Cuppacafe

After they burned Joan of Arc at the stake in 1431, then the English raked the coals to show her body, then burned the ashes twice to make sure nobody would claim relics from the event. They then threw the ashes into the river.

After all that, someone managed to come up with a bone that was supposed to have survived all of this, part of rib bone of Joan of Arc. In 1909, scientists declared that "highly probable" that the bone and a bit of cloth came from Joan.

But the bone was old. The bone was perhaps 2000 years older than Joan of Arc. It was actually part of a mummified cat. [NYTimes]

I mean, if you have to run a hoax, you might as well do it with some style, and a bit of 2000 year old cat femur sure is stylin'...

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LOST was mostly filler. I'm guessing next week, a Juliet-centric ep, will try to make us care about the relatively cold and aloof pregnancy specialist.

We did get to see the monster... twice. One time we have the real organic thing and the other we have the clanking smoke monster. Either the show bosses are screwing up, or there's two separate things acting like a monster.

Oh, and someone tell me why Jack slept an extra 12 hours on his gaseous Mickey Finn. The girls drugged by the same gas bomb, were in the jungle (how did they get that far out? Dragged? That far? Why?), the girls got wet, muddy, bitchy, and then had to spend the entire night hiding, come all the way back into camp, and there's Jack, still passed out on the floor. Wuss.

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Relatively speaking, the planet Mars has warmed more in the last two decades than the Earth has in the last hundred years. [Register][PhysOrg]

I've never bought into the warming / cooling trend explanation by the Milankovitch Cycles. While I know that there's some effect, it's not the whole picture. It's the Sun. That's the big variable. But, like many theories in Science, it's very hard to prove.

And for the record, I LIKE Global Warming.

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Alaska hates Global Warming and will stay at near record cold for the week. [link]

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You've seen plenty of firefighters fight fire with water.

Here's where some Chinese firefighters confront a murder suspect in a hostage situation in a hospital.

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Splashdown!

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For a guy who can't sing, Sangina's face is everywhere.

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Technically, this isn't porn. It does have breasts bouncing up and down, but it's for science.

And a good bra. [via Gizmodo] (flash req'd)

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Yes, the mayor of Cincinnati really can't throw. [Jimmy Kimmel]

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That's it folks. Remember don't shoot the Easter Bunny. That magical bunny that can deliver chocolate is the reason we celebrate the holiday, after all.

Meanwhile, I'm going to pitch a new reality game show to the television networks.

It's going to be called

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN THE PRESIDENT?

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