Loose socks

Wow, cool!

While they call it a mummy, the dinosaur is not really preserved like King Tut was. The dinosaur body has been fossilized into stone. Unlike the collections of bones found in museums, this hadrosaur came complete with skin, ligaments, tendons and possibly some internal organs, according to researchers.

The Monkeysphere

The women were demonized as worse than traitors to the country, lower than spies, and certainly more disgusting because of their chosen vocation, even if it wasn't in fact their chosen vocation. They were at the mercy of their wardens. Medical experiments were performed on them--intimate violations in the search for evidence of that foul disease whereby they, like agents of a foreign power, intended to destroy our fighting forces. Government sanctioned rape on the scale of thousands.

Surely this didn't happen in the US, did it?

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At Glassbooth.

It tells me Mike Gravel matches me, 88%.

MSNBC:
Child's ID bracelet turns up in chicken, decades after it was lost.

I found out today that WebSense at work now blocks CodeProject, and gives the warning "potentially unwanted software". That's like a lawyer being cut off from his legal library because it contains potentially unwanted legal reasoning.

At this point in my work-life, there is nothing better than being able to tell the debugger "No! Don't step into all those properties! I don't need to know that string assignment is still functioning properly!"

Every morning on CNN.com, there's a fresh batch of predictions about what the stock market will do today, and why. They're almost always wrong, but it's rare, and therefore doubly amusing, to get two articles that say the opposite on the same day.

Recipe for a meltdown:

The primary culprits behind the market turmoil are sky-high stock prices -- and it's only going to get worse, writes Fortune's Shawn Tully.

Stock rebound may have legs:

Futures point to higher open as bank merger hopes, lower oil outweigh more mortgage losses and forecasts of weak housing sales.

Based on the way the market's been behaving the last few weeks, I'm going to pick "meltdown".

** spectacularly wrong!! **

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