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For a company event the other week we had two Swedish guys doing a nice routine, with close-up magic as well as some scene magic. One of the things they did is something I'd really like to look into how hard it would be to learn. Up on stage they instructed the audience to follow the...

By far my new favorite appeals court judges in effect apply a kind of reductio ad absurdum to cause the over-zealous prosecuting Attorney General to get hoisted by his own petard. http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/COL04/701150333 In a ruling sure to make philandering...

Found via poe-news.com Emphasis mine. Alright, no doubt this hoodlum can be applied to wines, but friggin' vodka? You know, the liquor that's specifically filtered with stuff like charcoal to remove anything other than water and alcohol from the mix? Oh, but I forgot: A more thorough...

We've all heard of the classic question - what if we saved a genie, and were given 3 wishes? What would you wish for? Well, talking about having 3 wishes might not be good philosophically (since it introduces the idea of trial-and-error). So, this question will have two parts: a) If you were...

PEOPLE (USA) 02 January 04 Croc Hunter Irwin's Stunt Outrages (Stephen M. Silverman) "The Crocodile Hunter" star Steve Irwin fed a 12-1/2-foot-long crocodile with one arm while holding his one-month-old son Bob in the other on New Year's Day at the Irwins's Australia Zoo reptile park in...

I was fortunate enough to attend one of Mr. Randi's lectures recently, and he mentoned that dowsers taking the challange did not want him in the same room because of his "negative vibrations" or somesuch. He continued on to say that if they had known he was still in the building at all, they...

While searching the Chalcedon Foundation web page for the article by Einwechter calling for the "just, merciful, and preventive" death by stoning of disobedient children , I learned (...99jan/dumont.shtml> that "...it is belief in God and Jesus Christ that has lead to the incredible scientific...