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http://duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/Top_Ten_Best_Ghost_Photographs_Ever_Taken/ If these are the top ten, i'm afraid there isn't really much of a case for ghost. I'll admit, some of the old ones are cool looking (meaning the right conditions provided for an interesting looking photo), but the...

The praise: Who was Gerry Studds? Now isn't that a nice way to sugar-coat having sex with an underage boy after getting him drunk. It was an "affair"... nope, no media bias there. At least he didn't do the unspeakable act of sending suggestive emails to him, good thing for Studds that...

Congress members have to pay in order to get top positions in congressional hierarchy….. More at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/01/america/web.1001dues.php

Is it art? Teacher strips in class POSTED: 4:06 a.m. EDT, September 28, 2006 BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- A Chinese culture ministry official has denounced a university professor who stripped naked in front of students and teachers during an art class, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday...

Steven Jones has been placed on paid leave by BYU: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645199800,00.html

http://fundamentaltop500.com/ If anyone here is curious as to how Christian fundamentalists spend their time on the internet, he or she can see the 500 most frequently-visited fundamentalist websites. Enjoy

In particular, I would be interested in comments regarding the composition of this list and also regarding the individual judges given at the end. See the masterlist for more such lists. Apologies if this has been examined before and/or if it more properly belongs in a different forum, e.g...

I don't want to come across as a big meany, spoiling other people's fun, but I find animated avatars really really annoying. Why do they do it?? Anyway, I found a solution which doesn't require me to hit people with sticks. Just press 'Esc' (once the page has loaded) and the animations will...

article Pretty funny stuff. My vote goes for Windows ME. America Online (1989-2006) RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999) Syncronys SoftRAM (1995) Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000) Sony BMG Music CDs (2005) Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994) Microsoft Bob (1995) Microsoft Internet Explorer...

BBC story NYtimes story (reg required) Mmmm. The guy was at the head of the NSA when all that wiretapping was going on. This is obviously the president's dream pick as Hayden probably wouldn't question the legality of some of the things Bush is going to ask the CIA to do. Anyway...

Last year, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, in an attempt to undermine the Goodridge same-sex marriage ruling, dug up an obscure, never-enforced 1913 law which was designed to prevent inter-racial couples from states with anti-miscegenation laws from marrying in Massachusetts, if their main...

Watching the "parade of the athletes" and the opening ceremony earlier this afternoon (If you can receive Canadian TV you get a lot of Olympic coverage live with a minimum of commercials and without the inane prattle and endless puff pieces NBC seems to like), I can't help but wonder if the...

These words to the wise apply to attempts to photograph program speakers during their talks. You're on your own for pix of TAM debauchery. The following assumes use of a digicam. (SLR's are noisy and I don't recommend them here.) 1. Have a camera/lens with long zoom capabilities. It's a big...

From a detailed article about Tom, David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology. The article is much longer and these quotes are just snippets. Of course they did. ;) Remember everyone, sell sell sell those e-meters! We need a new lap-pool. L. Ron is late! It's good to be the king! :D...

Upsetting, but not surprising Well, well, well. I don't know if it's ironic or just plain funny, but this guy was once in charge of the child safety/protection program. I was a scout leader at one time. I had to take a course to be certified in that very same child safety/protection...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3260&print=1 I think it is an exceedingly good list for a popular vote. The fact that Dawkins finishes third is great news. (I imagine there is strong British bias in the voters.) I admire four of the top 10 quite a bit (Dawkins, Havel...

Gordon Smith Psychic Barber is doing an event US members may want to report on. Wednesday 14th September: Secrets & Mysteries NEW YORK, USA Sylvia Browne and Gordon Smith Time: 7pm to 10pm For full details visit www.hayhouse.com and click on the events link Friday 16th September: Secrets &...

1. How can ghosts "speak"? Discussion: Humans need vocal cords in order to speak. Moreover, humans need their special vocal cords in order to make human language possible (i.e. Dogs are physically incapable of speaking in human language). After death, the vocal cords, like the rest of the body...

The Institute of Higher Education, China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University - has published their list of the top 500 universities in the world. The big majority are American, followed by some in England and Japan. 1 Harvard Univ USA 2 Stanford Univ USA 3 Univ Cambridge UK 4 Univ California -...

The Apple Powerbook 100 has been chosen as the greatest gadget of all time, by US magazine Mobile PC. The 1991 laptop was chosen because it was one of the first "lightweight" portable computers and helped define the layout of all future notebook PCs. The magazine has compiled an all-time top...

Larry King was in rare form on Tuesday, Feb 1 when he hosted a panel of top evangelicals including Tim LaHaye and his wife and Franklin Graham. He challenged them all but good. It was as if he has had complaints for being such a wimp and has become a born again contrarian. I went to...

U.S. Falls out of the Index of Economic Freedom's Top 10 AccountingWEB.com - Jan-6-2005 - For the first time ever, the U.S. does not rank among the world's 10 freest economies in the Index of Economic Freedom, published annually by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. The U.S.'...

Well, the end of the year always brings about these top 10 of the year lists. Here's the Top 10 Paranormal Events of 2004. I'm sure many of these have already been discussed. http://paranormal.about.com/od/paranormalgeneralinfo/a/aa113004.htm

Maybe belongs in 'humor', but it's religion-related: http://www.wilk4.com/humor/humorc5.htm

quote: Wall Street Journal correspondent Farnaz Fassihi confirms that she penned a scathing letter that calls the war in Iraq an outright "disaster." She also reveals that reporters in Baghdad are working under "virtual house arrest." By Greg Mitchell (September 29, 2004) -- Readers of any...

From the June 29 Washington Post. Pretty good article (though I thought they went too easy on chiropractic). Points out that the most popular alternative meds (gingko, ginseng, echinacea and even garlic) can have blood-thinning side effects, which can be disasterous if you're already on blood...

Cluff must have grown up reading Edgar Rice Borroughs. The concept is very much Pellucidar with some religion tacked on. If he makes money on this scam, more people are stupider than I would have believed. Of course, when Tarzan visited the hollow earth, there were dinosaurs and other cool stuff.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/11/russia.space.ap/index.html Anyone remember The Man Who Sold the Moon? I predict this will really gain steam just about the time light pollution measures really begin to take hold.

Theres an artlice in Parade about current dictators. I found one theing odd. They mentioned how China has 4000 executions a year, most in the word. Considering Chinas pupulation size, is 4000 that high a number?

I've got a spinning top I got in a Christmas cracker (yes, early, I know). When you spin it, it processes for a short while and then jumps up onto the nub you spin it by. (If you've ever seen one of these tops, you'll know what I mean. I apologise that I haven't got a camera I can show anyone...