I think Thames: Sacred River had at least 2, plus a full length jacket. I can't find any pictures online, but the outer bands had a sort of Medieval watercolor and underneath was a tunnel going under the river from the Victorian era. I thought it looked pretty neat at the time.

That's amusing, but the censorship seems a bit arbitrary. I'd have blurred the other end of the 'r' and the saucy dots on the 'i.' They are called tittles, by the way. Sure it might adversely affect readability but that's not the priority here.

This reminds me of one of my father's favorite tricks, when I was growing up on a farm. He'd be grinding fresh horseradish in a blender and innocently invite a passerby to take a whiff at close proximity. I think it might take a person to a whole new level of wakefulness. The embarrassing thing is that he got me with that one twice.

IANAP (physicist) but to me it seems that if these particles travel 'instantaneously,' for the events to 'outrun' the lightwaves and break the light cone by a certain amount of time, they must be correspondingly distant. So events you see three years in the 'future' would be taking place 3 light years away. Does anyone know better?

2 weeks ago I got the following.
: ) The Chinese ancient civilization attracts you. : )

The best thing is the link is citing one of those Brady Bunch memos in a rant about some upcoming Zelda game (posted in 2001 so maybe Wind Waker). I love the internet.

On a Mac, they're called aliases. You can make one by right clicking a file->Make Alias or selecting it and hitting Command-L.

On a Mac, they're called aliases. You can make one by right clicking a file->Make Alias or selecting it and hitting Command-L.

Yeah, that's a great idea. I want to put in a switch like the RIGHT BY MY SINK so I can turn on the light while my hands are soaking wet. That would be brilliant. Assuming I can't get one in my shower.

The question that came to my mind after the first paragraph was 'how old are these people?' It doesn't seem possible that the CDC would ignore age, but there's no information in the article. For all we know, the two groups have different average ages or the distribution is different enough to give these results. Just saying the death rate was higher doesn't necessarily mean the people were dying younger, given a lifetime of varying diet and health care standards. Sadly, this is typical science reporting even for the nytimes. They make stories to grab attention and leave out enough details for anyone with critical thinking to decide if it is crap or not. I'm not saying this is crap, the CDC is almost certainly on the level, but of the stories the media picks up a too large part is undeniable crap.

7 million pounds seems a bit high. Assuming the guy is 40 (he looked a lot younger to me) that works out to almost 480 pounds per day. I grew up on a farm and having lugged around more than my share of 40 lb bags of corn, I'd be interested to see an accounting of that.

I've seen figures cited (searching The Omnivore's Dilemma on Amazon) that say corn fed cattle eat 8 pounds of corn for every pound of meat they gain. Chickens are a more efficient 2 to 1. I don't know anything about how much corn is needed to make syrup but I'd be very surprised if it could make up the balance. I see estimates that people eat 60 lbs of the syrup per year which works out the 1/6 of a lb per day. I'm skeptical that if it takes 450 pounds of corn to produce 3 ounces of syrup that there is nothing else they can use what is left over.

The only thing that remotely makes sense is that he may be including the full weight of the plants. I'd consider that cheating though since a)he isn't eating the plant and b)as it's harvested it is chopped up and returned directly to the soil. Anyway, I doubt that could make things work out because by harvest time a corn stalk tends to be pretty darn light.

Anyway, that's just a little 'cuz-i-feel-like-it' internet research, maybe someone who actually knows something could chime in.

I think it would be best for everyone if the furies lost. Honor satisfied, everyone goes home alive.