Archive for February, 2006
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
Free Pancakes: In the immortal words of Lily von Stupp, “It’s twue! It’s twue!”
Urban Legends: National Pancake Day
FREE PANCAKES! NO STRINGS ATTACHED!
On February 28, 2006 from 7 AM to 2 PM IHOPs across the country will celebrate National Pancake Day (also known as Shrove Tuesday) by offering our guests a free short stack of pancakes*. This is going to be our biggest one day celebration in our [...]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2006
Methodists use same logic as radical Islamists, boycott Richmond, VA
Methodists object to Richmond Braves
Virginia’s capital has lost the 2012 United Methodist international conference because it is home to a minor league baseball team named the Braves.
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Kenneth Branham, chief of the Monacan Nation, which is based near Lynchburg, Va., told the [Washington] Times that he has no problem with the Richmond Braves. The team’s mascot [...]
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Oil-O-Sol
When I was growing up, whenever David or I got a cut, a scrape, or a bad sting, our mom would get out the Oil-O-Sol, a reddish-orange, highly viscous liquid that has a smell that, while indescribable, I can recall to this day. I tore a chunk of skin off my hand setting up [...]
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
Cyrus, why didn’t we have this list 10 years ago?
1001 things to do with liquid nitrogen
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
Here’s one for Glenn
Boing-Boing: Difference Engine mechanical computer made from legos
Cory Doctorow:
An enterprising hacker has created a working “difference engine” — a mechanical calculator first attempted in 19th Century by Charles Babbage — out of legos. The difference engine was immortalized in the William Gibson/Bruce Sterling collaboration of the same name, and it’s a perpetual source of hacker [...]
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
Sounds like some folks forgot to read their Bible
1 Corinthians 6:1-8, to be specific.
Pastor charged with trespassing in church
The arrest stems from a dispute in the congregation, which numbers about 60. Monique Bond, a police department spokeswoman, said that the board of directors fired McCants just before Christmas.
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
Idiocy knows no boundaries
Teacher may be fired for teaching ‘Faust’
Parents claim all hell broke loose after a Bennett, Colo., grade school teacher exposed her students to a puppet version of the opera “Faust.”