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Carnegie Mellon University robotics researchers, in conjunction with the US Marine Corps' Warfighting Laboratory, have developed a small, throwable, remote-controlled prototype robot designed for surveillance in urban settings. Several of the robots are being sent to Iraq for testing. The robot, known as Dragon Runner, has the ability to see around corners and deliver information to Marines while keeping them out of danger in urban settings where human access is impractical, dangerous or unsustainable. The Dragon Runner project is managed and funded by the Warfighting Laboratory, Quantico, Virginia, which is part of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command. The system...

Wednesday, April 14th, 2004 Heads Up... from Michael Moore Friends, I have never seen a head so far up a Presidential ass (pardon my Falluja) than the one I saw last night at the "news conference" given by George W. Bush. He's still talking about finding "weapons of mass destruction" -- this time on Saddam's "turkey farm." Turkey indeed. Clearly the White House believes there are enough idiots in the 17 swing states who will buy this. I think they are in for a rude awakening. I've been holed up for weeks in the editing room finishing my film...

PBA to Open Membership to Women Seattle, WA - March 29, 2004 In what may be a first in professional sports, the PBA will allow women to join its membership beginning immediately. The women will need to meet the same requirements for membership as the men, namely, maintaining a 200 average or greater for two consecutive 66 game league seasons. “We have had requests from women over the past year to participate in our regional tournaments,” said PBA Commissioner Fred Schreyer. “We thought about it for a long time and concluded, why not? We currently allow non-members to participate in...

Senator John Kerry bowled with oranges on his campaign airplane on Thursday shortly after takeoff from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Girlfriend leans out from bathroom to beam a smile. Meanwhile, media and campaign aides fastened their seatbelts as Kerry freaked out.

<p>February 8, 2004 -- MICHAEL Moore should be forced to give back the Oscar he won for "Bowling for Columbine" because he totally ignored the real reason why two high-school students went on a rampage that left 15 dead — prescription drugs such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. "These kids went off the rails after they were put on medication," said a source who worked on "The Drugging of Our Children," a documentary being produced by Gary Null. The health expert went to Columbine and talked to some of the same people Moore had interviewed. "They had told Moore repeatedly about the meds — he didn't use any of it," our source said. "When his documentary came out, it was all about the guns. He got an Academy Award for something that was a lie." Null refused to comment.</p>

Waunakee man sinks hole-in-one, bowls perfect 300 in 24 hours (Published Friday, October 17, 2003 08:56:45 AM CDT) Associated Press MADISON, Wis. -- Paul Hughes is hot these days. The 74-year-old Waunakee man hit a hole-in-one and bowled a perfect 300 game in a 24-hour span earlier this week. Hughes, a retired heating and plumbing business owner, sank the hole-in-one on the 149-yard fifth hole at the Pleasant View golf course in Middleton Monday afternoon. He bowled the perfect game at Bowling Green lanes in Middleton Tuesday. "It's a super feeling," Hughes said. Ted Donker, director of golf operations at...

In an effort to be inclusive, this thread is for nonmetrosexual males (and likeminded women) to advise queer guys on their outfits, decor, vehicles, hairstyles, homes and hobbies. I've outfitted the thread with keywords toward this end.Enjoy.

< snip> LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Real Lebowski lives. And people love him. Jeff Dowd, the inspiration for the main character in the Coen brothers’ 1998 mistaken identity comedy “The Big Lebowski,” joined more than a thousand fans at the second annual Lebowski Fest — a celebration of bowling, white Russians and all things Lebowski. < snip >.

On Friday nights, if it's league season, the Indians start trickling into Don Carter's Kendall Lanes around 6 p.m. They say hello to Penny, the manager, order some chili plates at the snack bar and unpack their bags -- balls, shoes, gloves, little towels. Time to bowl. The league is called Miccosukee Mixed, and it's in its fifth year, carrying about 70 bowlers each year. Regular season, which ended in May, is a serious affair -- 36 weeks, 20 teams, prize money, scores and averages tabulated by computer and handed out every Friday to team captains. The teams have the...

A couple of folks pointed out to me that some of the terminology in the original article might be cannon fodder for media communists who want to smear this site the same way they keep smearing Heston. I've reworked the article, but I'll only post the link so nobody with an agenda can blame the site for it. To summarize, I was saying that I had fallen for the media portrayal of Heston without having all the facts, and that the more I learn about him (primarily from this site) the more I feel he merits admiration and respect. Plus,...

INTRODUCTION THERE ARE THOSE who say it all started to unravel the night of November 7, 2 000, when Jeb Bush gave his brother George Jr. an early Christmas present the state of Florida. For others, those upon whom a decade's fortune had smiled, the turning point came when the Dow had its biggest annual loss in almost twenty years. For most, though, the day the music died came the night we were told Pluto was no longer a planet, and life as we knew it was as distant as the look in the new "President's" eyes. Wherever you choose...

Michael Moore may be the toast of the self-annointed tastemakers of Canada and the Continent, revered for his irreverent unearthing of all that is corrupt and evil about Amerika. The problem is that Michael Moore's revealed truths about the U.S. are about as credible as Al Gore's claim that he invented the Internet. As Andrew Sullivan pointed out in a revealing essay on Moore in the Sunday Times of London, "Less is Moore", Michael Moore is a serial dissembler. Once he's on a roll, the truth is about as important to Michael Moore as spousal fidelity is to Bill Clinton....

Michael Moore's so-called documentary Bowling for Columbine isn't so much anti-gun as anti-American. And he films with forked tongue. That's a documentary? By James O.E. Norell Most ordinary hard-working Americans will never pay to see Michael Moore's Oscar nominated Bowling for Columbine. For those of us who have, the anger at the deceit in the portrayal of virtually every facet of the film is palpable. Even the title harbors a lie. According to Dan Lyons of Forbes magazine, police later said the murderers, who took the lives of 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Cob.,...

In light of recent developments, this seems somewhat trivial, but Michael Moore should not be allowed to use the "majority" of Americans when writing disrespectful, tasteless, basically idiotic letters to the President, which he refers to as "Governor Bush". So please visit http://petitiononline.com/mmoore21 and let your voice be heard so that Michael Moore can know that his stupidity will not be accepted.

Author's "Truth" More Fancy Than Fact Pablo Wegesend Recently, filmmaker and political satirist Michael Moore has been getting some publicity. His most recent book "Stupid White Men" has been on the New York Times bestseller list for a while and his latest film "Bowling for Columbine" has received great applause at the Cannes Film Festival recently. His earlier works include his book "Downsize This", films "Roger and Me" and "The Big One," and the canceled TV show "TV Nation." Some of you may not be familiar with Moore's work. Michael Moore isn't a mainstream star, but he is a...

<p>With only five days left to draw voters in the 4th Congressional District race, Republican candidate Janice Bowling and Democratic nominee Lincoln Davis are stretching for a second wind.</p> <p>Each campaign has received boosts in recent weeks from name players.</p>

<p>Today would have been John Lennon's 62nd birthday. And on Friday, his widow is giving a little gift to filmmaker Michael Moore.</p> <p>It's "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," a track from the Beatles' White Album. Yoko Ono herself made sure that Moore could have "Gun" for his celebrated documentary about gun violence, Bowling for Columbine. United Artists opens the film Friday in New York and Los Angeles, and in more cities on Oct. 18.</p>