Click here for extra awesomeness. Smoot. At university he was rolled end over end to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge. It's 364.4 smoots plus an ear long. rik: He didn't end his career in measurement there, though. He became the chairman of ANSI, and the president of ISO. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9230300/site/newsweek/ ^matthew: right wing propaganda http://katu.com/stories/79479.html Zerodhero: Little Buddy Is gone :( Ecstasy pills as low as 50p/ea in some parts of Britain uid0: Coderman booking tickets ASAP "Weather Predicting" pegs keep rain off laundry uid0: Dear England: Dryers BBC News - "Why does the US need our money?" uid0: Britons don't want to donate to help dying Americans Buffeted by criticism over the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, President Bush said Tuesday he will oversee an investigation into what went wrong and why — in part to be sure the country could withstand more storms or attack. ^matthew: Note how we work terrorism into even a story about a natural disaster. "Or attack," they add, noting that terrorism and natural disaster both call for old fashioned civil defense, which has been conspicuously absent from any/all Bush plans. On 19 May 1987 the United States Patent Office gave a patent to Chet Fleming of St Louis, Missouri, for a "Device for Perfusing an Animal Head". The "device" would allow the severed head of a chimpanzee or monkey to be kept alive. In addition: - "It might be possible to use this invention on terminally ill persons". FCC regulations considered too strict? coderman: "Despite of some really positive feedback from the community I encountered some really weird sign of few malicious users who would like to override FCC regulations." |