This gallery of vintage circus posters is amazing!
[via: BoingBoing]
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In China, cigarettes are a kind of miracle drug
Two-thirds of Chinese men are smokers, and surveys show that as many as 90 per cent believe their habit has little effect on their health, or is good for them.
That’s just awesome…
“Quitting smoking would bring you misery, shortening your life.�
Power to the people, yo!
- Endangered Condors Soar Over Grand Canyon
On some days, as many as 25 to 30 condors soar over the canyon area — more birds than were in existence a generation ago when officials decided to capture and breed them.
- Agent: We’ll see what options are out there
Peter Forsberg wants to return to the Colorado Avalanche if a proposed salary cap doesn’t make him too expensive for the club, his agent says.
Well, it’s been nice having him around…
- In three fights recently, boxers have just quit. Is this a trend? Is it a self-preservation thing? Might be smart in the long run, though I really question Kostya Tszyu’s choice in particular.
- I don’t care how much you love animals, don’t go out in the highway!
An Illinois woman who stopped to help a family of ducks cross Interstate 90/39 on Wednesday morning ended up in the hospital after she was hit by a car and thrown 60 feet.
- German police can’t catch record-breaking speeder
A motorcyclist captured on film by German police racing at 251 km per hour (155 mph) on a road near Berlin has set a new unofficial national record for speeding, Bild newspaper reported on Monday.
He’d better watch out for ducks at that speed!
- Naked Bike Ride shocks London — Warning: British body parts in full view.
See also (if you dare!) - So the Senate can’t manage to pass a bill outlawing lynching, but they can probably agree to apologize for that fact…?!
- Smooth move: If you’re the President of a nation, it’s best not to publish your cell phone number. Jackass.
This scenario works well for everyone except Microsoft. If Intel was able to own the Mac OS and make it available to all the OEMs, it could break the back of Microsoft. And if they tuned the OS to take advantage of unique features that only Intel had, they would put AMD back in the box, too. Apple could return Intel to its traditional role of being where all the value was in the PC world. And Apple/Intel could easily extend this to the consumer electronics world. How much would it cost Intel to buy Apple? Not much. And if they paid in stock it would cost nothing at all since investors would drive shares through the roof on a huge swell of user enthusiasm.
Man, I love it when he gets all kooky with the far out speculation! I kind of hope he’s right, too.
First: Neely among Hall of Fame inductees — Yessssss!
Neely, a power forward, played for Vancouver and Boston between 1984 and 1996, scoring 395 goals, assisting on 299 and serving 1,241 penalty minutes in 726 regular-season games. His 55 playoff goals are a Boston club record. The six-foot-one right-winger was a five-time all-star and made such an impression in Boston that his No. 8 sweater was retired last year.
But what about hockey’s future? Well, there is finally some positive movement there, too:
Report: NHL, NHLPA agree on cap formula
According to the Globe’s league and player sources, a salary floor and cap will be based on a percentage of each NHL team’s revenue. The paper adds that in the first year - based on revenue projections by both sides - the salary cap will range from $34 million to $36 million US, with the floor from $22 million to $24 million US.
Interestingly, though, the outside bid to buy the entire NHL is still alive, too:
Bain, Game Plan try to entice owners with buyout plan
The equity provision says team owners can apply a portion of their team’s agreed upon value to a pro rata share of the equity of the new entity under Bain and Game Plan, according to people familiar with the deal.
Personally, I’m still in favor of this kind of buyout. Single entity ownership would increase the chances of success for small market teams like the Calgary Flames. It would also lessen the frustration for fans of teams currently saddled with insane ownership (Blackhawks).
Of course, both the salary cap and the buyout idea probably hurt my Avalanche in the short term, since they had kind of become the Rangers of the West, but I’d be willing to take that hit as a fan.
Don’t Stand By Me: Surviving a lightning strike.
Jerry LeDoux is a guy you don’t really want to interview, because interviewing him means having to be near him, and that’s like planting yourself by a dartboard. The stone claw hanging from his neck attests to his grisly encounter with a bear’s jaw at a roadside park in August 1990. (His wife, Bee, brandishes a photo album that documents the mauling before he’s done telling the story.) The Purple Heart on his Navy Seals sniper hat testifies to the three bullets he took in Vietnam. The ugly black mark on his finger is evidence that he once air-nailed it to a floorboard. The scar on his left arm is proof that he accidentally screwed his flesh to the wall. The long knife wound on his hand? “Things happen,” he says. The most improbable of his many accidents is the one that left the least visible evidence—just a few white splotches on his arms and a discoloration near his hairline. But that doesn’t mean it’s easily forgotten. LeDoux rolls up his sleeve to show off a tattoo of a man getting struck by lightning engraved on his left bicep.
I had no idea there were international conferences for lightning strike and electric shock victims.
I’m just happy that my own lightning experience was so mild that it had no lasting physical effect. I can live without those few seconds of memory.
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