Saturday - March 25, 2006

Double Secret Weekend Tip

Sssshhhhhhh .... Keep this under your hat. This is Ultra-Top-Secret information for your eyes only. If you’re tired of telephone menus and pre-recorded messages all the time, then we have a secret weapon for you. Don’t tell a soul. Just click here. Mum’s the word.

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Wasted Weekend

Eye-Brain Coordination: The ability to follow a moving object through a maze of rube goldberg devices while other similar objects move around the same maze. Go ahead. Click on the image below of your test ground. When you get there, pick a blue ball ... any blue ball. Then try to follow it all the way through its journey. Let me know if you succeed. Don’t even bother to tell me how much time you wasted on this. Just follow the blue ball ....

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Saturday Silliness

“Cannonball!”

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   Saturday - March 18, 2006

Simply Amazing

You have never in your entire life seen anything like this video. The act is simply amazing and it’s done to the tune of my favorite Beatles song. Turn the speakers up LOUD and watch the show. It will blow your mind beyond repair ....

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   Friday - March 17, 2006

Eire America

Guess what today is? Let me give you a hint: leprechauns, green beer, four-leaf clover, falling-down drunk. Give up? It’s St. Patty’s Day. The day in which all people of Irish descent do their best to live up to the legend that God created beer and liquor to keep the Irish from conquering the world. It’s true. Trust me. I am of Irish descent on both sides of my family. Now be off with ye ... and don’t touch me Lucky Charms ...

St. Patrick

Saint Patrick is believed to have been born in the late fourth century, and is often confused with Palladius, a bishop who was sent by Pope Celestine in 431 to be the first bishop to the Irish believers in Christ.

Saint Patrick was the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland who is credited with bringing christianity to Ireland. Most of what is known about him comes from his two works, the Confessio, a spiritual autobiography, and his Epistola, a denunciation of British mistreatment of Irish christians.

Saint Patrick described himself as a “most humble-minded man, pouring forth a continuous paean of thanks to his Maker for having chosen him as the instrument whereby multitudes who had worshipped idols and unclean things had become the people of God.”

Saint Patrick is most known for driving the snakes from Ireland. It is true there are no snakes in Ireland, but there probably never have been - the island was separated from the rest of the continent at the end of the Ice Age. As in many old pagan religions, serpent symbols were common and often worshipped. Driving the snakes from Ireland was probably symbolic of putting an end to that pagan practice. While not the first to bring christianity to Ireland, it is Patrick who is said to have encountered the Druids at Tara and abolished their pagan rites. The story holds that he converted the warrior chiefs and princes, baptizing them and thousands of their subjects in the “Holy Wells” that still bear this name.

There are several accounts of Saint Patrick’s death. One says that Patrick died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, on March 17, 460 A.D. His jawbone was preserved in a silver shrine and was often requested in times of childbirth, epileptic fits, and as a preservative against the “evil eye.” Another account says that St. Patrick ended his days at Glastonbury, England and was buried there. The Chapel of St. Patrick still exists as part of Glastonbury Abbey.

- More at St-Patricks-Day.com ...

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   Tuesday - March 14, 2006

Wallpaper Magic

Want the latest and greatest wallpaper for your desktop? Try this one on for size. It’s called ”Desktop Earth” and it generates a new full-screen desktop wallpaper, at intervals you specify, of the view from space at the current moment. It includes city lights, moon shadows, seasonal changes and more. It easily installs on any Windows computer in seconds. Sorry, Apple users are still earthbound.

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   Sunday - March 12, 2006

Lost

Your mission profile: You are in a private airplane and you enter a cloud bank. You’ve lost your bearings after hours in the clouds and you’re running low on fuel. To make matters worse, your radio is out. Suddenly you come out of the clouds and look down. You see this below you. Should you try to land here? Are you in trouble just for being here? Should you do a flyby on the tower and wave to let them know you’re friendly? Is your life insurance paid up?

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Sunday Funnies

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   Thursday - March 09, 2006

That’s Entertainment

It’s time to present the BMEWS Motion Picture Awards.

The winner for Best Five-Minute Clip From Any Film Ever is here.

There’s even more of these cool clips here.

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   Tuesday - March 07, 2006

Springfield Live!

If Hollywood put as much effort into making movies as these people put into making this little “feature”, I’d be buying more movie tickets ....

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Brain Food

While we’re busily wasting time this morning, here’s something else to play with. Hidden in this picture is a man’s head. Look at the picture and see how long it takes you to find him. If you did it in lesss than three seconds then your right brain is overly developed. If it took you a minute or less then your right brain is normal. If it took between one minute and three minutes then your right brain is starving and you need to eat more protein. If you have not found the man after three minutes then you probably live in Colorado, have a lot of cats in your house and your brain is cracked down the middle ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/07/2006 at 07:50 AM   
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Survivor

Here’s today’s productivity enhancement toy. Take the Discovery Channel’s ”I Shouldn’t Be Alive” quiz and see how good a survivor you are. I scored nine out of eleven, which means I would be dead by now. Only those with a perfect score will be allowed to live. Darwin says so ....

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   Saturday - March 04, 2006

Saturday Silliness

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   Friday - March 03, 2006

And Now For Something Completely Different

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/03/2006 at 01:21 PM   
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