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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Noted around and about...


Want to live a long life? Get a new wife.


The looooooong arm of the law should've checked who it grabbed.
(Though they all enjoyed the trip!)


The maddest scientist of all time?


Favorite headline:
Time travellers from the future 'could be here in weeks'

Communism continues to fade in China, where...

The first correct daily temperature forecast was not broadcast until July 1999. Previously, temperature predictions were never permitted to fall outside the range for efficient factory work. [via Arnold Kling]
So it really did create a workers' paradise, at least weather-wise.


Speaking of China, it seems the World Sex Championships were no match for the Olympics. (Event coverage by the Naked News?)