Author: Dr Wingnut
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Way to go!
Chief Jay Lord, Capt. Daniel LaMontagne, Lt. Laurance Anderson, Lt. Brian Kent and firefighters Dennis Gillick and Steven Jautaikis, all of the Hampton Falls [New Hampshire] Fire Department, received a Class 2 Medal of Valor for their work on Aug. 20, 2004, at the Wakeda Campground.New Hampshire Union Leader
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Fun Stuff
The 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest shows awful first linesThe power of simplicity: how Stonehenge could have been built by *one man*Google logo maker – LogogleInteresting tool – convert any unitsEver wonder who does the voiceovers during movie trailers?Well, maybe it’s fun *now*, years later: top 10 dotcom flops.Very cool Adidas commercialBrian freeze and “The Final…
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More Intelligent Design Proof
Origin of the Novel Species Noodleous doubleous: Evidence for Intelligent DesignPenne Rigate will spontaneously insert itself into Rigatoni (order pasta) under liquid to gas transition conditions of H2O to create the previously unobserved species Noodleous doubleous. The estimated probability of this spontaneous generation event is too low to be explained by thermodynamics and therefore apparently…
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Corporations: “Not so nice citizens”
My friend Bruce keeps harping about how evil the Walton empire (Wal*Mart, Sams Club) is and how it’s much better to shop at Costco based on an article he read in one of the Twin-Cities free weekly newspapers. Now I’m not saying that he’s wrong, but I read a couple of things this week:Meet the…
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Debbie Does Salad
Harper’s Magazine has a very amusing article in the October issue, “Debbie Does Salad: The Food Network at the frontiers of pornography” by Frederick Kaufman; that compares the way the food channel treats their visuals to those in porn movies — and how similar they are. Well worth the read.
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Expectations
You want me to succeed so much.Could you understand if I failed? …Could you love me if I failed?Sister Mary Paul