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In the year 1900, Ladies Home Journal writer John Elfreth Watkins Jr wrote an article entitled
What May Happen In The Next 100 Years". This is apparently what the most learned, conservative men of the "greatest institutions of science and learning" had to say about the coming hundred years.
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at 7:03 AM on April 19, 2007
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Long rumoured
, after 35 years on the show,
Bob Barker is
leaving the Price is Right. His
first ever show was September 4th, 1972 (note how much less spazzy the audience is on that intro?). No longer will we hear his reminder to have your pets spayed or neutered, but there's still the
DJ&T Foundation that he started to help distribute vouchers and help support low cost spaying and neutering of pets.
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at 2:29 AM on November 1, 2006
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Dumb: The Game
is an extremely addictive puzzle game, with the added addictiveness of a "world rankings" scoreboard to prove to the world just how smart you are. If you get stuck, the
forums contain a LOT of hints. [More inside]
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at 1:55 AM on March 23, 2006
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Words invented by the Simpsons
, as found on Wikipedia. Some soul with too much time on their hands has taken up the task of listing all the nonsense words invented on the Simpsons. The number of words from this list that I use on a daily basis is ASTOUNDING.
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at 2:00 AM on October 18, 2005
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Microsoft retools processes
in order to become more agile in their development processes. Yeah, it's probably just a big PR blowjob for Vista, but I was fascinated about the process they undertook to make their development work a more smoothly (and the amount of code that got thrown out). Like Microsoft or hate 'em, it's quite an interesting (though repetitive in parts) article.
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at 2:09 AM on October 4, 2005
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Bush sort of answers lots of serious questions
This transcript of Trevor McDonald's interview with Bush is actually quite interesting. I find myself agreeing with his stance on Africa, which is probably a first for me with ANY of his stances on ANYTHING. His climate change and Iraq stances, on the other hand, I didn't quite agree with.
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at 1:39 PM on July 4, 2005
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Is somebody taking the piss with this NYT reporter?
[NYT, use bugmenot] Seriously, I thought it was a complete joke when I read this line:
"The Dutch people won against this crazy constitution," said
Tiny Kox, a member of the
small Socialist Party, which was pivotal in the "no" campaign.
That aside, I'm curious why all these EU member nations are rejecting this. First the French, now the Dutch, what is going ON here?
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at 10:46 AM on June 2, 2005
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