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Cheney "accidentally" shoots hunting companion.

Dont piss Cheney off while you're hunting with him...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting companion is reported in stable condition at a Corpus Christi, Texas, hospital, a day after he was accidentally shot by Cheney.

The incident occurred Saturday at a ranch in south Texas where the vice president and two others were hunting quail.

Ranch owner Katharine Armstrong says Cheney was using a 28-gauge shotgun and that attorney Harry Whittington was about 30 yards away when Cheney fired on a bird, hitting the 78-year-old Whittington in the cheek, neck and chest.

The shooting was not reported publicly by the vice president's office for nearly 24 hours, and then only after the incident was reported by a Corpus Christi newspaper.

Cheney's spokeswoman says the vice president met with Whittington and his wife at the hospital today. She says Cheney "was pleased to see that he's doing fine and in good spirits."

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Portable Director Cell Phone Jammer.

The CX 200 Portable Director II Cell Phone Jammer. Take a good look, because you may see a lot more of these little babies arriving here in the West once laws get changed, and people reach the end of tethers with loud mouths. The strange translation from Japanese says something like – ‘secretly switch on – so it’s clearly covert. Uh-huh. Anyhoo, two modes, one gives 70 seconds jamming (i.e. peace) around you, the other fades out the call ‘with natural atmosphere’ presumably to help you end calls you’d rather not continue. Around $71.00.

* Effective area: Approximately 3 m * Correspondence: NTT_DOCOMO (800MHz), FOMA (2gHz), VodaFone (1. 5gHz), au (Cdmaone) * Use power source: Single 4 alkaline ×2 books * Electric battery life: With timer mode approximately 150 times, approximately with continual ON 4 hour

Inflatable Concrete

As portable as canvas, but ends up as hard as concrete. Permanent structures could be delivered to disaster areas quickly, saving countless lives. These inflatable buildings last a minimum of 10 years, and can even be delivered sterile if you need a surgical center!

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Mental Floss Magazine

Its a fun magazine to read...

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Earthquake Hits Portland

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My company isn't on this list... is yours?

Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for.    (Thanks to Eric Tomorrow for the Graphic, again, you Bastard!)   

Flatulence Odor Control Seat Cushion

Thanks to listener Nick!

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Very cool 3D Dragon Illusion.

First view the video, and then make your own.

Hi tech table saw will never saw your finger off

The Sawstop system induces an electrical signal onto the blade and then monitors that signal for changes. The human body has a relatively large inherent electrical capacitance and conductivity- if the system detects this, the blade drops out in 5 miliseconds! Check out the video when the saw comes in contact with a hotdog.

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Professor Set to Swim Through Syrup

The lean-muscled swimmer stands poised at the side of the pool, glances a bit apprehensively into its depths, and then dives quickly into the greenish, slimy liquid. A few gelatinous globules bob gently to the surface.

What has happened to the normally azure, chlorine-scented waters of the University Aquatic Center?

Much as the scene resembles the anxiety-fueled dream of an athlete the night before a big swim meet, the swimmer and pool actually were part of a real-world—though admittedly unconventional—foray into experimental fluid mechanics.

For a few hours last summer, a University pool was transformed into a body of water that looked more like a fully functioning swamp than a swimmer's arena. Members of the University swim team became field researchers in an effort to settle one of the questions that has intrigued scientists—and swimmers—for centuries:

What effect does the viscosity of a fluid medium have on the speed of a body traveling through it?

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