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This weekend I discovered American Gladiators on Hulu and I'm embarrassed to say that I watched all of the episodes.
Truthfully, I'm not completely sure why, I can't stand reality TV shows and hate "professional" wrestling, but once I watched the first episode I was hooked.
Few possibilities:
perhaps it's a flashback to ...
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It's amazing to see what advertisers use to say to get people to buy their products. This Schlitz beer ad from 22 April 1908 is hilarious to read:
The Doctor says "drink beer" to the weak and the convalescent. To those who need strength—need a food and a tonic. If it ...
Apparently there was a 2.7 earthquake in my hometown yesterday morning within an epicenter about 3 miles from my parent's farm (USGS).
And my family was concerned about earthquakes here in California. :)
Ran across this on my old blog and thought I'd repost it here...
Cartoon Laws Of Physics:
Law I
Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.
Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look ...
Buck to Looney Exchange Rate
Time to move to Canada... the U.S. Dollar has hit it's lowest exchange rate with the Canadian Dollar since the Civil War.
1 USD = 0.944 CAD
1 CAD = 1.059 USD
This map of San Francisco is maddening… each one of those dots is a “farmer” receiving a farm subsidy:
http://farm.ewg.org/sites/farmbill2007/mappage.php
It's not just limited to San Francisco, it's like this across the entire country.
Farm Subsidies on the Sauce
Growing up on a small farm, subsidies have always been a divisive subject for me. ...
This is unbelievable, when I ran across this website on MetaFilter I thought it was a joke.
However, The Happy Ending Foundation (THEF) does exist (and apparently doesn't have the slightest thing to do with what I first thought it meant. :) ).
They're goal... rewrite sad children stories so they have ...
This is pretty messed up... after hatching these baby chicks are separated, sexed, tossed, boxed, drugged, and then shipped like any other factory made item.
I've always found old hand painted posters to be really cool. So after running across an article about old propaganda posters from WWII, I thought I'd do a little digging on the interweb.
Some of these are really creative, others are complete lies, and the remaining are just hilarious... I can ...
