Archive for December, 2008

Fences

Found this article with pictures of the worlds strangest fences. Definitely worth a look.

Give your dog more personal space. He’ll be a happier dog then.

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Odd Titles

Bookseller Magazine gives away a prize each year for the book with the Oddest Title. Thought this was funny, so I looked up the latest nominees and found these:
I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen
How to Write a How to Write Book
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues
Cheese Problems Solved
If You Want Closure [...]

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Colorado – Not as safe as we thought…

Whenever we hear of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados and other natural disasters, my sister and I always comment about how lucky we are to live in Colorado. We don’t have much of that here.
As you can see from this image, maybe my confidence in this great state is misguided.

Susan Cutter and Kevin Borden, of the [...]

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50 worst cars of all time

Time Magazine has an interesting article on their website entitled “The 50 Worst Cars of All Time”
It’s a pretty amusing list. Probably the only caveat I would have is that there is an undercurrent of bad attitude about anything not fuel efficient, and several snide, elitest comments like this one about the 1995 Ford [...]

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Denver sets record low temperature

Record low temperatures in Denver were set yesterday and early this morning.

The low temperature Sunday at Denver International Airport dropped to minus 18 at 6:35 p.m., setting a record low for Dec. 14. At 2:31 a.m. today, the temperature at DIA was minus 19, a new low mark for Dec. 15, the weather service reports.

Stupid [...]

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Is NEWS still a viable business model?

Colorado is an interesting place. It is a large state that consists of one major population center in the Denver-Aurora-Boulder area with about 3 million people. Another 1 million are scattered along the front range from Cheyene to Pueblo. The total front range estimates are 4.1million people, while the total state population [...]

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Slackware 12.2 Announced

Patrick Volkerding has announced the release of Slackware 12.2

Yes folks, ’tis the season to announce a new release of Slackware. With a shiny new kernel, many package updates, and the newly added ability to install from a Samba share, we bring to you the latest in the stable Slackware 12.x series.

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Please dial carefully

18 year old Elizabeth Frisinger was having a great time on a class trip, right up until she sent a text to the wrong person.

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Would you like a Hard Candy?

Saw today’s Dilbert and thought it was the funniest thing ever.

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