The October, 2004 Archive

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Sacred Philosophy

10.13.04 ø Comments Off

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Skin Art

10.12.04 ø 7
"Although the practice of tattooing the body is very old, the English word tattoo is relatively new. The explorer Captain James Cook (who also gave us the word taboo) introduced the word to English speakers in his account of a voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. Like taboo, tattoo comes from Polynesian languages [...]

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The Swartz!

10.08.04 ø Comments Off
Via Coming Soon In a Q&A with Playbill magazine, Mel Brooks says that he's currently working on a Spaceballs sequel. Here's the clip from the interview which starts off by talking about the big screen adaptation of The Producers.Playbill: Will you have a role in it? MB: It's doubtful, but I'm writing myself back into the Spaceballs [...]

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On the Issues

10.06.04 ø 7
PresidentMatch.com is a website that allows you take a sort of "quiz" to see what presidential candidate you match up with the most depending on your opinions of the major issues debated in our nation. It told me that I was 52% for Bush and 47% for Kerry. That's pretty close. I am a professed [...]

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Jeanne Bomb

10.03.04 ø Comments Off
An unexploded rocket from World War II, unearthed by Hurricane Jeanne in a residential driveway, was safely detonated by Army munitions experts Thursday. The partially exposed warhead from the 10-foot-long "Tiny Tim" rocket was found Tuesday, according to the Army's 766th Ordnance Disposal Company from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Read the whole story!

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Debate 2004 Kickoff

10.01.04 ø Comments Off
Last night was the first of several debates between Kerry and the President. They talked alot about the issue of Iraq and the war, with Kerry questioning many of Bush's decisions while the President himself upheld them. In rebuttal Bush emphasized many times that he doesn't believe that the war is a "great diversion" [...]

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