The Historic Texas Postcards of the George Fuermann collection. Sponsored by the University of Houston, the gallery depicts life in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and several other Texas cities between 1898 and 1924 as depicted in postcards and are now in the public domain.
Category: Odd and Interesting
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Try this with your HP inkjet…
Computer programmer printed fake cash. Secret Service agents seized more than half a million dollars in counterfeit $100 bills from a Joliet man who produced most of the bogus money on his computer at work without his employer’s knowledge. He probably knew he was being laid off and was setting up his golden parachute.
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Toilet Summet in Singapore
BBC News — Singapore hosts toilet summit “As the rest of the world wrestles with international terrorism, Singapore is hosting the first World Toilet Summit. It may sound ridiculous, but for the delegates who have travelled here from all over the world this is a very important issue.” I’d say it’s important… second only to eating for cripes sakes
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He Didn’t Duck…
Water-bike test driver killed by duck in freak accident. “A man test-driving a water bike was killed when a duck apparently flew into his face and knocked him into the water, investigators said Monday. Leon Resnick, 31, of Hollywood, was going about 55 mph on a lake near Deerfield Beach when a 10- to 15-pound Muscovy duck struck him, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.”
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Osama.com
Salon.com has recently published an article – How to win the war: Osama.com! that is a sort of spoof on terrorist venture capitolism. The article itself, by John Newton, is really quite funny… in an onion.com sort of way. The real osama.com, however, probably isn’t all that excited about the reference or, the coorelation to the terrorist. But, you know what they say, any publicity is good publicity.
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I’ve updated the software picks,
I’ve updated the software picks, finally No suprises this month, especially for my conversyx friends (oh, guys… that is an open source project – hehe).