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Squirrel-sex.com.
Work-safe, although it doesn't *look* work-safe to somebody casually looking over your shoulder.


Yes, that is the One Ring, complete with correct inscription, made out of Silly Putty.


Golden retriever gives birth to green puppy.
They've named it Wasabi.

Speaking of wasabi,


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"Scientists Show How Thinking Can Harm Brain Cells"
It's actually about damage to neurons caused by learning when the brain is afflicted chronic neurodegenerative diseases.

30 years ago today:

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Archaeologists find 3 millennia-old alphabet in a stone tablet.

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For the first time ever, there will not be a World War I veteran at the national Remembrance Day ceremonies tomorrow. There are only 5 veterans left alive, with an average age of 103.

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Japanese invent heated bra.

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Environmentalists test Canadians, find that most of them are toxic.

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The US Supreme Court argues over sock drawers and search rights. Surprisingly, it looks like Scalia and O'Connor agree on this one, and are correct, while Souter, Roberts, and Breyer are off the deep end.

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The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7 x 7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all.

The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that.

The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300ºK), gives H as 798ºK (525ºC).

The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed. However, Revelation 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone [sulphur] means that its temperature must be at or below its boiling point, 444.6ºC.

We have, then, that Heaven, at 525ºC is hotter than Hell at 445ºC.

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Also, I love MIT.

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets:
An Empirical Study

Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We theorize that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.

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Massachusetts bigot learns the hard way that The Colbert Report is not real news.

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Clam-dredging operation finds artillery shell. Call the bomb squad, who dismantle it, open it up... and are hospitalised for chemical weapons exposure. In New Jersey.

"The [US] Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels."

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Pat Robertson explains that God really wants you to vote a specific way.
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover. If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city. And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there."

Pat Robertson appears to have missed the requirements to maintain tax-free-status for churches.

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The Daily Show on gay marriage in Massachusetts.

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This toaster has:
800Mhz CPU (VIA C3).
128MB SDRAM.
40GB Harddrive.
16X DVD Drive.
Built-in Video and sound.

The HD-light is wired to the Bagel LED.

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New virus uses Sony's rootkit to install and hide itself.

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Playing Risk over Google Maps.

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Cornell University researchers prove that increased portion sizes cause increased consumption, even of crappy food that the eater doesn't like.

In regards to Pat Robertson telling people they're getting rid of God by voting out the school board that wanted to teach "Intelligent Design": Didn't Robertson get the memo that he's supposed to be pretending that ID *isn't* Biblical creationism in an amusing camoflage jacket?

Speaking of screwing the pooch...

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US Senate repeals habeas corpus provision of US constitution for political prisoners.