Surprise Homecoming
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The video pretty much speaks for itself. Heartwarming!
Original post by Johnny Cat
Archive for October, 2009
Storm Troopers Using Google
Maybe they’ll get it right this time! From Flickr user Stefan. Link -via Geeks Are Sexy
Original post by Miss Cellania
Internet Cat Costumes
Internet memes make great Halloween costumes, although they are usually only clever for one year. The exception is cats, because their popularity (at least on the internet) goes on and on. Here are some clever LOLcat Halloween Costumes.
Jacki was Spaghetti Cat in 2008. You don’t have the time to make a better costume for this year, unless you have been working on it a while already. In case you’ve forgotten, here is the origin of Spaghetti Cat.
Brad O’Ferrell showed up at the “A Night To ReMEMEber” internet meme party in a Keyboard Cat costume. All it took was a cat costume and a keyboard.
Matt Cutts is a LOLcat. Or he was for Halloween last year. The cheeseburger was a nice touch!
This LOLcat costume is perfect for trick-or-treating. You won’t get the full effect until you see the back of the t-shirt.
This Ceiling Cat costume should be easy to do, depending [...]
Original post by Miss Cellania
On the Origin of Witches, Broomsticks, and Flying [Terra Sigillata]
This post appeared here originally on 31 October 2007
Have you ever wondered, perhaps on 31 October, why witches are depicted as riding brooms?
The answer is alluded to by Karmen Franklin at Chaotic Utopia in her post as to why witches need to know their plant biology.
The excerpts I’m about to give you come from a superb and accessible pharmacology text entitled, “Murder, Magic, and Medicine,” by John Mann, host of the BBC Radio 4 series by the same name.
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Original post by Abel Pharmboy none@example.com
Not Resting Place of the First Finns [Aardvarchaeology]
I’m posting this from a Helsinki basement café after a day’s excursion by bus and boat in the countryside west of town. We mainly looked at cairns of various form, date and function, including a group of very fine large mountaintop ones of the typical Bronze Age type.
Toward the end of the day we saw a preserved little bit of an excavated cemetery to which had been added a memorial stone in the 1930s. On the plaque the site is dated to about AD 100 and proclaimed as burial place of the first Finns! The reasoning went like this.
“We have a gap in the archaeological record during the Last Millennium BC. And the lingusists believe that the Finnish language arrived here from Estonia about AD 1. And the grave type here has its closest parallels in Estonia. So this must be the grave of early Finnish-speaking colonists who arrived in [...]
Original post by Martin R none@example.com
U of Akron Requires DNA from Potential Employees; Feds Open Public Comment Period on Federal Law Protecting DNA [Culture Dish]
Inside Higher Ed just reported that an adjunct instructor at the University of Akron quit when he was told that he had to submit to DNA testing. “It’s not enough that the university doesn’t pay us a living wage, or
provide us with health insurance,” the instructor said, “but now they want to sacrifice the
sanctity of our bodies. No.” He was right to question their policy: The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 specifically states:
It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any employee, or otherwise to
discriminate against any employee with respect to the compensation,
terms, conditions, or privileges of employment of the employee, because
of genetic information with respect to the employee
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Original post by Rebecca Skloot none@example.com
Seed Magazine in the Classroom: Grounds for Suspending the Teacher?? [The Questionable Authority]
Apparently, offering high school English students the chance to read an article on the Seed Magazine website is ground for suspension - at least if you’re an English teacher in Piasa, Illinois.
According to several media reports, teacher Dan DeLong has been suspended with pay pending a Monday evening board meeting. The suspension came about when a parent complained about the content of an optional, extra-credit assignment that DeLong had offered students in one of his 10th grade honors classes. The assignment? Read an online version of an article by ScienceBlogger Jonah Lehrer that appeared in a 2006 issue of Seed Magazine. The article in question deals with homosexuality. In animals.
That’s right. Apparently, Teh Gay is so offensive that students need to be protected from being permitted to read about it in any form whatsoever, even in animals.
The Superintendent of DeLong’s school district is Larry Elesa. His email address is lelsea@piasabirds.net
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Original post by Mike Dunford none@example.com
Statins for influenza. Why don’t we know if it works yet? [Effect Measure]
Statins for influenza are in the news again, this time because of a paper given at the Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA). We’ll get to it in a moment, but first a little background.
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Original post by revere none@example.com
Two Musicians One Guitar
Watch Cecilia Siqueira and Fernando Lima of Duo Siquera Lima perform Tico Tico no Fuba (zequinha de Abreu) with a single guitar at the 2009 Brazilian Music Institute in Gainesville, Florida. Sorry for the title, I couldn’t stop myself
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Arbroath
Original post by Alex
Marlene Hairy or In My Bathtub I am the Captain
Oh, art! My day would certainly be much more dreary without performance art like this: In 2005, Marlene Haring donned a Chewbacca-worthy suit of hair and went crawling around Vienna’s "Second District" (the city’s red light district), much to the delight of passer-bys:
The long-blond-haired creature sleeping on the pavement at the street-corner rendezvous outside the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts did not greet the more-or-less informed audience, but set off at surprising speed on all fours into the park. The assorted audience followed as the creature made its way through the greenery towards the Prater (Vienna’s permanent fun-fair), past Autodrome, Space Shot, Ghost Train and Casino Admiral, emerging on Austellungsstrasse (Exhibition Road) and crossing into the neighbourhood known as the Stuwerviertel, where Marlene Haring lives.
Then it started to get weird: Link
Original post by Alex
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