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Vegetarians Run Amok

Or just trying to travel without eating meat...and with a wry sense of humor, and apparently a marriage proposal. Check it out:

http://soyvegetariana.wordpress.com/

Farting for a Good Cause

I'm more or less stunned speechless by this one...

Apparently kangaroos have more going for them than those cute little pouches and the ability to jump a cattle fence in a single bound: they can fart without huring the environment. You read it right: they can fart without emitting greenhouse gases. Kangaroos have methane-free farts, unlike their cattle neighbors.

In New Zealand, where 50% of all emissions to the atmosphere is apparently cattle and sheep farts, and in order to reduce this offense, Australia (whose fart emissions account for 15% of the national total) are looking for ways to isolate and reproduce the bacteria in Kangaroos that prevent the inclusion of methane in their..uh, emissions.

Yes, I just did an entry on Kangaroo farts, and yes, if you click on the link above, you too can read an article titled, "Eco-friendly Kangaroo Farts Could Help Global Warming."

Crazy Canoeist

I can't get enough of this news story. So a guy goes out for a canoe trip, and comes back 5 years later, after his boat has washed ashore, his wife has had him legally declared dead, and, ahem, his insurance money has been paid out. Apparently he has "amnesia"? Oh, wait, he doesn't, and lookie here, there's a picture of him and his wife in Panama last year. WTF?

What I'm really curious about now is how he pulled it off, and why he ever came back. That, and how horribly confused his poor kids must be right now...