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Miss Cellania
March 27th, 2008
by Miss Cellania - March 27, 2008 - 2:21 AM

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The signs of spring are coming earlier in the American west. Scientist say global warming is to blame.
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The Ten Most Historically Inaccurate Movies. Hollywood never lets the facts get in the way of a good yarn.
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Ten Ways to Raise a Green Baby. Let’s just hope baby turns a more natural color before first grade.
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Too Much Information? Study Shows How Ignorance Can Be Influential. And we certainly have enough of it to go around!
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Before radio was widely used, planes used “road signs” painted on roofs to find airports! Some of these signs may still exist; some survive only in pictures.
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When you first saw the video of the BigDog quadruped robot, you were thinking the same thing I was. And so were these people. Swallow your coffee before watching.
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The political costs of primping. A woman running for president will spend an extra two weeks over the course of a campaign just getting ready in the morning, just because she can’t afford not to.
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Comments (3)

  1. Some nice links today. Regarding the 10 most inaccurate films of all time: While I agree (up until the last one) with these films as historical travesties, they sort of miss the point on some of them. Like, not only are the Maya horribly misrepresented in Apocalypto, they were already long gone when the Spanish arrive during the Aztec period. Ah well. And the list should be “9 Most…” 2001 isn’t historical drama. It’s science fiction. It might have a place on a “speculative films that missed the mark” list, but even then that’s not the point. Silly Yahoo!, write better lists.

    posted by steve m c on 3-27-2008 at 8:13 am

  2. I beg to differ on the issue of the signs of spring showing up early in the West. The state of Washington has been hit with snowstorms for almost a week now. This morning, we (in Spokane, WA) woke up to 2-3 inches.

    posted by MC on 3-27-2008 at 10:54 am

  3. I’m not saying global warming isn’t real. But, I’m in Portland,OR– we had Cherry Blossoms, fruit trees blooming, and daffodils– and a small snow blizzard this morning. Either way– strange weather indeed.

    posted by ella blue on 3-27-2008 at 11:59 am

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