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• Are you Looking East?

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• Terror and exhilaration on Father’s Day

  I spent the last hour sitting in the 94th Aero Squadron parking lot watching planes take off from MIA. When I watched that big ol’ jet airliner get airborne, headed west across the country to California, I cried. I’ve been a father a long time now and I just kicked the [...]
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• Fly Like An Eagle, baby

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• Has your email been compromised?

  Over the past few days, thousands of email addresses and passwords have been discovered and released on the internet. Here are two tools to check and see if your emails is among them: http://lulzsec.cloudcontrolled.com/ http://dazzlepod.com/lulzsec/ [...]
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• SpongeBob SquarePants discovered in Borneo

  Yep, there is a real, live, SpongeBob living in Borneo! Dennis E. Desjardin, Kabir G. Peay and Thomas D. Bruns collected this new gasteroid bolete recently in Sarawak on the island of Borneo. It was officially described in the scientific journal Mycologia, May 2011 edition. Fortunately, you can read about it on Wikipedia.[...]
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• Free to good home: One Lighthouse

  Fowey Rocks Light is being given away by the US Coast Guard… except for the light part, which the Coast Guard will continue to maintain. Otherwise, if you’ve got a spare few million laying around, and are a non-profit organization, you can get your application in now. National Historic Lighthouse [...]
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• Extreme Spring weather

  Yes, it’s been wet and dry. We’ve had record flooding and record drought over the past three months. [...]
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• Happy World Oceans Day

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• Angry Americans?

  According to this research, Americans are angry now. The anger has not been turned to action. Yet. [...]
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• Did ancient trash heaps give rise to Everglades tree islands?

  Garbage mounds left by prehistoric humans might have driven the formation of many Everglades’ tree islands, those humps of trees you see out the window as you speed across I-75. They provide a nesting site for alligators and a refuge for birds, panthers, and other wildlife. When I was a kid, [...]
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