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08 Mar 2010 20:18

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Offbeat: Want to buy some sex? Sex.com up on the auction block

  • $1 million minimum to get a little more sex(.com) in your life source
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08 Mar 2010 20:12

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World: The Chile earthquake shook entire major cities out of alignment

  • 10′ the distance Concepcion was displaced
  • 11″ the distance Santiago was displaced
  • 1″ the distance Buenos Aries moved source
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03 Mar 2010 10:20

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World: What we know about Greece: Gyros, philosophy, Sparta!, huge debt

  • €4.8
    billion     will be cut from the country’s huge deficit using a mix of taxes and spending cuts (the third this year)
  • €200
    billion     the size of Greece’s deficit, which is 125 percent of their entire annual economic output source
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02 Mar 2010 00:29

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World: The massive earthquake in Chile an axis-moving event

  • three
    inches     the distance the Chile quake moved the earth’s axis, which is further than we moved today
  • just
    barely     the amount of time (about 1.26 microseconds) the day has been shortened as a result source
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28 Feb 2010 20:48

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Politics: Everyone’s favorite crazy guy, Louis Farrakhan, says crazy stuff

  • It’s not an accident that a great earthquake took place in Chile. It was a precipitate of what I have to tell you today of what’s coming to America. You will not escape.
  • Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan • Discussing Chile’s nature as a harbinger. It wasn’t the only insane thing he said at a speech today. Another chestnut: “I can’t even get a meeting with a congressperson if a white man’s watching.” He also claimed that the white man was trying to make Obama a one-term president. Ah, take a whiff of some of that crazy, boys. That kind of crazy doesn’t come around often. source
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28 Feb 2010 11:58

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Culture: Roger Ebert will start “talking” again on Oprah. Whoa.

Ebert did some commentary tracks before he lost his voice. Those tracks were used to create a computerized Ebert voice, which will hit Oprah tomorrow. Whoa. source
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26 Feb 2010 15:52

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Offbeat: Atlanta I-20 bison photo: Holy crap that’s strange

Wow, this is like a weird combination of two parts of American history: The interstate highway system and the buffalo. We blame Ted Turner for this. source
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24 Feb 2010 21:52

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Offbeat: The other side of the Epic Beard Man bus-fighting story

  • Let not the Epic Beard Man get all the praise for this video. This video of two dudes getting into a huge fight on an Oakland, Calf. bus shot through the internet like a pair of brass knuckles over the weekend. Here’s the other side of the argument, told by comparing each side to the video itself. Michael’s nose appears to be healing nicely. Key point of the clip: Michael knew the racist overtones of what Thomas Bruso said. Also, he’s 50 – he looks way younger. source
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22 Feb 2010 09:36

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Offbeat: Post-drip blues: Minneapolis lady gets insane water bill

  • $1,595 the size of one poor Minneapolis woman’s massive water bill; “My heart just dropped,” she said
  • 194,484 number of gallons of water that is; the city says it’s accurate and she probably has a leak source
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21 Feb 2010 10:04

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Offbeat: Yitta Schwartz’s Hasidic family extended, and then some

  • 2,000+ living descendants of Yitta Schwartz, who died last month at 93
  • 18number of kids the Satmar Hasidic Jew had directly; wow
  • 75 her eldest daughter’s age; a new relative is just six days old source
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