90,000 people in Ontario lose power ~ one of them goes surfing

This Dan Kappa photo is from a Toronto Star article:

What is the article about?  Well, a power outage of course. 90,000 people have been cut off due to the crazy weather.  That’s why the guy went surfing?
Huh?  What?  The article doesn’t even contain the word "surf."
Exactly.  Welcome to Rapidsea.
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The year’s ten most horrific incidents in paradise

Here are the Rapidsea choices for the year’s ten most horrific incidents:
10. "Charge after bottle attack on stranger [over a cigarette]" Perth Now
9.  "Dolphins save surfer from becoming shark’s bait" MSNBC.com
8.  "Man shot by stray bullet near beach" Jerusalem Post and AP
7.  "Great white shark attack victim fights back - and wins" NZ Herald

6.  "Maine [...]

Mitt Romney Meets the Flip Flops

Whether you hate politics or not, you might find it interesting that Tim Russert pulled out a pair of flip flops on camera this weekend while interviewing Mitt Romney and confronted him on some of the issues that he has changed his mind on over the years.  Who knew the beachwear item would end up [...]

Environmental Graffiti: Australia Goes Green With Anti-Whaling Action and Fake Fish Flinging

Australians fling fish? 
Umm, okay.
Read it here at Environmental Graffiti.

Maybe their Navy could fling some fake whales at the Japanese whaling research ships.  As for me, I’m going to go throw some cans of tuna to see how strong I am.
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Alf to Debate Bill O’Reilly ~ in an aloha shirt November 30, 2007

Have you heard?  Alf is putting on his aloha shirt uniform and heading to the O’Reilly Factor tonight.

 
I’m not really sure what to say about this one.
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Sentinel: ‘Beachfront pork’ is bad federal policy

Hurricane Isabel created the destruction seen in this picture, but it was federal policy that rebuilt the road in the same place.  Is this the proper function of our government?
The Orlando Sentinel has a critique of the recent Water Resources Development Act.  In an "Other Views" piece called "Beachfront pork: Bad science and bad federal [...]

CNN: Billions of jellyfish wipe out Northern Ireland salmon farm

I’m trying to imagine a layer of jellyfish that is 10 square miles in area and 35 feet thick.  Not a pretty site.  Read it here.
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Weeks later ~ palm trees still the focus of California fire images

You won’t find many images of the recent California fires in the media that don’t contain palm trees.  The Huffington Post front page today has a new one up with an article claiming that perhaps more could have been done to stop the fires:

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US officials being investigated for $730m US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq ~ $138m overrun

The biggest escape resort in the world currently under construction is the US Embassy in Iraq.  Perhaps nowhere in the world is an American safe zone with a few happy moments more desired.  They call the area "The Green Zone" for a reason.  According to the AP and MSNBC, the embassy itself will sit on [...]

Dubai ~ replacing New York as the center of the 21st-century world?

If you’re at all interested in Dubai, you may want to pick up a copy of the November 2007 issue of Metropolis magazine.  The issue is easy to find; it has a huge skyscraper on it, the Burj Dubai:

The cover design is great.  It shows the printer’s marks at the top to illustrate that the [...]

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