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CNN.com - Denmark pays for killing Santa’s Rudolf - Sep 30, 2005
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish Air Force said it has paid about $5,000 in compensation to a part-time Santa Claus whose reindeer died of heart failure when two fighter jets roared over his farm.
The animal, named Rudolf, was grazing at the farm of [...]

Daily Rotten: Weird News
Sep 30 1955
Heading westbound on Highway 466 just outside Cholame, California, movie star James Dean is killed in a head-on collision with another driver. University student Donald Turnupseed was driving home in his Ford when he swerved into the oncoming lane, smashing into Dean’s Porsche 550 Spyder. The actor gave us an [...]

Chai and Sympathy: Interview Part Deux!
1) So many blogs have such unusual names. How did you come up with yours?
I dont know, I was looking for domain names to buy, I don’t actually remember what particular thought process drove the name though.

2) What inspired you to start blogging?
Honestly, it was an excuse to set up [...]

Arctic Ice Melts Faster As It Gets Warmer - Yahoo! News
Arctic Ice Melts Faster As It Gets Warmer
apparently, when it gets warm, ice melts!
oh, think of the children, the humanity!

Wikiquote:Quote of the day - Wikiquote
“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.” ~ Enrico Fermi

dooce: Christie
if nothing else, read today’s dooce, heather’s story about her family/aunt is -powerful- for lack of the right word
I don’t know what I believe in terms of religion, and I’m comfortable with that. I’m okay not knowing. But I’m not okay with the thought that she isn’t where she thought she would be when [...]

GorillaMask.net: Family Guy: Kevin Federline’s Magic Mirror
Peter as Kevin Federline’s Magic Mirror.
hilarious stuff
via

AIRTOONS
hilarious cartoons, mostly from airlines, with changed captions

Daily Rotten: Weird News
Sep 28 1978
A nun at the Vatican discovers the lifeless body of Pope John Paul I, formerly Albino Luciani, in bed. The pontiff had been on the job only 33 days before unexpectedly dying in his sleep, after having taken some sort of pills with dinner. The church refuses to grant an [...]

Corrective surgery set for Glooscap

TRURO - The Truro Power Centre’s 12-metre statue of Glooscap, legendary symbol of the Mi’kmaq, will soon lose an unwanted illusory protrusion.
Some motorists travelling Highway 104 toward Truro claim the statue looks like it has an appendage not intended by its sculptor emerging from its midriff.
via brent

Scientists to peep on panda sex with satellite

Chinese scientists will use satellite technology to peep on the sexual antics of the highly endangered giant pandas, Xinhua news agency said.
apparently they are going to use GPS to tell when 2 pandas get close to each other and do the deed

george_bush_spindoctor.mov
hilarious video
dont remember where it was actually shown on TV
kauffman sent me the link

The Observer | International | Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina

It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Daily Rotten: Weird News
Sep 27 1964
The Warren Commission Report is finally released, definitively proving once and for all that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, without anyone’s help. Case closed.

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » skymall
apparently the skymall post was my 300′th post
yay!