""Are we pooping now?" Skyler Russert, 8, kept asking the lab-coat clad "Dr. Perry Stalsis" -- really museum staffer Rick McDaniel -- whose mock-doc name plays on "peristalsis," the muscular contractions that shove food through our innards. "

Engrossing education in San Jose Kids learn bodily functions with glee

Stobari wrote:
]An animal rights group's plan to free 10,000 mink from a farm turned ]deadly after many of the emancipated mustelids became cannibals while ]others went on a carnivorous feeding frenzy.

I guess they dont have the right to eat each other.

Mink eat each other after animal rights break-in

This looks like the place to get results..

I wonder if governors can collect unemployment when they're fired?

CNN.com Election 2003 - California Recall

inignoct wrote:
]sweet lord, she better not.

Between her and Bush... Choice.. It's supposed to be a good thing, right?

Daily Kos: Is Hillary running?

] The "denial of service" bug meant the port's web service
] was not accessible to provide crucial data for shipping
] pilots, mooring companies and support firms responsible
] for helping ships to navigate in and out of the harbour,
] placing shipping at risk.

]So, let me get this straight. Houston has computers associated with ]the navigation of ships in their harbor connected to the internet?

Even stupider is that i think that's what the "virus" in the movie Hacker's did.

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Hacker attack left port in chaos

"Cross-dressing comedian Eddie Izzard is to be the new Dr Who, according to a former star of the sci-fi series.

Tom Baker, the fourth man to play the Time Lord, told BBC Radio Five Live that the "mysterious and strange" Izzard had landed the part.

But the corporation says no final decision has been made on who will star in the TV show when it returns in 200'

I didn't hear they were bringing it back

Comic Izzard tipped as new Dr Who

"BOSTON (AP) - Karl Schwaerzler wants you to take over Liechtenstein - for your next convention, wedding or bar mitzvah.

His big plans for renting out the tiny country earned him an Ig Nobel Prize on Thursday in an irreverent ceremony at Harvard University.

The annual awards, handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research, a science and humor magazine, are given to real academics and others whose work might tickle people's funny bones. "

'Ig Nobel' Prizes Awarded at Harvard

"A judge in Florida has barred a rock band from holding an onstage suicide during a performance to be broadcast over the internet.

St Petersburg city officials asked Circuit Court Judge John Lenderman for the injunction after the group Hell on Earth announced plans to have a terminally ill person commit suicide during a show on Saturday night."

Oh well...It's the thought that counts.

Judge bars rock group stage suicide stunt

inignoct wrote:
lots of neat stuff in this article, but this is especially cool :

] DuPont Textiles & Interiors and Outlast Technologies are
] rolling out Phase Change Materials (PCMs) that respond to
] your changing body temperature. The fabric coating
] consists of the materials encapsulated into microscopic
] spheres. As you body warms up, the PCM me

Odor free sox? Does that mean you only ever need one pair that never needs washing?

STAIN-RESISTANT PANTS ARE SO ‘LAST WEEK’; TRY THE ODOR-FREE SOCKS

This is a very interesting article on using editing techniques to speed up the WPM of audio recordings without loosing tonality. Its like speed reading a lecture. I wish NPR preprocessed all their audio programming this way.

If PVR's like MythTV had this capability, it could make channels like c-span a little less mind-numbing.

Now Hear This, Quickly