In the past 30 years, it turns out, pollutants have reduced by 10% the amount of sunlight that reaches Earth. It’s continuing at the rate of 3% a decade. Note that there is a direct correlation between sunlight and plant growth — a 1% reduction in sunlight exposure means 1% less plant mass. 1% less …
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The end is nigh.
Actual NOAA weather statement released this morning: NON PRECIPITATION STATEMENT URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO 1055 AM CST WED DEC 17 2003 …TEST…TEST…TEST… .UNUSUALLY HOT WEATHER HAS ENTERED THE REGION FOR DECEMBER…AS THE EARTH HAS LEFT ITS ORBIT AND IS HURLING TOWARD THE SUN. MOZ012-021-172251- ANDREW MO-CLINTON MO- 1055 …
Talk about not getting it.
I got a hit on my site today from somebody searching for “sample letter pleading guilty on plagiarism” on Google.
Create. Share.
Copyright organization Creative Commons has put together a highly-enjoyable movie/presentation (warning: don’t try without broadband) about their first year of existence, and it’s well worth viewing. The idea behind the organization is to provide a legal framework to allow people to create things and distribute them not with all rights reserved, but some rights reserved. …
Torgersen in the snow.
December 8, 2003, 5:11pm. Torgersen Hall, several days after the year’s first snow storm.
Venison for Christmas?
“I’ll teach them to call me names,” he was heard to mutter.
U.S. General Amnulla Arshad?
I want to know why an employee of a U.S./Saudi Arabian water management company is sending out announcements about flag officer assignments on the DoD’s Defense Technical Information Center announce-only mailing list. Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Subject: Flag Officer Assignments-from DoD News Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:48:10 +0300 From: amanulla_arshad@AESARABIA.COM Reply-To: DODNEWS-L-request@DTIC.MIL To: DODNEWS-L@DTIC.MIL From …
Sheik Waldo Abdul Shemab
It’s no secret that I’m fond of hoaxes, so it ought to be no surprise how impressed that I am with this hoax reported by the Roanoke Times. Nobody got hurt, the joke was funny, a good time was had by all. I love it. I’m jealous that I didn’t think of it first. Of …
Exceeds USDA recommendations.
The motherlode of cute kitten photos.
Polly wants a carjacker.
Several years ago, I was compelled to visit the home of some rich people with whom I was not particularly acquainted. A number of snobby socialite-types were also visiting this home, and I’d be lying if I said that I had anything less than unbridled contempt for most of these unpleasant individuals. The owners of …