Jesse Jones of King5 News tests Campbell Soup’s claim that there are 32′ of noodles in every can. He lays out a can’s worth of noodles on a football field. Slow news day? If you want to kill some time at work, watch it here. Way to embarrass us on Consumerist Jesse. ... Continue Reading

The new 2010 Mercedes-Benz S-Class has been launched in Dubai by Gargash Enterprises, the Mercedes-Benz authorized agent in the emirate. Some of the innovative features of the new S-Class include attention assist-drowsiness detection system, adaptive high beam assist and night view assist with special pedestrian detection. It also incorporates the ’splitview technology’, which enables the ... Continue Reading

Image Soirée au MIA upoaded by Minneapolis Institute of of Arts —– Check out their calendar of events I think this next item is really cool, Bob Collins and Mary Lucia have put their 5:15 segment online. I know with many folk Bob and Mary can inspire a love’em or hate’em situation, well you can put ... Continue Reading

* The Morgan Autism Center, located in San Jose, is a non-profit special education program for children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. Founded in 1969 the center provides a very positive highly structured environment with a high staff to student ratio. * Morgan Autism Center 40th Anniversary Celebration Starry Starry Night A Cocktail & ... Continue Reading

Seattle Police officer Timothy Brenton was murdered Halloween night when an unknown assailant pulled up next to his parked patrol car and shot him. A flag was raised over the Space Needle this morning to recognize his loss and the city is hosting a public memorial tomorrow at 1 pm at Key Arena at the Seattle ... Continue Reading

There were two more fires in Greenwood early this morning, making a total of five unsolved arsons in the area over the past few months. The PhinneyWood bloggers were on the scene of the first fire when the fire crew got a call about the second, three blocks away. The CPA office was burned, as ... Continue Reading

If, like me, you wonder why people don’t wear seatbelts while driving in Lahore, it’s because there is come confusion as to whether or not wearing seatbelts is legally required. Well, the debate is finally over. According to this newspaper report, the Punjab Assembly just introduced an amendment in the Motor Vehicle Ordinance, 1965 making ... Continue Reading

Come January 04 2010, The WORLDS LARGEST man made concrete & steel structure will be opened for WORLD. The date will coincide (not by accident) with the date of accession to power of HH Sheikh Mohammed Ruler of Dubai & Prime Minister of UAE. The 160-plus storey structure is considered the world’s tallest building., under ... Continue Reading

Yesterday afternoon there was a shooting in Venice, followed up by another in Santa Monica last night. Both shootings left one victim dead and countless others terrified. The LA Times Blog has lots of details on the actual shootings but makes no mention that these were both gang related shootings, a fact the LAPD confirmed ... Continue Reading

Last night Jason DeRusha asked Good Question: Should Uninformed Voters Stay Home? It’s a constant message on Election Day: get out and vote. It’s generally accepted that the more voters, the better. The higher turnout, the better. But what about people who admit they don’t know anything about the issues or the candidates in a ... Continue Reading

from fox five atlanta’s story on the atlanta mayoral race: Election officials estimated voter turnout could be at its lowest in recent memory, with far fewer ballots cast than the 35 percent of registered voters who participated in recent mayoral races. wtf? with crime ascendant, the city in fiscal chaos and three very interesting top tier candidates running, ... Continue Reading

The bush in picture is hazard for pedestrians, ... Continue Reading

In myth and legend there’s a magical place East of Minnesota where lawyers go to bask in the glow of happy unicorns. This amazing fabled land is called D.C. and it’s a land of great wealth and everyday is sunny, also everyone gets a balloon when they leave their apartment in the morning and magical ... Continue Reading

t’s municipal election day in georgia. these are typically the lowest turnout elections in the world so we here at the metblog are encouraging you to get out and vote. these elections are just as important as any other, and maybe more, since you are electing the people who will run the governments ... Continue Reading

You’ve noticed by now that this H1N1 virus is a big deal since it gets covered so often in the news you’d think it was Paris Hilton’s new purse dog or something. H1N1, or the “Swine Flu”, as some people call it, is getting so much attention for a number of reasons and they’re not all ... Continue Reading

Noise, distortion, disruption and poor reception was part of the package for PTCL landline customers, and it used to be worst during the rains but all that seems an issue of the past as Pakistan Tele-Communication Limited has finally decided to relive us from all the unwanted disruptions by replacing the old rotten Distribution Point ... Continue Reading

The strib reports MPCA hits Minn. ethanol producer with $425k penalty The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) said today that the violations by Bushmills Ethanol Inc. of Atwater stretched from 2006 to 2009. They included producing ethanol beyond the facility’s permitted capacity, failure to inspect and maintain production and pollution-control equipment, and exceeding allowable wastewater discharge ... Continue Reading

The World at His Feet by NW Sunshine [flickr] via our group pool [#]. In the ongoing severed feet saga to our north, a seventh foot has washed up in British Columbia, according to the Vancouver Sun (#). Of the seven feet (over half a soccer team, as Wesa pointed out), only one has been postively ... Continue Reading

Open the San Jose Mercury News Thursday morning and go straight to the comics. Greg Evans has created a special “Luann” about “Books For Treats“. 10/29/09 San Jose Mercury New Comics – “Luann” ... Continue Reading

Without a doubt Pakistan is witnessing her worst crisis since the Bangladesh debacle. Most major cities are witnessing deadly attacks on a consistent basis and just today close to 100 innocent people lost their lives in Peshawar. Where is our beloved country heading? Is the operation in Wazirstan going to solve our problems? I highly doubt. ... Continue Reading

That’s right folks.  The legendary Kogi BBQ, which has made quite the name for itself in Los Angeles for having amazing Korean BBQ with a bit of a Mexican flair (Korean short rib taco anyone??), and also for utilizing their Twitter account @kogibbq to tell folks where they are at the last minute, is here in Orange ... Continue Reading

If you don’t already read Seattle Transportation Watch, you really should. It’s a great resource for keeping up to date on traffic concerns in Seattle. From it I’ve learned that WSDOT has released a video, available on its website and on You Tube that depicts what would happen to the Alaskan Way ... Continue Reading

2006 Snoqualmie flooding by T Sayles The King County Flood Warning Center opened this morning at 8:30 am to keep an eye on rising flows in on the Snoqualmie and Tolt rivers due to heavy rainful. Per the County’s press release, at 9 am the sum of the forks of the Snoqualmie River was 13,428 cubic feet ... Continue Reading

And what’s called “central” is not. In fact, for downtown workers accustomed to voting at the courthouse, there’s nowhere to vote throughout the early-voting period, which continues through Friday, October 30, apart from provision for “mobile voting” that appears at different locations each day. The county site listing early-voting locations available throughout the period lists ... Continue Reading

This morning I planned to make a post telling you that one of the best ways you could spend this dreary weathered weekend was by heading to the Taproot Theater for the final weekend of their charming production of Enchanted April, a play in which they yet again do magic by transforming a simple stage ... Continue Reading