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POPSNo Sex Tonight! I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier." I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it." Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled WHAT?"
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POPS9/11 Footage Shown On That Day, But Not Again. "A big gouge in the earth, and some broken trees." "Nothing that you could distinguish that a plane had crashed there." "Nothing. It was absolutely quiet." "No smoke, no fire." "I would guess it was probably about 20 to 15 feet long and probably about 10 feet wide."
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POPSJyoti Amge of Nagpur - a tiny girl with a big, beautiful smile! She's a beautiful girl and happens to be the world's smallest at 1 foot 11 inches! "Jyoti is far from unhappy about her size and enjoys the celebrity status her height has brought her. “I am proud of being small. I love all the attention I get. I’m not scared of being small and I don’t regret it. I’m just the same as other people. I eat like you, dream like you. I don’t feel any different.” she says. Her size comes with benefits — Jyoti is a mini-celebrity in her home city, where people flock to see her, and some even treat her as a goddess. She has even recorded an album with her favorite Indian pop star, the bhangra / rap singer Mika Singh. Little Jyoti has tall ambitions to one day break into Bollywood as an actress. “I would love to work in a big city like Mumbai, act in films and travel to London and America.” she said."
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POPSA Beautiful Aurora Time-lapse Animation This site also has many other really amazing time lapse animations. They're all a bit big--over 1MB, and usually up to 5MB--so only look if you have a fast connection. www.cosmotions.com
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POPSBefore the Big Bang - the Big Bounce Now, however, Dr Bojowald and fellow physicists are exploring territory unknown even to Einstein - the time before the Big Bang - using his new theory, called Loop Quantum Cosmology. An analysis of this, one of a series of newly-emerging theories which combine Einstein's theory of gravity (general relativity) with that of the subatomic world (quantum theory), "is supposed to provide a non-singular framework in which one could address the question of what was there before the Big Bang," he says.
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POPSRare photos of the elusive Central Asian snow leopard "Gorgeous animals which survive in world's most rugged, desolate Central Asian mountain ranges (e.g., Himalaya, Pamirs, Karakorum, etc.). Snow leopard population is dwindling, facing possible extinction, & extremely difficult to photograph." (thanks, openthink) The direct link to National Geographic (gallery and article) is http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/snow-leopards/winter-photography An interesting clip from lesart - Snow Leopard - Painting a large canvas - http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8719DBB7-221A-4287-850B-35EFC0B2F240/ pokkets has Big Cat News: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7F9D8E94-25EC-4894-8279-64E13A1E8840/
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POPSThe universe... we're not the first I have always said there can't be something from nothingness without a grand creator. I am not sure which side of the fence I sit on now but in order to support my thoughts of the ever expanding and contracting universe, let me say that I don't feel time is what we think it is. :)
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POPSGoogle tells engineers to slow down. "They created a bunch of crap that they have no idea what to do with," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group." I think this is big news. Their approach has always been to give engineers freedom (if not incentive) to innovate. Will be fascinating to see how this affects the culture inside google.
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POPSHow to Brood Tom Chiarella might be my favorite author to clip, not only because of the originality of his topics but because of his pithy, honest terseness and his wry approach to modern life. Now pardon me while I mull over what all this implies about me, Clipmarks, and the entire history of humanity alone in a corner somewhere.... Some people are smart. They stay away. You might call this respect. Others are pathological in their worry. "Why so glum?" they ask. Or "How you doing, big guy?" And just because they won't honor my need to be alone in public, to stretch around inside the muscle of my worry, or respect the fact that a smile is sometimes just a tiresome, mawkish mask, I flat-out lie. I tell them I'm doing fine. Jim Dandy. Then I smile and wait for a good moment to turn back to my troubles -- which now include the fact that some jackass thinks it's okay to call me "big guy."