No… It’s not a site to purchase your one way ticket for the Rapture.   Heavens-Above.COM allows you to track satelites, constellations, and other astronomical information.
Why do you care?
Lets say you’re on a camping trip, away from city lights, or maybe on the beaches of Mexico, you plug your information into Heavens-Above, and you can find […]

Apparently the stuff is worth its weight in gold!
From UPI:
Mystery gift may be valuable vomit
MONTAUK, N.Y., Dec. 18 (UPI) — A mysterious gift given to a Montauk, N.Y., woman from her sister might be a valuable piece of petrified whale vomit, experts said.
Dorothy Ferreira said the four-pound item, which might be worth as much as […]

I love this photo of Astronauts working on a piece of the International Space Station.  It’s almost out of a Science Fiction film.
Question of the Day…
What’s the Land Mass they are floating above in this photo?

From The BBC: 
Italy village gets ’sun mirror’
A sun-deprived village in the Italian Alps has come up with a novel solution to fix the problem - by installing a giant mirror.
The mirror - an eight-by-five metre (26×16ft) sheet of steel - was placed on a nearby peak to reflect sunlight onto Viganella’s main square below.
The computer-operated […]

Bravo to Matthew LeClair for blowing the whistle on his idiot teacher,  the guy should be canned and kicked out of the teachers union.
Read the entire New York Times article below,  the teacher went as far as to tell a Muslim student they were going to go to hell.  
We don’t need ilk like this in our public […]

I’ve been watching this guy from time to time on You-Tube for a few months now.
Interesting Jolly old chap.
Check out some of his other videos too, his stories about WW II, and England during the 30’s and 40’s are fascinating.
It’s all on his website here.

From TheGlobeAndMail.COM: 
Man with no pulse considered a medical breakthrough
MONTREAL — A 65-year-old Quebec man who received a new long-term mechanical heart last month is being described as the only living Canadian without a pulse.
Dr. Renzo Cecere implanted the “Heartmate II” mechanical heart into Gerard Langevin in an three-hour operation Nov. 23.
Officials at the McGill University […]

  +  = SAFE
From Faux News: 
Solar Storm May Ground Aircraft, Overload Power Grids
The severe geomagnetic storm bombarding the Earth on Thursday was expected to disrupt radio, television and cell-phone communications worldwide and could force airlines to reroute passenger flights that normally fly over the North Pole.
Power-grid operators will have to make sure their systems do […]

 
It would appear that the new Congress will finally be raising the federal minimum wage, nine years after it’s last increase in 1998.
I wrote an analysis about the disparity between congressional pay hikes (which are almost annual these days) .vs. the minimum wage non-hikes last summer.
Over on finepoll.com you can vote and be heard […]

From YahooNews: 
Study: Laughter Really Is Contagious
If you see two people laughing at a joke you didn’t hear, chances are you will smile anyway–even if you don’t realize it.
According to a new study, laughter truly is contagious: the brain responds to the sound of laughter and preps the muscles in the face to join in the […]

Do you know someone who wants their dog to face the same utter humiliation they place on their children?
Do you know anyone who thinks it’s wise to emasculate their German Sheppard enough so it will get its ass kicked by Poodles and Chihuahuas?
Do you have a friend, or loved one, who is looking to compete […]

 
From The Daily Mail UK:
The superlions marooned on an island
Marooned on an island, this group of lions should have died out. Instead, in an evolutionary twist, they’ve learned to swim and become strong enough to tackle their only prey… giant buffalo
Fearless, ferocious and mightier than the world has ever seen, this is the new breed […]

From MSNBC.COM: 
Mom sues over rejection of yearbook photo
Senior’s picture with sword nixed because of school’s no-weapons policy
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The mother of a high school senior who posed in chain mail and held a medieval sword for his yearbook picture sued after the school rejected the photo because of its “zero-tolerance” policy against weapons.
Patrick Agin, […]

 
With Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanza just around the corner, I thought I would start a new feature on Goofyblog…
GOOFY CHRISTMAS IDEAS!
Every few days I’ll be featuring a really nifty Christmas gift you might want to purchase for your loved ones, family member, cranky old grandparent, or mortal enemy.
So let’s get started!
Goofyblog’s first 2006 Christmas Idea….
 
LEFT BEHIND - ETERNAL […]