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This Japanese guy does not like us. Let's feed him to the Germans!

Oh, and tourism in Guam goes up.

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The Museum of Glass receive some good news. It has achieved accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition for a museum. 

"Accreditation signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies, and to the museum-going public.  To celebrate and to thank the community for its support, the Museum will be free to all visitors on Saturday, September 25, 2010," state a press release.

Congratulations to the Museum of Glass.

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WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Everyone be egg-stra careful when eating your breakfast this morning.

Do you have a Harry Popper in your wallet?

Being unemployed sucks. Thank goodness for retirement money!

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The Cloned Meat Wars

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You might not be monitoring them, but they definitely aren't listening to you. The Journal of the American Medical Association found that one in five kids 12-19 have hearing loss, most likely due to earbud headphone use. Kids need to read more, anyway.

WTF: More than a fifth of Pakistan is under water.

Wired magazine says the web is dead.

Weatherman finger fail.

Time waster of the day: vintage calculators?

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Bassist Joey Spampinato of NRBQ is 60.

News To Us

Accused Craigslist killer meets his maker.

Ex-JetBlue flight attendant and folk hero Steven Slater has been offered a reality TV show. He really is an inspiration.

Dinosaurs found alive in Papua New Guinea

Activists are urging France to pay back the €17 billion "independence debt" to Haiti that the Caribbean country was forced to pay nearly 200 years ago. Good one.

You can follow North Korea on Twitter. Hopefully we can "Like" them too some day.

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

The stats are in: iPhone owners are a bit more likely to have sex than folks with Blackberries, and get nearly twice as lucky as those poor suckers with Androids.

Take this Sarah Palin: President Obama signed a bill yesterday that will allot $26 billion to save approximately 160,000 teachers' jobs as well as police, firefighter and nurse positions.

Proposal: Giants could hold up transmission lines in Iceland.

So Germany: Germany announced today that it will closely monitor Google "Street View" and allow people to opt out of the mapping system.

WHAT I HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

I found an interesting piece on musician Kevin Cady in the Trib this morning. I remember his zany Smoking Catapillar shows at Bob's Java Jive in the '90s. According to Kathleen Merryman Cady is putting the band back together - sort of. Check it here.

I found that the naked rollercoaster record has been broken.

I found that if I do, some day, hear voices in my head, I should ignore them - unlike this guy.

I found that Lollapalooza still exists and people still attend it. But more importantly, I found a half-naked Lady Gaga crowdsurfed it (NSFW). Here's hoping Lady Gaga takes time off preparing for her Tacoma Dome show to crowdsurf at the Music and Art in Wright Park festival.

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Actress Victoria Jackson is 51.

>>> SOUTH SOUND SPECIFIC

Ground breaking for the Tacoma Dome took place on July 1, 1981.  The building was constructed in less than two years and officially opened on April 21, 1983.  The Tacoma Dome hosted its first major concert on Aug. 11, 1983 with David Bowie, which so happens to be another Tacoma Dome first - accidental hairspray to the eyes in the men's bathroom.

>>> NEW WORD FOR THE URBAN DICTIONARY

sunstupid / suhn-stoo-pid

To think it's suddenly OK to stare at the sun.

Usage example: Last night, for a minute, Mitch forgot about pesky trifles like love, mortgages, child rearing, planting gardens, dreams, money, shoes, large wooden letters spelling out cuss words in Tollefson Plaza, parking spaces, mysterious rashes, foreign policy, baseball, Best of Tacoma 2010 and everything else as he stood sunstupid in his backyard weeds gazing at the red sun as it set behind his trailer.

>>> DID YOU HEAR?

The Dutch said "screw Afghanistan."

Magic bracelets make more sense than a card in the spokes.

Corey Hart wears his sunglasses on the field.

Man robs Wendy's, then calls back to complain.

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Drummer Simon Kirke of Bad Company is 61.

>>> SOUTH SOUND SPECIFIC

The Thorne Mansion was built on American Lake between 1909 and 1911. Now a bitchin' bed and breakfast, it was once considered one of the most beautiful estates and gardens in the nation, and often attracted illustrious people of the early 1900s.

>>> NEW WORD FOR THE URBAN DICTIONARY

blewberry / bloo-ber-ee / verb

To blow shit up in a park called Blueberry.

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Drummer Roger Taylor of Queen is 61.

>>> SOUTH SOUND SPECIFIC

In 1890 industrialist W.R. Rust established Tacoma Smelting & Refining Company and a company town for his employees, naming the place "Smelter." On Oct. 22, 1906, residents - tired of being targeted with the tag line, "You smelt it, you dealt it - voted to change to the name to Ruston, in honor of Rust. Ruston was officially incorporated Nov. 10, 1906.

>>> NEW WORD FOR THE URBAN DICTIONARY

To give up the farm and get loaded instead

Usage example: Farmer Ted, after working in his farm fields in Moses Lake from 4:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. every fucking day for the last 40 years, then hearing that the weather would exceed 100 degrees today, jägervated himself into a coma of bliss.

>>> DID YOU READ THIS?

Screw the Barefoot Bandit. Did you hear about Fake Boob Clowns Pants Robber?

When geeks go bad.

Learn to draw a Sasquatch

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Two-dimensional party themes are so 2009.