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Friday, 22 July 2011
quote [ In less than a decade, the war between the nations of the Axis Powers and the Allies resulted in some 80 million deaths -- killing off about 4 percent of the whole world. ]
5 parts down, 15 to go in a themed pictorial overview of WW2.
[by zkhan@11:10pmGMT] [+10 Good] [26 comments] |
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Saturday, 16 October 2010
quote [ Rinderpest virus has been wiped out, scientists say...
If confirmed, rinderpest would become only the second viral disease - after smallpox - to have been eliminated by humans. ] This is huge, of course, but hopefully it won't be another 30 years for the next one.
[sci&tech] [by zkhan@2:56pmGMT] [+10 Good] [25 comments] |
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Thursday, 1 April 2010
I've kept this site in my hip pocket since '97 just in case I ever needed to fix a post on the fly. Enjoy!
[humour] [by zkhan@3:49amGMT] [24 comments] |
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Thursday, 25 March 2010
quote [ I once asked Bill why he insisted on going through every spectator section crossed up and with the engine banging off the limiter. "Dude," he said, "I don't care if it costs me a couple of tenths. It makes the fans go nuts." ]
Well, this is what it's all about, isn't it?
[by zkhan@3:39amGMT] [+10 Good] [25 comments] |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009
quote [ "Perhaps by the time I'm done washing the dishes this post will be changed and i won't have to downmod it." -b ]
[sci&tech] [by zkhan@5:44amGMT] [+10 WTF] [47 comments] |
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Thursday, 8 October 2009
quote [ Nobody ever voted for printing. Nobody ever voted for electricity. Nobody ever voted for radio, the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, television. Nobody ever voted for penicillin, antibiotics, the pill. Nobody ever voted for space travel, massively parallel computing, nuclear power, the personal computer, the Internet, email, cell phones, the Web, Google, cloning, sequencing the entire human genome. ]
ET would do it. So would a spike in the heart of fossil fuel.
[sci&tech] [by zkhan@4:03amGMT] [+7 Interesting] [53 comments] |
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Sunday, 9 August 2009
quote [ The cat toy perfected. ]
Think of the applications!
[sci&tech] [by zkhan@8:41pmGMT] [+10 Interesting] [44 comments] |
quote [ Handout picture released by the Brazilian Navy showing divers recovering a huge part of the rudder of the Air France A330 aircraft lost in midflight over the Atlantic ocean June 1st. ]
"The rudders of many Airbus passenger jets are made of composite plastic that appears dangerously prone to disintegrating."
---- National Transportation Safety Board, March 25, 2006 [by zkhan@1:26amGMT] [+10 Interesting] [67 comments] |
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009
quote [ born December 29, 1958 in Riverside, CA passed away suddenly on April 18, 2009 while attending a NASCAR race to watch his favorite driver, Jeff Gordon. ]
While your paying your condolences, why not check out our Fall lineup of Hummers on your Blackberry? Chuck would have wanted it this way. Full Obit in extended.
[humour] [by zkhan@4:46pmGMT] [+6 Funny] [13 comments] |
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Monday, 23 March 2009
quote [ The aircraft is airborne...but the reversers are deployed..can't go around. Stuff the nose over and try to salvage the landing.
Sad. RIP ] This just happened at Tokyo Narita a couple hours ago... FedEx MD11 packing it in. Hard to watch.
[by zkhan@3:25amGMT] [+10 WTF] [49 comments] |
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