Weather forecast for Saturday calls for, wait, what?

Weather forecast for Monday calls for, wait, what?

Still time for that special Mother's Day gift for that special mother in your life

Craftsman 1470 pc. Professional Tool Set for $8599.90.

With the tool chest, it comes to $10008.86

via J-Walk Blog

Teh Pope Rulez

Reuters is reporting that the Pope goes digital to better connect with youth. Among other things, the Pope will send daily text messages of inspiration and hope.

It may help His Holiness if he uses a service such as The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator:

Before:

My dear young friends, love the word of God and love the Church, and this will give you access to a treasure of very great value and will teach you how to appreciate its richness.

After:

MAH DEAR U FREINDS LUV DA WORD OF GOD AND LUV DA CHURCH AND THES WIL GIEV U ACES 2 A TR3ASURA OF VERY GREAT VALUA AND WIL T3ACH U HOW 2 APRECIAET ITS RICHNAS!!!!1

I double-checked the date of this article

... to make sure that it wasn't April 1.

Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead: "'I'm extremely bullish about this business -- it's not a question of if it will explode, but when,'"

You know who else thought Americans deserved 9/11?

Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson proclaim that we deserved 9/11 because of the ACLU, feminists, gays, and, oh, well, you get the idea.

Become an Expert with the Power of Deliberate Practice

It shouldn't come as a surprise to learn that most successful people become successful as the result of their ability to be extraordinarily disciplined about practice: Micro Persuasion: Become an Expert with the Power of Deliberate Practice. This is most often seen in athletes. Larry Bird would show up first and practice shooting for hours. To the observer, it seems odd that people with such talent would need to practice so much, but, it turns out, that's why they're so good. That intense focus makes their talent look easy. (That intensity has fallout in other ways, however. Ask Larry Bird's daughter, Corrie, who wasn't invited when Bird was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.)

Summer in Finland is like summer nowhere else

Leaf-blower becomes precision-guided weapon for mink catchers in Porkkalanniemi

Let me see if I've got this straight: feral mink arrived from North America in the 1920s. The mink have no natural enemies and so are a danger to birds and other wildlife. Some farmers have captured the mink for fur. Animal-rights activists freed the mink, which, in turn, sent mink-hunters, armed with leaf-blowers, to capture the wild beasts.

I'll let you figure out who to root for.

When the weather is false, what can we know?

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