BostonHerald.com – Business: Economic `Armageddon’ predicted

Here’s some cheery news to think about when you start your Christmas shopping. Thanks to boing boing: Economic `Armageddon’ predicted America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic “armageddon.” Press were not allowed into the meetings. But the Herald has obtained a copy of Roach’s presentation. A stunned source who was […]

Let’s talk turkey

Picking up my four year old yesterday, he proudly displayed a turkey he had made out of a paper bag (face on the front, feathers on the back, stuffed with toilet paper to keep it round) Teacher: What does a turkey say? Child: Bock bock bock! (arms folded under, wings flapping) Teacher: No, silly, that’s […]

Dolphins save swimmers from shark

CNN.com – Dolphins save swimmers from shark – Nov 22, 2004: “Lifesavers Rob Howes, his 15-year-old daughter Niccy, Karina Cooper and Helen Slade were swimming 100 metres (300 feet) off Ocean Beach near Whangarei on New Zealand’s North Island when the dolphins herded them — apparently to protect them from a shark. ‘They started to […]