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25 Jun, 2010

Bionic Kitty

Posted by: nmessick In: news|video

A UK vet named Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick created two prosthetic limbs for a cat that lost it’s rear feet in a combine harvester accident. BBC News

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06 Aug, 2008

Moron Hiker Lives to See Another Day

Posted by: nmessick In: Hiking|news

A hiker in Orange County came upon a mother mountain lion and her three cubs and decided to try to pet them.  According to the article: “He said they seemed so cute and cuddly and passive“. The hiker escaped with only minor injuries.  He is very lucky, as this is the same park where a [...]

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01 Feb, 2008

Woah, Microsoft makes an offer on Yahoo!!

Posted by: nmessick In: news|tech

Microsoft made an offer of $31 per share according to their press release. Looks like MSFT made an offer a year ago, but Yahoo said something to the effect of “No thanks, we can fix it on our own”. With a tanking share price, that obviously wasn’t the truth. Now there can be an actual [...]

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07 Jan, 2008

NoHo Bar “The Bank Heist” goes up in flames

Posted by: nmessick In: NoHo|food|news

photo:2174914967 I just moved to the wonderful, NoHo Arts District and one of the things I’ve noticed is that this place is right under the flightpath for planes taking off from the Burbank Airport. No big deal, I got used to the jets the 2nd day. I also noticed that a lot of helicopters take [...]