In "What kind of battery should you wish for?"

I buy mine by the bushel or peck.

In "PARO - "

Must work - made me feel better just looking at the picture.

In "Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild"

MonkeyFilter: being compressed rostrally but mound-like caudally.

In "Hopefully, nobody we know..."

He'll get off on a peel.

In "Unemployment got you down?"

Fallen on hard times.

In "Chen Guangcheng was beat yesterday."

A Visit To Chen Guangcheng's Family

In "This Republican chick in a tobacco state wants to castrate restaurant smokers"

Arf.

In "M.O.N.K.E.Y.#. E.I.G.H.T."

Several are clearly Kapampangan but understand Tagalog.

In "Tolerance for all can be found in Islam."

My current fave Islamic peace movement:

The Qarmatians' goal was to build a society based on reason and equality.
This naturally involved massacring thousands of pilgrims and at one point pinching the Black Stone from Mecca for ransom.

In "M.O.N.K.E.Y.#. E.I.G.H.T."

See your mate's big oven-glove? Looks stupid.

In "In July 2008, these two Jack Russell terriers"

:)

In "Save The Words!"

Well, I learned that "mingent" means "discharging urine. Searching the interwebs for any examples of its use, I discovered Ming River Enterprises have, on the face of things, made an unfortunate choice for a domain name.

In "Heaven."

Stopped by the temple instead; they said the destination they offer not so fully featured but I won't have to worry about heating bills:

In "Titanoboa - thirteen metres, one tonne, largest snake ever."

You'd not get that on a plane.

In "Indian project one-ups OLPC with ten dollar laptop"

From islander's link: But hyping the Sakshat has resulted in a lot of confusion, a global interest that will possibly turn to scorn, and it's also done nothing to help the very children the scheme aims to assist. Yeah, but apart from that...

In "Cornify!"

The Obama web-team just don't stop delivering.

In "Finding Esther"

This post is far too interesting to comment on.

In "What are the Benefits of Mind Uploading?"

Good cash for it second hand - barely used and comes accessorised with a papal tiara.

In "World's First Garbage Truck Powered by Garbage"

Usually seen in "leccy meter" which in the good old days you could fiddle by sticking something less conductive between the contacts so massively reducing your bill without arousing too much suspicion.

People commenting at the forum where I pinched the link from are saying a town in Germany runs all its municipal vehicles using a similar system, so the "world's first" claim might be rubbish (ho, ho) but good stuff either way.

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