I'm going to start this by saying that yes Cesar Chavez did great things, and if you're into naming things after people as a memorial that's fine.  But I think that the city council's decision to rename 39th Ave is not the best way to do this, and the middle of an economic recession is not the best time for Portland's City Council to do this ( Read more... )

Using Google's translation program translate AMISTAD!!!! from Spanish to English then add another ! and translate AMISTAD!!!!!

www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp

The above link is to a high end ethernet cable . . .  The only two things that come to mind are WTF and WHY

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jk4qVtBUN6VZK8NDrSmYSbAGxSQwD97N6M301

While the above link does seem to violate some civil rights it made me chuckle, a northern Idaho judge ordered a ( Read more... )

In case you were unaware, it's square root day or 3/3/09

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10186121-76.html

So this question OK so my wife scared me by answering this properly but, this was a test used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers have taken this test and answered it correctly.

While at the funeral of her mother, she met a man whom she did not know. She thought he was amazing, her dream guy, and she fell ( Read more... )

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There will be more red dwarf, according to the link below it will air on the BBC over Easter weekend

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7851989.stm

Now maybe I've been around p1kap1ka too much but is it asking too much for the major news sites to spell check the articles they post?  In the past three hours I've seen five articles with misspelled words in them.  Now I realize my spelling isn't the best and if you've IMed me you know it's pretty atrocious when I'm in hurry but COME ON these people are ( Read more... )

Since when does Portland get more snow than rain?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16026-humans-may-have-prevented-super-ice-age.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news