Monthly Archives: January 2009

Austin Story: Zombies Ahead

This would have been perfect for SXSW Especially if the name of your band is called Zombies Ahead…… Hackers Crack Into Texas Road Sign, Warn of Zombies Ahead Thursday, January 29, 2009 By Joshua Rhett Miller i-hacked.com Texas Dept. of Transportation officials confirm a portable traffic sign at Lamar Boulevard and West 15th Street in [...]
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The Cellist’s Unchained Malady

CNN - 1 hour ago LONDON, England (CNN) — A medical ailment that has worried male members of string sections across the music world for over 30 years has been exposed as a … Doctor Admits to Writing Medical Journal Hoax FOXNews - 2 hours ago An esteemed doctor of Britain’s House of Lords admitted to inventing a false medical condition 34 years ago as a [...]
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Pirating the Pirates

They wanted a tip. They got a capsize. What does that mean? “Other pirates on the shore wanted a tip from the pirates on the Sirius Star, so they started to fire in the air as our people approached the land,” Libaan Jaama told CNN. “When our pirates heard the shots, they thought they would be robbed, [...]
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Pass the Pigs

Editorial Review How’s your tolerance for puns? You’ll need some for Pass the Pigs, a simple game of chance built around a pig theme. Instead of dice, you roll two cute pink piglets, and you gain or lose points depending on how the critters land. For example, if both land on all fours, [...]
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The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & Science (Paperback)

Review “An opus…Mixing math with wonder.”—Washington Post Book World (The Washington Post )An opusMixing math with wonder.Washington Post Book World (The Washington Post ) About the original 1000 PlayThinks,Will Shortz of The New York Times said it best: “The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles almost a century [...]
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As pirate stories go… this is one of them

They pulled it off! A shout out  and a huge congratulations to the brave Somali pirates who pulled a cool $3,000,000 ransom from elegantly gloved hands of the  Sirius Star owners. The release of that big boat carrying $100 million in crude oil came immediately after an exquisitely executed parachute-drop delivery of what amounts to a [...]
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Roads Not Taken, or Taken, or Some Combination Thereof

This stupid blog has become even more so. That’s okay. So are all other blogs. Though I’ve waxed waxy about blogs and the very term “blog” flamboyantly entering into most languages spoken on our planet, I must point out the word “blog” appears underlined in red as I type it into the mighty WordPress WYSIWYG [...]
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