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It was a great thanksgiving.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:18:17 -0600

Good company Good food and no traffic on the ride home today. And now its time for Chinese food. The only real questions is how to convince the bride to go pick it up :D

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Moose on a wire

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:37:53 -0600

Poor Moose

Moose on a wire

via Bits & Pieces by Jonco on 11/25/09

Pogo Moose Incident – Bracebridge , Ont, Canada – 1 hr. 45min. north of Toronto .

‘They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment, the moose went up with them.

They noticed excess tension in the lines and went searching for the problem. He was still alive when they lowered him to the ground. He was a huge 60 inch bull and slightly upset!’

Thanks Dave

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Tastes like ass

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:37:24 -0600

:))

Tastes like ass

via Bits & Pieces by Jonco on 11/25/09

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((tabs: advice, online,news))Five ways to lose your identity (and wallet) this holiday season

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:50:15 -0600

Five ways to lose your identity (and wallet) this holiday season

Macworld 11/24/09 8:10 AM Jaikumar Vijayan

Computerworld offers tips to holiday shoppers looking to expose their personal data to online thieves.

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Watch Extreme sheep LED art

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:19:03 -0600

Extreme sheep LED art

Video:
20 Mar 09: A group of Welsh sheep farmers make astonishing video showing sheep in LED coats playing a game of computer ping pong.
http://video.telegraph.co.uk/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=17075685001

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10 Reasons College Students Look Forward to Thanksgiving Break

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:10:26 -0600

10 Reasons College Students Look Forward to Thanksgiving Break

via Miss Cellania by Miss Cellania on 11/23/09

10. You’ll know that your turkey is a Butterball rather than a Grade E yet semi-edible fur ball.

9. Your mother will not be serving your mashed potatoes and stuffing with an ice cream scooper.

8. Pumpkin pie is a great alternative to green Jello.7. After your eighth glass of cider, your emergency dash to the bathroom will not be delayed by having to line the seat with toilet paper.

6. Clean underwear, comfortable bed, access to a car, bedroom larger than a 12x14 cell… OK, even if it is for only four days.5. To eat your meals the only trek you’ll have to make is from the couch to the kitchen, rather than the dorm to the dining hall…in below freezing weather.

4. Instead of listening to “when I first started teaching here…” you can be entertained by “when your mother was your age…” and “during the Depression we weren’t lucky enough to have brussels sprouts. Hell, all we could afford was the sprout!”3. You can eat your corn steamed with butter rather than popped in your microwave

2. You’ll know the hair in the shower drain is your own.1. You won’t be eating your Thanksgiving meal off a tray!

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(tags: dogs, humor, picture) Musta been a three dog night

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:55:04 -0600

dogs should never drink

Musta been a three dog night

via Bits & Pieces by Jonco on 11/23/09

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New Facebook Worm Spreading Via User’s Walls [WARNING]

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:53:46 -0600

keep it safe out there people!

New Facebook Worm Spreading Via User’s Walls [WARNING]

via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on 11/23/09

Anti-virus maker AVG is warning of a new worm spreading on Facebook via user’s walls.

According to one of AVG’s bloggers, the worm spreads as users that are already logged into the social network click on the suggestive photo that is being placed on their walls by infected friends.

Here’s how it works:

“For those unfamiliar with Facebook (is there anyone other than me in that set?) the thumbnail of the worm’s infective page is a link to the page. The worm’s objective, of course, is that others viewing the victim’s wall will click the link, and as they are logged into Facebook, the worm will propagate its link to that victim’s wall, and so on…

This worm uses what is technically known as a CSRF (Cross-site Request Forgery, also called XSRF) attack. A sequence of iframes on the exploit page call a sequence of other pages and scripts, eventually resulting in a form submission to Facebook “as if” the victim had submitted a URL for a wall post and clicked on the “Share” button to confirm the post.”

While this attack seems to cause more embarrassment than it does damage to your computer or account, it also seems like one of the easier ones to fall for since all it requires is “clicking da button, baby.” The long and short of it seems to be: avoid the booty.

Reviews: Facebook

Tags: facebook, security, trending, viruses

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BBC News - In pictures: Monsters of the deep

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:22:11 -0600

via news.bbc.co.uk

Cool deep sea pictures.

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Mysteriously Warm Antarctica Cycle 125,000 Years Ago

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:22:46 -0600

Mysteriously Warm Antarctica Cycle 125,000 Years Ago

The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel 11/23/09 2:12 AM Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Climate Change

“We didn’t expect to see such warm temperatures, and we don’t yet know in detail what caused them. But they indicate that Antarctica’s climate may have undergone rapid shifts during past periods of high CO2.”

Louise Sime of British Antarctic Survey

A new study of Antarctica’s past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. During the last warm period, about 125,000 years ago, sea level was around 5 meters higher than today. The latest analysis of ice core records suggests that Antarctic temperatures may have been up to 6°C warmer than the present day.

Previous analysis of ice cores has shown that the climate consists of ice ages and warmer interglacial periods roughly every 100,000 years. This new investigation shows temperature ‘spikes’ within some of the interglacial periods over the last 340,000 years. This suggests Antarctic temperature shows a high level of sensitivity to greenhouse gases at levels similar to those found today..

Ice core scientist Eric Wolff of British Antarctic Survey, a world-leading expert on past climate added, “If we can pin down how much warmer temperatures were in Antarctica and Greenland at this time, then we can test predictions of how melting of the large ice sheets may contribute to sea level rise.”

The findings, reported this week by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the Open University and University of Bristol in the journal Nature could help us understand more about rapid Antarctic climate changes.

Casey Kazan

Source: British Antarctic Survey

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listening to "Train drops of jupiter"

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:56:14 -0600

listening to "Train drops of jupiter":

In her hair!

EP224: The Ghost in the Death Trap

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:14:48 -0600

EP224: The Ghost in the Death Trap

Escape Pod 11/12/09 4:30 AM JeremyT Rated PG

by Marjorie James read by Steve Eley

Editor’s note: this is a sequel to EP007. Listen to it here.

Flies buzzed around the edges of the huge stone block, gathering at the rivulets of blood that ran down to the floor. A bit of what looked like it might be intestine hung off one corner, drawing special attention. It was a testament to the force of the collision that fragments of bone and tissue were scattered all the way down the passage, some even wedged in the carvings in the stone walls. Two men surveyed the scene with dismay.

“See? And this just keeps happening. It’s getting so we can’t get anything done around here,” said the taller of the two, a grey-haired man with red eyes and a patchy beard.

The other man, younger but not precisely young, hauled himself up on top of the block and examined the mechanism. “This bar’s been sliced right through.” He looked back down at his client. “You say this was a poltergeist?”

Rated PG for some violence and language.

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Ring of Stars in Centaurus A Uncovered

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:38:41 -0600

Cool space pic!

Ring of Stars in Centaurus A Uncovered

via Universe Today by Nicholos Wethington on 11/22/09

Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is one of the most studied objects in the Southern sky, because it is the giant elliptical galaxy with the closest proximity to our own Milky Way. It lies 11 million light years away from the Milky Way, and is believe to have merged with another gaseous galaxy about 200 to 700 million years ago. The result of this galactic mashup: the birth of hundreds of thousands of stars in a kiloparsec-spanning ring near the core.(…)
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SNL Presents Sarah Palin '2012'

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:55:00 -0600

LOL makes you wonder

SNL Presents Sarah Palin ‘2012’

via BuzzFeed - Latest on 11/22/09

We were warned this day would come. Gotcha Media

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Fantastic faux-floor illusions

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:09:13 -0600

Fantastic faux-floor illusions

Boing Boing 11/21/09 3:53 PM David Pescovitz Art and Design

I was reading a Cool Tools review of a company that puts any image on blinds, wallpaper, or flooring, and one of the comments led me to some fantastic illusions made using photo prints on the floor. More info on the bathroom floor and elevator from the Amazing Illusions blog.

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Hamsterdam

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:49:44 -0600

People got to eat!

Hamsterdam

Miss Cellania 11/21/09 2:00 PM Miss Cellania Go Figure

In these tough economic times, any job is a good job. Still, you often don’t know if you’re qualified until you are in over your head. I don’t know what this woman in Amsterdam is supposed to be advertising, but she sure got my attention! (via Arbroath)

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She Saved the Puppies!

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:45:32 -0600

She Saved the Puppies!

Neatorama 11/21/09 9:29 AM Miss Cellania Animal Travel & Places boat puppies rescue sailing

British citizen and experienced sailor Laura Hughes and her friend John Cochrane were battling gale force winds off the Turkish coast when a rope got caught in her boat’s propeller and killed the engine. She sent a Mayday signal and a boat responded, but the crew demanded 10,000 euros for their rescue -more money than Hughes had. So she jumped in to swim to shore. But she had some precious cargo to take with her -two dogs and their nine puppies who were born during the boat trip!

So, wearing a lifejacket, Miss Hughes jumped out of the boat, carrying the nine Rottweiler puppies ‘African-style’ by balancing the crate on her head and holding the side with one hand while swimming with the other.

Mr Cochrane and the two adult dogs also jumped off the boat and swam to the nearest beach at the Greek resort of Lalissos about 100 metres from their boat.When they got to the shore, exhausted, they were helped by German tourists from a beach hotel and members of the emergency services.

The British Embassy found Laura and John a hotel room for the night – and the puppies spent the night at a local Greek police station.

Link -via Arbroath

(image credit: KNSNEWS)

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