From The Seattle Times: Grays Harbor County sheriff’s Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM’-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday and called a relative to pull his car from a ditch. However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when they arrived. Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into [...]
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Chilean earthquake shifted the Earth’s axis, shortened days
From NASA: JPL research scientist Richard Gross computed how Earth’s rotation should have changed as a result of the Feb. 27 quake. Using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation that the quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is [...]
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“The Internet? Bah!”
Clifford Stoll wrote a piece for Newsweek in 1995 about how the internet will not change society and e-commerce will never go anywhere. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer [...]
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D-sized breast implant stops bullet
After a gunman stormed a dental office and Simi Valley last year, Lydia Carranza has been recovering after being shot in the chest. Her doctor claims that it was her d-sized breast implants that saved her life. From the LA Times: Ghavami contends that the implant absorbed much of the bullet’s impact, limiting most of [...]
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David Geffen is possibly, maybe vain – definitely gay
The Sun is reporting that Carly Simon has revealed the subject of her classic hit You’re So Vain. Initially thought to be one of her past flames, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens or Warren Beatty, it turns out that the song is really about gay record industry mogul David Geffen. The revelation comes from [...]
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Grandma DJ is a hit in France
Sixty-nine year old Ruth Flowers is the newest DJ to make splash in France. From Reuters: “It started really when my grandson had a birthday party … they always have a little disco, don’t they, after the party,” Flowers told Reuters, lounging on a white sofa in a Paris hotel in a green satin bomber [...]