Boss Hog in the late 1970’s
We all thought that Boss Hog had gone away – possibly for good, when Dukes of Hazzard left the air. Apparently, the wiley old man decided to come buy some mining operation in Utah. Recently, he’s been all over the news. Sure, he goes by a different name and he [...]
The local media in Utah has taken it upon themselves to incessently harp about gas prices in the region. Here’s the story being told:
Gas prices around the country are dropping precipitously
Utah gas prices are dropping slowly
Utahns are paying 20 to 30 cents more per gallon than the rest of the country
The conclusion the media feeds [...]
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MIAMI, FL. In what the National Weather Service is describing as a “major breach of privacy”, pictures of the first tropical depression of the season have been released on the internet. The first tropical depression of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season formed Saturday in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, and was expected to become the year’s [...]
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A woman in Alabama was
hit by lightning while praying this past weeked.
…while she prayed, lightning suddenly exploded, blowing through the linoleum and leaving a blackened area on the concrete. Brown wound up on the floor, dazed and disoriented by the blast but otherwise uninjured.
She said ‘Amen’ and the room was engulfed in a [...]
El senado primero votó 63-34 jueves para señalar inglés mientras que la “lengua nacional” después de los legisladores que
condujeron el esfuerzo dijo que promoverÃa la unidad nacional.
Pero los crÃticos discutieron el movimiento evitarÃan que la gente con inglés limitado consiguiera ayuda del lenguaje requerida por una orden ejecutiva decretada bajo presidente Clinton.
El senado también votó [...]
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Google today launched Google Notebook. Notebook lets you easily gather clips of things you see on the web and store them into little Google-hosted booklets. By default, your booklets (called “Notebooks”) are kept private for you to use for whatever you want.
Here’s how it changes your life. First – you don’t have to bookmark [...]
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In 1982 the US Mint responded to rising copper prices by starting to make pennies out of zinc – and plating them with copper. Recently, zinc has become more popular (maybe due to a rise in production of those nasty-tasting throat-lozenges?). As a result, pennies now cost 1.4 cents to make.
What? Pennies? I thought [...]
Yes, a month or so ago some creative hackers figured out a way to get Macs with Intel hardware to boot into Windows XP. Their method worked, but certainly wasn’t pretty. The difficulty involved in using their method meant that only those who really really wanted to do it could.
Apple today announced their product [...]
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A recent study shows that smart kids brains develop slower. This should help parents, who always try to use any evidence to prove why their child will one day rule the universe with his superior intelligence to adjust their strategy. No longer will it be “cool” to explain “Oh, he’s talking so soon…” – because [...]
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