Here’s the kind of thing that you can understand happening. Apparently officials in Sudan were reading the American Congress website, as I would imagine all officials in every country should probably do from time to time, it’s probably one of those national flossing and brushing things, you know, in order to prevent national crises. You never know what those Americans are going to do next. Jeez, a big place like Sudan, within shouting distance of places that have and are being occupied for oil, it might be a good idea to keep an eye on those guys. They rub right up against Libya, for crying out loud, they’re practically begging to be occupied, or somethin’ right?

Anyway, they found a report that said the American government had conducted nuclear tests there in the late 1960’s. Huh. So, they freaked out since they had no idea that had actually happened. You can see it going down too, because you know, Sudan is pretty big, and pretty sandy. Anyway, they called some of those American guys and it turns out it was a typo in the report, they meant to refer to Sedan, a nuclear testing site in Nevada. Ha ha, our bad, the Americans said.

I guess the guys in Sudan aren’t laughing too hard, though since they are still investigating.

Do you think they would have needed to continue the investigation if it had been some other country’s mistake? Like the Canadian Government web site, for instance, with a report on how many gay marriages were performed in Khartoum last month. Whups, hold on a second, that should read Kanata, not Khartoum.

I mean really, can you blame the Sudanese government?

Link to the original article.

Being left-handed of course has meant that I have had to withstand a lot of teasing over the years. That’s ok with me, I have long-since accepted the fact that I am evil-handed. But now apparently there are some scientific studies that show some interesting things about left-handed folks. For one, thing: don’t mess with me, I will seriously screw you up in a fight, as long as you are right-handed. But, when you also take the fact that I am way way more likely to have mental disabilities, then it all sort of makes sense.

Here’s the story: Survival of the southpaws

Way cool story about an oarfish (which I didn’t know existed). They can grow anywhere from 9 meters to 17 meters long, which is definitely a sea monster in my book. Wow.

You can’t look at the link without subscribing to the site first, which is stupid, so I didn’t. Instead the excellent Boing Boing has the goods. In fact, since over 90% of the content here comes from Boing Boing, why don’t you just start reading it yourself?

Oh, you already are. Gotcha.

OH NO! Journalistic integrity, shattered. Reader trust, gone. Credibility, lost. Somehow I have been mislead by something I read on the Internet. It seems impossible to believe, but apparently I read something on the Internet the other day that turned out be a lie. I have deceived you, readers. I’m sorry about that, sorrier than you could ever know.

It turns out that the avalanche beer guy I wrote about is a fake. Here’s the damning evidence, I can take solace that The Register, a bastion of truth and honesty on the Internet if there ever was one, was also taken in.

Drat, and I really liked that one, too.