Wednesday, August 21, 2002


Some guy photographs an asteroid flying by Earth using a pair of binoculars (with pic)
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33 (they're on a roll)
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Condom company determines Beckham's 'penis is small'
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Anthrax killing enzyme found, do dah, do dah.
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Man gets probation for introducing female co-worker to "Mr. Wiggly"
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Mud Bug flavored cat food. Cats demanding beer to cool mouths
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French mayor bans residents from dying. Surrendering still OK.
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In praise of redheads - Angie Everhart. (SFW)
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"Because I said so" a completely valid reason to give to a whining child.
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How our war hawks evaded military service
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"answered"
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"Disgruntled Saudis have pulled tens of billions of dollars"
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Review: Jaguar shows its teeth
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"Segway isn't really Ginger"
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"MediaGuardian | Advertising | Cadbury's Ad Upsets India"
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"MacNN | Reviews: Griffin Technology's PowerMate"
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"DOJ to swappers: Law's not on your side "
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"photojunkie"
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BBC News | Disposable Planet | Quiz
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"Youpi Key "
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"Quizilla"
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"Textism È Single Serving È What Happened"
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"Highwater"
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"Lawrence Lessig Blog "
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"Apple QuickLinks"
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"How to stop giant grasshoppers? 'Hit 'em with 2-by-4,' expert says. "
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TechNews.com
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"Don't Link to Us!"
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"portraits of pedestrians at Marble Arch, London"
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"How to defang Win2k SP3's auto updating"
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Osbourne fights despair over wife's illness - San Francisco Chronicle 08-21-2002. Ozzy Fights Despair Over Sick Wife  - Austin Statesman
Ozzy Osbourne despairing over sick wife  - Nando Times
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Apollo Theatre launches new era with `Showtime' production team - Boston Globe 08-21-2002. 'Showtime at the Apollo' gets new production team  - Nando Times
Apollo Hires New 'Showtime' Team  - Austin Statesman
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Urban Stars Encourage Voting - Yahoo! Headlines 08-21-2002. Simmons, Def Jam Relaunch Rap The Vote  - Billboard
Rap the Vote campaign revived (08-21-02)  - Hollywood Reporter
Rap the Vote campaign renewed  - Nando Times
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September 11 conspiracy book to hit US stores - CNN 08-21-2002. Book on 9/11 conspiracy to hit US È  - Hindustan Times
Sept. 11 Conspiracy Book to Hit Stores  - Yahoo! Headlines
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Man visits construction sites and asks for concrete or hot asphalt to be dumped in his car.
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Baseball strike in nine more days, doo dah, doo dah, Hope they strike and stay that way, oh, the doo dah day.
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Starbucks to customers: Surf for boobies here
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Photoshop Farkette Clueyee for her birthday
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Mississippi yard decorations ruled 'excessive'
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Forbidden Girls who wear tight-fitting Error Messages (SFW)
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Escaped from cage in science building : One very large python. Answers to the name "Monty". On the plus side, the rodent problem is getting better.
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Watch out for the Rapture with a Salem Kirban Rapture watch.
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CEOs continue to buy corporate jets even as they lay off thousands
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Why your girlfriend jerks around like an epileptic when she's falling asleep
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Wil Wheaton's weblog voted #1
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When is one too old for breast feeding? 8? 9? 32?
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New Ford Field in Detroit opens Sunday: It's "shiny, new and unspoiled. And then the lions will take the field"
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Urban Stars Encourage Voting - Austin Statesman 08-21-2002. Simmons, Def Jam Relaunch Rap The Vote  - Billboard
Rap the Vote campaign revived (08-21-02)  - Hollywood Reporter
Rap the Vote campaign renewed  - Nando Times
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Lesley Stahl to replace Dan Rather as newsmagazine host - Boston Globe 08-21-2002. Stahl to replace Rather on '48 Hours'  - San Francisco Chronicle
Stahl Replaces Rather on '48 Hours'  - Austin Statesman
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9/11-September 11 conspiracy book to hit US stores - Reuters Alertnet 08-21-2002. Book on 9/11 conspiracy to hit US È  - Hindustan Times
Sept. 11 Conspiracy Book to Hit Stores  - Yahoo! Headlines
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TV news debates use of violent Sept. 11 images - CNN 08-21-2002. Networks differ on use of 9/11 images  - Baltimore Sun
NBC holds lead in news ratings (08-21-02)  - Hollywood Reporter
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Reports: Clinton in Talks for TV Show - Yahoo! Headlines 08-21-2002. Reports: Ex-president in talks with CBS  - USA Today
Clinton in Talks to Host Talk Show  - ABC News
Clinton, CBS talk show  - CNN
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David Beckham lots of pics (SFW)
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Cadbury implies that its "Temptations" candy is "too good to share," just like Kashmir. Publishes this in Indian newspapers on Indian Independence ...
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Ken and Barbie get it on. Who has time to come up with this stuff? Not safe for work (link fixed)
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Cloned mammoth to be main attraction at wildlife and previously extinct wildlife park
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Forrest Gump director being stalked by Jesus
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In your time of grief, consider some of the more dignified ways to house the remains of your lo...
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Robbie Williams is one of the 100 Greatest Britons of all time
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Theme: Photoshop an unfortunate time for the red X to occur. Link goes to a great example on bloggerheads.
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Economics professor shows that money does indeed buy happiness
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Who has time to make this stuff? Barbie and Ken get it on (not safe for work) (link fixed)
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"un Segway peut cacher un IT, qui peut cacher un Ginger"
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U.S. News: Strange but true: This is the golden age of hoaxes (8/26/02)
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Paper Mag Sprouts From Book Zine
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"a tax revolt against a remote Washington county's libraries"
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"Cadbury's latest advertisement is a blunder"
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NATIONAL POST
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""Stripperella," part of TNN's "new lineup of mature-audience cartoons.""
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CNN.com - Tapes show al Qaeda trained for urban jihad on West - August 20, 2002
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Niutopia - Pourquoi Jean ne veut pas editer sa skin
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Niutopia - Correction categorique
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Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/16/2002 | Deciding when a slur is a crime
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The Register
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"Lessig and Winer Blog It Out "
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Haiku'da Been a Spam Filter
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Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event
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Jim Beam bourbon factory cuts back on employee bathroom breaks due to abuse
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How do you rid your state of polluted waters? Redefine the word 'polluted'.
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The CNN dog-gassing video is probably fake
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New Ford Field in Detroit opens Sunday: it's "shiny, new and unspoiled. And then the Lions will take the field."
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The always beautiful Milla Jovovitch (not safe for work)
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Economics professor shows that money does indeed by happiness
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While sites with bizarrely resitrictive linking policies are amusing, I'm more intrigued by th...
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Japanese women dumping their fiances and becoming hookers to follow soccer star David Beckham back to England
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World Series team disappointed teammate doesn't go past first base
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Who has time to make this stuff? Barbie and Ken get it on
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Photoshop Phil, the Los Angeles county's "Prevent Syphilis" mascot.
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Form of autism causes computer hackers
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Restrictive Linking Policies & The Net
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NAACP, hip-hop team to 'Rap the Vote' - Baltimore Sun 08-21-2002. Rap the Vote campaign revived (08-21-02)  - Hollywood Reporter
Hip-Hop Team to 'Rap the Vote'  - Washington Post
Rap the Vote campaign renewed  - Nando Times
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CNN, CBS Paid for Al-Qaeda Videos - Washington Post 08-21-2002. CNN, CBS Paid for al-Qaida Video  - Yahoo! Headlines
CNN, CBS both paid for video said to be from al-Qaida cache  - Haaretz Daily Israel
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Porn stud on Survivor - News24 South Africa 08-21-2002. 'Survivor' contestant has soft-core past  - San Francisco Chronicle
New 'Survivor' Has Porn Past  - Austin Statesman
Porn star proves heâs a ÎSurvivorâ  - MSNBC
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Priestley Moved From ICU - Washington Post 08-21-2002. Actor Jason Priestley Moved From ICU  - Austin Statesman
Priestley moved from intensive care  - San Francisco Chronicle
Priestley on the Mend  - E! Online
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Calvin Klein rapped for too sexy ad È - Hindustan Times 08-21-2002. Calvin Klein Rapped for Too Sexy British Ad  - Yahoo! Headlines
No-frills airline rapped for 'misleading' ad  - Ananova
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Page 3 sisters trigger bets as to who will appear most in The Sun (not safe for work)
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Vi IMproved -- Vim
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Shanksville to honor the fallen
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Hebrew U. bomb suspects arrested
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WTC collapse probe
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Continental Airlines slashes capacity
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Forty-Speed CD-RW Shootout
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"This is so beautiful"
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"Apple's Chief in the Risky Land of the Handhelds"
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"love"
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Salon.com Technology | Coming up next: Ambushed on "Donahue"!
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"first installment"
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Living in the Blog-osphere
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"SAUDIS WITHDRAW BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM U.S."
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"Man refuses to finish pool sex until he provides satisfaction"
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Untitled
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"it's time to be a grown-up"
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Guy arrested for driving his lawnmower while drunk shows up for probation meeting while drunk
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Ethiopian e-commerce. Buy sheep online. Three different sizes.
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Ex-Enron exec may plead guilty
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Incumbents fall in Georgia
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German commandos end siege at Iraqi Embassy
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Congressman Bob Barr ousted along with democratic incumbent in Georgia
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What's the hottest ticket in Scotland? "Jerry Springer - the Opera"
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Telescope images confirm missing $159 million spacecraft orbiting sun in pieces
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New Jersey tightens water restrictions
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Insiders buying more stock
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New AMD Athlon 2600 Processor Released
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Farthest Human-Made Object: First Quarter Century
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Another airline in trouble
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Commander: Airstrike on Gaza justified
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Israel blows up apartments
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Photoshop this terrorist Fake ID maker
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Another story under the heading "Risk your life so others don't feel bad." Dominoes drivers are forced to deliver to unsafe neighborhoods.
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"No baby dumping" PSA stickers showing up on dumpsters, just in case
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Rhetoric on Iraq tests U.S. credibility. President Bush asks "Who is Rhetoric?"
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Chicago Cubs bring back Steve Stone to do games on WGN.
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Fields Medals awarded
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Telstra Considers 45,000-Seat Linux Deployment
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Ga. voters oust incumbents
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10 held in smuggling of 'Nazi speed'
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FBI seeks Saudi man in 9/11 probe
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"Apple's Chief in the Risky Land of the Handhelds"
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"photo junkie"
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"Blogger Brasil"
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"The Real Thing"
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"plans were made to 'create' acts of terror in the US, and blame those on Cuba, in order to justify an invasion of the island"
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"Clear Channel "Entertainment" Presents: Pimping Yourself Out to Colleges for Money"
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"Link"
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"British scientists have found even modest amounts of alcohol will make the opposite sex appear better-looking. "
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HoustonChronicle.com - Police: Raid went to 'hell in a handbasket'
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Mac Icon Meets His Waterloo
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Niutopia - Pourquoi Jean ne veut pas editer sa skin
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Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event
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The Register
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Monday night saw my return to the pulpit, first time since this second surgery. A dear friend completed coursework, state and denominational requirements to become a trained, certified and rostered teacher in my church body -- and she'd honored me with an invitation to preach at her installation into the teaching office.

I'd only ever preached at one other installation before, for a fellow a few years behind me in seminary who had graduated and been Called to serve as pastor of a local congregation. This was actually, to the best of my recollection, the first time I'd even attended a teacher installation.

Strange how nervous I'd been all week leading up to it. Wrote and restructured and re-wrote... I suppose one always worries to some extent about returning to duties after having been laid up like this.

Last time I'd preached, a couple of weeks before this recent surgery, things did NOT go well. Barely made it through the first of two consecutive services still standing. Folks could tell I wasn't doing too well by the end of service -- not good. Second service my pacing and concentration were off. The last thing people in church want to be wondering about is, "Gee, that preacher gonna fall over and collapse?"

Everything went very well Monday night, though I paid for it just a bit today. Forced quite a lot of voice through the pipes, after all. I'm always surprised lately at the role sinuses play with the voice and projection. But things were 'right' again, at last. That perpetually distracting pain above, between and below my eyes this last many months was gone.

I could think clearly -- and well ahead of where I was speaking. I could once again notice where I was at in mid sermon, where I was going next, and interactively select among gestures, intonations, volume ... all those things that race through one's mind simultaneously when engaged in active oral presentation.

It felt good to know things were working like they should. It feels great to be able to think straight again.

It felt good to be back "in the zone." Been a long, long summer.
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And finally, the Speech site.
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And the Radio prod site
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And now the Writing for Mass Media site.
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I've changed the K-92 Underground site, it's also here.
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Another airline in trouble
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Barr beaten in primary
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Fehr warns players
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Town plans tribute to courage
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Dell To Sell To Retailers
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HMOs, hospitals in blame game
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