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Interesting site that updates every 310 seconds showing suspicious events around the world on a Google Map.

Ewww! A nice and subtle little Chtulhu reference thrown into my favorite web comic. I knew there was a reason I had to read this every day!

Nothing Nice to Say is an online punk comic... Entertaining. Fletcher looks a lot like Al Pist btw... I digress...
Like all good things on the web there is a Cthulhu reference.

1. If you owe someone money, always pay them back in a bar. Preferably during happy hour.

2. Always toast before doing a shot.

3. Whoever buys the shot gets the first chance to offer a toast.

4. Change your toast at least once a month.

5. Buying someone a drink is five times better than a handshake.

You get the picture!

Russian Nuclear Submarine Patrols

The Russian nuclear submarine force is far less active today than during the Cold War. Since 1984, according to information obtained from the U.S. Navy, the annual number of extended patrols performed by strategic nuclear submarines and nuclear-powered attack submarines has dropped from more than 230 in 1984 to less than 10 today.

Interestingly, the drop occurred well before the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Between 1984 and 1989 (the year the Berlin Wall fell), the annual number of patrols plunged to less than half its peak patrol level in 1984.

After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the annual number of patrols continued to decline until it reached its lowest level in 2001 with only two patrols accomplished. 2002 was particularly noteworthy because it was the first time the Russian Navy did not send any strategic submarines on extended deterrent patrols.

Thanks Stace!

On the 5 Train!
NSFW due to Language

I liked - I laughed, I cried... It was better than Cats.

For all you fans of that fantastic, under rated music that's been making skin heads dance like maniacs for years! Here's the history of Oi! from Mr. Gary Busheel himself.

For some MP3's of good skin head music, click here.

Web-based maps are handy for keeping tabs on weather and traffic, so why not for disease outbreaks, too?

The new Healthmap website digests information from a variety of sources ranging from the World Health Organization to Google News and plots the spread of about 50 diseases on a continually updated global map.

Hydrogen Technology Applications, Inc, makers of Aquygen, a combustible gas made from water that is a safe, cost-effective, environmentally-friendly alternative to and enhancer of fossil fuels.
Check out this video of them with a water fueled torch, and a car that runs on water!!
If this is true how come the governmet hasn't gotten rid of these guys yet?

PALAEONTOLOGISTS don't get many chances to name new bones. Evolution uses the same bones over and over again, altering their shape and purpose but preserving their basic nature, so anatomists simply use the same old terms to describe them. A humerus is a humerus, whether it's in a chicken wing, a walrus flipper, the massive front leg of a brachiosaurus or our own upper arm. A few animals evolve bones that look different enough to earn their own distinct name, like the thagomizer, the fearful-looking cluster of spikes on the end of a stegosaur's tail.

The name comes from Gary Larson's cartoon series, The Far Side, rather than some bygone anatomist. Dinosaurs and cavemen were among Larson's favourite characters, and he often put both in the same frame, fully aware of the anachronism. In 1982, he drew a caveman "professor" lecturing to a class, pointing to a drawing of the cluster.

There is also a good Wikipedia entry about it too.

A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner’s closed world. Crudely constructed from such things as spoons, shoelaces and upholstery tacks, shivs lie somewhere between the graceful and the grotesque. They’re primitive, too — like outsider art, but produced deep on the inside.