@ The Straight Dope: Is drinking alcohol a good cold cure?

That said, while there's no evidence that alcohol will help fight colds that've already been caught, moderate drinking may keep colds away. A Carnegie Mellon study from 1993 found that smokers were at greater risk of coming down with something no matter their drinking habits, but nonsmokers' resistance to colds increased with consumption of alcohol (up to three or four drinks daily). And after surveying almost 4,300 Spanish university employees, researchers reported that those who drank 14 or more glasses of wine a week were only 56 percent as likely to catch a bug

Hmm...

If it means the US doesn't invade Iran, I'll give Bush all the credit for Iran's change of plans.

But, still, one thing puzzles me: Bush, Cheney, et al have likely known about this stuff for years now. And still they rattled their sabers. Why do you suppose that is?

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!"