Weirdness
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A funny two
I don’t usually read the contents of my junk mail folder, but the sender name sounded vaguely familiar so I took a look at it and see
I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here (http://thoseeven.cn) are bad.
And check this out, from the Onion – I didn’t realize they had a video news service now. HT: Captain Ed.
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How to make Google Earth creepy yet funny
Check this out, From Slate. It starts a bit slow, but watch the whole thing
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The Dark Tower
Since I can never find the link easily, here is the Coming Anarchy post on The Ryugong, the Dark Tower of North Korea.
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The Jimmy Carter killer rabbit story
Subadei posted about the giant badgers the British have supposedly unleashed on Southern Iraq (and if they haven’t, why are they holding back?) and I did a quick search for “Jimmy Carter Rabbit Attack” on Google and it returned 341,000 results! The more notable ones are
- News of the odd
- The Straight Dope
- and of course, Wikipedia
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History rhymes in funny ways
While perusing coverage of the latest British terror plots, I came across the words “Doctor’s” and “plot” in the same sentence. Being morbidly interested in Russian History, I thought of Stalin’s final purge, happily stopped by his death, the Doctors’ Plot, which is thought to be his pretext for getting rid of Russia’s Jews.. I was looking over the Wikepedia entry on the subject and came across this little tidbit
In the course of his career, Stalin became increasingly suspicious towards physicians. In his later years, he refused to be treated by doctors, and would only consult with veterinarians about his health.
Weird!
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Friday round up
- A look at where the I-Pod is made, it’s pretty much all of East Asia
- A nice look at Electronic Medical Records
- Coming Anarchy does math
- Get your postal mail over the internet! This would solve a lot of problems for me actually.
- 72 year old Marine beats crap out of 27 year old pickpocket.
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An odd sight
A couple of hours ago I made a caffeine run to a gas station I don’t often frequent. There were four old men playing some kind of video poker. They all stared silently at the machines, much the same way my age cohort plays Halo or Guitar Hero.
Doesn’t anyone ever outgrow video games? It would be nice if someone actually grew up. Granted, I don’t seem to be, but other people should.
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Saturday night reading
- CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry – I’m sure they have some sort of ulterior motive in this but it seems like a positive development.
- A private citizen owns part of a Georgia highway – He’s not putting up toll booths, which is something I would do. Evidently the state tried to condemn it a while back but didn’t do all of the paperwork.
- Robotic farm workers!
- While there is a GTD Outlook plugin, there is not a Vista compatible one, which is a bit ironic.
- Americans still don’t trust the government. Wherefore art thou Barry Goldwater? Oh yes, we call you Ron Paul now…
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Quick Friday roundup while uploading
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The first meaningful, non scandalous news from the Catholic church in a while
From Time.com
Joe Kennedy’s First Marriage: Still On
The most controversial “marriage that never was” in recent U.S. political history is back. Sources tell TIME that the Vatican has reversed the annulment of Joseph P. Kennedy II’s marriage to Sheila Rauch. The annulment had been granted in secrecy by the Catholic Church after the couple’s 1991 no-fault civil divorce. Rauch found out about the de-sanctification of their marriage only in 1996, after Kennedy had been wedded to his former Congressional aide, Beth Kelly, for three years.The annulment was the subject of Rauch’s 1997 book Shattered Faith, which lambasted her ex-husband and was severely critical of the Catholic Church’s proceedings, which made the marriage (which had produced twin boys) null and void in the eyes of the church. Rauch argued that Kennedy was able to unilaterally “cancel” nearly 12 years of marriage because of his clan’s influence in the church. Kennedy argued at the time that the annulment was the right thing to do in religious terms.
Now that I think about it, it’s been a couple of years since any Catholic priest molestation revelations have come to light.