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Friday, August 11, 2006
10:34:00 AM EDT
Hearing Grande Polonaise, Op. 22 in E Flat -- Chopin

Your Friday Festival of Links


Because nothing's better on a Friday morning than lots of links. Except several million dollars, tax-free, handed to you by the celebrity whom you desire the most, who also gives you a free pizza. Yeah, that's better. But this is close.

* If you're in New York City, you have a chance to see a really large, stinky flower in bloom! Man, New Yorkers have all the fun.

* Because it's timely, a discussion on how liquid explosives work (beyond the obvious "they go ka-boom")

* Whoops -- NASA seems to have misplaced the video of man's first visit to the moon. Did they check behind the couch?

* Greenland's ice cap may be melting at triple speed. Soon Greenland may actually become, you know, green. Irony. It's scary.

* Crawdads in my Ohio lawn? Not that weird. An octopus in an Ohio river? Yeajh, that's a little weird.

* US babies getting fatter! See, people, I told you that you shouldn't make formula with clarified butter. That's just too much. Seriously, though, I can believe this because Athena was a total pudge as an infant. Total.

* Finally, what Friday isn't complete without a totally disgusting and horrifying tale involving a nice Jewish mother and her tapeworm? No Friday. So here you are. Gefilte fish, anyone?



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  • #2 Comment from monponsett 
    8/11/06 10:55 AM Permalink
    I had a shark (about a 3 foot dogfish) in my cellar after the Perfect Storm, but it was 50/50 on whether he was dead or not when he arrived there.
  • #1 Comment from easuess 
    8/11/06 10:53 AM Permalink
    I thought all infants were total pudges. They used to call it baby fat--now it's more like infantile obesity.

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