The phaomnneil pweor of the hmuan mnid.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it
deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and
lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Fcuknig amzanig, huh?

naet ltilte ticrk!

] Smart bombs and "surgical strikes" would ensure a
] soldier's quick return. State of the art equipment would
] keep our soldiers safe. Billions of dollars for the
] Department of Defense would ensure that the compensation
] of our men and women in uniform would match their
] sacrifice for their country.
]
] Two hundred and ninety-one deaths later, with the war in
] Iraq officially "over,' active duty military still have
] no dates set for their return home. Soldiers are dying
] due to shortages of supplies, like bulletproof vests. The
] Bush administration's proposed cut in combat pay came
] with a simultaneous call for the Iraqi resistance to
] "bring 'em on." Already inadequate services for veterans
] are suffering further cuts, making the return home
] scarcely safer than the tour of duty.
]
] In the eyes of many military families a contract has been
] breached, a promise has been broken. And these families
] are making sure that those who broke their trust are
] called to answer for their betrayal.

And we wonder why "incidents" in Iraq are increasing? They want to come home, and they've instead been sent off to New Vietnam.

AlterNet: They Volunteered, Didn't They?

] The true scale of American casualties in Iraq is revealed
] today by new figures obtained by The Observer, which show
] that more than 6,000 American servicemen have been
] evacuated for medical reasons since the beginning of the
] war, including more than 1,500 American soldiers who have
] been wounded, many seriously.
]
] The figures will shock many Americans, who believe that
] casualties in the war in Iraq have been relatively light.
] Recent polls show that support for President George Bush
] and his administration's policy in Iraq has been
] slipping.
]
] The number of casualties will also increase pressure on
] Bush to share the burden of occupying Iraq with more
] nations. Attempts to broker an international alliance to
] pour more men and money into Iraq foundered yesterday
] when Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, brusquely
] rejected a French proposal as 'totally unrealistic'.

What? You mean our goverment hasn't been releasing accurate numbers? Who knew.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | America's hidden battlefield toll

] At the heart of a space elevator would be a cable
] reaching up as far as 100,000km from the surface of the
] Earth. The earthbound end would be tethered to a base
] station, probably somewhere in the middle of the Pacific
] ocean. The other end would be attached to an orbiting
] object in space acting as a counterweight, the momentum
] of which would keep the cable taut and allow vehicles to
] climb up and down it.
]
] A space elevator would make rockets redundant by granting
] cheaper access to space. At about a third of the way
] along the cable -- 36,000km from Earth -- objects take a
] year to complete a full orbit.
]
] If the cable's center of gravity remained at this height,
] the cable would remain vertical, as satellites placed at
] this height are geostationary, effectively hovering over
] the same spot on the ground.
]
] To build a space elevator, such a geostationary satellite
] would be placed into orbit carrying the coiled-up cable.
]
] One weighted end of the cable would then be dropped back
] towards Earth, while the other would be unreeled off into
] space.
]
] Mechanical lifters could then climb up the cable from the
] ground, ferrying up satellites, space probes and
] eventually tourists.

Sign me up.

Taipei Times - archives

] About 200 people - coffee roasters, espresso bar owners
] and ordinary caffeine lovers - staged a protest against a
] proposed espresso tax on Sunday.
]
] "I'm here on behalf of my wholesale customers who cannot
] afford this unfair tax," said Neal Brown, wholesale
] director for Zoka Coffee House in the city's Green Lake
] neighborhood.
]
] Initiative 77 would add a 10-cent tax to espresso drinks,
] raising money for preschool and day care programs. The
] measure is up for a vote on Sept. 16 in Seattle.
]
] Supporters say I-77 could raise more than $6.5 million a
] year. A City Council staff estimate puts the benefit at
] between $1.8 million and $3.5 million annually.
]
] "They see the espresso business as some sort of cash cow
] to be milked for this particular issue," Brown said
] Sunday. "The next thing, who knows what? They'll be
] taxing orange juice for another issue."
]
] A coalition of business owners, led by Seattle-based
] coffee retailer Starbucks, is fighting the tax.
]
] Calling the protest their version of the Boston Tea
] Party, demonstrators marched from Zoka to Green Lake,
] where they dumped burlap bags into the water.
]
] They looked like coffee bags, but were filled with
] balloons to keep them from sinking so they could be
] retrieved after the protest, said Susan Majerus, who
] helped organize the demonstration.

Only in Seattle.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Espresso lovers protest proposed tax

] Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and
] shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of
] ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound
] that is inaudible to humans.
]
] British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment
] that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces
] a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety,
] extreme sorrow and chills -- supporting popular
] suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange
] sensations.
]
] "Normally you can't hear it," Dr Richard Lord, an
] acoustic scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in
] England who worked on the project, said Monday.
]
] Lord and his colleagues, who produced infrasound with a
] seven meter (yard) pipe and tested its impact on 750
] people at a concert, said infrasound is also generated by
] natural phenomena.
]
] "Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound
] may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so
] cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute
] to a ghost -- our findings support these ideas," said
] Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the
] University of Hertfordshire in southern England.

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Ahoy maties! Make sure ye observe the fairest day! ARGH!

Talk Like A Pirate Day

2003 Darwin Awards
In case you have been waiting breathlessly for this year's Darwin
Awards,here they are. The awards this year are, once again, truly
classic.

These awards are given each year to bestow upon (the remains of) that
individual, who through single-minded self-sacrifice, has done the
most to remove undesirable elements from the human gene pool. Just
think... until these events, these same people were walking the
streets like normal people.

5th RUNNER-UP:
Goes to a San Anselmo, California man who died when he hit a lift
tower at the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on
a foam pad. The 22-year old David Hubal was pronounced dead at Central
Mammoth Hospital.

The accident occurred about 3 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's
department said. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked up a ski
run called Stump alley and undid some yellow foam protectors from lift
towers, said Lt. Mike Donnelly of the Mammoth Lakes Police Dept. The
pads are used to protect skiers who might hit towers. The group
apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed
into a tower. It has since been investigated and determined the tower
he hit was the one with its pad removed.

4th RUNNER-UP:
Goes to Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St.
Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call the police, Puelo
grabbed a hot dog, shoved it into his mouth and walked out without
paying. Police found him unconscious in front of the store. Paramedics
removed the six-inch wiener from his throat where it had choked him to
death.

3rd RUNNER-UP:
Goes to poacher Marino Malerba of Spain, who shot a stag standing
above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell
on him.

2nd RUNNER-UP:
"Man loses face at party." A man at a West Virginia party (probably
related to the winner last year, a man in Arkansas who used the .22
bullet to replace the fuse in his pickup truck) popped a blasting cap
into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his
lips, teeth, and tongue. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the
blasting cap as a prank during the party late Tuesday night, said Cpl.
M.D. Payne. "Another man had it in an aquarium hooked to a battery and
was trying to explode it." "It wouldn't go off and this guy said I'll
show you how to set it off." He put it into his mouth, bit down and it
blew all his teeth out and his lips and tongue off, Payne said.
Stromyer was listed in guarded condition Wednesday with extensive
facial injuries, according to a spokesperson at Charleston Area
Medical Division. "I just can't imagine anyone doing something like
that," Payne said.

1st RUNNER-UP:
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2003 Darwin Awards

] Christian pastors here at Landover Baptist thought their
] tireless efforts to warn Americans about the carefully
] disguised homosexual agenda targeting toddlers through
] Disney cartoons was working. They thought that since
] President George W. Bush, a devout Christian who attends
] a Bible church regularly and believes in the same
] three-headed God (Father, Son, and flying side-kick, The
] Holy Ghost) took office, that Americans were finally
] waking up. Our pastors took for granted that Americans
] understood that Jesus is not above sending little
] children straight to Hell for watching cartoons. It
] wasn't until Pastor Deacon Fred heard that millions of
] American children were being lured like zombies in a
] trance to see the new Disney film, Finding Nemo, that he
] decided to speak out against it.
]
] "Walt Disney would be spinning in his grave if he knew
] his animation studios were full of giggling homosexuals,
] doodling and talking about silly colors and little
] fishies for their latest film," said Pastor Deacon Fred
] last Sunday. "But as we all know, Walt Disney never made
] it to Heaven. Although he hated Jews almost as much as
] the Apostle Paul did, he never took the time to accept
] Jesus Christ as his personal savior. So Mr. Disney is
] burning in Hell right now and God melted his eyes right
] out of his head.

I *love* Landover Baptist Church! One of the all-time greatest spoof sites I've seen.

Children are Finding Nemo Instead of Finding Jesus, and the Homos at Disney are to Blame!

] Tony-award winning dancer and actor Gregory Hines died of
] cancer Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 57 years old.
]
] Hines had a career on the Broadway stage, grabbing Tony
] nominations and a best actor award. In the 80s and 90s
] Hines appeared in a variety of motion pictures and
] television shows. He was nominated for several Emmy
] Awards, and won a Daytime Emmy.
]
] Hines had his own sitcom in the late 90s and had a
] recurring role on the NBC sitcom "Will And Grace,"
] appearing as Will's ruthless boss, Ben Doucette. He was
] also an accomplished director and producer.
]
] Apple named Hines an AppleMaster -- an honorary
] recognition Apple bestowed upon celebrities and
] luminaries in the '90s "who use Apple technology to make
] the world a better place."
]
] Hines attended Macworld Conference & Expo events, and was
] seen on stage extolling the virtues of PowerPC-based
] laptops when they were still a novelty.

Goodbye, Josephus. We will miss you.

AppleMaster Gregory Hines dead at 57