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The Only Underwater Pogo Stick
From hammacher.com:
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This is the only pogo stick designed for use in swimming pools that allows you to perform a variety of waterborne stunts as you bounce off walls or bottoms. A rigid ball filled with water fits into the non-slip footrest, providing responsive push-off when compressed against a pools floor with your body weight, enabling you to splash effortlessly in shallower water and bound powerfully through deeper water. The stick is made from heavy-duty ABS plastic with two rubber handlebars for a firm grip. For use with in-ground pools with solid surfaces. Ages 9 and up. 35″ H. (6 lbs.)
Hammacher Schlemmer Item 75381 ………………. $59.95
Segway Glides as Gasoline Jumps
From wsj.com:
With gasoline prices and global warming on their minds, more Americans are getting out of their cars and riding to work — and riding on the job — on the once-maligned Segway.
Scott Hervey of Yorba Linda, Calif., bought one of the electric scooters on June 7 and has put 150 miles on it commuting to his custodians job at Disneyland, about 12 miles away. He had considered buying a Segway for four years, and gasoline prices finally drove him to do it. Now he “glides,” as Segway enthusiasts say, to work. “I like passing gas stations,” says the 54-year-old. Read the rest of this entry »
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Eagle Gets Artificial Beak
From nationalgeographic.com:
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More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty—pictured above, before and after her operation—has been outfitted with a new one.
A team attached an artificial beak to the 15-pound (7-kilogram) eagle in mid-May, improving her appearance and, more importantly, helping her grasp food.
“The eagle has landed, and she has a beak,” engineer Nate Calvin said after the surgery. Calvin spent 200 hours designing the complex prosthetic appendage.
The nylon-composite beak is only a temporary fix, designed to nail down precise measurements. A final beak made of tougher material will be created and attached later.
Google Co-Founder Books a Space Flight
From nytimes.com:
Space tourists are getting their own ride. Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station, plans to buy a Soyuz flight all its own in 2011, with the option of buying more.
Sergey Brin, of Google, has invested in space tourism.
Charles Simonyi, an American software executive, an earlier space tourist, gave a thumbs-up sign as he awaited takeoff with a two-man Soyuz crew in April of 2007.
A new investor is likely to occupy one of the two available seats on Space Adventures’ 2011 flight: Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google. He made a $5 million investment in the company that will serve as a deposit on a future flight.
Space Adventures plans to announce the flight and Mr. Brin’s participation in a news conference Wednesday morning at the Explorers Club in New York. Read the rest of this entry »
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Brockman Upped to EVP at Disney-ABC
From broadcastingcable.com:
Promotion adds oversight of worldwide corporate, news and entertainment communications for Disney-ABC International TV and the Hyperion publishing group
Disney-ABC TV’s Kevin Brockman has been upped to executive VP, Global Communications. The announcement was made by Disney Media Networks co-chair Anne Sweeney and Walt Disney Company executive VP, corporate communications Zenia Mucha, to whom he reports. Read the rest of this entry »
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What a way to go…..
From usatoday.com:
add to del.icio.usA British man choked to death Friday during a cupcake-eating contest at a pub in Wales.
BBC News says Adam Deeley, 34, was competing with his friends to see who could eat more of the “fairy cakes” that were left over from a party at the Monkey Cafe and Bar in Swansea.
“It is thought Mr Deeley had around five of the cakes lodged in his throat,” the South Wales Evening Post says. “Colleagues trained in first aid and an off-duty lifeguard rushed to help him. Paramedics arrived moments later. But they couldn’t open his airway.”
The coroner plans an inquest, but police don’t suspect foul play, The Guardian reports. “It was a tragic accident and very sad and should serve as a cautionary tale,” the nightclub’s owners say in a statement to BBC News.
Clemens pulls out of ESPN sports celebrity weekend at Disney
From whdh.com:
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Roger Clemens has pulled out of an ESPN sports personality weekend at Disney Hollywood Studios. The decision comes a week after Clemens gave testimony to a congressional committee about his alleged use of performance enhancing drugs.
Clemens says in a statement Wednesday, “I believe my current participation could be a distraction.”
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz says ESPN “made the point that him being involved would be a newsworthy event,” and his decision to withdraw was made in the past 24 hours.
Clemens had agreed to participate in “ESPN the Weekend” before the release of the Mitchell Report.
The withdrawal came after Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, offered widely contradictory testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Feb. 13.
Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain goat missing
From latimes.com:
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Missing since November, the beloved dynamite-chewing goat on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster is expected to wander back to his exposed butte in the next few weeks, according to Disneyland officials.
The extended and unexplained disappearance fueled speculation on Internet chat rooms about the bleating goat’s demise and led to more than a few instances of baa-baa-bad humor.
Officially, the nameless, genderless goat is “on vacation.” Unofficially, the audio-animatronic animal is getting a new fur coat in the Anaheim theme park’s maintenance department after years of exposure to the wind, sun and rain.
Disney fans fondly recall the legendary “goat trick” — where riders at the crest of the second lift hill train their eyes on the goat throughout the subsequent sharp turn to greatly increase the sideways G-forces.
Wisdom?
dentaltown.com
1. You only need two tools in life - WD40 and duct tape. If it doesn’t move and should, use the WD40. If it shouldn’t move and does, use the duct tape.
add to del.icio.us2. If you’re choking on an ice cube, simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat. The blockage will instantly remove itself.
3. Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop.
4. For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.
5. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after hitting the snooze button.
6. If it can’t be fixed with a hammer, you’ve got an electrical problem.
7. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives — then you’ll be afraid to cough.
8. Remember: Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
