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A new study concludes that politicians lie!

The reason: People ask them questions.

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From Comedy Centrals’ The Daily Show, it’s Bush v. Bush

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This is why!

(Actually, I have no idea if air traffic controllers are paid a lot. They sure deserve to be; and after seeing this, you couldn’t pay me enough!)

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PlanetMath.org is a (well, I’ll let them say it) “free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The stress is on peer review, rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and community-drivenness.”

Great reference site.

But don’t forget about Mathword, hosted by Wolfram Research, the Mathematica folks.

If you don’t find it on one of these sites, it ain’t math!

Somebody’s been playing too much Everquest:

Has Anybody Here Seen My Corpse?

This site has been around for a while, it’s a great look at how pennies add up.

Don’t miss the bonus section!

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Flash Flash Revolution

For when ya gotta dance, but just don’t want to get off your big fat…easy chair.

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This is pretty cool – The Internet Sacred Text Archive

– archives of religious, spiritual, and mythical texts.

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The Washington Post had a contest; submit instructions for anything, written in the style of a famous person.

The winning entry:

The Hokey Pokey (as written by W. Shakespeare).

O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The Hoke, the poke — banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, ’tis what it’s all about.

— by William Shakespeare (Jeff Brechlin, Potomac
Falls)

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They build things like this.

My projects tend to look more like this.

…This is what happens.

Ah, it was about time to update my old wallpaper anyway.

Apparently, ‘bú’ if it’s Hungarian.

Animal sounds by language

(I think I’m gonna need a category just for cow items.)

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Jesse Ventura has a rival.

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Honda’s amazing Accord ad apparently took 606 takes.

I don’t care. I’m still impressed.

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If legit, this is really cool! Oil and gas from just about anything carbon-based.

(sorry, lost the attribution)

Compaq finally lets you know where to find that darn key!

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Cute! A Flash animation of Tom Lehrer’s
Elements song.

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Sony has trademarked the term Shock and Awe

Bizarre! What next, “Bud Light ™ proudly presents the Fox ™ -Halliburton ™ America’s War on North Korea! Now with 10% more cluster bombs!”

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EMI is selling copy-protected ‘CD’s that dont’ play in some CD players, like the XBox, since the ‘CD’s don’t comply with the standard for audio CDs developed by Philips and Sony.

Be careful when buying CDs, if they’re copy-protected, they may not play on all CD players.

Okay, this guy parlays $800 into $350 million in the stock market in two weeks.

How? Well, he’s from the year 2256. He just stopped by in his time machine to make a killing in stocks.

Oddly enough, the Feds don’t believe him, they figure he’s got insider information. At 126 companies.

Oh, and nobody can find any record of his existence before last December.

It’s on tv.yahoo.com, so it’s gotta be true!

I wonder why he didn’t just look up his arrest record before he came back?