My father’s cousin Lawrie sent this video of an ingenious method to save a young deer that had fallen through some lake ice.
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Year: 2008
The Great Escape — Inside Tunnel Harry
Here’s something fascinating and cool that my sister Jean pointed out. It’s an interactive Flash animation from the NOVA TV show Web site, about the real-life Great Escape. I missed the program, which I can see was a mistake.
FOX NEWS Further Infuriates
Hot on the heels of Bill O’Reilly’s pitiful attempt to get to Barack Obama, as featured here, is this story about an outright lie reported as fact by Fox News. But how can it be news if they insist on believing an unnamed source that’s been completely discredited?? Thanks to my friend Bismo for the tip.
Charlie Brown In The Age of Camelot
This is yesterday’s Classic Peanuts, originally published January 11, 1961, shortly before JFK’s inauguration. So the gag is about Kennedy, but I don’t quite get it.
Citizen Cane
Back just before Christmas, at this link I took the Spangler Candy Company of Bryan, OH to task for making their candy canes in Mexico. But now the intrepid investigator Dennis F. Rogers has turned up a startling piece of evidence. A box of Spangler candy canes made in the good ol’ U.S.A.! Click the thumbnail view to see the proof.
What’s different about this box is that the Mexico-sourced package had 12 full-size candy canes, and this one has 40 small ones. So what’s the deal here? Are only the larger candy canes made in Mexico? Was that batch outsourced, or are the small candy canes from an old batch, before production was moved out of the country? I don’t know, but for now the Spangler Candy Company has partially redeemed itself in my view.
If Hillary Can Make A Comeback…
The big upset last week was Hillary getting whupped in Iowa by Barack. Well, New Hampshire has put Hillary back in the running!
Another big upset last week was Warner Bros. pictures abandoning Toshiba’s HD-DVD format in favor of Sony’s Blu-Ray. Yet last night, and again tonight, Toshiba advertised HD-DVD on The Colbert Report.
I don’t know if there’s any hope for my favored format (no, I don’t own an HD player), but at least there’s still some fight left in ’em at Toshiba! Or maybe they were just too depressed to remember to cancel this week’s ad campaign. 😉
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