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SAME STORY – TWO DIFFERENCE WAYS OF COMMUNICATING IT…

Yarbz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:26:38 +0000

Week in Review

FloridaBill — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:51:33 +0000

OK, I am gonna break character for a moment and flash back to the WIR.

I got a new DVD in the mail yesterday and will view it this weekend. Here is a pic that came with this story about it.

FOTW: The Discovery hostage taker guy, James J. Lee. I am gonna say Glenn Beck was a close second. I was just starting to like him too.

Earl is coming! Earl is coming!

What do you think about this film?

College football starts this weekend. Alabama will no doubt repeat as National Champs. Roll Tide.

Enjoy your freedoms and the long weekend all.

My name is Earl

FloridaBill — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:24:12 +0000

OMG

And you folks on the East Coast and New England better get ready.

Say What?

FloridaBill — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:23:29 +0000

Did I read that right? Heavy drinkers live longer than those who abstain?

I LOST IN MY FIRST EVER USTA TENNIS TOURNAMENT

Yarbz — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:10:22 +0000

However, I won the first set 7-5. All I need is some tweaking and I will win these types of matches. I actually could have won except for my own stupidness (new word?). Anyway, I play in another tourney September 18-19… Wish me success!

Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars

Sal Uki — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:11:23 +0000

Full story here in all its Orwellian glory:

www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/27/oregon.gps.surveillance/index.html?hpt=T1

WELL, AT LEAST SHE DIDN’T DO IT 36 TIMES… LET’S GIVE HER PROPS FOR THAT…

Yarbz — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:54:12 +0000

QURAN BURNING… HMMMM, SOUNDS LIKE A ‘HOT’ TOPIC TO ME…

Yarbz — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:35:06 +0000

You have to see this 100 MPH crash

FloridaBill — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:19:50 +0000

OMG. Video here.

AMAZING IMAGES FROM 1909-1912 RUSSIA PRE WWI AND REVOLUTION:

Yarbz — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:10:09 +0000

With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time – when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.

SEE ALL THE PHOTOS (AT BOSTON.COM) BY CLICKING ON THE PHOTO BELOW: