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Scientists find giant marine life in a recent Antarctic sea survey. The 30,000 specimens collected include starfish that are 2 feet across and jellyfish with 12 foot tentacles!
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The Stories Behind Four Exorcisms. Not only the movies, but the cases the movies got their ideas from.
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Trying for perfection can stall your productivity. Often, it’s better to get to the point of “good enough”.
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It turns out that money CAN buy happiness, but there’s a twist: to be truly happy, spend it on someone besides yourself.
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The early days of Saturday morning cartoons were experimental and delightful. Take a video look back at the years 1960-1964.
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A 1995 Newsweek editorial dismisses the internet as a “cacophony” that resembles CB radio. How many wrong predictions can you count in this article?
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The Top Ten Jackie Chan Stunts. This makes me hurt just watching it.
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Check out these Frivolous Lawsuits. In the US, anyone can sue anyone for just about anything, so there’s always someone pushing the limits.
I “googled” Clifford Stoll (the author of the internet article), and for all his rantings, he does make some good points about virtual life replacing real life. Of course, it’s hard to take any of it seriously when he made such egregious errors in judgement in this article.
posted by Justin on 3-24-2008 at 8:08 am
MissC:
The “four exorcisms” link is not working for me.
posted by Ira on 3-24-2008 at 9:45 am
Neatorama is having some URL problems today. Alex is working on it; meanwhile, I’ll try to find another way to access this story.
posted by Miss Cellania on 3-24-2008 at 10:05 am
If you just type “exorcism” into the search box you can access the article.
posted by Maddy on 3-24-2008 at 11:51 am