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Take a look at this site featuring extremely high-speed photography depicting the impact of bullets with various objects.

Ever wonder what happened to all of those darn Nazis? According to the Hollow Earth Research Society in Ontario, Canada, some of them escaped into the interior of the earth. Apparently there were many Nazi proponents of a Hollow Earth, although they were by no means the only ones to think so. One organization alleges that Admiral Byrd himself found an opening in the North Pole that led to the Earth’s interior, and there are a surprising amount of links to this wonderfully deluded topic.

According to CNN, “Marvel Comics plans to break new ground in the comic book industry by introducing the first openly gay title character in a comic book.” In today’s PC world, I probably shouldn’t make fun of this, but I can’t resist. For the record, I have nothing against people living their lives however they want to, but this borders on the absurd: “In a bubble in the first edition of the series, Rawhide Kid comments about the Lone Ranger: ‘I think that mask and the powder blue outfit are fantastic. I can certainly see why the Indian follows him around.’” Also, is it just me, or does this guy remind you of one of SNL’s Ambiguously Gay Duo?

I kid you not; even I couldn’t have made up with something like this. OK, maybe. Where’s your chit?

In response to Alan Ransky’s gleefully admitting to making a fortune on e-mail spam in an interview by the Detroit Free Press, anti-Spam activists took matters into their own hands and have “inundated [him] with ads, catalogs and brochures delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to his brand-new $740,000 home.” Whines Ransky, “They’ve signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is. These people are out of their minds. They’re harassing me.” It just elates me to no end that this asshole got his just desserts; read the discussion at Plastic.com to read more well-deserved schadenfreude comments.

Check out the QuickTime 3D Panorama of Times Square on this page. There are over 50 more available on the rest of the site, and the 3D effect in most of them is really cool. Make sure and get QuickTime 5 or better to view these if you don’t already have it.

I agree, this is one of the best “404 Not Found?” pages I’ve seen. Here’s a page with a bunch more for your viewing enjoyment.

In case you didn’t know, Strom Thurmond just turned 100 years old. At a recent birthday party for Strom, Trent Lott made quite the ass of himself with the remarks he made about Strom’s failed bid for president in 1948. Which is worse, kissing ass without even knowing Strom’s record or actually agreeing with the policies he promoted back then?

Update: Trent Lott issued a written apology Monday night, but the damage has been done. What a moron.

National Geographic has a nice section devoted to the Pearl Harbor attack.

Never thought I would see an article devoted to blogging on Globalsecurity.org, a military analysis organization. The article (which is reposted from Reuters) tells us what most of us probably already know: Blogs are the best source of inside scoop material that the CNNs of the world don’t bother to publish, or to reanalyze the misinformation that they bungle in the editing process. The article lists several blogs that may be of interest to many of our readers in the event that things get ugly in Iraq. “It’s not a blog. It’s a responsibility.” You heard it here first!