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Sunday, February 18, 2007

thanks egs

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Will it Blend??? 50 Glass Marbles Turned To Dust

To demonstrate the power of their home blender, BlendTech has a series of videos crushing marbles, hockey pucks, golf balls, tin cans etc with their blender.
Watch them

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Report Says Pentagon Manipulated Iraq Intel

They lied about WMD's, and Iraq / al-Qaida. I can't understand why the right isn't furious about this.
Acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the office headed by former Pentagon policy chief Douglas J. Feith took "inappropriate" actions in advancing conclusions on al-Qaida connections not backed up by the nation's intelligence agencies.
Read more Via Washington Post

Sunday, February 11, 2007

modular cat tree

Lightweight & Transportable - Great to take on Travel!

From CatsPlay.com
Only 524.94 inc shipping. I'm getting one for both rooms.

$8.8 Billion of $12 Billion of US funds unaccounted for in Iraq

Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone? But that's exactly what our government did," the California Democrat said during a hearing reviewing possible waste, fraud and abuse of funds in Iraq.

"We were in the middle of a war, working in very difficult conditions, and we had to move quickly to get this Iraqi money working for the Iraqi people," Bremer told lawmakers. He said there was no banking system and it would have been impossible to apply modern accounting standards in the midst of a war.
Read more via CNN

weird animal friendships

Lets Be friends is a photo collection of odd animal friendships like this lamb and dog.

go look
via J-Walk blog

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Bill Sullivan - 3 Situations

Photographer Bill Sullivan takes candid portraits of ordinary people in identical situations. Riding in an elevator (Stop Down), going through a subway turnstile (More Turns), and posing for a street painter (Time Port)
Go look

Stop Down

More Turns

Time Port