This Is Just Cool!

We just think this is a very cool choice.  We like the maverick in both McCain and Palin.  If elected, this will not be the same old Washington.
Here is a little background on her.  Sarah Louise Heath Palin (pronounced /ˈpeɪlɨn/ (PAY-lin); born February 11, 1964) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Alaska, [...]

Some of the things we take for granted today were dreamed up on pure brain power, others by total accident.
But just how much do you know about the origin of things? Here, is a quiz about 15 of the world’s most useful inventions from adhesives to TV to the zipper and the minds behind them.

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We received these pictures via email with this information:
Record setting harvest was done in 2008, in Norton, Kansas.  160 acres was harvested with 100 combines and several grain trucks in 10 minutes and 15 seconds. This record will be entered in the Guiness World. Proceeds of this crop is to be sent to a kids [...]

I have never heard of this act, but it is pretty cool — very creative.

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Michael Phelps                       Dara Torres
By now half the world has watched Michael Phelps win a race by .01 seconds and Dara Torres lose a race by .01 seconds in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
So just how close were those races?  We thought it would be cool to figure it out.  We took Dara’s time of 24.07 seconds [...]

This is an amazing story that has a happy ending (which is why it is Just Cool).  A woman ignores her daughter for years in a house. The house is filled with trash, feces and bugs. Police take the girl at age 5. That is 5 years of neglect.  There has been no interaction, learning [...]