Sunday, May 01, 2011

Stuff below the fold


About ten percent of folks get so nervous inside the MRI machine that they need sedation.
Well, a new program uses a "dog therapist" to allay anxiety.

meet Wally, and his owner Allie, who was the one who suggested using her dog for calming patients.

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Building roads in Afghanistan...

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BBC on Ahmadinejad's problems with the rest of the gov't in Iran,

background HERE. He's trying to grab all the power (which means less money for the rest of them).

in a related item, the hacker's group anonymous is hacking some Iranian gov't computers, possibly in payback for the gov't's hacking of their websites.


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How Goldman Sachs is causing the food crisis...yes it's from Boingboing, but the original article is from Foreign policy magazine.

I'm not sure I agree, mainly because we eat locally, and our major problem right now is the increase in oil prices.
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that Alabama tornado was an F5...

AP Photo from UKTelegraph
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Judean words and influences on ancient Egypt.
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and forget MILF: The "trending" items are now QILF and PILF...
hmmm...never thought "Lillibet" would be a sex symbol at age 85...

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