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This has happened to me. Well, not this specifically but as a general occurrence.
Dear readers, (who are much brighter than me) I'm sure that this is nothing new to you.
Normally I'd just post the entire image, but this is one you really have to see in its native environment. Really - check it out.


Ride of the Valkyries - nice.

A spacewalking astronaut accidentally let go of her tool bag Tuesday after a grease gun inside it exploded, and helplessly watched as the tote and everything inside floated away.I've got to empathize with the astronaut, a lady with the improbably long name [...]

"As a screener at Newark Liberty International Airport, Pythias Brown was supposed to keep deadly objects off airplanes. But for the past year, authorities allege, Brown has been swiping electronic equipment from luggage of the [...]
From a NYTimes story on Sarah Palin:
We've all had different experiences at work. But for those of you who have experience with big business, these stories are for you.
From National Geographic, an article on the European Bee-Eater:"Parents butt into their son's business, begging for the courtship treat or barging in between the mated pair. If that didn't work, a parent might block the entrance to the son's burrow, preventing the female [...]
Taken from the "Letters" section of the October issue of National Geographic:It has always troubled me how little, if any, attention is given to the possibility that Stonehenge might be a sports complex...Could Stonehenge be the site of a prehistoric World Series and the dozens [...]

The newest sensation in the world of Bolivian lucha libre (think "high-flying masked wrestlers in scripted matches") is cholita wrestling (think "young ladies in peasant skirts, bowler hats and shawls). Cholita lucha libre may seem like a contradiction in terms. I assure you it is not, [...]




Obama. I hear he's black. No, really! It says something about the sea change in America's political culture when we're more concerned with the religious orientation of a candidate's antecedents than with their race or place of birth. I'm sure this [...]
When I was growing up, I remember seeing ads for my favorite jackals, Habush, Habush and Davis."The new report sheds light on the beliefs of the unaffiliated. Like the overwhelming majority of Americans, 70 percent of the unaffiliated said they believed in God, including one of every five people who identified [...]
An official investigating the double murder of two young girls in Oklahoma saidOur 'official' Stan Florence works for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. With analytical chops like this, I'm sure [...]
Tuesday the "shooter wanted these girls dead"


"The workers who built the pyramids were paid in beer, according to records found at a nearby town where the construction workers at and slept. The records indicate that at the time of the pyramids' construction, around [...]
This finding suggests that people who combine relatively [...]