Archive for September, 2008
September 30, 2008 at 11:36 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Greg LeNoir really, really loves his dog Jake. When a shark suddenly grabbed the rat terrier during its daily swim, Greg jumped in and punched the shark until it let go of the dog!
A big dark green shape which I realized was a big shark’s head zoomed up from under Jake. Jake screamed … Oh, you don’t ever want to hear … it’s such a death scream and it sucked him under.
The shark clamped down on jake but its owner Greg LeNoir wouldn’t have it. I dove straight down in like a battering ram. I drove my fist under the water into the shark and pushed it down. It felt like concrete on my hand …
Link
Original post by Alex
September 30, 2008 at 11:36 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
If you want to save a few bucks, skip the car wash and wash your car in your own driveway.
Except if you live in Washington State, that is. There, washing your car in your own driveway is illegal:
Washing your car or boat in the driveway or street is a residential ritual as American as backyard barbecues. But the state of Washington is telling its local governments they must prohibit home car washing unless residents divert the wash water away from storm drains, where they say it causes water pollution.
"I understand this is something people have done for a long time," says Bill Moore, water quality specialist with the Washington state Department of Ecology, which is requiring the ban. "It’s not something we should be doing any longer."
He says the soapy runoff is toxic to salmon and other fish and that small metal particles that wash off cars, such as [...]
Original post by Alex
September 30, 2008 at 11:35 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
After Sarah Palin announced her now oft-repeated line that "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska," Gary Tuchman from CNN’s news show Anderson Cooper 360° went to find this island. Here’s his report:
The island is called Little Diomede. It looks like a rock plopped into the Bering Strait. Only about 150 Alaskans live on the whole island. And just about two miles away; in full view of every single house on the island is the nation of Russia. Specifically, it is the Russian Island of Big Diomede which sits about 25 miles from the Russian Siberian mainland (which you can also see from the American island.) […]
We were curious what the Little Diomeders thought about Palin’s claim of foreign policy experience because of the proximity of Siberia. Interestingly, many of these Alaskans had no idea who Sarah Palin was! It turns out [...]
Original post by Alex
September 30, 2008 at 11:34 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Ten months ago, a 15-year-boy and his friends were attacked when they tried to stop a friend from being robbed at a bus stop.
The boy was stabbed in the forehead with a kitchen knife … yet he survived. The Daily Mail has the gruesome X-ray and the story: Link
Original post by Alex
September 30, 2008 at 11:34 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
A 13-year-old Indian girl named Twinkle Dwivedi has a medical condition that baffles doctors: she bleeds through her skin without being cut or scratched!
Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a strange disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched.
She has even undergone transfusions after pints of it seeped through her eyes, nose, hairline, neck and the soles of her feet.
Sometimes her condition is so bad she wakes up with her entire body covered in dried blood.
Link (Photo: Barcroft Media)
Original post by Alex
September 30, 2008 at 11:33 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Police arrested 32-year-old Michele Allen for disorderly conduct … while wearing a cow costume!
Saturday night, people in the 3100 block of Wilbraham Road called police to report a woman wearing a cow costume was chasing kids, and blocking traffic. Michele Allen also allegedly urinated on the porch of one neighbor.
Link - via Boing Boing
Original post by Alex
September 30, 2008 at 11:28 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Confused about the 2008 financial meltdown? Conor Friedersdorf of Culture 11 has a run down on the bailout legislation, why so many members of Congress were against it, and what the big plunge in the stock market meant. For example:
2) Why did its Congressional critics — especially House Republicans — vote against it?
Daniel Larison dissents from the conventional wisdom:
"The failure of politics that culminated in the defeat of the bill was the failure of the proponents of the legislation to make an argument that did not rely very heavily on prophecies of disaster.
There was no real attempt at persuasion, and the haste in which everything was done generated far more intense opposition than was necessary. The supporters of the bill wanted to ram it through with as little deliberation and scrutiny as possible. On any other issue, on any other bill, this would be seen as outrageous [...]
Original post by Alex
September 30, 2008 at 11:21 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
I got a paper review back yesterday. More revisions. *Sigh.* The history of this paper is: this is part of one chapter of my dissertation. I revised it into a paper last fall. I submitted it the first time in February, and got my first reviews in April. I revised it and resubmitted in June. This review is closer, but while 2 of the 3 reviews think that it’s pretty much ready to go, 1 reviewer (who is otherwise very complimentary and I cannot otherwise dismiss as one of those nutjob reviewers) wants me to do more data collection. Crap. Unfortunately for me, the associate editor agrees, and has asked for me to either do more data collection or more analysis of data I haven’t yet reported. Doublecrap.
So I am left with a concern about diminishing returns. This last [...]
Original post by Alice none@example.com
September 30, 2008 at 10:51 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
If you said 1/1000, you’ve given the answer provided more often by second graders than by undergraduates. And you’re also right.
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Original post by Chris Chatham none@example.com
September 30, 2008 at 8:39 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Another tornado caught on camera. These weather phenomena never cease to amaze me but I’m glad I don’t live in an area where tornado formations are frequent.
Link: LiveLeak
Original post by Algonkin
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