one to back down from kickin' ass live when his stuff was so carefully produced and timed in the studio.Let us be Frank...

Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-10670389477048528682007-02-03T11:07:00.000-05:002007-02-03T11:10:30.937-05:00

We have adopted Trevor, our first non-Hamster family pet.

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...a pleasant thought from Jamais Cascio, on measuring the different levels of apocolypse:(found via Warren Ellis...easier to read at his website, or the source)

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Yes. We're ready for some football.Very cool. And our town is smack dab in the Interstate Highway World between the two. Each team has tons of fans all over the place, including in my own family. Hell, I love 'em both.Electric Vibrant Happiness Love, Football-style, going on out here in The Bend. And the rest of the country probably couldn't care less. But fuck them. It's our turn.

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This morning on email, my Producer's Network was briefly discussing Jennifer Love Hewitt. In particular, member Michael's unfettered love for her...which I countered with my opinion that she'd be hotter in my Pantheon Of Chicks I Have No Shot With if her boob job didn't cause her to resemble a broom handle with two water balloons tacked onto it. Pretty, yes, but I'm not a fan of the Big Boob

Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-1168870423943471282007-01-15T09:12:00.000-05:002007-01-15T09:13:43.960-05:00

Someone at YouTube posted the entire 17 1/2 minute I Have A Dream speech.Find it here if you want to hear it. And you should.

Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-1168445268204065982007-01-10T11:02:00.000-05:002007-01-10T11:09:41.010-05:00

That video we've all seen of Apollo 11? The grainy, craptacular quality one that keeps conspiracy nuts screaming about it actually having been filmed in the Southwestern Desert?There's better tape somewhere. And NASA frickin' misplaced it. No. Make that LOST it.Clickity here... (wired)

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(discovered at WarrenEllis.com)"Otocinclus Batmani is named after the Caped Crusader of Gotham City...the name batmani, alludes to Bob Kane's hero Batman of the comic adventures..."

Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-1168427696346996622007-01-10T06:07:00.000-05:002007-01-10T10:40:24.906-05:00

Happy 59th Birthday today to Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, one of my primary creative influences, and an underappreciated genius.

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Hooray!Note to self to look for more of them on YouTube.

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How nice. Nifty little headline in my FNC Breaking News Email:ISRAEL REPORTEDLY PLANNING, TRAINING FOR LOW-LEVEL NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST IRANStarting 2007 with a bang!

Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-1167998409042266162007-01-05T06:59:00.000-05:002007-01-05T07:00:09.080-05:00

(BBC)The global surface temperature is projected to be 0.54C (0.97F) above the long-term average of 14C (57F), beating the current record of 0.52C (0.94F), which was set in 1998. Any wonder why it's rainy and 47° this morning, on January 5th, in South Bend Indiana?

Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-1167915388976895002007-01-04T07:48:00.000-05:002007-01-04T07:56:29.073-05:00

Interesting. The torch will be carried twice to the roof of the world. Once this year in a televised rehearsal, I would assume to make sure the high-altitude torch will work...and again on the world tour of '08 before the Beijing Games.I find this fascinating, because to me, there is no deeper expression of athleticism (or insanity) than climbing that 29,000 foot motherfucker. If you aren't at

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Nah nah-nah nah nah-nah-nah-nah...This town is holding its collective breath tonight, waiting for the Notre Dame streak to go back on the line against LSU in the Sugar Bowl.Notre Dame has not won a bowl game since 1.1.93. Far too long. Whether or not that streak is over rests pretty muchon the shoulders of the Irish Defense, which couldn't pick a better time to have a huge game.It would be nice

Tommie Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929632548737496727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231060.post-1167132099959682642006-12-26T06:18:00.000-05:002006-12-26T06:21:39.986-05:00

James Brown Is Dead. (techno-crap vamp)73 years old. The man had so much talent in his band over the years. And one of the worst mug shots ever. If Soul was a bus, James wore the hat and sat at the wheel.

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While moving into my new house, I've uncovered a few interesting little treasures. Because I'm a pack rat who never throws anything out. And so is The Beloved Kim.Item: A bag of Gummi Vampire Bats, from Germany. A gift from my former Brother-In-Law, who lives in Kiel (I think it's Kiel), probably three years ago.I never had the heart to open them, because of the kitsch value of having a bag of

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Chile's former military leader Augusto Pinochet has died in hospital aged 91. He had been thought to be recovering after a heart attack a week ago.Gen Pinochet took power in a 1973 coup, and more than 3,000 people were killed or "disappeared" in his 17-year rule. He was accused of dozens of human rights abuses as well as fraud but poor health meant he never faced trial.No state funeral or

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Yep...that's my Mini-Me. My Sky Pilot. My Short-Round. The Boy. Skylar.Eleven years ago tonight, I was pacing back and forth in the hallway of a hospital in St. Joseph, Michigan. A hospital I despised, because my Grandmother had died there. I was wishing for a cigarette and a bottle of Bush Mills Whiskey. More importantly...I was hoping for an "uneventful birth".Family arrived at different

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Five years ago today, cancer took The Quiet One at the age of 58.When it happened, his wife and son said: "He left this world as he lived in it, concious of God, fearless of death, and at peace, surrounded by family and friends."Just try to find "Give Me Love" on YouTube. Not happening. So here's my other favorite...

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The history of Pop Music...in just four chords. Nicely done. Especially the bit at the end.

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Former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler collapsed during the taping of a television show and three TV stations have reported that he has died.Latest details...You should not be permitted to be a football fan if you don't have at least a little respect for the man, or toast him at some point this weekend.

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So said Warren Ellis after reading this. And I can't disagree.

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MANNY ACTA NAMED NATIONALS NEW MANAGERThe Nationals officially named Manny Acta their new manager at a Tuesday afternoon press conference. Acta, who becomes the second skipper in Nationals history, replaces Frank Robinson.This will be Acta's first managerial job in the Major Leagues. He spent the last two seasons as the Mets' third base coach and three years with the Expos in the same capacity

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I'm not much of a "picture is worth a thousand words" kinda guy, given that I write.But this one says a ton.

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I will not be around here for a while, most likely.I will be playing here. Getting it set up the way I like it, pressing buttons, turning knobs.Come and play with me. We'll be talking about books. The more, the merrier.

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The Central Asian state's Foreign Ministry threatened Cohen with legal action last year after he hosted an international music show as Borat, who arrived in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle.His coarse jokes included portraying the world's ninth largest nation as a land where cow-punching is a sport and locals would first shoot a dog and then

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(mlb.com)Jim Thome Named AL Comeback Player of the YearWhite Sox slugger Jim Thome is the American League recipient of the 2006 Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award presented by Viagra.Thome led wire-to-wire in the voting to win the award, re-establishing himself as one of the game's elite by hitting 42 home runs and driving in 109.

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Erlewine reviews the new Seger & Elton discs.

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(via Perez Hilton)Final curtain at CBGBPunk playpen's sendoff show due next weekBY ETHAN SACKSDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERFor fans of CBGB, "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" is no longer just the title of a tune by the Ramones.A performance by punk pioneer and CBGB alumna Patti Smith next Sunday will be the final show at the legendary lower East Side music club before the doors close for good on Oct. 31.The

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Nice piece at Nationalsnation.

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Brought to my attention on myspace by someone who found me doing a search of Oscoda alumni.Wow.

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For 51 years, there has always been a Frank Robinson in baseball.Today is the last day for that:(from mlb.com)• Robinson's bio• Nationals season statistics• Major League standingsWASHINGTON -- The Nationals officially announced on Saturday afternoon that Frank Robinson will not be back as their manager in 2007. It comes two days after general manager Jim Bowden and team president Stan Kasten told

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We Take Flight!The Blue And White!Owls!Oscoda!Fight! Fight! Fight!In 1975, I started attending Kindergarten in the Oscoda Schools, one of hundreds of military brats from the neighboring Wurtsmith Air Force Base to do so. And despite the fact that the majority of children from the base would move away every couple of years (like all my childhood friends from the base, for example)...I managed to

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Ubuntu.Another school gunman, with a sadistic twist.I'm so confused about Iran I just don't know what to think anymore.Bob Dylan...vault-style.Big-ass spyglass.A grasp on 1918.

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Russell Crowe is reportedly planning to step into "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's safari jacket. The two-time Oscar-winner isn't going to be wrangling crocodiles on Animal Planet -- he's reportedly considering playing his late pal in a Universal Pictures big-screen bio-pic of the man he dubbed "the Australian we all aspire to be." Why not? I've seen worse castings...

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Chris Simms, the starting QB for my beloved Buccaneers, was rushed to a hospital near the Ray Jay in critical condition after the game.Where they cut him open and pulled out what was left of his spleen.He's been under a ton of scrutiny this week, a lot of fans calling for his head.I was NOT one of them, as I know we have no one to replace him with. But the kid is probably out for the season

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For sheer spunk, though, you’ve got to admire the Resort Hotel in Antarctica (a special-category winner) designed by Heehyun Nam, also of UIUC. That’s because his hotel wouldn’t really be in Antarctica, but rather, underneath it, hanging like an upside-down high-rise from the underside of the continent’s massive ice shelf.

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News items from CNN:-- Tanks are rolling through the streets of Bangkok, Thailand, amid rumors of a coup attempt, CNN confirms.-- NASA has delayed tomorrow's landing of the space shuttle Atlantis after engineers spotted a mystery object outside the shuttle; weather at the Florida landing site also is a concern.

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Marianne Faithful has cancer...but the good news is that it was diagnosed early, so hopefully she can have a full recovery. I'm not particularly a fan...but I respect her work.The Arctic region lost about a Pakistan-worth of ice between 2004 and 2005. Yes. We're all going to die.There is a possibility that the US report on Iran's nuclear program weren't entirely accurate. Imagine that. Our

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I, for one, welcome our impending robotic overlords....it begins...Self-learning and adaptability will be the key to success, and this is where the Creativity Machine excels. Give it any set of robotic limbs and it will master locomotion within minutes without any programming, swiftly finding the most efficient way of moving toward a goal. It will spontaneously develop new gaits for new

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Today is September 13th. Which, of course, is the 7th Anniversary of our moon being blasted out of Earth's orbit.Remember this day, in whatever way you deem appropriate.

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Explore this and see if it's worth anything.

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"I am like an old man now. I don't know what will happen to me... I am thinking about whether I will live or pass away, it is the number one question for me now."I saw somebody on CNN the other day talking about this. He described crying in his sleep, waking up, and seeing that his tears were BLACK on the pillow.

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Boom.

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Television personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin has died in a marine accident in north Queensland.The 44-year-old is believed to have been killed by a stingray barb that went through his chest. He was filming an underwater documentary off Port Douglas when the accident occurred.The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) said a call was received about 11am (AEST) on Monday and an emergency

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I'd heard of this but had never seen it. Found while looking for Pluto stuff.Heh. One more.

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New Season of Survivor to Divide Teams by Race (WaPo)The hit CBS reality television program will divide its teams or tribes, as they are known on the show along racial lines. For the first half of the series this fall, four teams of five members will be made up of blacks, Asian-Americans, Hispanics and whites.

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Astronomers met last week to debate the possible redefining of what constitutes a planet.Instead of expanding to 12 planets, which was a distinct possibility, they're moving backwards to 8:News Alert 10:01 a.m. ET Thursday, August 24, 2006Pluto Loses Its Planetary StatusAstronomers adopt historic new guidelines that downsize solar system from nine "classic" planets to eight.For more information

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If you were a Hot Wheels fan in the early 70's...http://www.hotwheelscollectors.com/news/news.aspx

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Astronomers are proposing a galactic shift of our solar system that could raise the number of planets from nine to 12 and open the way to naming dozens more.Besides reaffirming the solar system status of Pluto, the IAU draft resolution recognizes 2003 UB313, the farthest-known object in the solar system; Pluto's largest moon, Charon; and the asteroid Ceres, which was a planet in the 1800s before

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My favorite pitcher, who admittedly, has seen much better seasons and is nearing retirement, has been traded away from the Washington Nationals for a couple of young people. Past for future. Smart move. Can't argue it. Just hate to see it.I hope he can do well in his new uni, and I'll keep an eye out, like I did when he went to San Fran, and then Montreal.Gracias, El Hombre. Buena suerte...

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This has to be from the recent San Diego Nerd Prom...

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Dawn Of The Dead Director to tackle two Graphic Novels.

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GENIUS!

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A bizarre man-made piece of fake land set up on real land found by a German on Google Earth.Specualation abounds that it might have a millitary purpose, since it very closely resembles a disputed area between China and India...

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Friday Night......I like Friday Night...

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Clickity.

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Hmm.Sound idea...

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My lovely daughter Emily is balancing things on me while I work, and taking pictures with my RAZR.We are all amused.NOTE: I am not a monk. I'm just going bald.

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