http://www.amcgltd.com/ en-us scott@amcgltd.com 2010-03-15T09:47:22-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016156.html The Air Force is prepping its prototype space plane for a test flight. I guess they simply can't hide that they're doing it, but they sure are being tight-lipped about why they're doing it. In concept it sounds like... 16156@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Space 2010-03-15T09:47:22-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016155.html The "buried, not buried, buried, not buried" saga of James Brown seems to have been switched to "not buried." Again. I always thought his "get dragged off the stage only to come right back" schtick was annoying. Now that... 16155@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Weird_&_F-d_Up 2010-03-15T09:39:36-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016154.html The world's most recognized straight man has retired, permanently. Gah. I'm old enough to remember him on TV when he wasn't a caricature (f- me, I spelled that right the first time!) 83's a pretty damned good run, so,... 16154@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Announcements 2010-03-14T22:27:12-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016153.html I think we'll call that fisherman: 0, enormous scary crocodile: 1. At ~ 4 meters, this one's on the small end of adult males. Sheesh!... 16153@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Weird_&_F-d_Up 2010-03-14T07:48:43-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016152.html Exactly why he picked a spider, I'm not sure. A cheap, small, pretty car to use as a base, I guess. The rattling is a bunch of loose stuff banging around when the car goes over rough pavement. A... 16152@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Cool 2010-03-13T10:24:23-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016151.html New data seems to be indicating a small star is on a collision course with the solar system. Its arrival is predicted to happen in a relatively short time, too. Climate change claims yet another victim...... 16151@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Space 2010-03-13T07:52:00-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016150.html I live in DC! What do you want!?... 16150@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Funnies 2010-03-12T18:39:17-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016149.html So, turns out the life of even a red-headed "bear" prostitute is interesting. Meh. Pay your taxes, stay out of trouble, keep off my lawn, and I'm good. It does make for some interesting stories, I'll give you that.... 16149@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Interesting 2010-03-12T14:45:49-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016148.html The place is not small by any means. It's about as big as a general large supermarket, but with lots and lots and LOTS AND LOTS of strange stuff.... 16148@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Olivia 2010-03-12T10:16:51-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016147.html Mike J. gets a grimly amused no-prize for bringin us this "oddly specific" graveyard sign. No, Ellen, you can't have it.... 16147@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Funnies 2010-03-12T09:40:27-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016146.html One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?" "No", answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No", Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?"... 16146@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Cool 2010-03-11T16:24:17-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016145.html Heck, I would've watched it if all they did was just knock a bunch of stuff over. The music just happens to be pretty good too. I only saw one possible cut in the whole 3:50-ish shot, and I'm... 16145@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Cool 2010-03-11T16:21:36-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016144.html A radical atheist endorsing Buddhism? It's more likely than you think. Distilling the faith to its four essentials allows the jettisoning of the quirkier bits of received Buddhist tradition (reincarnation, bodhisattvas, etc.), which in my opinion are the main... 16144@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Interesting 2010-03-11T16:12:14-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016143.html The on again, off again search for something really big orbiting the sun far, far away is now on again. No, the discussion of such an object indirectly causing mass extinctions on Earth is not particularly new, but the... 16143@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Space 2010-03-11T11:07:50-05:00 http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/016142.html Mark gets a no-prize shaped like Davy Jones' locker for bringing us news of the discovery of a bunch of centuries-old shipwrecks. The wrecks were found at the bottom of the Baltic during routine surveying for a gas pipeline... 16142@http://www.amcgltd.com/ Cool 2010-03-11T10:49:32-05:00