Anyway, it's supposed to resemble a standard 7 iron. I recommend that if you use the UroClub that you take your regular 7 iron out just in case you accidentally pick out the wrong 7 iron.
http://www.uroclub.org/details.html]]>
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A happily married couple in northern India got the shock of their lives when they learnt they had divorced 10 years ago, the Times of India reported on Tuesday.

It turns out the woman's brother-in-law, a lawyer, forged the divorce papers. He denies any wrongdoing.

As always, most Reuters stories are short but sweet so view the link yourself for the full story.http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnough...oughNews&rpc=69]]>
So gentlemen and ladies, start your pocketbooks. http://www.3trillion.org/
]]> blog post about Kyrgyzstan declaring itself Santa’s new home is kinda funny. Engineers declared that Santa's Christmas route would be more efficient if it started in Kyrgyzstan. Said blogger says, "Excuse me? Have you heard many complaints about Santa’s so-called inefficiency? I haven’t. If Kyrgyzstan is so well located, why don’t lots of world tours already start there? Plus, if Kyrgyz officials are so smart, why don’t they a.) get some full-time vowels in their name and b.) declare themselves the new home of Paris Hilton or somebody else who’s in the news all year round?"]]>
I wouldn't hold my breath to see this work as the next untapped craze or business model of the Internet though. The woman who runs the site is an art student and it sounds like the website may be as much of an art project as it is a service. Gloves are collected at drop off points or mailed in to her and she photographs them and posts them online. You'd have to have a lot of time on your hands to do this on a long term basis.

It's still very amusing though. BTW, has anyone seen a black wrist length microfleece glove with rubberized patches on the palm and fingers? The wrist is stitched with a logo that says "EMS." I dropped it when getting out off my car in Downtown Palo Alto about five years ago.

Anyway here's the site.

One Cold Handhttp://www.onecoldhand.com/

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I hate to be coarse -- but What the F***! Locks on the White House doors? Does the President carry a key to the front door -- the most powerful person in the Free World?

Ain't there armed Secret Service stationed 24/7?

I saw a photo earlier of a door in the background -- and when I came across this photo in US News I just had to save it!]]>
The move will allow AT&T to retire aging equipment that they said can no longer be repaired. Probably more importantly, it allows for 300,000 phone numbers to be freed up.

While I'm saddened to hear of this bit of comfort technology getting put out to pasture, it's interesting to read about the device that is used to produce the time recordings. It's not digitized. It's some funky series of drums that turn and churn out the recorded time.

LA Times: Time of day calling it quits at AT&T
Sacramento Bee: No more dialing 'POPCORN' to get time after Sept. 19]]> Another sign that newspapers are dying...

"Publisher American Media Inc. said on Tuesday it will stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities."

Though I was not an avid reader, I could always rely on the WWW for a good laugh when I was standing in line at the grocery store. The claims were just so outrageous that they were laugh-out-loud funny.

How could you not be entertained by the stories about Bat Boy?

"Bat Boy, the half-bat, half-human child found in a cave, was a regular feature. After the September 11 attacks, the tabloid reported he had been enlisted in the hunt for Osama bin Laden because of his special cave-dwelling skills."

So maybe Bat Boy wasn't that good because they haven't found Osama yet.

I only bought two issues of the WWW several years ago. I remember that I felt gypped because they had actually recycled an advice column (they printed the exact same one a few weeks apart). I didn't read the WWW often enough to see if they did that all the time, but I suspect that they do. The print version will cease but the online version will live on. I suspect they will be recycling a lot more stories as well.]]> Disconnected: Sprint Boots Customers for Complaining
Frequent Whiners Told to Take Their Cell Phone Account Down the Street

I saw this on Good Morning America today. Here's the web link.

1,000 customers were sent a Dear John letter for excessive complaining. In some cases, according to the article, “’there were a small number that had been calling us over a period of six to 12 months, sometimes 300 times a month,’ Sprint spokeswoman Roni Singleton told ABCNEWS.com”

For those dumped, early termination fees were waived, any balances were set to zero, and customers were given a month to find a new carrier before service is shut off.

One woman said her calls were due a recurring billing error. She had to call several times because she kept getting transferred and was frequently hung up on. I only know one person who has Sprint (most of my friends have AT&T/Cingular, as do I) and he agrees that their customer service is horrible. It’s too bad because their actual cell service is pretty good. But god help you if you have a problem.

Judging from the comments on ABC’s forum, it seems that most of the Sprint customers have to call so often because their seemingly-simple problems remain unresolved. I’ve got to say this sounds like a really bad business move on Sprint’s part, but I also have to say that anyone who has to call 300 times a month should just switch carriers. Like with any bad breakup, I think Sprint is doing these 1,000 customers a favor. I say, “Good riddance”.
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Jennlee222: I've sold my hair on eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY - News). People think that's weird.

MeiraMeira: I primarily shower at my gym. I don't pay the water bill at my apartment, but I do pay to heat it, so why should I?!

WendyBG: I fix things. For example, when the cord in our 45-year-old Venetian blinds wore out, I bought new cord, disassembled them, and restrung them. Good for another 45 years.

They're actually pulled from an article underscoring the importance of investing your savings.]]> http://www.nctexasbirds.com/images/hot_news.jpg]]>
LINK: Apartment Transformed into Star Trek Shrine
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/556186106XjZSzz]]>
CNN breaks it down like this:

• Face blindness is an impairment in the ability to recognize faces
• Sufferers are usually able to see facial features but not retain them
• As many as one in 50 people may have some form, researchers theorize
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/...ness/index.html

I sometimes don't recognize people but that's because I only met them for less than 60 seconds, and it's usually at a party so it's dark. I don't see them again for months, and their hairstyle has changed, they might be wearing different amounts of makeup, and hopefully they are wearing different clothes.]]>
Link: Business 2.0 - 101 Dumbest Moments in Business 2006

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Link: AT&T ending Cingular name on wireless (CNN/Money)

I don't recall how this whole soap opera unfolded. Maybe someone can help fill in the blanks or correct me.

• Cingular Buys AT&T Wireless and to my dismay, I turn on my AT&T phone one day and it says "Cingular" on it and it promptly stops working right
• The AT&T Mothership eventually buys Bell South, which owns Cingular
• Now AT&T decides that it costs too much to promote Cingular, so they're phasing out the Cingular name

To make matters even more entertaining, they're making the switch gradual and for some months, they'll brand stuff with both the Cingular and AT&T logos.

Uh, all I can say is "WHATEVER".]]>
The San Francisco Chronicle featured an article today about Father Guido's latest song release, which is being advertised as the worst Christmas song ever. It really made me laugh - I hope you enjoy it, too.

The article:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...DDGLAN0IM11.DTL

The song:http://www.sfgate.com:80/blogs/sounds/sfga.../Xmas_Bulbs.MP3]]>
Apparently, the same trick is being pulled on animal sales. I ran into this website called the "Cowboy Way Classifieds" that specializes in Cowboy stuff, especially horses. They have a page dedicated to exposing common scams that scammers use to defraud the rodeo boys out of horses and money.

CowboyWay Scam Alerts for Sellers and Buyers:
link:http://www.cowboyway.com/ads/index.php?a=28&b=142]]>
He only made it 12 miles of the 300 miles to his destination before police stopped him doing 40 mph on a remote highway. Even if he got there safely, I just can't imagine the magnitude of head, neck, and back pain the guy would have ended up with. I think they make people pretend to drive backwards for only 100 miles at CIA secret prisons.

LINK: Australian tries to drive 310 miles in reverse (AP)]]>
LINK: Willard Wigen - Microscopic Art (snopes.com)

If I would have seen this on any other site, I would have instantly declared it a hoax. Can you believe it?!?]]>
Since I'm sure I'm not the only one who has this recurring curiosity, here's a web page that I found that supposedly explains how those X-Ray glasses worked.
http://www.blamepro.com/how/how4.htm]]>