RIP: Fup, store cat

Press Release:
http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=2568

Photo Album:
http://www.powells.com/features/fup/photoalbum.html

Newspaper Article:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/10/courtesy_of_powells_fup_was.html

The Adventures of Fup:
http://www.powells.com/fup/200.html

Vaguely Related, Library Cats:
http://www.ironfrog.com/catsmap.html

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The Worst Cookbook Title Ever

Don Gorsky

So this guy, Don Gorsky, eats nothing but Big Macs. Thousands and thousands of them. He freezes them to eat when McDonalds is closed. He eats them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He eats them with foxes, he eats them in boxes, he eats them in houses, and he eats them with mouses.

An analysis of the forces required to drag sheep over various surfaces.

Honestly, the title says it all. Read the study here.

Prediction Tools

How long will your marriage last? How long will you live? What will your next move be in Rock/Paper/Scissors? All these questions and more are answered on Ian Ayres website.

You must be this tall to ride the Roller Coaster

Roller Coaster: 56 American Scream Machines is a video guide to the best 56 roller coasters in the United States. Please keep all hands, feet, heads, monkeys, and sharp objects inside the car at all times.

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How to retire at 50 for Canadians.

What Cats Know About War

From the New York Times Week in Review...

Ever wonder why Giraffes have horns?

Valentines of Unfulfillment.

When you can't say it with words, say it with a Valentine. (source)

Cheesechicken?

Everyone loves Olive Garden, everyone loves cheese! Why not make a game out of both of them?

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A game to play at the Olive Garden, by Jay Barnes

Step 1: Go to the Olive Garden with a friend or friends, and order your meal as you normally do. At the Olive Garden, you get to choose whether or not you would like soup or salad. Cheese chicken requires that everyone order salad.

Step 2: When the waitstaff brings the salad over in a large bowl, they will ask you if you want freshly grated cheese on it. You will say that you do, at which point they will begin to grate cheese on the salad, and inform you to 'say when' when you would like them to stop grating the cheese.

THIS IS WHERE THE CHEESE CHICKEN GAME BEGINS

The game:
Whoever says 'when' first, loses. The wait staff may panic or cry, but do not falter or you will be the loser.

The Consequences for losing:
The loser of Cheese Chicken shall be bludgeoned about the head with (1) Olive Garden bread stick.

Caveats:
If the waiter or waitress starts to freak out and says something to the effect of 'Are you sure you want this much cheese?', respond by yelling "HOSPITALIANO!" while pointing to the salad angrily. (source)

'Miracle' saved teenager's eye after chair assault

"THESE X-ray images show the leg of a chair embedded into the eye socket of a Melbourne teenager who miraculously survived a random attack outside a city nightclub earlier this year.

The images of teenager Shafique el-Fahkri at the Royal Melbourne Hospital were taken as a team of five surgeons prepared for the complex three-hour operation that would save his life and his eye.

After leaving intensive care, Mr Fahkri spent a month in hospital and today has 95 per cent of his sight back." (source)

BACKPACKSHiELD

"Stronger than a sewn in level II liner, the BACKPACKSHIELD tm is N.I.J. Level IIIA & stops hardened higher velocity 9 mm Full Metal Jacket (copper) and 44 Magnum (SWC) rounds flat in their tracks. The patented DupontTM Kevlar® multilayer ballistic composite BACKPACKSHIELD tm weighs less than a text book, measures 17" high by 12 " wide, is less than 1/2" thick, and fits inside 1000's of standard size (High School & Collegiate) backpacks. It's available in a variety of school colors, optional personalized photo (i.e. favorite athlete, pet, team, mascot etc.)"

Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on

LONDON (Reuters) - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.

And if you've got a problem, don't be such a crybaby (formerly cry-baby). (source)

Animals in Star Wars Costumes

I'm not saying that this is wrong, but it sure ain't right.