FINEST KIND CLINIC AND FISHMARKET.... Discussing medicine, culture, and the joys of cooking Pansit.
Ghoulish Goodies author Sharon Bowers shares recipes and tips for making Monster Eyeballs (shown above), Funny Bones, and Glowing Jack-o'-Lantern Cookies.
more HERE.
we have flowers all year round, but for those of you in cooler climates, how do you find flowers to decorate your home?
Sept. 11 and Islamist terrorist attacks in India forge another common cause. As for mutual economic interests, an Indian technician fixing an American computer from a call center in Bangalore is a telling indicator. The Indian government, unlike China's, does not fear global connectivity.
and PNoy and VietNam agree on the Spratlys,
The two countries, along with Malaysia, Brunei, and China are claiming the group of islands of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays, and islands in the South China Sea that is believed to contain significant oil and gas deposits.
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top photo from wikipedia
cutaway drawing from the UKTelegraph.New and more precise dating of materials found inside the hill now suggests the main construction happened in about 100 years, involving some three generations between 2400 and 2300 BC – right after nearby Stonehenge's thirty enormous sarsen stones were put in place.
no, no one is sure why.
DMC webpage has instructions for you to make this creepy cupcake...
for you.
Why not? as one internet wag noted: Glenn Crawford, deftly summed up the different cultural approaches to unpromising climate, in this instance between the Afghan plain and Nevada. Third World solution: eke a living out of the desert. American solution: “Viva Las Vegas!”
Presumably if they don't, he will send them a "nasty letter".
I SAID BEFORE THAT WIKILEAKS’ JULIAN ASSANGE WAS CLEARLY A TOOL, BUT WHOSE? Well, so far the two biggest scoops from the latest document dump are that the infamous Lancet study was bogus, and that WMDs were found in Iraq in quantity. . . . .UPDATE: Here’s more on Wikileaks.
HELPING HANDS. Philippine policemen and US Marines load relief goods into a US CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter for a mercy mission in Isabela province which was ravaged by Supertyphoon “Juan” on Monday. The Philippine weather bureau lifted all typhoon warnings as Juan, moves further away toward Taiwan and southeastern China. EDWIN BACASMAS
This model leads to an interesting prediction. If the animal has a radius R, the shaking frequency must scale with R^0.5. That makes sense, smaller animals will need to oscillate faster to generate forces large enough to dry themselves.
To find out whether that applies in nature, Dickerson and pals studied films of various animals of different sizes. They found that a mouse shakes at 27 Hz, a cat at about 6 Hz while a bear shakes at 4Hz. "Shake frequencies asymptotically approach 4Hz as animals grow in size," they conclude.
headsup DaveBarry.
whoops: they miscalculated the date.
well, one of these days they'll get it right.
Vatican Claims Homer Is Catholic; Saints Go Begging (NPR)
D’oh! Vatican declares Bart and Homer Simpson Catholic (CNN)
IS THE DOPE CATHOLIC? The Vatican blesses Homer Simpson (despite what the show says) (Washington Post)
‘We were in total darkness. The heat was oppressive. We all felt the Devil was down there with us. We prayed and prayed. It was a dark, black hole. We were buried alive. We were all so scared. We begged God to help us. We were worried we would starve to death or that the water would run out and we would die horribly from dehydration.’
And it says a lot about the sad state of the modern press that their "code of silence" was being spun by some in the press as hiding sex orgies, or plans for cannibalism...it was actually an agreement to shield those who broke down in the ordeal...
(Picture: BNPS.co.uk)The 1.3m (4.5ft) 
WTF?
