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After a long summer break, your favorite television shows are finally starting new seasons, and you are prepared: You have a 15-gallon bucket full of Kettle Corn ready for your prime time couch-potato enjoyment; you’ve made space on your Tivo by deleting old episodes since you’ve got them neatly

Two-hundred-and-forty mph is the projected top speed, but that’s not really the point. The point is the designer and engineer, Joe Harmon, is using wood in every area possible to build this car, which he calls, the Splinter. He’ll be using a twin-supercharged Northstar V8 to push the 2500lb.

I think I speak for everyone on the site when I say this: historically, corporate comic book characters who aren’t straight white American males have gotten a pretty bum rap. I think things are improving, and there are reasons to be hopeful.

We know that Japanese cars have already conquered American car world. Statistics said that Toyota sales last year was even bigger than GM, Ford, and Chrysler sales combined. The condition was triggered by gasoline price increase. Car with big machine capacity definitely consume more gasoline than Japan’s small car.

The Week in Gay Geek: "Star Trek Online" has gay potential, "Hard Heroes" and more!Star Trek Online has a gay community before the game hits stores, the iPhone opens doors for gay games and superhero hotties abound at the Hard Heroes

Remember a while ago Sgt. Sausagepants created a wee bit of a kerfluffle when he threw down the gauntlet to Marvel? We wanted to see Northstar be treated as a full character, relationships and all. Well, it seems like Brian Cronin over at Comics Should Be Good is of a like mind.

Sounds like a hoax. But, a pair of “Bigfoot hunters say they will present what they contend is the most definitive proof yet of an animal that science says does not exist: DNA evidence and photographs of a dead specimen they say they found in a remote swath of woods in northern Georgia,” according to the New York Times.

Via my email--Obama Campaign Press Release from Jeff Giertz:FAIRBANKS, AK – The Barack Obama campaign in Alaska today announced the endorsement of Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Jim Whitaker. Whitaker is a registered Republican.

It happened again yesterday. Emails came from strangers whose passion for things like permaculture and sustainability and educating folks about eco-conscious choices filled my morning with replies and checking out web sites and connecting, however, loosely, across miles, through technology.

The following is the transcription of a menu card here at the North Star Continental Grand Hotel in Beijing describing the house specialty “Peking Roasted Duck”. “The ducks are raised for the sole purpose of making the food. Force-fed, they are kept in cages which restrain them from moving about, so as to fatten them up and make the meat tender.