• Mar
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Excavation starts at Stonehenge

The first excavation inside the ring at Stonehenge in more than four decades gets under way on Monday.
The two-week dig will try to establish, once and for all, some precise dating for the creation of the monument.
It is also targeting the significance of the smaller bluestones that stand inside the giant sarsen pillars

The first excavation inside the ring at Stonehenge in more than four decades gets under way on Monday. The two-week dig will try to establish, once and for all, some precise dating for the creation of the monument. It is also targeting the…

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  • Mar
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Jewel Staite says a special edition of Firefly is in the works; and to keep up hope for Serenity 2

Jewel also told fans in a Q&A session that shed been asked to go to LA in the Spring to record a commentary for the new special edition of Firefly that theyre working on. She was also asked if there was any reason to still hope for another movie, Jewels response was Absolutely!?.

Universal should either sell the rights for Serenity to Fox…or Fox should sell its rights for Firefly to Universal, so we can get the new series and or film sequels that we, as fans, deserve…but first, I would like to see Joss…

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  • Mar
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FCC fends off “fleeting Pokemon” waffle attack

Over the last two months we’ve seen renewed legal struggle at the Federal Communications Commission over so-called fleeting expletives, fleeting derri?res, and fleeting imagined g-strings. Now we’ve got a case of fleeting Pokemon, and the station that broadcast it is facing a $16,500 fine proposed by the agency’s Media Bureau on Wednesday.

Perhaps WCIU was trying to associate these broadcasts with the agency's constitutionally dubious crackdown on "fleeting expletives," scheduled for review by the Supreme Court. But unlike the FCC's vague and…

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  • Mar
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Life Coding: 9 Ways to Fight Feature Creep in Our Lives

All software developers are familiar with feature creep, which is what happens when a “developer keeps adding features to the software to the point that the core product starts to lose its focus.” Feature creep also happens in our lives, and this article gives excellent pointers on how to avoid “life feature creep.”

Feature creep can also be present in our lives. If we pretend for a second that our lives are a piece of software, we can see the types of “features” that we’ve added to it. Cell phones, email, IM, iPhones,…

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  • Mar
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Top 40 Pranks - Prank Ideas for April Fool’s Day

Looking for the top pranks of all time? With April Fools Day just around the corner, its time to get your prank on. Accordingly, weve prepared a cluster of our favorite pranks. Hopefully you can use this list to inspire your own pranks.Be warned that many of these pranks require a lot of effort.

This Pile of Poop in a bag is actually a coffee scented soap. What would you need that for, I asked myself as well. According to the manufacturer it’s fun for kids in the bath, in the office or if you can’t find a better…

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  • Mar
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50 Sure-Fire Ways to Lose Your Job : cheddarben

Here are 50 sure fire ways to lose your job!… very funny list. Thanks Cheddarben!

I ended up doing #1 and just going and starting my own business. I hated working for someone else and have never done so since.

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  • Mar
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The April Fools’ Day defense kit.

“As April 1 approaches, prudent observers will be on the lookout for the media’s latest hoaxes. Last year, in anticipation of April Fools’ Day, Jack Shafer offered advice on how to avoid becoming the victim of the media’s shenanigans.”

Turn off your radio. Deejays love to pull practical jokes on April Fools' Day. In 1989, KSLX-FM in Scottsdale, Ariz., broadcast the claim that the station had been taken hostage by Pima Indians, prompting calls to the police….

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‘Can you explain why Holland has lower marijuana user despite access being unrestricted?’. UN Drugs Chief: ‘No. I refuse to answer that.’

Since the middle part of 2006, the European market is being flooded with weed that has been sprayed with industrial glass etching crystals to increase the resale weight. This has caused collapsed lungs, bleeding and chest pains. If you smoke, then please click the link. The contaminated weed is unsafe, and unsalvagable. Please pass on the info!

The full consultation document contained 52 questions with free-response text boxes. 5,000 copies of this document were issued to key stakeholders throughout the country. In addition to the full document, a shorter set of seven questions was…

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19 Essential Talking Points for the Banana Enthusiast

1. In recorded history, bananas date back to around 600 B.C.E., when they were mentioned in Buddhist texts.

If you like butterflies in your garden, poke holes in your older bananas w/a fork, and set them in the yard…the butterflies will poke their tongues into the holes and eat the softened/rotting fruit for days…bees and smaller…

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  • Mar
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Appendix Removed Through Vagina: U.S. First

On March 26, 2008, surgeons at UC-San Diego Medical Center removed an inflamed appendix through a patient’s vagina, a first in the United States. The patient reported only minor discomfort. Key to these surgical clinical trials is collaboration with medical device companies to develop new minimally-invasive tools.

"The UC San Diego Center for the Future of Surgery is investigating and refining techniques that are rapidly transforming the world of surgery," said Mark A. Talamini, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at UC…

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