Bag of Randomness


  • A Super Mario Bros wedding invitation
  • The number of pay phones in the United States has dropped from 2.2 million to 425,000 since 2000, but a company is buying them up claiming they see potential in them.  WSJ
  • Hugh Jackman once played Gaston in Beauty and the Beast and peed his pants on stage.  I can’t remember the last time I wet my pants.  That’s probably a good thing.
  • Can you guess who this famous person is?

    Here’s     your answer.
  • Interesting: World population by latitude and longitude
  • Surprisingly, yet thankfully, WifeGeeding isn’t on this blog.
  • She also has not had anything like this happen to her.
  • I mowed the lawn yesterday, I’m guessing I’ll only have to do that maybe three more times this year.
  • A 70-year-old female school bus aid beat up a 14-year-old.  Check out the article and surveillance tape here.
  • A bit of R rated iPhone humor from Gizmodo – How To Use Siri on Other People’s Phones
  • WifeGeeding melted my heart the other day by asking me if we should get Star Wars sheets for the baby crib when our son is born.
  • She also suggested that since we are having a boy she needs to watch the entire Star Wars saga.  Now I think she’s plotting.
  • Thank you, Nordstrom, thank you.
  • I’ve noticed something new with YouTube videos, when you reach the end, a collage, kinda Brady Bunch-ish, of other videos display.  I think it’s kinda nifty.
  • A clip of Conan stopping by his old show and visiting Jimmy Fallon.
  • A short clip of Letterman stopping by his old show visiting Conan.  And another.
  • And a clip of Conan on Letterman.
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Where child sacrifice is a business

The villages and farming communities that surround Uganda’s capital, Kampala, are gripped by fear.

Schoolchildren are closely watched by teachers and parents as they make their way home from school. In playgrounds and on the roadside are posters warning of the danger of abduction by witch doctors for the purpose of child sacrifice.

The ritual, which some believe brings wealth and good health, was almost unheard of in the country until about three years ago, but it has re-emerged, seemingly alongside a boom in the country’s economy.

The mutilated bodies of children have been discovered at roadsides, the victims of an apparently growing belief in the power of human sacrifice.

Many believe that members of the country’s new elite are paying witch doctors vast sums of money for the sacrifices in a bid to increase their wealth.

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