Monday, August 20, 2007
If you see your lawyer in the street, run…
In a recent interview in Maclean’s,( Aug 6, 2007 ), Toronto lawyer Philip Slayton discusses his book Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada ’s Legal Profession. (Penguin) Alright, that should be an interesting read, and it’s on my list, although lawyer-bashing always makes me a bit...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." Hamlet (I, iv)
The royal reception room in Copenhagen's Christianborg Palace played host recently to a 43-year-old prostitute who posed naked for photos. In one, she appears in an acrobatic position above the chair Queen Margrete uses when she awards medals. Experts say the photos, which were published in a...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
New Jersey: Better Ballooning with a Virgin
Organizers of the Quik Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning no longer buy weather insurance. To avoid festival-cancelling inclemency, they have imported a Singaporean superstition that insures good weather, using a virgin to utter incantations and pierce onions with a knife. Victoria Blumfeld, a...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Nothing but Giant Chickens…
In a study led by Harvard biologist Chris Organ, [he] managed to estimate how much DNA dinosaurs had, despite the lack of any surviving genetic material. Organ suspected that he could estimate the size of the dinosaur’s genome indirectly by taking advantage of data from living animals. In existing...
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Tonight’s the night...
the night when the Perseid meteor shower peaks, that is. At this time of year, the Earth is moving through the cloud of dust particles streaming off comet Swift-Tuttle. If you have a dark and cloudless sky, (and it will be dark tonight because of the new moon), and if your night sky is not...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Now let Naut help you save some money...
Yes, I thought that would get your attention... You have noticed gasoline prices, haven’t you? Way up there? Especially for so-called ‘premium’, right? Do you buy premium? Do you need it? Probably not! Many people buy premium gasoline because they believe that high octane gas has more ‘power’ or is...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Japan: Noodle Bath Soothes Resort Goers
A mountain resort in Hakone, southwest of Tokyo, has unveiled a special bath designed to resemble a bowl of steamy ramen noodles. Customer can soak in pepper-scented water while paddling about in bath salts that resemble the slippery noodles. “Customers may have been puzzled at first, but I think...
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Monday, August 6, 2007
Man vs His Own Chevy: No Clear Victory
Nothing seems to go right for William Clawson of Illinois. When he thought someone was stealing his 2003 Chevy, he drove a golf cart into its path to stop it. Clawson didn’t know at the time that his Chevy was being repossessed. He told a court that he suffered massive and lasting injuries from the...
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Friday, August 3, 2007
And here’s some important info about your pussy cat...
According to the latest DNA sequencing, all living species of cats “trace back to a panther-like predator that lived in south-east Asia 10.8 million years ago. The great roaring cats were the first to branch off; seven other lineages followed.” “The final act in the cat’s journey from the jungle to...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
How NOT to launch your boat...
Okay, you’ve bought your new boat. But it’s sitting in its cradle, and you want it in the water. So you get yourself a guy with a crane, who knows what he’s doing, and then you go on board, and take your buddy along for a nice ride into the water, right? Wrong. But unfortunately, as it turns out,...
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