Neil Young - Living With War

Neil is streaming his new CD in it's entirety all day today at NeilYoung.com

A Priest, a Pentecostal Preacher, and a Rabbi . . .

A priest, a Pentecostal preacher, and a Rabbi all served as chaplains to thestudents of the University of Montana in Missoula.They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and to talkshop.

One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn't really allthat hard. A real challenge would be to preach to a bear.One thing led to another and they decided to do an experiment. They wouldall go out into the woods, find a bear, preach to it, and attempt to convertit.

Seven days later, they're all together to discuss the experience.

Father Flannery, who has his arm in a sling, is on crutches, and has various bandages, goes first. "Well," he says, "I went into the woods tofind me a bear. And when I found him I began to read to him from theCatechism. Well, that bear wanted nothing to do with me and began to slapme around. So I quickly grabbed my holy water, sprinkled him and, Holy Mary Mother of God, he became as gentle a lamb.

The bishop is coming out nextweek to give him first communion and confirmation."Reverend Billy Bob spoke next. He was in a wheelchair, with an arm andboth legs in casts, and an IV drip. In his best fire and brimstone oratory he claimed, " WELL brothers, you KNOW that we don't sprinkle! I went out and I FOUND me a bear. And then I began to read to my bear from God's HOLYWORD! But that bear wanted nothing to do with me. So I took HOLD of him and we began to wrestle. We wrestled down one hill, UP another and DOWN another until we came to a creek. So I quick DUNKED him and BAPTIZED his hairy soul. And just like you said, he became as gentle as a lamb. We spent the rest of the day praising Jesus."

They both looked down at the rabbi, who was lying in a hospital bed. He was barely conscious, in a full body cast, with IVs and monitors running in andout of him.

The rabbi looked up and said, "Looking back on it, circumcision may not have been the best way to start

Caliornia Named After Fan Fiction

California is named after the island of California, home of Queen Calafia, her beautiful black amazons and their man-eating griffins, as all detailed in Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo's Las Sergas de Esplandian, which was the Sword of Shanarra of its day, a highly unauthorized but popular sequel to the much more highly respected Amadis de Gaul, more The Lord of the Rings of its day. At the end of Don Quixote, Cervantes had this to say about Esplandian: "Verily the father's goodness shall not excuse the want of it in the son. Here, good mistress housekeeper, open that window and throw it into the yard. Let it serve as a foundation to that pile which we are to set a-blazing presently."

That being said, Las Sergas de Esplandian was the pulp novel the conquistadores had on board when they sailed around and encountered the Baja peninsula. What's more, when the Portola party went up the coast, thinking the descriptions in LSdE were based on actual travelers' tales, they thought the California condors were Queen Calafia's big black man-eating griffins.

And so on to the present day where California is ruled by Conan the Barbarian.

Trevor Blackwell's Electric Unicycle at Maker Faire - With Video

I got chance to ride Trevor Blackwell's Electric Unicycle at Maker Faire. I don't know who else ever has but it was a hell of a ride. It is completely counter-intuitive to those of us that already know how to ride a unicycle. Essentially you have to get one foot on the peg, lean what feels like waaaaaay forward and the gyroscope kicks in and the wheel starts rolling. Turning in wide arcs is easy, tights one require a foot on the ground. I didn't get the chance to try going backwards as it was a fairly crowded area.

The Electric Unicycle's only control is the on-off switch. The rider controls everything else by shifting his weight. You lean forward to accelerate, lean backwards to brake, and gyrate your arms wildly to turn. With a little practice you can get more graceful and keep your arms mostly by your side.

The unicycle balances itself using a simple feedback loop between a solid-state gyroscope and the wheel motor. When it detects itself tilting forward, it runs the wheel forward to keep it vertical. When it detects itself tilting backwards it runs the wheel backwards. It does this so rapidly (200 updates per second) that it feels perfectly smooth. This is really the same thing that a conventional unicycle rider does with his legs.

Here's a few seconds of video. If you cant see it you can download it here (6.7meg).

Trevor is a very amiable guy and you could tell he enjoyed showing off his "toys." Thanks for the experience Dr. Blackwell!

I'm Off To The Maker Faire!

Worst Suicide Attempt - Ever

Oregon Man Survives 12 Nails to the Head - CBS News: "An Oregon man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say.

Surgeons removed the nails with needle-nosed pliers and a drill, and the man survived with no serious lasting effects, according to a report on the medical oddity in the current issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery.

The unidentified 33-year-old man was suicidal and high on methamphetamine last year when he fired the nails _ up to 2 inches in length _ into his head one by one."

Crowds Panic as Flood Threatens Ireland

Joke O'The Day

Just overheard this one:
How do you get a nun pregant?

Dress her up like an altar boy

Jet Blue WebsiteEaster Egg - Family Guy?

Select a destination at the Jet Blue site.

Hold down shift and type pbj

Instantly a scene from the Family Guy will appear on Jet Blues website.

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9-11 Loose Change 2nd Edition with Extra Footage

"This is the best damn 9-11 documentary out there." -Dave vonKleist, Producer of "911:In Plane Site" Loose Change is an ... >all » extremely hard hitting, heavily referenced documentary. It has the best footage that I have seen to date, of all the bombs and explosions going off at the World Trade Center. He covers each individual aspect of 9/11 in keen detail, and after watching 'Loose Change' it is almost impossible to walk away and not believe that 9/11 was engineered, not by Osama, but by our own Government.

Was it? Or is this just another conspiracy theory?