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Beer bong tragedy has entire city of Perth in shock: “Mark Frauenfelder:
A beer-thirsty Australian gentleman, inpatient with gravity, employed a mechanical contraption to rapidly deliver beer into his gullet using a pump powered by an electric drill. The device proved so effective that the high-pressure jet of beer shooting down his throat ripped a hole in his stomach. Authorities responded by warning people not to use high-pressure machines to drink beer this Christmas. Link“

(Via Boing Boing.)

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imagine the horror!

Playlist Meme: “

I gotta do something to get my mind off studying for finals. ugh.

1. Open up the music player on your computer.
2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the ‘shuffle’ command.
4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty. Write it up in your blog or journal and link back to at least a couple of the other sites where you saw this.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurrences. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you’d like.

1. Walnut Tree – Keane (iTunes)
2. Right Now – Van Halen (iTunes)
3. Song for Dad – Keith Urban (iTunes)
4. Bück Dich – Rammstein
5. Obvious – Blink 182
6. Izzo/In The End – Jay-Z/Linkin Park
7. Kiling In The Name – Rage Against The Machine (iTunes)
8. The Great Disappointment – AFI (iTunes)
9. All The Arms Around You – Halloween Alaska
10. Live Again – Sevendust

Spotted at Willmore’s Blog

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(Via Carpe Aqua.)

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1. yesterday beatles (acoustic)

2. her neon heart soviettes

3. something better(live) pietasters

4. the brightest bulb has burned out (w/ billy bragg) less than jake

5. california dreamin the beach boys

6. heros and villains the beach boys

7. rocky raccoon beatles

8. 18 til i die bryan adams (acoustic)

9. i’m on wheels julie adams and the rhino boys

10. ingrid bergman billy bragg and wilco

11. wurlitzer prize willie nelson and norah jones

12. tangled up in blue bob dylan

Brewster Kahle, “Universal Access to All Knowledge”: ”

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(Via Open Access News.)

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this might be called the ‘new enlightenment’ type of thought, no?

The New York Times > Science > With Great Beer, It’s All in the Rocks (and That Doesn’t Mean Ice): “When commercial beer making started in the 19th century in Europe, brewmasters came across a problem similar to those experienced by the Andean brewers, that the beer spoiled easily. Yet there were places that were exceptions. Burton-on-Trent in England was one, a small town that had more than 30 breweries, producing a style of beer called pale ale or English bitter.”

(Via .)

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nice little article on beer and geology

MLM #33: “I’m fairly often asked by people from some corner or other of the media to suggest to their readers/listeners/viewers how I think couples can keep their relationships springy and vibrant. It seems to me that the secret turns out to be for both your minds to harbour the barely-covered suspicion that the other one of you is a killer. That ‘incipient hunch that your partner is prone to homicide’ really will stop you becoming complacent and taking each other for granted. Thus, relationships shouldn’t look to some book like ‘How to Make Love to the Same Person for the Rest of Your Life’, but rather to, say, the movie ‘Jagged Edge’.
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(Via .)

mil millington….

Angster (n). angsters are people who as part of the blogworld or whatever world they might think they exist in, proceed to express angst. Ongoing, and indeterminate of cause, though any given cause is the cause of the moment, angsters spew their worries and feelings about it for their audience, their people, or frequently just themselves. angsterize, angsterate, angstiferous.

I believe in angsters, and I believe they have effects on other people that are almost entirely negative.

ols-master: “”

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2005 OII Doctoral Programme .

They are indeed going to Beijing! and the applications system is open.

don’t tax, spend anyway: “

Why oh why is this administration so bent on flagrantly irresponsible
tax cuts?

snip

The real problem with these torrential deficits is not that Japan and China might decide to stop buying our
bonds and so dislocate the economy, not any arcane calculations about trade
deficits and the domestic interest rate. The real problem is that we are plundering
future generations, who have no democratic voice at all. ‘Responsible leadership’? Gag me with a spoon.

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(Via Left2Right.)

well yes, and with a declining birthrate, this actually multiplies……

Not surprising to most of my readers: ”

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(Via Bitch. Ph.D..)

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it is not surprising to us, but it would likely be surprising to the buggers on capital hill…. If they want to label ru-486 then they darn well better label everything with a mortality rate worse than it.