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http://funny.karmark.org/Funny%20pictures/images/19335286661_jpg.jpg Click to see why trees are not suitable cover during an electrical storm.

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CD Zapping

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/cdzap.html I just sent this to a friend whose favourite pasttime is microwaving CDs in mass quantities (typically in his employer’s microwaves). The Tesla coil pushes that pasttime into fetish territory.

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China denies reports of North Korean apology | World news | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,,1930361,00.html I’ve got nothing to add to the situation in Asia, except that Kim Jong Il is one fashionable dude.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061017/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear_350 North Korea on Tuesday blasted U.N. sanctions aimed at punishing the country for its nuclear test, saying the measures amount to a declaration of war and that the nation wouldn’t cave in to such pressure now that it’s a nuclear weapons power. Oh, terrific. Mr. No-Dong is taking bellicosity to the next illogical level. […]

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StumbleUpon.com: Personalized Recommendations to Help You Discover the Best of the Web

http://funkycaucasian.stumbleupon.com/review/5898476/ How awesome is this? All I need now is an admission that she is also Wilson Tarbuckle, King of Wet Sexings, and I’ll set up an altar at which to worship the Holy Trinity of FunkyCaucasian.

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North Korea and weapons of mass destruction – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction As of 2005, North Korea’s total range with its No Dong missiles is only 1,300 km, enough to reach South Korea, Japan, and parts of Russia and China, but not to the United States or Europe. How brave of Kim Jong Il to publicly admit to overcompensating! It certainly explains the proliferation of North […]

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http://vortex.discordia.org/~keith/ljpics/dellfire.jpg When media-fuelled panics collide!

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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/rapture.html The Irreverent Reverend, BarryWeber, sent me this list in response to a question I posed him about the Rapture. There are a lots of loose screws in the US who see the crescendoing violence in the Middle East as portents of the Second Coming, and are ecstatic thinking they’ll be around to see it. […]

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Boing Boing: If the liquid could be explosive, why are you dumping it in a crowd?

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/10/if_the_liquid_could_.html I lost a day yesterday to some kind of bug, so the alert readers of BoingBoing beat me to this headscratcher: If the panic at the airports yesterday had people forced to abandon all their possessions (Cell phones? iPods? Lipgloss?!) for fear they contained explosives, why were they all just dumped in the trash? […]

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IrishYankees reviews – StumbleUpon

http://irishyankee.stumbleupon.com/review/3493827/ IrishYankee found this clip from an absolutely bizarre (read: standard, for them) Japanese game show. Apart from being pretty funny it also shows that you can take the predator out of the Arctic, but you can’t take the predator out of the predator…

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