Yet Another Web Site

(from the this is only going to make it worse dept.)

Largely because of this post, Google Adsense has been serving up ads for Composting made easy, Manure pumps, and Manure removal.

I’m sure some of you think those ads are appropriate for this web site.

Chocolate Linked to Lower Blood Pressure

Leave it to the Dutch to help demonstrate the health benefits of chocolate. A study of older men in The Netherlands, known for its luscious chocolate, indicated those who ate the equivalent of one-third of a chocolate bar every day had lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of death.

The researchers say, however, it’s too early to conclude it was chocolate that led to better health. The men who ate more cocoa products could have shared other qualities that made them healthier. Experts also point out that eating too much chocolate can make you fat _ a risk for both heart disease and high blood pressure.

All we need is to find the health benefits of beer and coffee, then we’ll have almost all the major food groups covered.

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A Ringwraith walks into a bar, sits down, and gets a beer. A local lothario comes over, takes the next seat, and says: “So tell me–what’s a Nazgul like you doing in a place like this?”

(via Eschaton)

This port deal was approved unanimously by a board on which Donald Rumsfeld sits. Rumsfeld claims he was unaware of the deal until after it was approved unanimously.

The administration didn’t do the legally mandated 45 day investigation.

Secret terms of the deal include provisions which allow them to escape standard legal scrutiny.

– AND –

• George W. Bush was unaware of ports deal before approval.
• Bush administration recently nominated a former Dubai Ports World executive, David Sanborn, to be the U.S. Maritime Administrator.
• Treasury Secretary John Snow had been chairman of the CSX rail company that sold its port system to Dubai Ports World for $1.5 billion in 2004.

Is this what they meant when we were told back in January, 2001 that the “adults are finally in charge?”

Eeeeeeewwwwwwww!!!!!

A Bavarian village was flooded by liquid pig manure after a tank containing the fertilizer burst, German police said Wednesday.

Sewage rose to 20 inches in the courtyards and streets of Elsa after gushing from the tank, which held some 240,000 litres of pig manure.

“The village was swamped with green-brown liquid and it was pig manure — the mother-of-all muck,” said Rainer Prediger, a police spokesman in the nearby town of Coburg.

I’d hate to be on the Elsa tourism board right about now — talk about a tough sell…

(via Pharyngula)

Non-Religious Turmoil Escalates

15,000 atheists in London rioted after a blank sheet of paper was found on a cartoonist’s desk.

Turns out there’s a cartoon.

(from the pointless milestone dept.)

500th post since June 22, 2001

(printed by fortune in one of my terminal windows today)

A master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices. “The Tao is embodied in all software — regardless of how insignificant,” said the master.

“Is Tao in a hand-held calculator?” asked the novice.

“It is,” came the reply.

“Is the Tao in a video game?” continued the novice.

“It is even in a video game,” said the master.

“And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?”

The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. “The lesson is over for today,” he said.
— Geoffrey James, “The Tao of Programming”

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