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Mine's A Paul Temple! - (USA)
Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple made his first appearance on BBC Radio in 1938 and went on to appear in novels, film, television and a daily newspaper strip. Now, there's even a cocktail named after him...Created by Francis Durbridge, Paul Temple inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats – a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard usually needed Temple’s help with his latest tricky case.The Paul Templ
http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2008/11/mines-paul-temple.html
ExtenZe and Top Chef - (USA)
I have mentioned here before that I do not watch much television. I watch The Office. And, really, that’s about it except when I’m stuck in a hotel room watching a hysterical and creepy ExtenZe commercial*, or when I get that rare and beautiful fall-asleep-while-watching-golf Sunday. *OK, you have seen these ExtenZe Infomercial-Style Commercials, right? I have put the YouTube of it below. The commercial is not nearly as brilliantly goofy as the Snuggies commercials (four million Snuggies
http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/02/13/extenze-and-top-chef/
Does Conroy's inclusion of Webshield in the Internet filtering trial give a hint of things to come? - (USA)
The Federal Labor Minister for Censorship Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy has said that Webshield Internet Services ( Webshield Internet Shield, Wigzell & Wigzell ) will be part of the internet filtering trial. Strange choice, but perhaps the senator thinks this relatively small South Australian ISP reflects his own narrow world view. Webshield obviously finds favour with at least one Christian website which advertises and links to this in
http://northcoastvoices.blogspot.com/2009/02/does-conroys-inclusion-of-webshield-in.html
The Attack Of The Killer Paintballs - (USA)
Yep. How many times have we heard of people being massacred by paintball guns? How many times have we heard of the accidents in the field? People say, "No, I know the gun is unloaded!", and then BLAM!! someone's eye gets blown away. Time and time again these devastating accidents occur despite the hours and hour of safety training people have to have even before they can touch a paintball gun. And sadly of course, this does not take in to account the massive numbers of deaths that come out o
http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/3164-The-Attack-Of-The-Killer-Paintballs.html
Mounting America - (USA)
Last week I was in South Dakota in the Mount Rushmore area with CHNW(crazy half-nekked wife, left) and her CFCF (crazy fully-clothed family, not pictured). Here's why the trip was particularly meaningful for me. When I was a teen, I found an old snapshot in a drawer at my grandparents' house. It was taken by my grandfather in 1930, when he was traveling around the country looking for work. He was a bricklayer, so he'd go from job to job, wherever he could find them, and send money home to his w
http://bizarrocomic.blogspot.com/2008/07/mounting-america.html
Why Caravan Accessories Are Useful on a Trip - (USA)
by Theodore Cartman Since the dawn of civilization, trade routes have existed and the most famous are the ones which wound through North Africa, Arabia and West Africa. Here, merchants exchanged wares, bartered in food, clothing and weapons. Some groups such as the nomadic groups of North and West Africa still do this to this day largely due to the fact that they dwell in undeveloped regions of the desert where regular household accessories are hard to come by. Today, these excursions into the
http://www.blogtomillion.com/why-caravan-accessories-are-useful-on-a-trip/
Found: My Anthrax Posts from 10/14/01 to 10/27/01 - (USA)
I just had my main backup hard drive crash and I lost years of stuff: my pictures from Europe, Music, etc. While looking through CDs for scraps of what I lost, I found something interesting. Seven (7) years ago on what was then my “blog”, I asked ( 10/25/2001:) “Anthrax made in USA by people with access to American secrets?” In another entry the same day, I pointed out that the FBI confirmed the attacker used the Ames strain and included that the source was the US Army Medical Research Inst
http://xenophilius.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/my-anthrax-posts-from-101401-to-102701/
Forks Galore - (USA)
Forks Galore Posted by Herbert Reich (0) Comment by Herbert Reich Though for most of their history, forks have been available only in Europe and America. Though forks have not been popularly used in Asia, there is evidence that in fact they were used in China long before the use of chopsticks. Evidence of this seems to come from recent finds in Qijia Dynasty tombs. However, forks are readily becoming more popular in East Asia. The word itself is derived from the Latin term for pitchfo
http://www.verysimplearticles.com/2008/shopping-gifts-jewelry/11/forks-galore/
Police museum - (USA)
The first exhibit is enough to put even the most gung ho off driving. A gallery of collisions, chassis concertinaed, heads thrust through windscreens wearing shattered glass ruffs. Then a displays of weapons: knives, bludgeons, saws, guns, in the centre a powder pink iron, its cord innocently tucked. Round a corner the electric chair waits, leather toffee-coloured, plump, manacles empty, the cap like a desk lamp without a bulb. Her brother tries to climb up but is pulled back fast, warned not to
http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/police-museum/
Former nuisance is coming up roses - (USA)
(Note: I know this is kind of a fluff story but I thought it was so great and such a good idea to turn something around! If you've been to Charleston SC in the last few years then you probably remember all these kids running around selling these things, it was annoying but moreover kinda dangerous (in and out of traffic, riding bikes on the sidewalk) ) Palmetto Artisan Program garners national attention By Robert Behre (Contact) The Post and Courier Sunday, June 14, 2009 Youths who finish
http://teamsugar.com/3324882
Boone and Crockett Club to Offer Antler Scoring at Elk Camp - (USA)
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release MISSOULA, MT.-Official measurers from the Boone and Crockett Club will be scoring elk and deer antlers as a service to paid attendees of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s 25th Annual Elk Camp & Hunting, Fishing and Outdoor Expo, March 7-8. Scorers will be on hand at the Fort Worth (Texas) Convention Center on Saturday, March 7, from 9:00 to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday, March 8, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. There is no charge for the service. The Elk C
http://skinnymoose.com/stabley/2009/02/17/boone-and-crockett-club-to-offer-antler-scoring-at-elk-camp/
An Afternoon Walk in a Brazilian Town - (USA)
The Wild and the Tamed Presidente Prudente, a city of 200,000, is located in the state of São Paulo, 400 miles west of the megalopolis of São Paulo, a sprawling giant of 13 million people. "Prudench", as the residents pronounce it, is the thriving, throbbing heart of the beef cattle industry and related businesses, including a lifestyle centered around the cowboy, rodeos and all facets of things "western". I was employed by an importer of western goods as the English-speak
http://www.trifter.com/Caribbean-&-Latin-America/Brazil/An-Afternoon-Walk-in-a-Brazilian-Town.297329
Why Encourage a Child to Play Sports? - (USA)
Most parents consider putting their child in some after school sport from an early age. Many of them change their minds when they realize how expensive and time-consuming that sport will be for them and their child. Although some sports can be hard on the wallet, they may be worth the sacrifice. Sports activities do involve considerable time commitment, but there are some reasons why that can be beneficial to your child. Two of my grandchildren were involved in sports since they were preschoo
http://smileenter.com/why-encourage-a-child-to-play-sports.html
A glimpse of something crepuscular - (USA)
Mostly visual stuff for you today. Galerie Dennis Cooper (actually an imaginary art gallery that consists of novelist Dennis Cooper posting stuff on his blog) presents, intriguingly enough, an exhibition of Benoit Hennebert's sleeves for Brussels record label Les Disques du Crepuscule (1981-1987) this week. Hennebert was a huge influence on Mike Alway , and on my own 1982 sleeve for my first album with The Happy Family, which employed Clarendon type and big asterisks and the kind of
http://imomus.livejournal.com/443207.html
Industry Profile: Okemo Snowboard Clinician K.C. Gandee - (USA)
Industry Profile: Okemo Snowboard Clinician K.C. Gandee Photographer Erica Marciniec Photo courtesy of KC Gandee Shay: So tell us about yourself? KC: I'm a 30 year old snowboarder from the suburbs of Washington, DC. I spent 8 years teaching people to ride at Massanutten, VA and moved to Vermont in 2003 at my wife's, Courtney, suggestion. Winter is longer in Vermont! I spent 4 years on the American Association of Snowboard Instructors (AASI) Snowboard Team working with members, sponsors and oth
http://www.shayboarder.com/2008/07/industry-profile-okemo-snowboard.html
We Didn't Get The Memo: Vacation Is Supposed to Include Relaxation - (USA)
Vacation: a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday. Dictionary.comHere's how we spent Monday, the first full day off school for the summer:Drop the pups off at day care for a bath, fluff and nail trim.Dentist appointment for the kids. Cupcake's allowed to eat again at 10:15, so she holds my cell phone and announces the passing of each minute and second until precisely then.Bank deposit: boringBed, Bath, Kitchen,
http://blog.feefifoto.com/2009/06/theres-a-reason-its-called-vacation.html
From Florida to Michigan - (USA)
First day in the RV Photo taken on 5 Jul 2008 At a rest stop in Georgia Photo taken on 5 Jul 2008 KOA Kampground, Georgia Photo taken on 5 Jul 2008 Kentucky Artisan Center Photo taken on 6 Jul 2008 Kentucky Artisan Center Photo taken on 6 Jul 2008 At the Cabela's Photo taken on 7 Jul 2008 [Click here to view more photos.] Our vacation continues… We have always planned to go to Michigan. Michigan is dear hubby’s birthplace. His grandmother and most relatives are st
http://charmedlife.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/from-florida-to-michigan/
Johnny’s War: a memoir of her father by Argyll writer Mhairi Livingstone Ross - (USA)
It wasn’t easy being pupil 5666 on the admission register of Rockfield Road School when you had nothing to wear on your feet and you were always hungry. Johnny Livingstone was five and had now acquired his second number. The first was on his birth certificate, which also reported that he had opened his eyes to the world in Shore Street in Oban on the 1st July,1906. His sister, Mary, was three. Beginnings Life was hard for the family. Granny had to take in washing to supplement her meagre
http://forargyll.com/2009/06/johnnys-war-a-memoir-of-her-father-by-argyll-writer-mhairi-livingstone-ross/
Walking Boudica's Way; unraveling the myths of East Anglia's warrior queen - (USA)
Walking Boudica's Way in Norfolk. Photograph: Will Bowden Secret Britain: walking Boudica's Way Dixe Wills unravels the myth of East Anglia's warrior queen as he follows in the footsteps of her rebel army Dixe Wills guardian.co.uk , Thursday 23 April 2009 13.38 BST Article history Everything we know about Boadicea is wrong. Those knives coming out of the side of her chariot wheels? A romantic fiction. That she lies
http://blog.luciolepress.com/2009/04/22/walking-boudicas-way-unraveling-the-myths-of-east-anglias-warrior-queen.aspx?ref=rss
THE DAILY BLADE: The First Earth Day - (USA)
An unintentionally hilarious piece in The New Yorker casts a nostalgic eye on the origins of Earth Day: The first celebration of Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, was a raucously exuberant affair. In New York, Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic. People picnicked on the sidewalk; dead fish were dragged through midtown; and Governor Nelson Rockefeller rode a bicycle across Prospect Park. Students in Richmond, Virginia, handed out bags of dirt (to represent the “good earth”); demonstr
http://thestilettoblog.com/2009/04/22/the-daily-blade--the-first-earth-day.aspx?ref=rss
NYC marks 400th anniversary of Dutch arrival - (USA)
Four hundred years after Henry Hudson sailed his ship Half Moon up a river that would one day bear his name, historians are marking his role in the evolution of a tiny Dutch trading post into a world capital called New York.The activity includes exhibits by the Museum of the City of New York and the New-York Historical Society, a recreation of the Half Moon’s voyage of discovery up the Hudson, and scores of events here and in the Netherlands.The Englishman’s journey under the Dutch flag — Hudson
http://goingcoastal.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/nyc-marks-400th-anniversary-of-dutch-arrival/
Caravan Accessories - How It Can Help You on a Trip - (USA)
by Theodore Cartman In the ancient time trade routes prevailing in places with civilization and society were referred to as caravans. Trade routes that existed in Arabia, North and West Africa and the Middle East have found a place in historical books. Some trade routes were long and others short. They were used by men to get to another place to sell their goods and buy what they did not possess. The nomads of North and West Africa still traverse through these trading routes along with camels,
http://sciencehorizons.com/caravan-accessories-how-it-can-help-you-on-a-trip/
Stop It Before It Starts: Part 2 - (USA)
Wednesday of last week I attended the seminar Stop It Before It Starts: Preventing Sexual and Domestic Violence presented by: Minnesota Men's Action Network: Alliance to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence . In part 1 , I gave my thoughts on the first session which was about the dynamics of domestic violence. This post is a recap of the second session, Introduction to Sexual Violence, given by Lindsay Gullingsrud of Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA). I'll begin with the
http://abyss2hope.blogspot.com/2009/05/stop-it-before-it-starts-part-2.html
Guns Kill People - (USA)
In the face of public violence, gun advocates often repeat the mantra, “Guns don’t kill people — people kill people.” That defense fails to take a gun’s magnitude of lethality into account. In the past 25 days, America has witnessed a record-breaking number of mass murders, all inflicted by guns. Here’s the list: April 4: 5 children in Washington are the latest shooting victims, killed by their father who then killed himself; April 4: 3 Pittsburgh policemen killed and two mo
http://chuckwarnockblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/guns-kill-people/
Universal Horror Nights updates - (USA)
Universal Horror Nights announced today new features for this year’s Halloween proceedings. Full press release after the jump. Here are the highlights: A walk thru maze of “a painstakingly surreal recreation of the notorious house at 1428 Elm Street” called “Nightmare on Elm Street: Home Sweet Hell.” “Terror Tram: The Nightmare Tour” doubles the length of the tram tour, incorporating mazes in addition to the usual, but always cool, walk thru of the “War of the Worlds” and “Psycho” sets. One
http://creepyla.com/blog/2008/08/26/universal-horror-nights-updates/
Tale of the Tape: Patrick Willis vs. Adrian Wilson - (USA)
Competitor (seed): Patrick Willis (7) Nickname: The Rolling Ball of Butcher Knives Height: 6'1? Weight: 242 lbs. Reach: That nickname (bestowed upon him by Brad Childress) Sponsor: Under Armor Ring Music: Boom Hometown: Bruceton, Tennessee, the home of literally dozens of other people. Pedigree: Patrick had the kind of tragic childhood that we’ve seen from countless boxers over the years. The Peterson brothers are a great example of how boxing can help young men learn proper focus and
http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2008/08/tale-of-the-tape-patrick-willis-vs-adrian-wilson.html
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