Okay…this is really fukn cool. Apparently scientists tracking this polar bear Skadi, just observed her swimming 100 km through the icy polar waters in a 24 hour period. What this means is that polar bears may have to be reclassified as Marine Mammals…like whales, otters, and dolphins…. I love polar bears…. One time when me…
Knot Language…Inca So
WASHINGTON – Three figure-eight knots tied into strings may be the first word from the ancient Inca in centuries. While the Incan empire left nothing that would be considered writing by today’s standards, it did produce knotted strings in various colors and arrangements that have long puzzled historians and anthropologists. Many of these strings have…
Giant Waterfall Discovered in Calif. Park – Yahoo! News
(In highschool we would cut class and we used to run all over the woods in Whiskeytown and there was a giant ropeshwing into Whiskeytown Lake…but we never found no 400 foot falls…just beer and women….cd) Giant Waterfall Discovered in Calif. Park – Yahoo! News WHISKEYTOWN, Calif. – Dick McDermott knows these parts as well…
Kim Jong Ils Women and Offspring
(okay…so now we see why I’m so obsessed with kim jong il…or Daddy…Thanks for the family Bernest Ernstein–cd)
Armed robbers dressed as clowns hold up Quik Mart
(I love real life evil clowns….except the child molesting kind….and ones that want to kill me…cd) Police are looking for a couple of clowns. Early Wednesday morning, the bandits hit a local business in disguise. A convenience store on Country Club, just north of Ft. Lowell. It’s not a laughing matter. The clowns that walked…
ABC TV Is Sued Over Plan for Show
(Isn’t this ironic?–cd) The creators of a television show, first broadcast in Minneapolis, that pits would-be inventors against each other for prizes, filed suit yesterday against ABC television, as well as a producer of “American Idol” and Simon Cowell, the outspoken “Idol” judge, for preparing a similar show with the same title: “Million Dollar Idea.”…
Don't Be Late!!!!
(Maybe next time he’ll call first and not let dinner get cold…cd) Woman allegedly threatens husband (Honolulu) Police arrested a 34-year-old Palolo woman who allegedly hit her husband with a flashlight and threatened to kill him with a knife after he came home late on Tuesday night. Police said the 40-year-old man reported that he…
Check out the Meteors Tonight
(Grab a blanket, head to the beach, and enjoy!!! –cd) Good show expected from meteor shower By Helen Altonn haltonn@starbulletin.com The annual Perseid meteor shower is worth staying up for tonight if it is not cloudy, says Carolyn Kaichi, Bishop Museum Planetarium manager. That is because the moon will only be in the first quarter…
Minority-Majority Map
There may be hope for the US after all….cd
Company to Sell Trips Around the Moon
NEW YORK – The company that pioneered commercial space travel by sending “tourists” up to the International Space Station is planning a new mission: rocketing people around the far side of the moon. The price of a round-trip ticket: $100 million. The first mission by Space Adventures could happen in 2008 or 2009 and is…