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However, not every American soldier is on-board with the finer points of eyebrow-shaping.
Now, three scientists argue that distinctive chemicals found in the dried anthrax spores — including the unexpected presence of tin — point to a high degree of manufacturing skill, contrary to federal reassurances that the attack germs were unsophisticated.
It’s going to be 20 feet high. It’s going to have barbed wire on the top. It’s going to be electrified. And there’s going to be a sign on the other side saying, ‘It will kill you — Warning.’
Does that mean we could all have super human hearing abilities if we just walked around with cotton balls in our ears most of the time? Taking them out only when we needed to hear somebody whispering under their breath a hundred feet away?
In many ways, the retail architecture is simply the largest box in which an Apple product is wrapped.
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Sheila’s Oak Park Walking Tour
Called to mind by the Where we are today thread.
Friend #1: I can’t believe these are all single-family houses.
Friend #2 (sotto voce): Ah, the voice of the eternal proletariat. “Why, five families could live in that house!”
Shit That Siri Says
In case you’ve not seen these everywhere you look. The Shit That Siri Says tumblr.
from the comments
But the part where they put my head under the blanket with the map pattern: that was bad.
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Update: Door Bell Substitute.
from the spam
Then she suddenly hears the noise a few minutes later. Amy walks out of her apartment to the next door apartment and knocks on the door. Then she hears the noise get louder. Amy tries to open the door but it is locked.
One You Might Not Have Seen…
This ain’t no post-card, but it’s proof.
Where we are today.
headline of the day, II
Mind-Blowing Sex Causes Amnesia in 54-Year-Old Woman
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Teacher Sets Herself on Fire in Front of Students
All my cloths
are on the floor of my car.
I could use a nice big dresser.
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Kids like us were like, “Oh my God, do you think Skylab’s going to fall on our camp?” And then we’d see a piece of metal and it was like, “Do you think that’s a piece of Skylab?”
Nothing on the road is more prosaic than a vehicle designed for hauling loads.
If you’re going to spend $2.5 million on a yacht, you’d like it to be able to float.
Commonsense morality tells us to treat the two cases differently. Commonsense morality is wrong.
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Kami Carola.
Update: Anisa Carmel.
Like a bus
scenes for a film from Sheila’s email
1.
After our first (failed) graffiti attempt on Wednesday, Charlie and I went to a little place called Council Hill Station for coffee. A storm was in full force, and lightning hit something very near by. The owner of the place wondered if he should go over to his house and “shut off the Internet.”
2.
Charlie noted that he seemed easily distracted, even by his own thoughts.
The arrival of a big truck passing through “town” caused him to bolt out the door in the middle of a conversation about Jackson Hole.
3.
Before the scene in which Charlie is standing at the counter with money out and the owner is laboriously pointing out locations of nearby towns on a map and briefly fretting that the town of Leadmine has been omitted (“that’s not good”) when he gets a phone call and tells the caller that his partner/wife is not around, then wanders off to the kitchen (or somewhere). We can hear the occasional sound of his side of the conversation. And then the sound of water running.
Our perception of time grew very strange indeed.
4.
Also, the recorded fiddle music that sounded as though it would repeat for all eternity.
And the bad cell phone connections. Charlie and I both got calls, and we were shouting and repeating till the connections dropped.
Charlie to his father: “You can eat fruit . . . ? He said you can eat fruit? You . . . can . . . eat fruit?”
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I am in need
Posted to the Dubuque Freecycle list:
I am in need of a nice big dresser mine broke so now I dont have one and all my cloths are on my floor and so if anyone has one or to they dont need please email me sooner the better thanks
How to use an apostrophe
Nailed It
Discuss: Calvin and Hobbes succinctly explains the reality of American capitalism nearly two decades ago better than just about anyone. [via TSO]
an iPad that doesn’t work
from the comments
I say if you start developing the male pattern baldness you should consider a change of careers.
headline of the day, II
Man believes he is in heaven after finding a free beer truck
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
That’s right kids, remember this ad from last year?
IT’S STILL RUNNING ON ALL NETWORKS.
