Are you a fake band fan? Do you find yourself humming tunes from the likes of Spinal Tap, Jet Screamer, The Rutles, The Wonders/Oneders, Driveshaft, Banana Splits or Josie & the Pussycats? Then www.FakeBands.com and their print version, the Rocklopedia Fakebandica is right up your alley. Finally, all the fictional bands and singers from TV [...]

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Roswell, New Mexico… Aliens…?  They said their bits…  It was a weather balloon…? They denied their bites…  They were crash test dummies…? and now… a confession from the Press Secretary from the grave… leaves us to wonder…. Who is lieing now? See for yourself… Technorati Tags: Roswell, Aliens, weather balloon, crash, confession

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  On the first day… god created… yatta yah… On that day back when god was bored, he accidentally made a platypus. Then, in 2007 man created the Creation Museum.  A high tech museum dedicated to making science and the bible match up.  The museum, as I saw it on the news Friday morning on [...]

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It’s about time someone realizes the Bible for what it is… a collection of filth, smut, violence and the occasional story of doing good deeds. More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as “indecent” due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column [...]

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     According to BoingBoing, for a mere $150K, you can get your hands on the one and only Knight Industries Two Thousand (aka KITT).  That’s right, you too can let your inner Hasselhoff run free in this Knight Rider masterpiece. KITT Stats: – 1982 Pontiac Trans Am – 305 V-8 engine – 2,393 original [...]

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Sorry to get all political, but I thought this was important to share. Evidence is mounting that the majority of prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay have not committed any actual crimes against the US or our allies. Habeas Corpus has been suspended, so they have no way of proving their innocence. They are held [...]

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Interesting post over on Neatorama about the 5 smallest countries in the world. And you thought Green Bay was small. Vatican City Monaco Nauru Tuvalu San Marino Technorati Tags: Neatorama, Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, San Marino

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Google continues to develop amazing tools.  One of their latest is a Patent Search Engine, which allows users to pore over 7 million US patents dating back to 1790. We haven’t really had a chance to dig through it, but fortunately someone else has.  Ironic Sans has posted 20 patents held by a variety of [...]

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Steve Jobs and Apple have done it again. This morning’s keynote at the MacWorld Expo launched the next killer gadget… the iPhone. An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… in one amazing device. Revolutionary user interface – “Multi-touch” using your fingers on a large touch screen. Runs OSX Multi-tasking, networking, power management, graphics, security, [...]

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Incoming Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) is due to be sworn in tomorrow along with the rest of the freshman class of Reps. Ellison is notable because he is the first Muslim elected to Congress, and because he announced last month that he’d take the oath of office on the Q’ran / Qur’an / Koran. This [...]

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Traveling salesman Peter Gilbert drove his car a lot.  Like a million miles, a lot. The Milwaukee area resident just retired his 1989 Saab 900 because the frame was finally starting to rust out due to the harsh Wisconsin winters.  My favorite part… “The transmission was rebuilt at 200,000 miles and the hood and a [...]

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Most, if not all, of us are aware of the story of the three kings/wisemen/magi (Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar) who visit baby Jesus and come bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Sixteen years of Catholic education, and I never really learned what the heck frankincense and myrrh were. According to Wikipedia, Frankincense or olibanum [...]

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Hey, it’s almost Halloween. Scary movie time. The nice folks at YesButNoButYes have provided links to view the Nosferatu on your computer… either Google Video or download it right to your mo-chine. Oh, and take their advise, watch it with the lights off.1922 classic Technorati Tags: Halloween, YesButNoButYes, Nosferatu

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At the risk of getting overly political, I need to post about the law that President Bush passeded yesterday – The Military Commissions Act of 2006. This goes well beyond Clinton slept around or Bush is stupid. This is scary scary stuff. Essentially, this law gives Bush and Rumsfeld the power to declare anyone (US [...]

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From the fine folks at BoingBoing – A Houston area teenager chose not to read Ray Bradbury‘s “Fahrenheit 451” as a matter of principle due to its themes and language. Her father took the case one step further and is calling for a ban on the book in the school district. The fact that his [...]

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