Man Falls down Elevator Shaft, Lands on Woman
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Location of Frankfurt in dark blue.Image: Andreas Trepte.
Police reported on Monday, that a man in Frankfurt, Germany is recovering after he fell 25 feet down an elevator shaft early Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m. CEST (UTC+2), [...]
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Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Every day people open our paper searching for a review of tonight’s movie. Today the hype comes under the radar, which I know is paradoxical, but it’s on PBS. Any movie on PBS has a specific and cultish demand that most people don’t understand. I’m one of those people who love Jane Austen and love [...]
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on Tarring and Feathering
Image from WikipediaThere are those who identify with nooses, and personify them as the dark history of America. I’m from an ethnicity that sees tarring and feathering as the ultimate symbol of savagery in the new world. The idea that someone would cover another in boiling tar and then cover him with feathers is way [...]
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Pi Day
Today is Pi Day. First off, before I get started, in Greek it’s pronounced “pee.” So show that to your math teacher. So now, I present ? to 1,000 places:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862
089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811
174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337
867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066
063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469
519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495
673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907
021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277
857713427577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235
420199561121290219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780499
510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881710100
031378387528865875332083814206171776691473035982534904287554687311595628638823
5378759375195778185778053217122680661300192787661119590921642019
Math teachers, if you can’t sing the above you may want to review Weird Al Yankovic’s White & Nerdy (”My MySpace page is all totally pimped [...]
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Elizabeth Smart, 5 Years Later
Today is the 5 year anniversary of the return of Elizabeth Smart, and she is interviewed below on the news. She is a sophomore at BYU and looks happy and healthy. She’s obviously developed a lot of catharsis and coping mechanism from her music and from being a righteous member of her faith.
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RateMyCop.com, a natural evolution of professor rating sites
A site named RateMyCop.com has sprung up of late. The site does just what it says: you can search most any police department in the country by officer and give a review of that officer. So let’s say you are on vacation, already forced to endure driving through Nevada, and you get lulled into letting [...]
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