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NEW! - James Westra dies in Jackson prison - Eugene Westra hates the idea that his brother, James "Mr. Jim" Westra, will be remembered mostly for the arson conviction one year ago that sent him to prison where his life ended Saturday. GRPress
Avatar is now the highest-grossing movie EVER - It's official: As expected, James Cameron's Avatar on Monday officially pulled ahead of Cameron's other big movie, about some boat, to become the biggest-grossing movie of ALL TIME. Twentieth Century Fox said that the sci-fi epic had amassed an estimated global total box office take of $1.8437 billion, just ahead of Titanic's worldwide total of $1,843,201,268, according SciFi Wire. SciFiWire
Gumby creator Art Clokey dies at 89 - Gumby animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation became a pop culture phenomenon through countless satires, toys and revivals, has died at age 89. Caretaker Chrisanne Wollett Clokey says Clokey died Friday in Los Osos on California's Central Coast. MSNBC
Obama's State of the Union address to pre-empt 'Lost'? - A president can't do anything without offending one constituency or another, but Barack Obama may have angered the Smoke Monster. It was reported Wednesday that the White House may schedule Obama's State of the Union address for Feb. 2 -- which conflicts with the final season premiere of ABC's "Lost." The Grand Rapids Press
Man pays $72 for taco, says 'Merry Christmas' - A man who appeared drunk walked into a Taco Bell restaurant earlier this week and handed the manager $72 for one taco, the manager said. The manager told police near the northern Ohio town of Sandusky that the customer, who seemed to be in his early 20s, refused to take back the money and told workers "Merry Christmas." MSNBC
'Family Ties' mom: 'I am a lesbian' - For seven years, actress Meredith Baxter has been hiding a secret. Now Baxter, who played the devoted hippie mom constantly butting heads with her conservative kids on "Family Ties," is making a public admission. Today
NEW! - James Westra dies in Jackson prison - Eugene Westra hates the idea that his brother, James "Mr. Jim" Westra, will be remembered mostly for the arson conviction one year ago that sent him to prison where his life ended Saturday. GRPressAvatar is now the highest-grossing movie EVER - It's official: As expected, James Cameron's Avatar on Monday officially pulled ahead of Cameron's other big movie, about some boat, to become the biggest-grossing movie of ALL TIME. Twentieth Century Fox said that the sci-fi epic had amassed an estimated global total box office take of $1.8437 billion, just ahead of Titanic's worldwide total of $1,843,201,268, according SciFi Wire. SciFiWireGumby creator Art Clokey dies at 89 - Gumby animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation became a pop culture phenomenon through countless satires, toys and revivals, has died at age 89. Caretaker Chrisanne Wollett Clokey says Clokey died Friday in Los Osos on California's Central Coast. MSNBCObama's State of the Union address to pre-empt 'Lost'? - A president can't do anything without offending one constituency or another, but Barack Obama may have angered the Smoke Monster. It was reported Wednesday that the White House may schedule Obama's State of the Union address for Feb. 2 -- which conflicts with the final season premiere of ABC's "Lost." The Grand Rapids PressMan pays $72 for taco, says 'Merry Christmas' - A man who appeared drunk walked into a Taco Bell restaurant earlier this week and handed the manager $72 for one taco, the manager said. The manager told police near the northern Ohio town of Sandusky that the customer, who seemed to be in his early 20s, refused to take back the money and told workers "Merry Christmas." MSNBC'Family Ties' mom: 'I am a lesbian' - For seven years, actress Meredith Baxter has been hiding a secret. Now Baxter, who played the devoted hippie mom constantly butting heads with her conservative kids on "Family Ties," is making a public admission. Today
- Bill Steffen vs The Groundhog
Bill predicts what the ground hog will say tomorrow and gives a run down of the unusual festivities that surround this almost surreal event where the ground hog will predict early spring or long winter before the sun comes up. Go figure! Click here.
- My Blog and the Future
There has been a lot of trouble on the blogs with spam messages and its been a huge effort to constantly screen them out so they don't appear in the comment sections of the blogs. I'm in the process of re-designing the current blog page to reflect an easier navigation scheme. This will probably eliminate the archive of the last couple of years, but I'd rather keep the site spam free, than have the on going battle of trying to fight the ever increasing number of postings that try to skirt site security. So in the next 30 days or so, you can look forward to a new blog page. I hope you continue to enjoy the site and the blogs. :)
- Cracking ice sheet sound like Star Wars blasters
This remarkable recording of ice-sheets cracking on a frozen lake sounds just like a Star Wars blaster fight. Andreas Bick, a Berlin sound designer/composer, made the recording and explains, on his Silent Listening blog: "In my experience, thin ice is especially interesting for acoustic phenomena; it is more elastic and sounds are propagated better across the surface. Snowfall, on the other hand, has a muffling effect and the sound can only travel to a limited extent. The ice sheet acts as a huge membrane across which the cracking and popping sounds spread. Underwater microphones proved especially well-suited for these recordings: in a small hole drilled close beneath the surface of the water, the sounds emitted by the body of ice carry particularly well."
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