Romo Won’t Be Playing In The Super Bowl
He he does make a brief appearance in a Super Bowl commercial that will air Sunday.
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Navy fires electromagnetic railgun at record power level
DAHLGREN, Va. (AP) – A futuristic weapon getting a trial run by the Navy demonstrated its destructive power at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren.In the demonstration Thursday, engineers fired the electromagnetic railgun at what they said was a record power level: 10 megajoules.
Current Navy guns generate about 9 megajoules of muzzle energy.
Railguns use electromagnetic energy to launch projectiles long distances – more than 200 nautical miles.
Because the railgun uses electricity and not gunpowder to fire projectiles, it eliminates the possibility of explosions on ships.
The Navy hopes the railgun will eventually replace the standard 5-inch gun on its ships. The weapon isnÂ’t expected to be deployed until at least 2020.
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China plans to halt rain for Olympics
BEIJING — It is yet another attempt by man to triumph over nature.Determined not to let anything spoil their party, organizers of the 2008 Summer Olympics said Wednesday that they will take control over the most unpredictable element of all — the weather.While China’s Olympic athletes are getting ready to compete on the fields, its meteorologists are working the skies, attempting the difficult feat of making sure it doesn’t rain on the Aug. 8 opening ceremonies.
“Our team is trained. Our preparations are complete,” declared Wang Jianjie, a spokeswoman from the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, addressing a news conference at the headquarters of the Beijing organizing committee.
The Chinese are among the world’s leaders in what is called “weather modification,” but they have more experience creating rain than preventing it. In fact, the techniques are virtually the same.
Cloud-seeding is a relatively well-known practice that involves shooting various substances into clouds, such as silver iodide, salts and dry ice, that bring on the formation of larger raindrops, triggering a downpour. But Chinese scientists believe they have perfected a technique that reduces the size of the raindrops, delaying the rain until the clouds move on.
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Texas governor plans to endorse McCain
Hold on, McCain. Governor Good Hair last endorsed Giuliani and we all know where that got him.
My theory . . . Perry is concerned that Romney gives him a challenge for best GOP hair and Perry just doesn’t want any competition.
LOS ANGELES – Texas Gov. Rick Perry will endorse John McCain for president, saying he is the best candidate in the GOP field to fight the war on terror.
The Texas governor’s first choice, Rudy Giuliani, dropped out of the presidential sweepstakes and on Wednesday endorsed Mr. McCain.
“For the governor, it came down to a very simple calculation: The single dominant issue is the war on terror,” said Perry spokesman Robert Black. “And he believes, looking at the field, the single best individual to be commander in chief and not flinch in this war is John McCain.”
The endorsement from the red-state governor comes just days before the Super Tuesday primary in which 21 states will weigh in. Mr. Perry will formally make his endorsement Thursday afternoon in Austin.
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10 Bizarre Biblical Tales
Here’s #10, for the full list click here.
10. A lesson for those who dare mock male pattern baldness
One of the more inspirational passages in the Bible tells the story of Elijah, a wise man, yet one cursed with male pattern baldness. One day he was minding his own business, making the long walk to Bethel, when he is attacked by a roving band of children who tease him with names like “bald head.†But Elijah was having none of this, he turns round and curses them in the name of the Lord, and instantly two female bears emerge from a nearby wood and maul all 42 children to death.
The moral of this story? Don’t make fun of bald people. Frankly, why this story isn’t included along with the Ten Commandments is anybody’s guess, but I think it would serve as an excellent lesson for children who think baldness is something to be made fun of.
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Interesting Pillar Runway
Click on the picture to go to the original source and a larger version.
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Lost Returns Tonight
Thankfully last night ABC ran the season ender from last year so we could all get caught up and be reminded about everything that happened because it’s been so friggin’ long.
But the re-run came with a twist, comments appeared at the bottom of the screen from time to time that gave you a little background and insight into what was happening on the screen. I woud say the tone was a little dark with the comments. It was as if they hired a disgruntled employee from Pop-Up Videos. Either way, I thought it was TV gold. With a series that’s pretty darn complex, this was agreat way to get caught up.
Also, I feel pretty darn convinced after rewatching that episode that Ben is in that coffin.
This clip has nothing to do with last nights episode, but I still found it funny.
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Where’s your Domino’s pizza? Track it online
After ordering pizza for the gang on Super Bowl Sunday, many folks will be able to go online and track the progress of their pies.Domino’s, the pizza-delivery kingpin, on Wednesday will unveil a technology, Pizza Tracker, that lets customers literally track their pizza from the moment they place the order until it leaves the store en route to them. What’s more, Domino’s vows that its online tracking system — for phone or online orders — is accurate to within 40 seconds.
“We’re filling that black box of uncertainty — ‘Has my pizza been forgotten?’ — with information and entertainment,” says Chris McGlothlin, technology chief at Domino’s.
The system goes up Wednesday at 3,400 Domino’s outlets and will be in all stores by June 30, he says. It even gives folks the first names of the workers who take their phone order and deliver their pizza — and asks customers to rate them.
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Cheeseburger In A Can Follow Up
Someone actually bought one and ate it. You can find his post here.
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Ryan Seacrest back when he hosted a kids version of American Gladiators
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Playtime for Grandma: Council opens new playground for the over-60s
Like most playgrounds, it is filled with smiling faces and laughter. But these faces have seen more of life than you might expect, and the laughter is a little more mature in tone.
Britain’s first playground for the over-60s opens today in Manchester.
Instead of slides and roundabouts, it is equipped with machines specially designed to provide gentle exercise for different parts of the body such as hips, legs and torso.
The Massage offers upper body exercise, the Skate trains leg muscles, the Ski works the hips, while the Press tones the stomach and legs.
There are also stations for pull-ups, push-ups and pedalling and, to stretch the mind as well as the body, engravings of quotes from famous philosophers dotted around the park.
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Nurse admits stealing body parts of dead
PHILADELPHIA – A nurse admitted Wednesday he cut body parts from 244 corpses and helped forge paperwork so the parts, some of them diseased, could be used in unsuspecting patients.
Authorities say nurse Lee Cruceta was the lead cutter in a group that trafficked in more than 1,000 stolen body parts for the lucrative transplant market.
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Man Jailed For Creating Crosswalk, Vows More
MUNCIE, Ind. — Whitney Stump didn’t like watching drivers ignore the stop signs at the intersection outside his home, so he asked the city to paint crosswalks there.When the city said no, he made one himself. And the city wasn’t appreciative.
Stump, a 27-year-old Ball State University graduate student and father, says he was arrested once on a charge of criminal mischief for creating the crosswalk at the intersection of Dicks and North streets. He was arrested a second time when he went back to touch up the paint.
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