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2006-03-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Pristine Alaskan Glacier Turns Into Tropical Wasteland

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Posted by phil_b 2006-03-26 04:43|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 " Clouds of mosquitos, once so abundant in the cool moist climate of Alaska, have all but disappeared."
This is a bad thing?

Posted by raptor 2006-03-26 07:04|| 2006-03-26 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Okay, I'm pretty sure this is satire ....

lol

Posted by lotp 2006-03-26 07:07|| 2006-03-26 07:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, but the essence of good satire is that you are not entirely sure.

Great site BTW.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-03-26 07:59|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-26 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 nice images

the new alaska looks like a place Gilligan and the Skipper would land on.

Posted by mhw 2006-03-26 09:27|| 2006-03-26 09:27|| Front Page Top

#5 accounts of the native Inuits' snowmobiles falling through the ice, threatening their traditional way of life
LOL, what a hoot!

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-03-26 09:37|| 2006-03-26 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 other stories on the left are just as good:
Polar Bears "Dropping Like Flies" From Heat Exhaustion

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-03-26 12:09|| 2006-03-26 12:09|| Front Page Top

#7 phil_b: Yes, but the essence of good satire is that you are not entirely sure.

Nothing subtle about this - sledgehammer-like it was. Amusing, too.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-26 12:18|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-03-26 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Kinda reminded me of the "fight the scourge of Dihydrogen Monoxide contamination" website I stumbled on a couple of years back...

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2006-03-26 13:54|| 2006-03-26 13:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Inuit know ice.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-26 16:01|| 2006-03-26 16:01|| Front Page Top

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