Entries from April 2007

April 27, 2007

Enormous Basking Shark Caught In Japan

A 9 meter, 4.5 ton basking shark was caught off Japan. Japan Probe has the story, including a video of the leviathan being gutted.

Historically, the basking shark has been a staple of fisheries because of its slow swimming speed, unaggressive nature and previously abundant numbers. Commercially it was put to many uses: the flesh [...]

April 27, 2007

Mitt Romney’s Five Cowardly Sons

SALEM – In a packed Bickford’s Restaurant, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told voters last night he would use his business sense to “take Washington apart” and make it run more effectively if elected President. An enthusiastic crowd listened to Romney’s plans to expand the military by 100,000 troops with enlistment incentives and better spending [...]

April 25, 2007

Blackness In The Hearts of Waves

COOLANGATTA, Australia (Reuters) – Australia’s tubing Superbank is arguably the best beach break wave in the world, a man-made wave that can run for kilometers (miles), but this surfer’s paradise has revealed a dark heart of surfing. …
But Superbank, on Queensland’s Gold Coast, can be so crowded that blood has been spilt, by accident and [...]

April 23, 2007

1,000 Days At Sea

HOBOKEN, N.J. — He’s a veteran of long-distance sailing voyages in all kinds of weather. She’s never sailed outside the Hudson River. But together, 55-year-old Reid Stowe and his 23-year-old girlfriend, Soanya Ahmad, embarked Saturday on a voyage that they intend to take them three times around the globe and last 1,000 days and nights [...]

April 23, 2007

A “Mary Celeste” Mystery Down Under

A maritime mystery harking back to the Mary Celeste is ongoing in Australia.
An air-and-sea search was under way yesterday after a yacht was found drifting, Mary Celeste-style, off the Great Barrier Reef with its engine running and food laid out but no one on board.
It was spotted by a customs helicopter 80 nautical miles off [...]

April 20, 2007

Friday’s Random Ten

1. The Stone Roses – Waterfall
2. Josh Joplin – Lucky
3. The Saw Doctors – To Win Just One
4. Moby – Novio
5. Jules Shear – The Once Lost Return
6. Pulp – Dishes
7. Big Dog – Raise the Alarm
8. Pater Gabriel – Biko
9. The Vines – Factory
10. Fountains [...]

April 19, 2007

Indiana School Wins an Award

KNIGHTSTOWN — A free speech group has presented the Charles A. Beard Memorial School Corp. with a “2007 Jefferson Muzzle Award” for expelling four high school students who created a video in which evil teddy bears attack a teacher.Three of the students later filed a civil rights lawsuit and settled out of court for $69,000 [...]

April 19, 2007

Pizza, Beer and Baseball

A great video. For the backstory

April 18, 2007

Peace Corp Worker Found Dead in the Philippines

MANILA, Philippines, Wednesday, April 18 (AP) — Philippine authorities found the body of a missing American Peace Corps volunteer on Wednesday in a northern mountain town where she disappeared during a hike more than a week ago, an army general said.
Maj. Gen. Rodrigo Maclang said the body of Julia Campbell, 40, from Fairfax, Va., was [...]

April 18, 2007

The Last Season of the Sopranos

I am enjoying the last season of The Sopranos. The first two episodes were great. Adding to my enjoyment is The Sopranos forum at Television Without Pity where fans tease out the minutiae of each episode. Its like crack for any Sopranos fan. And if you ever wanted to know [...]