May 22, 2006
I hope we have enough names this time
Yep, it's almost hurricane season again, and for reasons that have nothing to do with global warming because that doesn't exist so don't worry about it, scientists expect another busy season. They say not as bad as last year, but then they didn't expect last year to be as bad as it was.
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March 31, 2006
Cheating
ABC News: Rich-Kids Loophole Means More Time on SAT
That's what it is. Faking learning disabilities to get unlimited time on the SAT. It's a "rich kids" loophole because it's rich kids that can afford unscrupulous psychologists to claim that they have disabilities.
(Thanks to Meryl.)
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March 24, 2006
I wonder why
TheStar.com - Ice caps melting faster than forecast
There's No Such Thing As Global Warming™, so it can't be that.
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March 20, 2006
"Larry"?
Cyclone Larry rips across Queensland coast
If it's March, it's Australia's turn to get Hurricaned. Rest assured, this has nothing to do with global warming, because that doesn't exist.
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March 11, 2006
Science fairs... of the future!
Science fair future being tested
Apparently, science fairs are dying. Which sucks, because when I was in school we had to do science fairs, even though I never had any ideas. Also, I'm not very good with tools, and the bitter secret of science fairs is that you aren't going to get anywhere unless you can set up those three-part boards.
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February 10, 2006
It has been a mild summer
globeandmail.com : World at its warmest of past 1,200 years, researchers show
Gosh, it's a good thing that There's No Such Thing As Global Warming™, or we'd really be in trouble.
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February 03, 2006
Sure is
The weather goons are stuck trying to pretend that a low of 28 is something to worry about. Lucky thing that There's No Such Thing As Global Warming or it would be really warm.
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January 28, 2006
The hurricane season that never ended
Cindy receives hurricane upgrade
The National Hurricane Center has now decided that Cindy, which struck in July, was a hurricane and not a tropical storm. Well, it was a tropical storm, then a hurricane, then a tropical storm again. You know what I mean.
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January 04, 2006
Tenacious Z
Tenacious Tropical Storm Zeta maintains strength in open Atlantic
Will the 2005 hurricane season ever end?
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November 29, 2005
Zeta's next
CBS News | Epsilon Forms In Central Atlantic | November 29, 2005 17:12:23
Good news, it's just a threat to shipping. Or so they say. And no hurricane has ever hit the US between December and May. So far.
Meanwhile, a weakening Delta is supposed to hit Morocco. Why not?
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November 28, 2005
Just under the wire
al.com: NewsFlash - Delta threatens Canary Islands with gale force winds
The season officially ends on Wednesday, but would anyone be surprised if more storms develop in December? I sure wouldn't.
Signs you have watched way too much girly TV: You think that Dixie Carter and Annie Potts probably smiled wistfully at the thought of "Tropical Storm Delta".
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November 22, 2005
This year's awkward Thanksgiving discussion
Why not ask your parents for a detailed medical history this Thanksgiving? It's great mealtime conversation!
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November 19, 2005
Gamma!
CNN.com - Tropical Storm Gamma kills two - Nov 19, 2005
It isn't funny anymore, God. Make it stop.
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October 27, 2005
My proposal
CNN.com - Named storm No. 23, Beta, off Nicaragua - Oct 27, 2005
"Beta" is not really a name. I say we give them nicknames. This one can be "Betty". The next one will be tougher, though.
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October 17, 2005
Wilma!!!!
al.com: NewsFlash - Tropical Storm Wilma forms In Caribbean
We have a record! 21 named storms, which is actually the max, because the next one will be called "Alpha" which isn't a name. Then Beta, Gamma, etc. This has never happened before.
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September 02, 2005
Just keeping track
weather.com - Hurricane Central
We're up to M now; Tropical Storm Maria, however, is not expected to affect the US, and TS Lee has declined into a depression and expected to dissipate. Anyway, this is the earliest reported 13th Atlantic storm since 1851. Tropical Depression 15 may form later today in the central Atlantic.
Good thing that there's no such thing as global warming, huh? Oh, and that the Department of Homeland Security is on guard in case of a disaster.
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August 10, 2005
So easy, words aren't needed
CNN.com - Mutant mice helping cure diseases - Aug 10, 2005
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August 03, 2005
Invisible Rabbit Storm!
CNN.com - Tropical Storm Harvey develops, approaches Bermuda - Aug 3, 2005
It's the earliest time on record for the eighth named Atlantic storm. The average time of arrival for the eighth named storm -- when there are eight named storms -- is September 29. But there's still no such thing as global warming, he said, thinking of moving to Canada.
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July 31, 2005
But there's no such thing as global warming!
CNN.com - Study: Hurricanes getting stronger - Jul 31, 2005
So how can global warming be making hurricanes stronger, then? I'm so confused. Also, there's a good chance that the southeastern portion of the United States will resemble Bangladesh even more than it already does, what with the storms and the flooding.
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July 29, 2005
Sickos
Our Genes Make Us Like People Like Us | Science Blog
A study claims that people tend to choose spouses and best friends that are similar to them genetically -- "about as close as brothers and sisters". In other words, people are going out there and getting married to people who might as well be their siblings. So it's not just in the Appalachians.
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July 12, 2005
And again
New tropical storm develops in Atlantic
"Emily" is still pretty minor. What will happen? Will it hit land?
When the potential track errors are factored in, the storm at that time could be anywhere from south of Jamaica or north of the southern Bahamas, noted Don Shepherd, a forecaster with the Mobile weather office."It's hard to know where it's going to be," Shepherd said.
But the northern Gulf Coast is as likely a destination as any place.
Oh, great!
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July 04, 2005
Or Godzilla
CNN.com - Mystery water plume rises from Pacific - Jul 4, 2005
Japanese scientists say that it's probably an underwater volcano.
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June 28, 2005
What?!?!?
France Will Host World's First Nuclear-Fusion Reactor
They're building a nuclear fusion reactor? This is enormous news; how did I never hear about this until now? If this works... Well, it's not "free" energy, since I'm sure the plants will cost loads to build, but eventually, there's your energy, pretty much indefinitely.
Greenpeace is being stupid about it, of course. They don't understand. Anything. Apparently they think that helium is a radioactive greenhouse gas.
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June 27, 2005
Many people are very stupid
Cancer Myths Abound, Survey Finds
How stupid are they?
For example, among 957 U.S. adults polled, about 41 percent believe that surgical treatments for cancer actually spread the disease.Another 27 percent believe scientists have already found a cure for cancer, but that this cure is being withheld by the health care industry because it makes more money treating the illness.
I blame Tom Cruise.
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March 21, 2005
It's kinda like Dune
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been testing a device intended for the space station that would recycle an astronaut's own sweat, respiration and even urine into drinking water purer than any found in a tap."They just breathe and exercise, urinate into the urinal, and our system handles the rest," said Robyn Carrasquillo, chief of the environmental control and life support division at Marshall.
I dunno. Somehow, this seems like one of those things where we start out trying to be nice, and then some guy says "The Americans are making us drink urine!" and someone gets shot. Maybe I'm wrong.
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November 14, 2004
Actually, several of them
Donor organ shortages create ethical quandary
One quandary of those waiting for a liver transplant that the story doesn't mention, at least that I can see, is that you're effectively waiting for someone to die, usually in some sort of horrible accident. But that's a cheap, cynical angle, plus everyone's heard it.
Something I didn't know is that the government picks up the bill for kidney transplants but not for liver transplants.
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November 03, 2004
Great, a mystery illness!
No link found yet in outbreak of illness
That always cheers you up, huh? Especially when it's little kids. Seven kids in the past month have shown up at Children's Hospital in Birmingham with hemolytic-uremic syndrome. This is usually caused by an E. coli infection, and three have tested positive for the bacteria. So it's probably that, but they can't tell the source yet. My suggestion is to stick with well done.
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October 26, 2004
For God's sake, don't panic!
Officials: Old, frail shouldn't wait in line for flu shot
Of course, that's the only way they can get a flu shot. So a Health and Human Services official in Birmingham just told senior citizens to not get flu shots. After all, we're stocking antiviral medication!
For now, the front of the alphabet people, as usual, will get the first crack:
In Jefferson County, people whose last names begin with A through J will get shots today; names starting with K through Z will get shots Wednesday.In surrounding counties, people whose last names begin with A through D will get shots today; E through J on Wednesday; K through R on Thursday; and S through Z on Friday.
They always do. Us T-people are always at the back of the line. I'm sick of it. We need alphabetical reform. Letters to be re-arranged in order of use.
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October 21, 2004
It's good for you
Study: Birth control pill safe, healthful | ajc.com
Not only is the Pill safe, it actually reduces the chances of heart disease and stroke. Women, unless they're trying to get pregnant, and don't suffer side effects, would be foolish to not be on the pill. Of course, try getting the zealots who increasingly influence public health sex policy in this country to admit it.
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October 20, 2004
Oh, no!
CNN.com - Americans cross border for flu shots - Oct 20, 2004
That's horrible Canadian third-world witch doctor vaccine! Don't trust it!
The President must, in accordance with his stated policies towards Canadian pharmaceuticals, keep anyone who gets a flu shot in Canada from returning to the country. Only this way can we be safe.
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September 23, 2004
Save the penguins!
CNN.com - Study: Antarctic glaciers melting faster - Sep 22, 2004
Luckily, There's No Such Thing As Global Warming™, right?
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September 14, 2004
Jeanne D'aaaarrrrggghhh
al.com: NewsFlash - Tropical Storm Jeanne forms in Atlantic
Just what everyone needed. The storm's supposed to hit Puerto Rico tomorrow. Nobody on the mainland will notice, of course, but Puerto Rico's used to that.
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That would be bad
Scientists Say Mauna Loa May Soon Erupt
World's biggest volcano? Inside the United States? About to erupt? That's not good at all. Various brilliant people have spent upwards of $2.3 billion on building on the slopes of an active volcano.
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September 12, 2004
Artificial urine?!?
al.com: NewsFlash - Company making fake urine for research
There's a urine shortage? No, apparently human urine isn't good enough.
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August 09, 2004
Joke... too... obvious...
CNN.com - Explorers find world's deepest hole - Aug 9, 2004
"And there they found [former celebrity's] career!" But whose? I'm leaning towards "Joe Piscopo's".
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July 29, 2004
What's wrong with society
CNN.com - Francis Crick, DNA co-discoverer, dies - Jul 29, 2004
Or the media, at least. I know there's a convention on, but why isn't this all over the top of websites, or at least on the front pages? This is Francis Crick, people! Show some respect. The NYT did, but pretty much everyone else is burying it.
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July 06, 2004
Unethical science
CNN.com - Study: Cough syrups ineffective - Jul 6, 2004
A study shows that two common ingredients in children's cough syrup do no better in suppressing nighttime coughing than sugar water. Wait a minute... They gave small children sugar?!? Maniacs!
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July 02, 2004
They must be stopped
French Team Says Generic AIDS Pill as Good as Expensive Combination
Actually, the pill is better; one dose a day does the work of the three doses of the standard pill. My God, if news of this gets around, drug company profits will be threatened! Somebody better bomb India before they can start selling these things. I mean, it's one thing if they sold them to poor Africans who couldn't afford American drugs, but what if they're allowed to sell them to Americans?
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That has to suck
3 transplant patients die from rabies infection
Here you are, waiting for a transplant, and when you get it the guy you got it from had rabies? I mean, what are the odds of that? He probably got it from a bat bite.
There were actually four transplant patients; one in Birmingham died of complications before the rabies could get him. The three who died all lived in Texas. Predictably.
UPDATE: Kieran at Crooked Timber has actual commentary instead of heartless mockery.
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June 15, 2004
The new aspirin
Heart drugs may fight glaucoma
That's the description used by one of the authors of a new study -- the "new aspirin". Drugs like Lipitor and Zocor may, in addition to their use as cholesterol fighters, prevent or fight glaucoma. If they're truly the new aspirin, though, they have to be used to fight lots of different stuff. Skin cancers. Bone fractures. Boredom. Aspirin does everything.
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June 12, 2004
That's not good news
Flaw suspected in anthrax safety system
The system used to inactivate anthrax, allowing researchers to work on it, may be flawed. Apparently some of the anthrax sent from Maryland to California was supposed to be deactivated but wasn't, and seven workers and several lab animals were exposed. All the people seem to be okay.
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May 31, 2004
Cults
Alternative medicine growing in popularity
You ever wonder why the people who go in for these things never use them to treat, say, a broken leg?
The top alternative therapies included prayer (43 percent of adults), natural products (19 percent), meditation (8 percent) and diets such as Atkins, Ornish, or the Zone (4 percent).
Nice to see Atkins among its peers. Of course, "prayer" doesn't advertise nearly as much as Atkins -- which bought an ad on this very story.
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May 26, 2004
Wonderdrug
Study: Aspirin May Cut Breast Cancer Risk
I've been slacking off on this lately, but one thing I used to do was try to keep track off all the different things aspirin is supposed to do. Heart disease, everyone knows that now. And megadoses for heart attacks. And now, breast cancer along with a long list of others.
Works on headaches, too.
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May 25, 2004
Finally, some good news
China starts testing SARS vaccine on humans
Pretty quick work, really -- less than 18 months from the emergence of the disease to vaccine tests on humans. Let's hope it works -- and that the virus doesn't mutate.
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April 17, 2004
Fox knows its audience...
FOXNews.com - Top Stories - [Pr0n] Actors Willing to Work Despite HIV Scare
As Meryl puts it, "Unprotected sex with multiple partners. Who knew?" Yes, it turns out that, shockingly, a lot of pr0n actors have been exposed to HIV. I know, it's hard to believe.
I don't have anything against pr0n as such. I think that a lot of it's kind of gross, but hey, whatever floats your boat. So to speak. But it's 2004, people. I know that pr0n actors aren't noted for their education, nor pr0n producers for their social consciences, but it doesn't take more than minimal common sense to realize that -- leaving aside the performers' health issues -- it's bad for business when your performers start dying in droves.
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March 31, 2004
Eb, Robot
Farming robots crank local engineers' tractors
Is it me, or does that headline sound obscene? Anyway, Teledyne wants to develop robots to do farm scut work. So when the machines take over, they can starve us all to death.
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March 30, 2004
Thanks, gambling!
A top team of AIDS researchers (the same one mentioned a few days ago) will be leaving UAB for Emory on August 1. Emory is able to afford them because of money it gets from Georgia's state lottery. With them, they take control of a clinic in Zambia and funding from NIH. It's a bit of a slap in the face to UAB, which has been showing the group off in recent years. Still, if they can do a better job this way, more power to them.
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March 26, 2004
Please, let it be so
Researchers find possible chink in HIV's armor
Maybe, just maybe, researchers at UAB have found something that will help in the fight against AIDS. It appears that the virus, in its early stages of infection, might be more vulnerable to antibodies. (This might explain why infection rates for HIV are relatively low, and why it tends to attack those with already compromised immune systems. My speculation there.)
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March 24, 2004
Natural litter
Nobody cares about quadruplets these days. I mean, who hasn't given birth to a litter of tiny, monkeylike offspring these days? The difference here is that the offspring in question were conceived without fertility drugs. Also, the mother weighed (pre-pregnancy) 95 pounds. Ouch.
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February 18, 2004
We're past that
Southern Research to test SARS serum
A SARS vaccine? That is so 2003. We're on to bird flu now. Anyway, the Canadians don't have the facilities to test vaccines (oh, my, I hope the Canadians don't come after me for pointing this out!) so they have to ask Southern Research Institute in Birmingham for help.
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January 21, 2004
The Dr. Strangelove complex
Ribbon cut for missile defense center
The $39 million building -- the first of three -- to house the missile defense program that won't and can't work isn't bad enough. But then they decide to call the collection of buildings the "Von Braun Complex". Using Nazis to work for you is one thing, but honoring them?
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January 09, 2004
Good news, sort of
CNN.com - Survey: Kenya HIV rates overestimated - Jan. 9, 2004
It's not really good news that 6.7 percent of Kenyans are HIV positive... but's it's a lot better than the 9.4 percent previously estimated. There are about 30 million people in Kenya; that means about eight hundred thousand fewer people have HIV than previously thought.
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December 17, 2003
Ain't that the truth
Flu-like symptoms not necessarily flu
For instance, whenever an athlete misses a game because of "flu-like symptoms", that means he's got a hangover.
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December 06, 2003
I'm sure there's nothing to worry about
TVA isn't setting aside enough to clean up nuclear plants: GAO
I mean, just because the TVA isn't prepared to safely decommission its nuclear plants once the time comes to retire them, where's the harm? It's not like they could contaminate huge amounts of land for thousands of years or something.
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November 20, 2003
That would be nice
UAB to test possible cure for diabetes
Yes, not a treatment, a cure. "Islet cells" produce insulin; by transplanting them into Type 1 diabetes sufferers the disease might be reversed. At any rate, it worked in Canada. There's a history of diabetes in my family, so I keep an eye out for this sort of thing. This test would also concern Type 2 diabetes for the first time, and that's the one I'm worried about.
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November 04, 2003
Cow College Contribution
Auburn awarded botulism contract
The CDC is granting $12.3 million to Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine to find an antitoxin for botulism. (I guess someone from Atlanta ate in the school cafeteria! Ha!) This more than doubles the entire research budget for the veterinary school. They plan to produce the antitoxin by poisoning horses:
The project, headed by pathobiologist Kenny V. Brock, will involve injecting horses with small doses of varying strains of botulism toxin, a process similar to a vaccination, Boosinger said.The horses' immune systems will produce an anti-toxin in response to the pathogen, which can be collected by extracting plasma from the horses' blood.
Kenny?
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October 28, 2003
Nigeria, the world's most annoying nation
CNN.com - Three Nigerian states halt polio vaccinations over AIDS fears - Oct. 27, 2003
We're trying to eradicate a terrifying, crippling disease that strikes small children. And the stupid rumormongers are going around claiming that WHO's vaccinations cause AIDS and infertility. Needless to say, these states are among those that follow sharia. The aptly named Datti (no doubt pronounced "Dotty") Ahmed, head of the Sharia Law council, called for the shutdown saying that they had "documents" saying that the vaccine causes AIDS and cancer.
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October 21, 2003
Just in hospitals
Federal officials propose masks for anyone with cough
At least, for now. Next up, everyone will have to wear a HAZMAT suit everywhere and we'll have to apply to the Department of Homeland Security to touch another human being. But I rant. I know that the government is trying to keep people from spreading SARS or other respiratory diseases. But I have allergies, and I'm likely to cough at any time. And they're being paranoid.
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I hate them all
CNN.com - Florida House authorizes Bush to intervene in feeding tube case - Oct. 21, 2003
The husband who removed the feeding tube and the parents who want it back in, feuding about money. The Republican-controlled state legislature that's so concerned about life that it wants to extend whatever you call this. Governor Bush, taking time off from his busy schedule of setting people on fire to shove a feeding tube down a dead woman's throat. But especially the so-called medical "ethicists" who say that it's wrong to give an overdose of morphine to end this but that it's okay to starve someone to death. I hope they all wind up in a persistent vegetative state, see how they like it.
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October 09, 2003
Pumping plastic
CNN.com - Meet the artificial muscle man - Oct. 9, 2003
Yoseph Bar-Cohen of JPL wants scientists to create an artificial arm using electroactive polymers -- called artificial muscles. This would then face off in an arm-wrestling contest with a high-school nerd who wins an essay contest.
Obvious joke of the day
The winner will run for governor of California.
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Don't keep it in your front pocket
CNN.com - Some Nokia phones explode, burn users - Oct. 9, 2003
Say what?!? You're walking down the street and suddenly you've got a grenade in your pants? Nokia blames "counterfeit" batteries, which is awfully convenient.
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October 06, 2003
Was it... murder?
CNN.com - Elena Slough, recognized as oldest American at age 114, dies - Oct. 5, 2003
Sure, they say she died of natural causes. But the oldest man in the world died in Japan just last week. Are we supposed to believe it's just a coincidence? These people live for 114 years, and then they die just days apart? That stretches all credibility. Who is killing the oldest people in the world?
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September 29, 2003
Well, so much for that
CNN.com - Sunscreen doubts raised - Sep. 29, 2003
Turns out that ultraviolet A light gets through the sunscreen after all. My advice: wear a hat.
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September 16, 2003
Still not wearing pants
You notice I don't really have a subject suitable for art? I am such a Phillistine.
CNN.com - 'David' restorers ignore criticism - Sep. 16, 2003
Apparently, they're going to clean Michelangelo's "David" with something called a "mud pack". (Europeans!) I think everybody should recall what happened when they restored the Mona Lisa -- they took her eyebrows off. Really, they're not very good at it.
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September 10, 2003
Another person better dead
Edward Teller Is Dead at 95; Fierce Architect of H-Bomb
Rather than burial, Dr. Teller will be placed at ground zero of an underground nuclear test and vaporized. Well, not really. But I'll bet he would have wanted it that way.
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September 05, 2003
And another thing
Tropical Storm Henri Strengthens
What is with these names? Fabian? Henri? Is it my imagination or do the male hurricane names get wimpier every year?
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