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Comment Glass is not a slow-flowing liquid (Score 2, Interesting) 293

Window glass used to be made by blowing giant glass discs and cutting rectangles or diamonds out of them to piece together to make leaded windows. The method of blowing the glass discs resulted in glass that was often thicker on one side than the other. The person building the window would naturally orient the thicker side of each piece to the bottom of the window, to work with gravity to make the window stronger and longer-lasting.

If the glass were really a flowing liquid, then the edges of the pieces would be rounded and deformed, but they are not. They are as sharp and straight as the day they were cut.

Comment Hey there! FlashMob4Jellyfish is using Twitter (Score 5, Funny) 227

"Relatively little is known about Nomura's jellyfish, such as why some years see thousands of the creatures floating across the Sea of Japan on the Tsushima Current, but last year there were virtually no sightings."

Hey there! FlashMob4Jellyfish is using Twitter

WhN? 2day. Where? Sea of Japan. What? Jam as many of us into
a fishing net and capsize the boat.
4:48 PM Oct 9th from ocean

Comment Blind spot on your part? (Score 1) 2

Did you try googling "Republican Stimulus Alternative Bill"?

Just on the first page alone:

http://purplepeoplevote.com/2009/02/04/republican-senators-put-together-alternative-stimulus-package/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/28/house-republicans-push-counter-proposal-stimulus/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/03/stimulus/index.html
http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov//UploadedFiles/Econ_Recovery_Act_Highlights_Jan_14_2009.pdf
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0142074920090203
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/house-rejects-republican-alternative-stimulus/story.aspx?guid={3233D88B-E802-4274-8C1C-EBA82A4C040E}&siteid=rss

If you really had no idea that there was a Republican alternative stimulus bill that was spiked by the Democrats, then you need to seriously consider the bias of your news sources. Claiming that the Republican bill never even existed is quite 1984.

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