The Beast of Omaha
63 years ago today, 20-year old German lance-corporal Hein Severloh was armed with a rifle, a machine gun and 16,000 rounds of ammo when American forces landed in the early morning hours off Omaha Beach on D-Day. During the next nine-hour "Longest Day", Severloh gunned down up to 3,000 Americans before running out of ammo, making him personally responsible for about three-quarters of all casualties at Omaha Beach, comparable in scale to 9/11 or the Iraq War. Nicknamed The Beast of Omaha, today he says "I never wanted to be in the war. I never wanted to be in France. I never wanted to be in that bunker firing a machine gun. Thinking about it makes me want to throw up."
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Cat has camera on collar so we can see what he does
Mr. Lee is a cat in Germany, whose owner has attached a camera to his collar so that we can share his daily adventures! Some of the photos are mysterious. Others are beautiful. I love this!
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Get your cat totally wasted: brew ultrapotent catnip extract
Here’s a how-to on making an ultra-potent, 99%+ pure Catnip extract to help form that cat army you’ve always been dreaming of. The guide uses readily available materials and provides very detailed, easy to follow instructions which makes this within reach of the average person with too much time on their hands.
Caveat stoner. This may be potentially harmful to cats, I do not know. Also, the idea of intoxicating animals who cannot give informed consent to getting totally baked raises issues of ethics and animal cruelty. I’m posting this here because I think it is funny, not because I think drugging animals IRL is cute.
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Viral!
The network is down you foolish IT Administrator and no one loves you ! [warning! Viral advert-video link that may or may not please or amuse you]
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damn it.
so my cell isnt going to be covered for repairs, i was told to eat it. So I’m going to contact the guy who hit me, and get him to cover the repair/replacement.
fucking phone is only 5 days old.
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Awesome!
So what a nice weekend. I got nailed by a car while I was on my bike today, still dizzy/hurting.
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The fourth part of three
The fourth part of a trilogy of interviews with Douglas Adams before he got all famous. “I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.” Well, he certainly didn’t. And for that, much thanks.
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Choose Your Own Adventure!
Virginia Tech: A “Cho”ose Your Own Adventure.
It’s early on a Monday morning. You wake up and find you have your dorm room to yourself. The night before, your roommates had been talking about “hooking up” with some girls they met on Facebook while you were busy ignoring them and putting the finishing touches on your three page manifesto explaining why you decided to go on a shooting spree today…
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Artist eats dog to protest prince’s hunting
British performance artist Mark McGowan ate a few bites of a corgi dog live on the radio to protest Prince Philip’s hunting of a fox. Yoko Ono had a bite as well. The corgi is apparently the Queen’s favorite breed. According to McGowan, it tastes lousy.
The dog died of natural causes at a corgi breeder and was prepared and cooked by others for McGowan…
McGowan is well known for his outlandish performance stunts. He ate a swan in another protest against the queen. Swans are protected by the monarchy.
Reminds me of that old quote about when a dog bites a man, it isnt news… but when a man bites a dog, its a story.
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Little boy ruins sand mandala
Last week, eight Tibetan monks were halfway complete with an incredibly intricate sand mandala they were creating in Kansas City’s Union Station when a young boy went under the protective rope and messed up the entire design. The monks were gone when it happened but the episode was caught on a security camera.
“He did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it,” said Lama Chuck Stanford, of the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City.
A security tape shows the boy’s mother returning to the mandala, grabbing her son by the arm and walking out of camera range…
“No problem,” Geshe Lobsang Sumdup, leader of the group from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in southern India, said through a translator. “We didn’t get despondent. We have three days more. So we will have to work harder.”
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Make all your phones ring at once
GrandCentral: Have a cell phone, a work phone and a business phone? This free service gives you one number that will ring all of them at once. Reviews: Slate, NYT, CNET
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Jobs and Gates interviewed together at the D5 conference
The Bill and Steve show: Jobs and Gates sit down together and discuss the past, present and future at the D5 conference.
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Awesome!
Found a backup of my site from 2005, woo! well, a backup of the database, just as good, imported from 2002 until 2005, still a few years missing, but better then nothing i guess.. heh
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The end of time
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through the looking glass
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They look like ants…
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Use the Force, Luke!
30 years ago today
the dream of a man
named George Lucas
became a phenomenon
that changed the world.
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One in 20 is too many.
Nearly 700 cyclists are killed on U.S. roads every year, and more than 540,000 are sent to the emergency room. The annual Ride of Silence was started in 2003 to honor and raise awareness for those tragically killed and injured on the road, and has grown into a worldwide event, with more than 270 confirmed rides planned to start tonight, at 7 p.m. Ride along on YouTube or grab a black armband and join a group near you.
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In praise of Budweiser..?
In praise of Budweiser, in which Daniel Davies defends Budweiser, claiming that it is in the right in it’s copyright fight with the Czech brewer Budvar and that the rice in Bud is not a modern cost cutting development but is an essential ingredient in brewing an American pilsner. Worth reading whatever your view on Budweiser is for the brutal attack on the Welsh town of Wrexham in the footnotes.
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Well played, Rob Schneider.
C’mon, Roger Ebert, tell us what you really think about “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.”
Even though Roger Ebert had the last word with Rob Schneider. A few days ago, Rob Schneider proves that despite his undiscriminating film choices, bad films do not make a bad person and he is one classy guy.
On a completely related note, today Ebert’s website "Ebert’s Most Hated," a collection of classic zero- and one-star reviews. My favorites: "North" and "Freddy Got Fingered."
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Best of the Webb
“Clearly we need a much bigger telescope to go back much further in time to see the very birth of the Universe.” The venerable Hubble space telescope is going to be replaced by what looks like a honeycomb on a box of chocolates. Of course, if it takes more pictures like this (XL), nobody is going to complain about its looks.
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Disney’s 1958 vision of tomorrow’s highways
Disney’s 1958 short “Magic Highway” is a retro-future look at the highways of tomorrow that never were. It is a perfect storm of goofy futurism (imagining the future to be just like the present, only more so) and crazy, angular pop art visuals. This makes me terribly nostalgic for the future
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Quack breast enlargement ad from 1924
This June, 1924 breast-enlargement advert from Popular Mechanics is a lovely illustration of the era’s prudery, employing “double your breathing capacity” as a euphemism for “get giant knockers now!”
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