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TheOneRingNet has a heads-up on the reason for delays in filming the Hobbit: MGM is bankrupt.
more HERE HERE and especially HERE.
summary: Bad films, bad investments, and incompetence.

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Thailand is in the middle of a people power type revolution...

and huge earthquake in Indonesia.

and who needs "Earth Hour"? We have rolling brownouts instead...

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NYTimes explains why denying care is actually "better care" for the patient.
Summary: Yes, Virginia, there will be a "Death panel"... but we will call it "treatment based on 'Scientific" studies'. "

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Quote of the day from Bill O'Reiley, via the Curt Jestor:
A number of Catholics have left the church because of the priestly sins, but not me. From the beginning, in Sister Claudia’s first grade class, I understood that the Catholic Church was about Jesus, not Father Flannery. Believe me, I saw so many loons in my Catholic school days that I should be a Buddhist. But it is the theology, not church leadership, that keeps me in the fold.

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In "Raiders of the Lost Ark", Hitler's minions were collecting all sorts of relics to increase his power. What is less known is that he tried to steal the Shroud of Turin...
yes, I know it's a forgery, but so is the spear of Longinus, which Hitler actually managed to steal...
but is best known for being sought for by the Librarian...

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Ten Things you probably don't know about JRR Tolkien.
Although quiet and unassuming in public, Tolkien wasn’t the typical stodgy, reserved stereotype of an Oxford don in the classroom. He was known to begin classes by barging into the lecture hall, sometimes in era-appropriate chain mail armor, and bellowing the opening lines of Beowulf at the top of his lungs.

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The burning question of the day: Is it Duct tape or Duck Tape? more HERE.
Factoid: "Duck" is an old word for closely woven cloth that was lighter than canvas.