Low-salt diets now unhealthy?

healthy pasta choices

Science & Nature

Monsters:  The biggest animals on Earth, ever

Grizzlies online: Live video

New species of gorilla?

the Oarfish - a Loch Ness Monster?

43,000+ year old plant

Chestnut trees in U.S.A.

Space

Our Space Page

the Search for Life and Water on Mars

Technology & Internet

"Press 1" for a Human at Customer Service Sites

20 Great Google search secrets

Global Terror

Emergency/Disaster Preparedness

Nations accused 
of harboring al Queda 
while it invests in diamonds

Flags of terrorist unrest

History

The pyramids were built with cement

The Ottoman Empire  (1500s) - Islam's Dynasty

'300' Spartans: the Battle of Thermopylae

The Declaration of Independence and
Bill of Rights:  a transcript


Humans / Society

Take a Survey: find out what religion 
best matches your opinions

Texas court overturns ruling,
determines it's LEGAL
to give other motorists the finger

ZabaSearch.com  - find background info on anyone
 

Stupidity

Pacific NW town mistakenly tries
to blow up a dead, beached whale

Click onto image for incredible view

The image is a panoramic view of the world
from the space station.  It is a night photo with the
lights clearly indicating the populated areas.
You can scroll East-West  and North-South

July 10, 2007:  Pope Benedict XVI says
other denominations are not true churches
original article found on: http://www.msnbc.com/id/19692094
 

Apparently, there's something special with the Catholic religion that can't make room for any other form of worship..  And he's just referring to other Christian religions, too..  Don't get him started with other faiths...

Let's see what the Pope has denounced recently:

- Harry Potter books "distort the soul"
- Islam's founder: "evil and inhuman"
- Homosexuality is a "tendency towards intrinsic moral evil"

- more to come.  I suggest you read the original MSNBC article.  thank you.



July 15, 2007:  Diocese to settle sex-abuse claims for $660 million
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles reached a settlement agreement Saturday with more than 500 people who allege they were sexually abused by clergy, the main plaintiff's attorney told The Associated Press.
original article at http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/14/church.abuse.ap/index.html

Esquire Magazine web page of beverages
pretty good site  



    Random Extras     

Original Quotes - on the fly:

"The existence of time is defined by change"
Age exists on an individual level; a person, place, or thing ages with time only with the evidence of change.  Ergo, that which doesn't change is thereby considered 'timeless'.   -e.d.g.


"The moment of realization is the pinnacle of any experience."
The point right before any experience, when anticipation is replaced with the awareness of commencement, usually outshines the experience itself.  Think of when food is delivered at a restaurant, or when you get off a chair lift on a ski slope,
or when the intro credits for a movie begins, finally, following all of the previews. 
Exceptions result in being "pleasantly surprised", a rarity  -e.d.g.