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The Edsel was unveiled 51 years ago today. It such a flop that it became a metaphor for failure.
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What happens when you combine Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Love Boat? Just about what you’d think.
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Fermilab physicists discover ‘doubly strange’ particle. The Omega-sub-b contains two strange quarks and a bottom quark. That’s pretty strange if you ask me.
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Custom Made 1989 Batmobile. It’s 12 feet long and eight feet wide, and cost around $300,000 to build.
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Which is the fastest browser: Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Google’s new Chrome? Safari, Opera, and Flock are conspicuously absent from the tests.
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A giant spider invades Liverpool! But instead of running away, this one should attract people to it.
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Two Angry Moms is a movie about the effort to improve school meals. They find that it can be done, with some effort.
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Band-aids and the ridiculous reason we have them.
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none of the videos for the bob ross link work. :(
posted by Kosmo on 9-4-2008 at 5:48 am
I for one welcome our new giant robot arachnid overlords…
/checks URL
Oh, wait, my bad, this isn’t /.
posted by Benjamin M. Strozykowski on 9-4-2008 at 6:03 am
Kosmo, thanks for the heads up; I’ve substituted a different link.
Banjamin, you can use slashdot slang here; we don’t mind at all!
posted by Miss Cellania on 9-4-2008 at 6:15 am
Why do people think the Edsel was ugly? The name, sure, but the car was fine.
posted by BassMan on 9-4-2008 at 7:02 am
BassMan, it’s unfortunate then that Ford got the name from the son of the owner.
posted by Kosmo on 9-4-2008 at 4:17 pm
Safari, Opera, and Flock are conspicuously absent from the tests.
Perhaps because of their market shares?
posted by Chad Cloman on 9-14-2008 at 8:35 am