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Archive for January 23rd, 2009

HowToSpotACanadian.ca hopes to chronicle Canadian society, culture and history in a humourous, satirical way by forcing our way through the igloos and the beavers to get to the heart of what it means to be Canadian.

This site will provide you with some tips and tricks to help you recognize a Canadian no matter where you are.

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Bionic hand gives student new lease of life

A student who lost his left hand in a car accident has been fitted with the world’s most advanced prosthetic limb.

PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.

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We have seen some cool iPhone applications come out for shooting sports. But nothing comes close to the sheer awesomeness of the Knights Armaments M110 iPod Touch mount and accompanying ballistics software.

KAC contracted Runaway technologies to build an external ballistics calculator for the iPod Touch / iPhone named Bullet Flight. It is your standard ballistics application. You can set firearm / ammunition profiles, then call up the saved profile and enter your environment information, for example, distance, wind direction, elevation and temperature.

Full entry at The Firearm Blog

This is a picture of . . .

A.  An egg from a mammal

B.  A rare river rock

C.  A 2.5 pound kidney stone

D.  A meteorite

Answer

Argentine teenager Pamela Villarruel sits in bed with her seven children at her parents’ home in the town of Leones in Cordoba Province, northern Argentina, May 10, 2008. Pamela, 17, bore all seven children in just three pregnancies, having her first boy in 2005 when she was 14 and the other six girls in two deliveries of triplets in the following two years.

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And here’s another article.

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• A local Christian school’s girls basketball team recently won a game 100-0 against a school for students with learning problems.  The losing team’s coach is proud of his girls for never giving up, and the winning school feels bad about the win.
• A new Dallas Cowboys/Michael Irvin reality show is in the work.  Article
• I think Jerry needs to hire Irvin as an assistant wide receivers coach.  Yeah, that’s not much of a title, but the team needs someone (players and coaching staff) with some real emotion passion.
• I bet Jerry is upset his stadium didn’t make the list.
• All the dates this year for February and March line up exactly, except those extra days in March of course.
• This is pretty cool, and I spend way too much time on the site checking out the pictures, but a Cave House is for sale.
• Remember when I told you to buy some J. Crew stock after the it was revealed that was what the Obama girls were wearing at the inauguration?  Well, not did their stock increase about ten percent that day, but during the inauguration their website actually crashed.
• In case you ever wanted to create your own Garfield comic.  Link
• Christian athlete inspired New Testaments.  Link
• In case you ever wanted to see what a billion dollars look like.  Link
• Kenneth Cole’s message about the landing on the Hudson.  Link
• Roger Ebert loves him some Steak and Shake.  Link
• A bacon and shrimp pizza.  Link
• Methodist pastors works pasture to feed the poor.  Article
• My favorite LLano Estacado Pastor is always recommending books for me, so here’s a book I’m recommending for him.
• I was not aware that the incoming president has to cover the transportation costs of getting his items moved.  That, and many other facts of how to move an incoming president to the White House can be found here.
• Today’s random theme show song.  YouTube
• Grace