Sweet Dreams

Albert Hoffman, the creator of LSD (acid), died yesterday at the age of 102.

Summertime

More than a thousand barbecue fanatics in Uruguay grilled up 12 metric tonnes (26,400lbs) of beef Sunday April 13, 2008, setting a new Guinness world record while promoting the country's succulent top export.

Army personnel set up a grill nearly 1 mile long and firefighters lit six tonnes of charcoal to kick off the gargantuan cookout.

Some 1,250 people grilled the beef and about 20,000 spectators cried with joy when a Guinness judge confirmed the barbecue record had been broken.


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Tetris

FUN FACT: The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. (for more info click here)

The Boss

.......just announced his endorsement of Obama.

Looks like Barack will be walking Thunder Road to victory.

From my cold dead hands

Charlton Heston died this past Saturday. The 84 year old president of NRA was also a high-profile supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his civil rights movement . He attended King's 1963 March on Washington and stood near the podium as King delivered his "I have a dream" speech.

More Bush for Bush

I'm not one for Valentines Day but what is cause for celebration is that this past Februrary right before V-day the Fifth Circuit of Appeals finally repealed the inane Texan law against sex toys in Reliable Consultants v. Ronnie Earl.

3 cheers for dildos and the judicial system getting it right.

Talk

April 3, 1973: Martin Cooper of Motorola uses the first portable handset ... to make the first cellphone call ... to his rival at Bell Labs.

He helped create the Motorola DynaTAC (for DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage): 9 inches tall, 2½ pounds, with 30 circuit boards. You could talk for 35 minutes, and it took 10 hours to recharge.

Cooper recalls: "I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter -- probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life."

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