Thursday, July 30, 2009

Stuff below the fold

Modern Martyrs: I argue at BNN that they are more common than one realizes...

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Prejudice is alive and well...among the elites at Columbia Journalism School...

and a lot of the kerfluffle about Professor Gates is that working class folks see him as an elitist snob who thinks he is better than the working class cops, not as a black man who is a victim of racism....sigh....I think the whole thing is silly, as I posted here.

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Whale saves Diver...
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Is there danger of a Taliban like takeover of oil rich Nigeria?
and then there is that internet blackout in West Africa...

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and what about those Swedish rockets, sold to Venezuela, ending up in FARC's hands?

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and the most important headline of the day:

Earth landing for 'space cheese'

A block of cheese launched into the upper atmosphere on Tuesday has been found undamaged in Buckinghamshire.


for awhile they thought it was lost

The 300g wedge of authentic handmade West Country Farmhouse Cheddar ascended to approximately 100,000 feet attached to a specially designed capsule, built by the dairy farmers behind barn doors. The capsule contained a GPS satellite tracking device.

But the group have now admitted they have lost track of the capsule telling BBC Wiltshire: "We've been tracking the trajectory and the current prediction is that it could land anywhere from here in Wiltshire to Hemel Hempstead.


well, it's a more interesting story than this one...

Since January, more than 1.5 million people have logged on to Cheddarvision.tv to watch a 44-pound round of cheese as it matures.

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