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Man peed his way out of avalanche:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1261997.html?menu

Monkeys pay to see others butts:
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050128_monkey_business.html

Shroud of Turin not a fake yet:
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5500713

Snow making machinesz:
http://www.snowathome.com/internal_mix_page2.htm
http://www.backyardblizzard.com/

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4207351.stm
chimps have fair play

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4209575.stm
encyclopedia is wrong

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/spacesuit_innovations_050126.html
suits for space are awesome

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Just when you thought the thong craze was over, now they're putting them into vending machines:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1464710,00.html

You're out on the town having a great time and you run into sexy Mr. Right, or at least Mr. Right Now. Things between you two are progressing nicely, when a flash hits you: In the rush to get out of the house, you threw on your ugliest pair of girdle-like panties. That's sure to throw ice on the erotic heat should things really get going.

But now you have an option, at least if you live in Stuttgart. Thanks to an idea by Ulrike Brucher, a businesswoman who owns a local lingerie shop, women in these emergency situations can pop into the ladies' room, drop €6 (about $7.70) into a vending machine, and emerge wearing a slinky thong. It will not only do away with pesky panty lines, it'll ensure that at the critical moment, the erotic charge won't be short circuited.

Jeeze, how shallow are the guys in Europe? "Ohmigod, you're wearing granny panties, I'm leaving"

Real Prophets play golf:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6855949

LONDON - An 1892 book that predicted bullet trains, driverless golf carts, televisions and digital watches sold for 1,200 pounds ($2,240) at auction on Saturday.

Its author, Scottish professional golfer Jack McCullogh, also predicted women would start dressing like men and do all the work while the menfolk took to the golf courses full-time.
His little-known book, "Golf in the Year 2000 or What Are We Coming To" by McCullogh under the pseudonym J.A.C.K., was bought by James Espinola, an American collector of golf memorabilia.

This book is a cross between Nostradamus and the tale of Rip van Winkle because the main character goes to sleep on March 24, 1892, and wakes up on March 25, 2000, to find all these amazing changes," spokesman Philip Gregory of auction house Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh said before the sale.

Driverless golf carts became a reality in the 1980s, Japan's bullet train went into operation in 1964 and digital watches were all the rage in the 1970s.

McCullogh even predicted international team golf competitions like the Ryder Cup which was first played in 1927.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited

Good luck finding another copy of that.

Robot Does Surgery:

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/medical/story/12106349p-12976318c.html

It is the rare surgery that lures onlookers to the operating room window and commands the rapt attention of the cancer center's medical director.

But that's what happened last week when 75-year-old Edwin Carlson became Sutter General Hospital's first patient to go under the, well, four-armed robot.

For several hours the massive piece of machinery pulled and prodded, cut, cauterized and stitched until Carlson's diseased prostate gland was safely out of his body.

The robot wasn't acting alone. A Los Angeles-area surgeon with expertise in robot-assisted prostatectomy sat at a console several feet away operating its arms. Like a conductor directing a symphony, his flittering hands maneuvered tiny instruments that had been inserted through small incisions in Carlson's abdomen.

The surgeon's delicate movements were translated by the robot's arms, which looked like a giant tarantula crawling above the anesthetized patient.

This was predicted nearly fifty years ago by my favorite science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein. Ih his book "Waldo Inc." a reclusive millionaire uses machines called "waldos" [Named for the recluse] to work at the smallest levels. He uses his waldos to make smaller waldos, thus getting more and more tinyinity to his tininess.

Here Ye Here Ye, Smoking good for you:

http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1287047.htm

Tobacco may have at least one virtue - that of providing some protection
against the onset of Parkinson's disease.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden's leading medical research
centre, have looked at the medical and death records of sets of Swedish twins in
which one smoked and the other did not.

"Many studies have shown a protective effect of cigarette smoking on
Parkinson's disease," said the study.

The study was published online this month by the Annals of Neurology.

Woot Woot!

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http://www.urinal.net/

I could spend days perusing this website . In fact, I think I will.

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Space Aliens should already be here:

http://www.space.com/searchforlife/et_betterodds_050114.html

"Decades ago, it was physicist Enrico Fermi who pondered the issue of extraterrestrial civilizations with fellow theorists over lunch, generating the famous quip: "Where are they?" That question later became central to debates about the cosmological census count of other star folk and possible extraterrestrial (ET) visitors from afar.
Fermi’s brooding on the topic was later labeled "Fermi’s paradox". It is a well-traveled tale from the 1950’s when the scientist broached the subject in discussions with colleagues in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Thoughts regarding the probability of earthlike planets, the rise of highly advanced civilizations "out there", and interstellar travel -- these remain fodder for trying to respond to Fermi’s paradox even today.
Now a team of American scientists note that recent astrophysical discoveries suggest that we should find ourselves in the midst of one or more extraterrestrial civilizations. Moreover, they argue it is a mistake to reject all UFO reports since some evidence for the theoretically-predicted extraterrestrial visitors might just be found there."

I had an astronomy professor once take us through an excercide, whereby we predicted how long it would take to proliferate the entire galaxy, one ship at a time. Assuming it takes 1000 years per multigenerational trip, and that 50% of trips fail. TO send a ship to every inhabitable star in the galaxy would take about 1 million years. If you couple that with what the story went on to say:

"The scientists point to two key discoveries made by Australian astronomers and reported last year that there is a "galactic habitable zone" in our Milky Way Galaxy. And more importantly that Earth’s own star, the Sun, is relatively young in comparison to the average star in this zone -- by as much as a billion years. "

You see that aliens should already be here. So, either they are here and we're unable to see them, they are here and we do see them as UFO's, we are the Aliens and have lost our history, or there aren't aliens, or aliens don't like to travel, or we're in a matrix type deal.

What do I believe? Can I buy a vowel?

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Here are things I found while exploring the internet:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1468&item=5549124943&rd=1
scary bra

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5547354765&rd=1
diploma

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=308&item=3774106424&rd=1
stump fiddle

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=308&item=3774432576&rd=1
celtic tin whistle

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=308&item=3774399737&rd=1
xun whistle

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300229386/ref=wl_it_dp/104-7805244-8437554?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I2VP9GM1Q6DEOM&v=glance&colid=16R8PFQVHNF53
kill bambi

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Take a visit to the oldest site on the internet:
http://www.SYMBOLICS.COM (at least as far as domain registration goes)

Underground UFO bases between China and India:
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-09a-05.asp

Where all lost luggage ends up:
http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/208173-1472-103.html
www.unclaimedbaggage.com

Internet History of WWW:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html

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A few things,

62 foot stogie:
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020603/memo.html

"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A cigar maker in Puerto Rico has hand-rolled a 62-foot-long stogie, which would be the world's largest if confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records."

The oldest registered domain names:


1.
15-Mar-1985
SYMBOLICS.COM
2.
24-Apr-1985
BBN.COM
3.
24-May-1985
THINK.COM
4.
11-Jul-1985
MCC.COM
5.
30-Sep-1985
DEC.COM
6.
07-Nov-1985
NORTHROP.COM
7.
09-Jan-1986
XEROX.COM
8.
17-Jan-1986
SRI.COM
9.
03-Mar-1986
HP.COM
10.
05-Mar-1986
BELLCORE.COM
11=
19-Mar-1986
IBM.COM
11=
19-Mar-1986
SUN.COM
13=
25-Mar-1986
INTEL.COM
13=
25-Mar-1986
TI.COM
15.
25-Apr-1986
ATT.COM
16=
08-May-1986
GMR.COM
16=
08-May-1986
TEK.COM
18=
10-Jul-1986
FMC.COM
18=
10-Jul-1986
UB.COM
20=
05-Aug-1986
BELL-ATL.COM
20=
05-Aug-1986
GE.COM
20=
05-Aug-1986
GREBYN.COM
20=
05-Aug-1986
ISC.COM
20=
05-Aug-1986
NSC.COM
20=
05-Aug-1986
STARGATE.COM
26.
02-Sep-1986
BOEING.COM
27.
18-Sep-1986
ITCORP.COM
28.
29-Sep-1986
SIEMENS.COM
29.
18-Oct-1986
PYRAMID.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
ALPHACDC.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
BDM.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
FLUKE.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
INMET.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
KESMAI.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
MENTOR.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
NEC.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
RAY.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
ROSEMOUNT.COM
30=
27-Oct-1986
VORTEX.COM
40=
05-Nov-1986
ALCOA.COM
40=
05-Nov-1986
GTE.COM
42=
17-Nov-1986
ADOBE.COM
42=
17-Nov-1986
AMD.COM
42=
17-Nov-1986
DAS.COM
42=
17-Nov-1986
DATA-IO.COM
42=
17-Nov-1986
OCTOPUS.COM
42=
17-Nov-1986
PORTAL.COM
42=
17-Nov-1986
TELTONE.COM
42=
11-Dec-1986
3COM.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
AMDAHL.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
CCUR.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
CI.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
CONVERGENT.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
DG.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
PEREGRINE.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
QUAD.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
SQ.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
TANDY.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
TTI.COM
50=
11-Dec-1986
UNISYS.COM
61=
19-Jan-1987
CGI.COM
61=
19-Jan-1987
CTS.COM
61=
19-Jan-1987
SPDCC.COM
64.
19-Feb-1987
APPLE.COM
65=
04-Mar-1987
NMA.COM
65=
04-Mar-1987
PRIME.COM
67.
04-Apr-1987
PHILIPS.COM
68=
23-Apr-1987
DATACUBE.COM
68=
23-Apr-1987
KAI.COM
68=
23-Apr-1987
TIC.COM
68=
23-Apr-1987
VINE.COM
72.
30-Apr-1987
NCR.COM
73=
14-May-1987
CISCO.COM
73=
14-May-1987
RDL.COM
75.
20-May-1987
SLB.COM
76=
27-May-1987
PARCPLACE.COM
76=
27-May-1987
UTC.COM
78.
26-Jun-1987
IDE.COM
79.
09-Jul-1987
TRW.COM
80.
13-Jul-1987
UNIPRESS.COM
81=
27-Jul-1987
DUPONT.COM
81=
27-Jul-1987
LOCKHEED.COM
83.
28-Jul-1987
ROSETTA.COM
84.
18-Aug-1987
TOAD.COM
85.
31-Aug-1987
QUICK.COM
86=
03-Sep-1987
ALLIED.COM
86=
03-Sep-1987
DSC.COM
86=
03-Sep-1987
SCO.COM
89=
22-Sep-1987
GENE.COM
89=
22-Sep-1987
KCCS.COM
89=
22-Sep-1987
SPECTRA.COM
89=
22-Sep-1987
WLK.COM
93.
30-Sep-1987
MENTAT.COM
94.
14-Oct-1987
WYSE.COM
95.
02-Nov-1987
CFG.COM
96.
09-Nov-1987
MARBLE.COM
97=
16-Nov-1987
CAYMAN.COM
97=
16-Nov-1987
ENTITY.COM
99.
24-Nov-1987
KSR.COM

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5549226557&rd=1
devil cookie

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5547354765&rd=1

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Here is a pretty cool story (in the MartyEmail sense of the word):
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050105/ap_on_fe_st/boy_plumber

"MASSILLON, Ohio - Nine-year-old Joey Sinay is so interested in how toilets work that he wrote a letter to a toilet maker asking if they would produce a clear commode.

"He thought it would be neat to have a clear toilet in his house, so he can see how it works," said Joey's father, Nick Sinay.
The letter to Kohler, a Wisconsin-based plumbing product company, sent last year when Joey was 8, caught the company's attention.
"It's pretty unusual to get a letter like that from an 8-year-old," said John Bashaw, the company's custom service director.
A clear toilet wasn't doable. But officials at Kohler wrote back twice. "We were so impressed by the fact that he took the time to write us a letter," Bashaw said.
In December, the little plumber from Massillon got a present from Kohler — a state-of-the-art bulk flush toilet.
Joey, who keeps a toolbox under his bed, was nearly speechless. A local plumber agreed to help the boy install his dream gift.
"When we built our home, we would come over a lot when they were building it, and he followed the plumber around. He would just watch," said Michelle Sinay, Joey's mother.
With Dennis Potter of Ohio Spa & Parts taking the lead, Joey helped remove the old upstairs bathroom toilet and install the new one.
Potter taught the youngster how to install a toilet. He gave him tips and quizzed him on the many functions. By the end, Joey was working on it by himself.
Among his duties, Joey disconnected and carried out the old toilet tank. He unwrapped the new toilet seat, screwed it onto the bowl and discarded the product sticker.
Joey, smiling the entire time, was eager to learn from a real life plumber.
"Plumbers are guardians of the nation's health because they take care of everything," Potter told his apprentice.
For Joey, it wasn't all that deep.
"It was just fun to put it together," he said. "

I want to quote again a certain part:

"Plumbers are guardians of the nation's health because they take care of everything"

A little self esteem issue there methinks.

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this is a perfect item for those of you afraid of Nuke meltdown:
http://www.nukalert.com/

"The State of the Art, Patent-Pending, NukAlert™ sensor is composed of a Cadmium Sulphide photocell exposed to light emitted by a radioluminescent rare earth phosphor (scintillator). The sensor signal is sampled with every tick or alarm chirp group by a small custom microprocessor. The NukAlert™ is always "ON" 24/7 continuously monitoring and sampling its immediate environment. The long-life battery combined with this patent-pending technology provides continuous monitoring for a minimum of ten years with enough reserve to respond and alarm to a prolonged radiation emergency. (Even at the highest suggested retail, and they are cheaper when buying as few as two, it works out to less than $16 per year over the lifetime of the battery!) And, this key chain attachable, carry everywhere, rugged detector and meter is completely sealed to prevent moisture or contaminants from affecting its operation.
From the first time we had talked in October 2001, we both deeply appreciated the urgency and need for American families today to be able to promptly know if and when dangerous radiation is present that requires their taking protective action. We are confident the NukAlert™ detector can now fulfill that important mission with the current threats of nuclear terrorism and 'dirty bombs'. "

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