Thursday, April 26, 2007

BIZARRE airplane misshaps -- unbelievable, but true! [photo gallery]

Haha, how did these airplanes end up like this? In trees, on major highways, running over buses. Hilarious photo gallery, all true!



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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

301 Useless Facts

1 Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person. 2 Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels. 3 The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan 4 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.



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Monday, April 23, 2007

David's B-Day


David's B-Day, originally uploaded by dahlenw.

This is better it will fit. Thanks Michelle!

David's-B-Day New Swim Trunks


David's-B-Day New Swim Trunks, originally uploaded by dahlenw.

These are way too big, here you go William.

Gatorade Destroys Your Teeth Faster than Coke

Gatorade erodes teeth faster than Coke, a new study shows. On the enamel, Gatorade was significantly more corrosive than Red Bull and Coke. Red Bull and Coke, in turn, were significantly more corrosive...



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Thursday, April 19, 2007

IMVU Bad!

If you got an email from be with IMVU invite in the subject line please delete. It is spyware and bad for your computer. I apologize.

Moguls of the Virtual World (gallery)

Meet the virtual world moguls. The number of Second Life residents generating more than $5,000 in monthly income has more than quadrupled to 116 in the past year, according to San Francisco's Linden Lab, owner of Second Life. BusinessWeek took a stab at finding out who's raking in the most, and how.



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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Interesting links for Wednesday

Cool T-Shirts: http://www.snorgtees.com/
Ads: http://www.ezprezzo.com/crazypics/great_ads.html
Your taxes.at work? http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/poster/

2007 Pulitzer Prize winners:
FICTION http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/fiction - The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

DRAMA
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/drama - Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

HISTORY
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/history - The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)

BIOGRAPHY
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/biography-or-autobiography - The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)

POETRY
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/poetry - Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)

GENERAL NONFICTION
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/general-non-fiction - The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)

MUSIC
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/music - Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Hi Ryan!


Hi Ryan!, originally uploaded by dahlenw.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Stanford in charge of archiving 25,000 + video games

Stanford University recently received a windfall of over 25,000 video games and now they are going through the arduous task of archiving them all. The games originally belonged to former Stanford student Steven Cabernetti who passed away recently, leaving behind a staggeringly huge collection, most still in their original shrink wrap.

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Difference Between Prison And Work

10 differences between being in prison and working: 1.IN PRISON: You spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell. AT WORK: You spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle.



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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Interesting Links for Thursday

Make a map for yourself with My Maps
http://maps.google.com/


Go Fly a Kite for Engineers and Math Geeks

http://sequoiaonline.com/blogs/pdf/06cdc.pdf

Top Ten Books
http://www.toptenbooks.net/
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html

WattPad
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/ebook/read-books-on-your-phone-with-wattpad-249847.php

Get the Glass online game (awesome graphics)
http://www.gettheglass.com/

critically endangered stripped rabbit photographed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6530365.stm

Just wrong - A man arrested for helping the homeless http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/05/homeless.arrest.reut/index.html?eref=rss_us

Research home prices on your phone http://www.lifehacker.com/software/home/research-home-prices-on-your-phone-with-housefront-249969.php

Ipod saves Soldier's Life -pictures and story

"his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it did not completely penetrate his body armor. Fortunately, Kevin suffered no wound."



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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Real Life Freddie Cougar

Wacko thinks he is Freddie Cougar from Nightmare on Elm Street movies:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/6526129.stm

Real Estate Blog in Irvine

http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/

E.Coli in Orange County

Food blog reports E.Coli in Orange County (see fax on his site). Also Soup Plantation has it too.

http://epicurious-wanderer.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-couldnt-i-just-win-lottery-crazies.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-ecoli3apr03,1,3541603.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

NBA Star offers $15 sneakers

Parents stand up and cheer as a $15 sneaker enters the game.

An NBA star knows many families can't foot a $200 bill for high-end shoes, so he's created his own signature line.
Full Article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sneakers4apr04,1,1984844.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Homeless find refuge in your local library

A very interesting article, about a side of local libraries I never knew...
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=180836

The Most Polluted City on Earth

In the most polluted city on earth, the smog is so thick that it seems to consume its source. Iron foundries, smelting plants and cement factories loom out of the haze then disappear once more as you drive along Linfen's roads.



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