82% Chris Dodd
79% Mike Gravel
79% Barack Obama
78% Dennis Kucinich
78% Hillary Clinton
77% John Edwards
73% Joe Biden
69% Bill Richardson
50% Rudy Giuliani
37% Ron Paul
37% John McCain
31% Tom Tancredo
30% Mitt Romney
30% Mike Huckabee
19% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

While watching Chris Dodd during the democratic presidential debate, I got this nagging feeling that he reminded me of someone. But not a person. He reminded me of a muppet. It's been a while since I watched the muppets - specifically, Muppets Tonight - so it took some digging on the muppet wiki, but I recognized those eyebrows immediately. ( Read more... )

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Village Haunted as Children Suffer from Strange Disease
The Nation (Kenya)
April 17, 2007

Residents of a village in Kisii are living in fear of an unknown enemy who has inflicted their children with a strange ailment.

They are even afraid of talking about the strange ( Read more... )

Level 1 ( Read more... )

So a guy just took credit online for accosting Elie Wiesel in San Francisco earlier this month. The MSNBC article didn't say the guy's website, but a Google search found it easily. Here is what he had to say:

http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/3217/58
Elie Wiesel and the 'Big Lie'by Eric Hunt ( Read more... )

I tried using myheritage.com to match celebrity faces with my stuffed animals, but it didn't work.

So, I've been going through the online journal that I've kept since sophomore year of high school, and I found the most hilarious thing ever. I only vaguely remember doing this and certainly don't remember draggin the convo on this long, but I love the fact that I mocked his obsession with popcorn, Pearl Harbor and men:

2002-02-16 - 11:44 a.m ( Read more... )

BU's radio station requested songs to play in the background that they could make fun of ( Read more... )

Just to give you an idea:

7:12 a.m. - Alarm #1 goes off.

7:30 a.m. - Alarm #2 goes off. I get up. Hopefully.

8:14 a.m. - Catch T to Copley.

8:26 a.m. - Arrive at John Hancock tower, swipe kickass ID, join the ranks on Floor 41.

12:54 p.m. - Pack up and say goodbye to mentor on Floor 39.
1:03 p.m. - Restart PC and email mentor requested document ( Read more... )

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