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Life’s little mysteries, like: Why do women wear high heels?

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:58:08 +0000

Why do women wear high heels? Why are soft drinks in round containers while milk cartons are rectangular? And why did kamikaze pilots bother with helmets? Here, ROBERT H FRANK uses economics to explain the weird and wonderful situations we encounter in everyday life

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Cult Flick: The Cars That Ate Paris

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:56:16 +0000

Poor Arthur Waldo (Terry Camilleri). The painfully soft-spoken man is deathly afraid of driving after accidentally killing a man a year before, and then he has the bad luck to pass through Paris, Australia. There the residents have blocked and booby trapped all of the roads leading in and out of town to kill unsuspecting passersby. The local…

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New plastic shifts between hard, soft

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:54:00 +0000

Scientists in the US have created a breakthrough substance that can change in seconds when exposed to liquid, shifting from hard plastic to soft and back again.

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Boating Safety Tips

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:52:09 +0000

With boating season coming up for everybody these boating safety tips will ensure you have a great and safe time.

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Brett Farve on David Letterman 4-24-2008

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:48:15 +0000

Is Brett Coming Back to the NFL?

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Hillary’s Blizzard of Lies-WIlliam Safire NY Times 1/9/96

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:46:07 +0000

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.

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Live Tracking Coming to iPhone Maps

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:42:48 +0000

The iPhone’s fake GPS is a useful feature, and stops you from looking too much like a map-studying tourist when in foreign lands, but the new iPhone 2.0 update will bring the service one step closer to real GPS. It still uses cell tower and WiFi triangulation, but will be able to update in real time as you walk (or drive) around.

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Balding Penguin Gets a Wetsuit: needs Rogaine

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:36:05 +0000

What’s black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, of course. California biologists made a custom wetsuit for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.

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The Purpose of Life - Where Man Came From

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:34:13 +0000

We may never know, but it is fun to think about it…

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Alpine’s Single Disc Player - CDA-9857

Trinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:32:33 +0000

“The all-new CDA-9857 goes beyond traditional radio, with Full Speed? Connection for iPod?, BlueTooth, and Windows PlaysForSure compatibility. In addition, this head unit is specially designed with Full Dot-Matrix Biolite? for a sleek, easy to read display. iPod Full Speed Compatible (req. KCE-422i) MP3 / WMA

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