] Bryan Piper loves vegetables, but a little surprise in a
] can of peas may have changed his diet forever. Piper was
] eating a bowl of canned Kroger garden-variety sweet peas
] when he found something else from the garden. Half way
] through the bowl, he noticed an object that didn't look
] right. A frog, not much bigger than a pea, was looking
] back at him.

You can find the pictures at: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-frog-peas2.htm
It's true. And it's gross.

Canning Mistake

] HOW TO AVOID BEING A BULLY
]
] Do not write e-mails in capital letters
]
] Put some pleasantries in your e-mail
]
] Communicate face to face with people sitting near you
]
] Use copy fields sparingly and appropriately
]
] Sarcasm does not work in e-mails
]
] Never write anything you would not like to see stored by
] your company
]
] Reflect on what you have written before sending

E-mail bullying on the rise

] U.S. military officials say Fox News Channel
] correspondent Geraldo Rivera will be expelled from Iraq
] after violating the cardinal rule of war reporting Monday
] by giving away crucial details of future military
] operations during a live broadcast.

U.S. targets 'Chemical Ali'

] President Bush has "some level of frustration with the
] press corps" for accounts questioning the U.S. and
] coalition war plan in Iraq, and he finds it "silly" that
] such skepticism and questions were being raised just days
] into a conflict he says is going quite well, according to
] a senior administration official.

Awww, poor Dubya... is the media not spinning your tough-ass war to your liking?

Bush frustrated with media questioning on war plans

] 2MASS All-Sky Data Release
]
] (Released 2003 Mar 25)
]
] This is the All-Sky Data Release from the Two Micron All
] Sky Survey, covering 99.998% of the sky observed from
] both the northern 2MASS facility at Mt. Hopkins, AZ, and
] the southern 2MASS facility at Cerro Tololo, Chile. The
] release data products include 4,121,439 Atlas Images
] (compressed, 512 × 1024 pixel2, 1"/pixel) in the three
] survey bands, derived from the 59,731 scans of the 8.5´ ×
] 6° Survey Tiles, and Catalogs containing positional and
] photometric information for 470,992,970 Point sources and
] 1,647,599 Extended sources.

2MASS All-Sky Data Release

] SEASIDE HEIGHTS -- Mike Carbone settled his arm on the
] counter in front of him on the boardwalk. Slowly he
] raised his gun until he had him in his sights -- Saddam
] Hussein.
]
] What's Saddam doing in Seaside Heights? He, or rather
] someone dressed as him, is the timely target of the paint
] ball stand, Lucky Leo's "Shoot the Geek."

On boardwalk, taking shots at Saddam Hussein

] Before the war in Iraq started, teacher Gary Tankard let
] his students at Bergen Catholic High School know where he
] stood, wearing a button that read, "War is not the
] answer." Several of his colleagues did the same.
]
]
] Although Pope John Paul II was preaching a similar
] message, school authorities objected and said the red,
] white and blue buttons had to go. The other teachers
] relented, but Tankard resigned.
]
]
] "This was a matter of conscience," Tankard, 63, told The
] Record of Bergen County for Wednesday's editions.

No matter where you stand on the "separation of church and state" issue, this is just pretty wrong.

Catholic teacher quits rather than remove anti-war button

] U.S. Marines searching Iraqi military headquarters in
] this southern city that was the site of intensive
] fighting came across a mural depicting a plane crashing
] into a building complex resembling New York's twin
] towers, a news agency photograph showed Wednesday.

Marines discover Iraqi 9/11 mural

] Navy personnel tightened security around the submarine
] base Wednesday after a bomb threat was called in to state
] police.
]
] The threat, reported at around 8 a.m., turned out to be a
] hoax, state police spokesman Sgt. J. Paul Vance said.

SOOOO GLAD I did not have racquetball yesterday!!!!

Bomb Threat Tightens Security At Base

The Sound of Things to Come
By MARSHALL SELLA

No one ever notices what's going on at a Radio Shack. Outside a lonely branch of the electronics store, on a government-issue San Diego day in a strip mall where no one is noticing much of anything, a bluff man with thinning, ginger hair and preternaturally white teeth is standing on the pavement, slowly waving a square metal plate toward people strolling in the distance. ''Watch that lady over there,'' he says, unable to conceal his boyish pride for the gadget in his giant hand. ''This is really cool.''

Woody Norris aims the silvery plate at his quarry. A burly brunette 200 feet away stops dead in her tracks and peers around, befuddled. She has walked straight into the noise of a Brazilian rain forest -- then out again. Even in her shopping reverie, here among the haircutters and storefront tax-preparers and dubious Middle Eastern bistros, her senses inform her that she has just stepped through a discrete column of sound, a sharply demarcated beam of unexpected sound. ''Look at that,'' Norris mutters, chuckling as the lady turns around. ''She doesn't know what hit her.''

Norris is demonstrating something called HyperSonic Sound (HSS). The aluminum plate is connected to a CD player and an odd amplifier -- actually, a very odd and very new amplifier -- that directs sound much as a laser beam directs light. Over the past few years, mainly in secret, he has shown the device to more than 300 major companies, and it has slackened a lot of jaws. In December, the editors of Popular Science magazine bestowed upon HSS its grand prize for new inventions of 2002, choosing it over the ferociously hyped Segway scooter. It is no exaggeration to say that HSS represents the first revolution in acoustics since the loudspeaker was invented 78 years ago -- and perhaps only the second since pilgrims used ''whispering tubes'' to convey their dour messages.
.....
(Last month, A.T.C. cut a five-year, multimillion-dollar licensing agreement with General Dynamics, one of the giants of the military-industrial complex.)

The Sound of Things to Come