Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Stuff below the fold

The "WAGD" (We're all gonna die) post of the day:
Iceland volcano could have world consequences

1783 eruption changed weather patterns, sent poisoned air to British Isles

whoops. There goes global warming...

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Webecoist
has a list of ordinary ingredients you can use to clean up your house.
clean copper with ketchup...enhance hair with beer...use mayonaise to get rid of water stains...and polish your shoes with banana peels.


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actually, my favorite "tip" for banana peels is using them to fix a scratched CD...

and BoingBoing posts about the Banana museum, with links to banana related websites.

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at Atlas Obscura: Scotland's secret nuclear war shelter...

probably not as pleasant as the one at the Greenbrier, which was an open secret: everyone living nearby knew had the bunker for Congress...

from their webpage:

... groups were meeting there and enjoying theme parties and dinners, without realizing they were in a top-secret government facility. They never realized that the Exhibit Hall was actually designed to be the work place for Congressional staff or that the Mountaineer Room and Governor's Hall would easily accommodate the US Senate and House of Representatives.

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Yum! Bacon flavored toothpicks.

just don't swallow them whole...toothpick ingestion is a known cause of intestinal perforation and even can cause death.


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Free Passover music for download....(headsupBoingBoing).
Passover starts the evening of March 29.

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Finally, the quote of the day is from Will Rogers:
did anybody ever see a United States Senator in his home
State after the night he is elected? I have met ’em all over the world when Con-
gress was not in session, but never saw one at home. They are always making
speeches about “my fine people back home,” but they never want to see em.
So I hereby start a movement to create another week. Like apple week,
prune week, it’s “meet your own Senator week” and make him come home no
matter what happens to him
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