Apology to the French

April 6, 2004 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Can't Make This Up 

Skeptomai has found an apology to the French on a washing instructions tag for a computer bag.

Click the link – it’s worth seeing the picture.

Hat Tip: Boing Boing

Spontaneous Combustion in Italy

April 6, 2004 by · 1 Comment
Filed under: Can't Make This Up 

MSNBC reports that the little village of Canneto di Caronia, Sicily, Italy has been experiences lots of spontaneous combustion events since January. The local utility has cut off electricity to the area, but appliances, electrical equipment, and even cars continue to spark up for no apparent reason.

Fly a Flag for Fallujah

April 6, 2004 by · 1 Comment
Filed under: Current Affairs 

US Flag

Electric Venom suggests that we fly a flag on our blogs to show our support for the US military’s on-going campaign to stop the violence in Fallujah, Iraq. An Islamic cleric Al-Sadr is trying to derail peace in Iraq by having his followers take over police stations and fight Iraqi Police and the military.

Here’s my contribution.

We need to finish this in Iraq. It would be wrong to leave them in chaos, without the help that they will need to develop democracy and ensure basic human rights that are new to them after so many years under Saddam.