Wednesday, June 20, 2007
NEWS BRIEFLETS
• Google “swallowing numerous camels” and this article appears; not only work-safe, but actually very good.
• Reader Apparatchik detects evidence in Canberra of a certain entity’s continued global expansion:
• Al Gore’s planet-saving Live Earth gaiapalooza concerts are sponsored by Chevrolet.
• Apologies for this, but your Globey Doomsday Clocks needs adjusting again. The world won’t die in 2042, 2012, or 2016; according to some big-deal scientist, we’re checking out in 2060.
• “Scientists call it global warming. We call it Earth Mother getting angry.” I call it Alvin.
• A memorial was dedicated in Washington this month. If you hit no other link in this post, hit this one.
• Antony Loewenstein appears to have fallen out of a clue tree and hit a few clue sticks on the way down.
• The Vatican has finally issued its Ten Commandments for drivers.
• “Thou shalt learn to drive a manual car,” is not one of the Commandments. Might’ve helped these Miami kids: “Two teenage robbers spent valuable getaway time Monday night trying to drive off in a stolen car - but gave up, police said, when they realized they couldn’t navigate a sedan with manual transmission.” It would have been a close contest if James Bond had been chasing them.
• And finally:
