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Monday, October 6th, 2008

Brewing beer with 45 million year old yeast

Trapped inside a Lebanese weevil covered in ancient Burmese amber, a tiny colony of bacteria and yeast has lain dormant for up to 45 million years.
From successful Wall Street trader to monk (via Neatorama)
Headline: MISSING: One condom-mobile (via boingboing)

The truck should be easy to spot. It features painted images of a peeled banana, the exposed part shaped like a condom, and a shirtless man saying: “I protect myself. Do you?”
Please, please, please don’t dress like this at the beach
New York Times opinion piece finds unsurprising lack of enthusiasm for Gov. Palin from that news source

Now comes Ms. Palin, a smiling, bubbly vice-presidential candidate who travels in an alternate language universe. For Ms. Palin, such things as context, syntax and the proximity of answers to questions have no meaning.

Monday, October 6th, 2008

A biologist reviews an Intelligent Design ‘Science’ textbook

Evolution has been singled out for special ire by Discovery, as it provides an explanation for the origin of humanity based solely on natural processes. Although the ID movement has not developed a research program or even proposed a scientific formulation of its ideas, it has gotten a surprising amount of traction with its attack on the science of evolution.
British ambassador Gordon Brown not much of a fan of Barrack Obama
Freedom Speaks - a non-partisan community supporting and helping you in contacting your government representatives. Speak and be heard
A conservative making the argument that Obama may be the candidate for conservatives to support
Crystal Head Vodka - fine(?) vodka delivered in a bottle shaped like a crystal skull (think Indiana Jones here, folks)
As fun as the headline is, this has nothing to do with what you think it does, you perverts:

Hookers lining up for their BJs