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Comment He didn't "invent the Internet" (Score 3, Informative) 713

by Dougmeister on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @12:43PM (#25382899) Attached to: Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama

He co-designed the DoD TCP/IP protocol suite. Big difference, depending on your point of view, I guess. But at least be accurate.

ACM link

(shamelessly stolen from the Wikipedia article on Vint Cerf)

Combat Pilots May Get Viagra 5

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 07, 2008 @01:55PM

Israel is considering giving its combat pilots Viagra to improve their performance in the air. A study by Israeli doctors of mountain climbers in Africa found a correlation between erectile dysfunction drugs and improved performance in high altitudes. It looks like this already tough job is about to get a lot harder.

Journal Journal: Wisconsin Boy Finds Wooly Mammoth Tooth

Journal by Dougmeister on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @08:15AM

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=456 A 3-year old Wisconsin boy found a rock that turned out to be a tooth from a 10,000 year old Wooly Mammoth. Turns out that his grandfather had found one 9 years earlier. Not bad for an afternoon of chasing squirrels at a family friend's property. Wish I had friends with wooly mammoth teeth in their backyard.

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by Dougmeister on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @08:01AM

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