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Archive for January 27th, 2008

According to Unexplained Mysteries:
At first glance, it seems to be an ordinary snap of a group of young people. But look more carefully and there appears to be an extraordinary, ghostly presence among them. Peeping out between the knees of two of the girls is the face of a child. The eerie image - clear [...]

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Excerpted from Time Magazine:

The Lost Tomb of Jesus, made by Hollywood director James Cameron and Canadian investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici, was shown only once on Discovery. Britain’s Channel 4 canceled its own plans to air the documentary, which reexamines an archeological find from 1980 in which a crypt was found containing what were said to [...]

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Starbucks, worried that McDonald’s and other chain restaurants are taking away their business (and since their stock is down about $17 per share, it’s a valid concern) is testing a bottomless $1 cup of coffee in their Seattle area stores. Currently, their least expensive coffee is an 8-ounce cup which is not refillable, and [...]

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Great quote

“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.” - E.B. White

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The Westboro Baptist Church is, of course, the “God hates fags” group which regularly pickets the funerals of soldiers and homosexuals. They have announced they will picket the funeral of young Oscar-nominated actor Heath Ledger, because he played a gay cowboy in “Brokeback Mountain” (but was not gay in real life). As [...]

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Great quotes

I actually have this one framed in my office (with “man” replaced by “woman”, naturally):
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”  - George Bernard Shaw

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Books correlated with SAT scores

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I found this particular article to be interesting, since I have long wondered why on earth any psychologist or psychiatrist would assume to diagnose someone they had never even seen in real life, much less met. These pseudo-diagnoses happen all the time with celebrities, especially due to the popularity of pop psychologists such as [...]

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