Woman bounced from Southwest flight for wearing a t-shirt that showed Bush, Cheney and Rice with captioned: "Meet the Fockers"

Bad: Getting into high-speed chase with police.
Worse: Having it televised live.
Dumbass: Doing practically the same thing last year.

Norway builds booby-trapped library for the blind

Back to school

Well, it's October 6th and I received my material for a new college course. So after this Thanksgiving weekend, I will be holed up "expanding my brain" for the next 36 weeks! I will try and get out and get some fresh air and keep you all up to date on what I am not doing.

This Saturday is the Ottawa Senators home opener. So, I will not be up at the lake till Sunday, just in time for Turkey!

Sarah is driving me crazy to get on the computer, so I have to get off now. Be back soon

Turn Down The TV, Please. We're Trying To Enjoy The Great Outdoors

I went camping a few times this summer and one thing that became clear very quickly is that people are increasingly dragging the great indoors with them to the great outdoors. While we were using tents and left our various gadgets at home, we were certainly in the minority in places we went camping.

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Countries ranked by plummeting off a cliff mortality rate

Welcome to NationMaster.com, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.

Get different stats & graphs, here is one on "Countries ranked by plummeting off a cliff mortality rate"

Liquid sculpture photo gallery

170Mb per second through your electric outlet

Matsushita's new chip allows electric socket to serve as home's connection to broadband.

The common electric socket will serve as your home's connection to broadband with a new chip developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. — doing away with all the Ethernet cables or the hassle of hooking up to a wireless network device.

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Drunken prank led to armed siege

Drunken prank leads to armed siege, rubber bullet to groin

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October has arrived...already!

Well, not much has happened in September, as you can see by the lack of photos there. So, October has begun and the weather is beautiful and Thanksgiving is next week!