January 2009
218 posts
Ran into Urban Meyer at Dinner Tonight
My daughter and I had just finished a rather substandard Italian meal at Sammio’s here in Hope Mills, NC when I noticed that a very familiar person was in the restaurant. At first glance, I thought to myself that there is no way Urban Meyer, Head Coach of the University of Florida football team, was in this little town in North Carolina. It was most certainly him and he was recruiting.
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'Deliberate Slip' Reveals Afghan... →
A “deliberate slip” by Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morell indicates that while the threat of armor-piercing bombs has decreased sharply in Iraq, they are an increasing danger in…
Air Force fighters to fly patrols supporting Super... →
Air traffic into TIA flies right past Raymond James. This will be a huge pill to swallow.
T-Shirt Hell says goodbye. Thanks to all who... →
Hackers Lurking in Obama's Web Site
(PC... →
PC World - U.S. President Barack Obama ran a successful Web 2.0 campaign last year. Now, as president, he’s got to deal with a very Web 2.0 problem: hackers abusing the social-networking features of…
Study: Global warming effects to last 1000 years -... →
Study: Global warming effects to last 1000 years Houston Chronicle - 1 hour ago By JIM EFSTATHIOU JR. Carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere today from power plants and…
Sprint Nextel to Cut 8,000 Jobs, Suspend 401(k)... →
Sprint Nextel is eliminating 8,000 jobs in the first quarter as it seeks to pare costs by $1.2 billion a year. The company will also suspend 401(k) matches.
Tebow selected as Manning Award winner →
Shared by James
Well deserved. But isn’t this essentially always going to go to the winning QB in the BCS Championship game?
Posted by ESPN.com’s Chris Low Florida’s Tim Tebow has been named…
Proposed bill would require all cameraphones to... →
There’s already similar laws in place in Japan and South Korea, and New York Representative Pete King is hoping that the US will soon have a law requiring that all cameraphones make a noise…
Road to Super Bowl XLIII Lined With 43 Strip Clubs →
The week of Super Bowl XLIII is to Tampa’s naughty nightlife what Black Friday is to America’s shopping malls.
Buggy BlackBerry Storm Draws Ire of Early Adopters... →
NewsFactor - The BlackBerry Storm was supposed to be the proverbial iPhone killer … or at least it was supposed to give BlackBerry users another reason not to ditch their faithful mobile device…
Pin Ups for Vets - Benefit Calendar for Veterans... →
I CANNOT SAY ENOUGH GREAT THINGS ABOUT CHRIS SHORT. HE IS AN AMAZING WRITER AND INTERNET BLOGGER WHO HAS WRITTEN SO MANY POSITIVE WORDS ABOUT THE CALENDAR PROJECT !! HE IS MY NUMERO UNO PROMOTER IN THE BLOGOSPHERE !! THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHRIS. MY APPRECIATION TO YOU IS ENDLESS. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME TO GET THE WORD OUT THERE. YOU HAVE POSITIVELY HELPED ME TO HELP OUR VETS ! THANK...
Airman Dies Following Training Exercise →
Victim of Virginia Tech slaying was decapitated -... →
BLACKSBURG, Va. – A graduate student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday.
Additional Issues →
Slam on President Bush on whitehouse.gov? That’s a little below the belt isn’t it?
North Carolina closings and delays :: WRAL.com →
FayObserver.com - List of Cape Fear region... →
Proposed Iraq Psyop: No More Boring Leaflets →
As part of a 247-page document dump on the Iraq war, the Department of Defense last week made public some interesting psychological operations leaflets that were proposed for the…
iPod touch M110 sniper rifle: another reason to... →
We’re trying… we’re trying real hard to cling to our pacifist ways. But damn if the fusion of this US Army M110 Sniper Rifle and mounted iPod touch running the BulletFlight external…
Growing Trend: Can't Find a Job? Join the... →
The New York Times reported this in today’s edition “More Joining American Military as Jobs Dwindle” In 2008, all branches of the military met their recruitment goals and according to the…
