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January 29, 2010
Crazy much?
Shiny Gadget, Icky Name: IPad Jokes Fly On Web
Apple’s Latest Invention Is Called A WHAT? Internet Wiseacres Mock The New IPad’s Name
Read this link for one of the most outrageous cases of political correctness I’ve ever heard.
I can’t quote the article here because it’s from the AP, and they won’t allow that… Another annoyance.
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January 26, 2010
Odd News Stories a Specialty
From Merinews.com:
Holiday Inn offers human bed warmers
” Oddities around the world are limitless. Enjoy the fun as it unfolds, this time via bed spreads and innovative human bed-warming service. Holiday Inn, an international hotel chain is offering on a trial basis human bed-warming service. ”
Read more (I promise, part of this is book-related):
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June 4, 2008
And I thought the Milky Way Dark was an advance
From the University of Wisconsin – Madison news:
” Humans have always had a ringside seat for viewing the Milky Way.
Now, however, thanks to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have obtained an entirely new perspective of our home galaxy: a complete mosaic portrait of the Milky Way in infrared light, a picture that when printed measures 180 feet long by 4 feet wide. ”
Read more…
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