I shit you not! A 9-year-old girl went to the hospital in Greece with stomach pains. Doctors found a growth next to her stomach. Inside the 6-centimeter growth, doctors found a head, hair and eyes, but no brain. The growth contained the girl’s embryonic twin!
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The Florida Senate recently passed SB 2692 with a vote of 21-17. One Democrat voted for the bill, while five Republicans voted against it. SB 2692 is yet another proposed piece of legislation favoring teaching creationism and intelligent design as science (what I will call CIDS). A similar bill is in the Florida House, but a bill must pass both the House and Senate with identical language before it can go before Gov. Charlie Crist (I’m hoping it’s pronounced with a short ‘i’ and not a long ‘i’).
I’m not going to pretend that I understand Florida, because I don’t. However, I also would not have pegged the home of NASA as being a state in support of CIDS. I can only hope that the bills do not pass the Florida legislature. I could not agree more with Florida’s Senate Democratic Leader when he says, "In 2008, it is embarrassing for us to be debating evolution." When will this idiocy stop?
In a stunning revelation that is sure to upset the governing overlords, today Diebold leaked the 2008 Presidential election results, more than eight months ahead of schedule. For many years, the winner of the Presidential election was not publicly announced before noon on Election Day, at which point the governing overlords assumed that there were enough votes cast to safely "call" a winner without arousing suspicions. Not so this year. Any voter can walk into the booth on November 4 confident that his vote does not, in fact, count for anything:
Seeing this news story reminds me of when I discovered professional wrestling was just a couple of stage actors groping each other in their underwear.
Continue reading ‘Election results and celestial bodies’
I know this is late, but on Saturday, February 2, Audra Martin, sister of our very own Allison, was crowned Miss UCF (I would link to a Miss UCF page, but the official pages have not been updated since 2006!).
The Daily Herald reports that Audra won more than $3,000 in scholarship money and gift certificates. As a local Miss America winner, Audra will also spend a year promoting her cause: combating cyber bullying.
Congratulations to Audra on all of her hard work, and good luck to her in July, when she competes in the Miss Florida pageant. Perhaps Miss America 2009 will be on my must watch list for next year.
I am trying to find updates on the 2008 Macworld Keynote, but it appears that both Twitter and GeekBrief.tv are coincidentally down at the start of the keynote, if not because of additional traffic prompted by the keynote. However, Ars Technica is still going strong 
Go, Jacqui and Clint!
In Lewiston, Idaho, a surveillance camera caught video of a man stealing a woman’s wallet from a convenience store counter. The man could not be identified, and a news story was published on the front page of the Lewiston Tribune, complete with a frame from the security camera footage. On the same page of the same issue, the newspaper ran a photo of a man decorating a store window.
Unfortunately for the unidentified man in the surveillance footage, he was wearing the same clothes as the man decorating the store window. The newspaper accidentally identified the thief!
It’s that time of year again: buying lots of stuff, eating lots of holiday goodies, and dealing with lots of stupid people.
There once was a time that I looked forward to Christmas shopping. The pleasure I got out of weaving in and out of holiday traffic (both on the road and in the mall) has long since been replaced by the feeling of dread about the holiday traffic. I was reminded of this the other day as we ventured into Woodfield. The floors were crowded with kiosks where kids were hocking the wares of shady vendors. People stopped in the middle of the walkways to talk on their cellphones, despite the foot traffic obviously inconvenienced by their social exercise. I did find it humorous that Woodfield has replaced their normally ginormous lighted tree with a much smaller one and an inflated snow globe advertising Fred Clause. Last year, the mall had a little problem when some decorations caught fire near the tree.
On Penny Arcade today was this comic about Gabe’s stolen deer. This is more of what I was expecting to see happen to the six teenagers who were caught after vandalizing a Hoffman Estates man’s Christmas decorations. They didn’t just steal his lights, they caused about $1,000 in damages and dragged the man from their car. Instead of death by holiday spirit, the man chose to not press charges against the teens.
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