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Ridiculously Useful Websites

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:07:59 GMT

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15 Ridiculously Useful Websites

Web MD

Provides a reference for anyone looking to diagnose his or her symptoms or research medical issues. It is a good place to visit before making that, oh so expensive, trip to the doctor.

E-How

A reference site for just about everything else. Want to k now how to wax snow skis? Make pizza dough? Install a bathtub? This is the place.

Bartleby

One of the better academic research websites I've come across.

How Stuff Works

A very cool website that contains explanations of those mysteries in life that you just can't figure out. A few examples are Murphy's Law, Pickpockets, and Light Sabers (Yes, light sabers).

Seriously, the coolest music-related site I've seen. You choose the mood, intensity, and genres of the music you would like to hear and the site will provide you with a virtual web of music to explore. The web evolves with each choice you make. You can click on any song in the web at anytime.

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The 9 Manliest Names In The World

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:14:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ye-ah!

Visit the source. The entire article is entertaining.

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

Lance Armstrong

It’s impossible to hear this name without picturing many men getting impaled on a battlefield.

#8.

Powers Boothe

The Only Way It Could Have Been Manlier:
Superpowers Boothe.

#7.

Max Planck

a brilliant scientist, being one of the founders of modern quantum theory

he was an avid hiker for most of his life, and once climbed 3,000 meters into the German Alps at the age of 85 in the middle of World War Fucking II

#6.

Commander Flex Plexico

This guy is a walking action figure.

#5.

Dr. Duncan Steel

That’s right, he’s Bruce Willis in Armageddon.

#4.

Stirling Mortlock

Rugby Union is a game where large men run at each other and then stomp on each other with spiked boots for 80 minutes. Mortlock is considered especially good at it.

#3.

Magnús Ver Magnússon

The Only Way It Could Have Been Manlier:
What, are you people made of stone? Magnús Ver Magnússon, and you want it manlier?

#2.

Dick Pound

We're really drawing a blank on this guy.

#1.

Staff Sgt. Max Fightmaster

Max Fightmaster. Holy shit.

Tags: names, list, manly men, brilliant men, max planck, lance armstrong, duncan steel, stirling mortlock, science, sports

Birds - breathtaking photos

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:04:23 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bored-todeath.com

Tags: animals, interesting, nature, photography

USS Liberty Conspiracy Unravelling, at last!

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:37:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The documents also suggest that the US government, anxious to spare Israel's reputation and preserve its alliance with the US., closed the case with what even some of its participants now say was a hasty and seriously flawed investigation.

"In declassifying the most recent and largest batch of materials last June 8, the 40th anniversary of the attack, the NSA, this country's chief US electronic-intelligence-gatherer and code-breaker, acknowledged that the attack had "become the center of considerable controversy and debate." It was not the agency's intention, it said, "to prove or disprove any one set of conclusions, many of which can be drawn from a thorough review of this material," available athttp://www.nsa.gov/liberty .

"An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman called the attack a tragic and terrible accident, a case of mistaken identity, for which Israel has officially apologized." Israel also paid reparations of $6.7 million to the injured survivors and the families of those

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New revelations in attack on American spy ship

Veterans, documents suggest U.S., Israel didn't tell full story of deadly '67 incident

Bryce Lockwood, Marine staff sergeant, Russian-language expert, recipient of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister

"I'm angry! I'm seething with anger! Forty years, and I'm seething with anger!"

was aboard the USS Liberty, a super-secret spy ship

and many other survivors, the anger is mixed with incredulity

that Israel would attack an important ally

then attribute the attack to a case of mistaken identity by Israeli pilots who had confused the U.S. Navy's most distinctive ship with an Egyptian horse-cavalry transport

Their anger has been stoked by the declassification of government documents

strengthen doubts about the U.S

position that it never intercepted the communications of the attacking Israeli pilots -- communications, according to those who remember seeing them, that showed the Israelis knew they were attacking an American naval vessel.

Tags: uss.liberty, conspiracy, israel, 1967, coverup