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Friday, October 15, 2010

The Daily Drift

The Daily Drift

Today's horoscope says:
You're not sure what to do about your financial situation, especially when it comes to joint resources.
Since there's really no way for you to figure it out now, your best bet is to find the one person you know will be able to help, both because they're eminently trustworthy and because they have experience with joint financial matters.
In the meantime, sit tight.
Times like this aren't made for movement; they're made for carefully thinking things over.

Some of our readers today have been in:

Neu-Isenburg, Hessen, Germany

Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Milan, Lombardia, Italy

Paris, Ile-De-France, France

Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Garmany

London, England, United Kingdom

Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia

Almeria, Andalucia, Spain

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

as well as Brazil and in cities across the United States such as Palo Alto, Schertz, Overland Park, Hilo and more.

Today is:

Today is Friday, October 15, the 288th day of 2010.

There are 77 days left in the year.

Today's unusual holiday or celebration is:

National Grouch Day

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Teens nuts for texting ...

... lose interest in talking

In a way this isn't really news, as we already knew the trend: voice use is dropping, while SMS and email use is rising, in most age segments.

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Cars that are most likely to get a ticket

One luxury convertible racks up four times the violations of an average car.

The top five models

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Random Celebrity Photo

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Katharine Hepburn as Amazon warrior princess Antiope & Colin Keith-Johnston as Theseus in stage production of The Warrior’s Husband (1932)

Great Rock And Roll Bloopers

Mistakes. We've all made them. Some of us more than others.

Rock stars are not immune to the embarrassment of a glorious clanger, and sometimes these little whoopsies, wonky notes and unwanted warbles can even make their way onto vinyl/tape/mp3 for all the world to hear.

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Sometimes they make it through to the listener intentionally, and sometimes they sneak by purely by accident, but however they get to us they're part of what makes rock and roll so much fun.

Here are 10 of the greatest mistakes that made it to tape.

Funny and outright weird

American Law

In seventeenth-century Massachusetts, smoking was legal only at a distance of five miles from any town.

In Vermont, USA, it is illegal for women to wear false teeth without the written permission of their husbands.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

Acting was once considered to be evil, and the actors in the first English play to be performed in America were arrested.

It's illegal to buy ice cream after 6 pm in Newark, NJ. unless you have a written note from your doctor.

In Texas, it is illegal to curse in front of or indecently expose a corpse.

In Michigan, USA, a man legally owns his wife's hair.

As late as 1932, jail-breaking in Texas was not a crime if the prisoner escaped without using a gun.

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.

In Boston, it is illegal to take a bath unless one has been ordered to by a physician.

An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than steps backwards while dancing.

In Idaho, USA, the law states that all boxes of candy given as romantic gifts must weigh more than 50 pounds.

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the US since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

In Texas it's legal for a chicken to have sex with you, but it's illegal to reciprocate.

In Tennessee, USA, a man must walk in front of any car driven by a women, while waving a red flag as a warning.

In LA, USA, a man may legally beat his wife with a leather strap, as long as it is less than 2 inches wide.

In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.

French Lick Springs, Indiana once passed a law requiring all black cats to wear bells on Friday the 13th.

Apple Foo

New York UFO sighting mystery solved?

An elementary school teacher may be inadvertently connected to the puzzling objects.

The likely explanation

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Lightning hits Statue of Liberty

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Nice shot.

Short Runner Disqualified for Using Stool to Climb over Hurdle

Sapolai Yao represented Papua New Guinea in the steeplechase event at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Since he’s 4′10″, the hurdles were a bit much for him. So Yao used a potted plant nearby as a step stool to climb up on top of one hurdle, and then jump down. He was disqualified as a consequence:

Towards the end of the grueling race, the diminutive runner couldn’t quite muster the energy to get over the water jump.
Ao the resourceful Yao did what any other vertically-challenged individual would – using his surroundings to help him out.
Spotting the pots below the hurdle, Yao gave himself a leg up onto the beam, stopped for a quick breather, and then leapt over into the water.

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Link Dump

Chinese Hakka Houses Are Strange

Pack of Wolves vs. Russian Highway Police, inside

Japanese Pool Creates Waves in the Shape of Everything!

Russian Floating Nuclear Power Station

China has a Steve Jobs Double!

When free shipping isn't really free

It may be tempting to sign up for an unlimited shipping club, but know what you're getting.

Items may be excluded

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Healthiest fast-food chains

The five healthiest fast-food restaurants

A survey of the 100 biggest chains finds more nutritious fare than you might think.

No. 1 is best for kids' food, too

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Ziggy

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Joy for world's longest tunnel

'Day of joy' for world's longest tunnel

The Swiss celebrate the completion of a $10 billion project 60 years in the making.

Beats Japan's 33.5-mile tunnel

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This Mobility Scooter Can Reach 69 MPH

Colin Furze, a plumber in Stamford, UK, altered a mobility scooter. Thanks to a 125 cc motorbike engine, it can now go 69 MPH:

He added: ‘I was told by Guinness that I could modify the engine but I wasn’t allowed to change the appearance in any way so I couldn’t give it bigger wheels or make it more stable.
‘I initially tried experimenting with battery power but I only got to about 30mph and the batteries died really quickly so I knew then it would have to be petrol powered.

Furze’s next goal is to take the scooter up to 70 MPH on a racetrack.

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Oregon trooper tickets 82-year-old going 110 mph

Oregon State Police gave an 82-year-old woman a ticket for driving 28 miles per hour over her age and twice the posted speed limit of 55 mph.

Oregon trooper tickets 82-year-old going 110 mph

Paintings from Inside Cars in the Rain

Artist Gregory Thielker has composed several paintings that suggest that the observer is looking out of a car windshield while it’s raining. They’re remarkably realistic.

Thielker writes:

These paintings became a way to explore how driving in weather shifts and changes the views outside the car as well how the driving experience informs our basic interpretation of environment. We easily understand how painting can mold cultural perception, which in turn influences landscape design to become more like painting (view points, scenic routes, etc.).

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