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Dave Barry describes 2006 ….

[an excerpt, from Barry's review of October]

In other political developments, Sen. Barack Obama, looking back on a career in the U.S. Senate that spans nearly 20 months, allows as how he might be ready to move on to the presidency. Obamamania sweeps the nation as millions of voters find themselves deeply impressed by Obama’s views, and the fact that he was on “Oprah.” In a gracious gesture from a potential 2008 rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton sends Obama a good-luck card, which is stapled to the head of a horse

The entire article can be found here:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/everyday/story/245703EB0C601CA9862572520005082D?OpenDocument

This is one of the funnier personality tests I’ve seen. Once you’ve filled it out, it lets you know which superhero you are. I’m apparently The Flash, a character I’ve always liked.

The Flash

The Flash 85% Superman 80% Spider-Man 70% Green Lantern 65% Supergirl 58% Iron Man 55% Robin 53% Wonder Woman 53% Catwoman 40% Hulk 40% Batman 25%

Fast, athletic and flirtatious.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

I wonder what Homer would think if he knew that thousands of years after his death an Australian tv show would try sneaking a Trojan Horse (although really isn’t it a Greek Horse?) into various establishments, and succeed. History does repeat itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChBKqcRpmDs

Rubber bands, I had thought, are most accurately and swiftly fired by skilled hand movements learned in some fairly critical years of childhood.  I have now changed my mind, having blundered across a rubber band gun designed like an old style Gatling machine gun, capable of firing 144 different rubber bands at its poor, pity worthy targets: http://www.backyardartillery.com/machinegun/

When I was very small my mother used to make hard boiled eggs for me at breakfast time.  I don’t remember liking them very much, until I discovered salt.

Now Ben Harris, a student at Brunel University, has advanced egg science quite a bit further.  Harris’s rather good idea: apply some heat sensitive ink on the shell of an egg to let you know how cooked it is.  Will egg timers die out?  For more, see http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2292596_1,00.html

Of course, once you’ve applied such technology to eggs, why stop there?  Bacon, watch out …