Gary, On "Greeble's Heisenwhack Principle," I must protest. Where is the excitement, the danger, or the thrill of discovery in using the Heisenwhack Compensator when searching for Googlewhacks? Its like playing Russian Roulette with the safety on. The enjoyable part of whacking is knowing that you're the first to lay claim to that virgin soil -- that lone page on the Google results. With the Compensator active (-googlewhack) its like going on archeological expeditions inside an air conditioned Disney-esque "Archeology World." Every discovery you make has likely been made before. With true Googlewhacking, when you log your discoveries you know that you'll be the only person to ever discover them. No one else can experience that same moment of joy. There is a finite number of Googlewhacks available, and you have one of them all to yourself.

Unblinking explains Greeble's Heisenwhack Principle. "What to call a self-immolating Googlewhack (one that ceases to be unique after Google spiders a site where the whack is reported)? Kudos to Ray Greeble for coining the excellent term "Heisenwhack."

Ten Days in September - September 11th. First in a 10 part series in the Washington Post.

Transparent Concrete: "That is not as crazy as it sounds. Technically, concrete is simply a mixture of three ingredients: big lumps of material called the coarse aggregate (such as gravel), smaller lumps called the fine aggregate (such as sand) and a binding agent, or cement, to glue it all together into a solid. So translucent concrete, in theory, should be fairly easy to make using bits of plastic or glass of various sizes, with some kind of transparent glue to act as a binding agent."

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A study of the effects of celery on loose elastic.

Happy Birthday James.

The Pentagon has decided to ask the White House for approval to set up a n ew four-star command to coordinate federal troops used to defend North America, part of an intensified effort to bolster homeland security, defense officials said.

Jeremiah finds himself saying "Oy" all the time. He says, "I've been saying 'Oy!' a lot. I know I'm not Jewish so saying "Oy Vey!"(which is Yiddish) probably isn't the wisest thing." Why not? I'm not Jewish and say "Oy vey" all the time. From jewish.com : "It literally means 'oh, pain,' but it is used as an all purpose exclamation to express anything from "trivial delight to abysmal woe. Vay comes from the German word Weh, meaning 'woe,' so the expression developed at a time and a place where Jews were speaking Yiddish (Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries)."

Did a mad scientist clone Richard Simmons?