Improve Everywhere: Taco Bell Gets Frozen
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Archive for June, 2008
Switch-Hitter Meets Ambidextrous Switch-Pitcher
See what happens when a switch-hitter crosses paths with an ambidextrous switch-pitcher. This is the entire 8 minute incident, not just the Sportscenter highlight.
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Keep America Strong Vote George W. Bush 2008
Yes, we can vote for George W. Bush in 2008. We have the right to write in the name of our chosen candidate, regardless of whether or not he is officially on the ballot.
We know that George Bush was God’s Candidate in 2000. We know that George Bush was God’s candidate again in 2004. And George Bush has been God’s president for the last 8 years.
Trust in God and vote your faith. Keep America safe. Write-in George W. Bush for President in 2008.
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I was not aware . . .
On both the British and the U.S. Virgin Islands, vehicles are driven on the left-hand side of the road, yet most cars on the islands have their steering wheels on the left side (as is the norm for drive-on-the-right localities). Also on both the British and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the United States dollar is the official currency.
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Teens use technology to party in strangers’ pools
Teens begin by surfing Google Earth’s satellite images to find houses with swimming pools — or at least paddling pools. Once a target has been identified, sweaty swimmers then use Facebook to arrange an organised, but uninvited, pool-crash.
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10 awesome Internet Easter eggs
Here’s my favorite:
Yahoo’s singing yokel. If you remember the 1990s you’ll remember this wonderful yell–the sound of the Yahoo yodeler. To hear it any time just click on the ! at the end of the Yahoo logo on Yahoo.com.
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Gray Ambition
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From the U.K. – ‘Pray and display’ permits planned for religious leaders
Permits which allow religious leaders visiting parishioners to ‘pray and display’ have been launched to avoid a backlash over parking fines.
The special permits will allow people carrying out religious duties such as visiting ill or dying worshippers and giving the last rites to park in any residential zones in Barnet, north west London.
The scheme, the local council says, is aimed at “helping vulnerable residents in time of spiritual need”, and is open to all faiths including Baha’i, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Rastafarianism, Sikhism, Unitarianism and Zoroastrianism.
Permits cost £40 each, or £70 for second and third permits, and can be issued to worshippers on faith business as well as religious leaders, on production of a letter of support from the applicant’s place of worship, together with a brief description of the religious duties being carried out.
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Touching Photo
Photographed by Eugene Richards; read his full article about this photo here.
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Related Items ‘Hanoi Hilton’ jailer says he’d vote for McCain
HAIPHONG, Vietnam — John McCain has an unusual endorsement – from the Vietnamese jailer who says he held him captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a friend.
“If I were an American voter, I would vote for Mr. John McCain,” Tran Trong Duyet said Friday, sitting in his living room in the northern city of Haiphong, surrounded by black-and-white photos of a much younger version of himself and former Vietnam War prisoners.
At the same time, he denies prisoners of war were tortured. Despite detailed POW accounts and physical wounds, Duyet claims the presumed Republican presidential nominee made up beatings and solitary confinement in an attempt to win votes.
His statements seem to echo the communist leadership’s overall line on America: It insists the torture claims are fabricated, but that Vietnam now considers the U.S. a friend and wants to lay the past to rest. Duyet said one of the reasons he likes McCain for president is the candidate’s willingness to forgive and look to the future.
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Texas Stadium Tour
For my anniversary, WifeGeeding gave me some passes for a tour of Texas Stadium. This is something I have always wanted to do, and since this is the last year the Dallas Cowboys will call this place home, I needed to do it sooner than later. I wanted to go before the season started to avoid the crowds, but surprisingly the tours averaged about 20-40 folks with people coming from all over the country. Tours cost $12 buck for an hour long tour in case you were wondering. I bet tours at the new place will be closer to the $25 range.
Along with WifeGeeding my buddy Bone tagged along and you will see him in a lot of the pictures. WifeGeeding actually had a video of us running routes on the field, but for some reason, she only recorded the ones where I dropped the ball. And just for the record, I played tight end back in the day.
It was a bit surreal as I entered the stadium and the first person to great me was Everson Walls. He was setting up a table so he and Michael Downs could sign some autographs. It was funny hearing some kids ask him questions after the tour. One kiddo asked him who played quarterback while he was playing. Everson named Danny White and Steve Pelluer (even mentioned his Survivor appearance). But when he mentioned Gary Hogeboom he referred to him as “Hogabooms.”
Training camp starts in about 26 days . . . it can’t get here soon enough.
Edit: There’s one picture I think worth seeing. It’s the one with the NFL Personal Conduct Policy. You’ll see someone wrote in “No Dog Fighting.”
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WifeGeeding for President
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Christian College Students Don’t Know Christianity
That’s the thought of Barbara Brown Taylor’s insightful article. She teaches at Piedmont College and Columbia Theological Seminary. You can read her article here.
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25 Celebrities Who’ve Run a Marathon 25 Celebrities Who’ve Run a Marathon
The two I found most interesting are:
George W. Bush with a time of 3:44:52
and
David Lee Roth with a time of 6:04:43.
I guess David Lee Roth had a bad time since he was running with the devil.
Add comment June 27th, 2008
America’s Sweatiest Cities
1.  Phoenix, Ariz.
2.  Las Vegas, Nev.
3.  Tallahassee, Fla.
4.  Tucson, Ariz.
5.  Memphis, Tenn.
6.  Miami, Fla.
7.  Houston, Texas
8.  Tampa, Fla.
9.  Baton Rouge, La.
10. Fort Myers, Fla.
And here are the Texas cities on the list:
18. Dallas, Texas
20. Corpus Christi, Texas
21. El Paso, Texas
22. Waco, Texas
23. Austin, Texas
28. San Antonio, Texas
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50 Facts that Should Change the World
Here are 50 facts worth knowing concerning our world, will they make us want to change it?
1 THE average Japanese woman can expect to live to 84; her counterpart in Botswana will die at 39.
2 BLACK men born in the US stand a one-in-three chance of going to jail. For white men the odds are one in 17.
3 ONE in five of the world’s population – 1.25 billion people – is undernourished.
4 NEARLY half of British 15-year-olds have tried illegal drugs and nearly a quarter are regular cigarette smokers.
5 CHILDREN living in poverty are three times more likely to suffer mental illness than children from wealthy families.
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Tempting Video of the Day
A russian experiment that revived organisms removed from animals bodies. In this video is a removed dogs head that reacts to light, sound etc.
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