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While working on that stupid shed I fell off the ladder and scraped my arm.  The wound on my arm got me thinking about all the little cuts and scrapes I use to get as a kid.  The treatment of choice back in the day was something we called “red medicine,” but you may know it better as monkey’s blood. 

I have lots of memories of trying to use that silly dabbing stick to apply the medicine to the wound, the red dye that would stay on the skin, and ever so painful STING.  Yeeeouch!

It’s no longer available in stores and was taken off the shelves back in 1998 (dang, that’s almost ten years ago) because the FDA was concerned over potential mercury poisoning.  Wikipedia

From Wikipedia: A human corpse is cut into small pieces and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to the elements and animals – especially to birds of prey.

One person blogged about witnessing such an event with a few pictures.

Artist Nick Philip directs you to a row of garbage cans placed below twelve whirring fax machines at Tokyo’s Intercommunications Center. The domain nowhere.com, he explains, is often used as a return address by shady Internet spammers to disguise their actual Internet location. Irritated recipients reply to the spam but because of the false return address the replies are returned to nowhere.com instead of back to the spammers. That is, until Philip directed all email addressed to nowhere.com to a series of fax machines at the ICC. Now the piles of lost missives are redirected into a physical representation of their final digital destination – the trash can.

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This is a comprehensive list of live animals accepted for transportation.  Shippers are prohibited from shipping any animal not listed here, and all other live animals will not be accepted for transportation. The following live animals are accepted for transportation unless poisonous, venomous, and/or a Threatened or Endangered Species.

• Amphibians (All): Examples:  frogs, salamanders, toads
• Crustaceans (All): Examples:  crabs, crawfish, lobsters, shrimp
• Fish (All)
• Insects (Limited to beneficial insects only): Examples:  bees, butterflies, crickets, lady bugs
• Mollusks (All): Examples:  clams, mussels, snails
• Reptiles (Limited to the following):
  – Lizards: Examples:  chameleons, geckos, iguanas, monitors, flying dragons
  – Turtles: freshwater turtles (except: snapping turtles), land tortoises, sea turtles
• Worms (All)

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