Now don’t go out and buy a bunch of candy bars to fight off disease, but a study sponsored by, surprisingly enough, a large candy bar manufacturer, shows that ingredients in chocolate can help fight cancer cells in lab experiments. Full press release here.
Month: April 2005
Overclock Your Calculator
I have an old TI-83 around someplace and if I was good with a soldering iron, I’d be all over this experiment. I just know that somewhere out there, there’s somebody trying this, right before they take the SATs next month, and their calculator will burst into flames during the test.
Almost Scammed
If you’re trying to sell a car (like I am — will post more info and prices once I clean the thing all up), make sure you don’t get scammed by Nigerian-esque scams, like Scott almost did.
Roger’s Back!
Roger — aka the High Desert Skeptic — joined us for our first blogger meetup many moons ago. His online activity has been limited since Kerry lost the election (he was a big Democrat supporter).
However, he’s back online. He went and spent some time Thailand after the December tsunamis, and came back with some great pictures and stories.
That’s a Lot Of Bud
A couple of Bend residents were arrested on charges of growing 85 marijuana plants in their basement. For obvious reasons, you won’t find a copy of this story on The Bulletin’s site (at least I couldn’t). Why? Because one of the folks busted was a Bulletin employee (not sure what the person does there, but I’m just quoting the story).
It was in their print edition (page C1), amazingly enough. I couldn’t find a story online at other local media (Bend.com’s search function doesn’t work, so while it might be there, it’s impossible to find anything there anymore). But if you have a copy of the paper, it’s in there.
What annoys me further, actually (as pot busts aren’t that big of a deal, though this was pretty big), is that the story cites a Deschutes County Sheriff News Release, but I can’t say that I can find the release anywhere in their news section. So while I don’t expect to find that story on the Bulletin’s site for obvious reasons, I would expect to find it on the County’s site.
Planning on Fooling Around Over Passover?
If taken properly, Viagra can be considered kosher. Thanks Barn for the link.
Death Metal Rock
But with parrots. Just listen to the disturbing MP3. Thanks Evan for the link.
Sex Offender Database Search
It’s not quite searching Oregon yet, but it’s getting quite a few other states. Anybody have one living nearby, according to this?
For The Self-Daters Out There
If you’ve resorted to doing the job yourself, at least do it right (not work safe). Thanks b3ta.