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25 Most Mispronounceable Names in Baseball

Here’s the thing – if it had just been Greg Gagne, who calls himself “Gag-Knee,” like James Cagney, we would have all been fine with the pronunciation.

If it had just been Eric Gagne, who calls himself “Gan-Yay,” like Kanye West, we would have all been fine with that pronunciation as well.

Instead, five years after Greg Gag-Knee left baseball in 1997, Eric Gan-Yay started pitching for the Dodgers and won the 2003 NL Cy Young Award, leading to statements like this:

“Remember those 1987 Twins, with Kent Hrbek, Gary Gaetti, and Greg Gan-Yay?”

This is invariably followed by a ten minute conversation about how Greg was actually a Gag-Knee.

haiku?!?!?!?

will someone write a haiku poem about summer?

im doing one for fall and i want an example since i wasnt there to listen to my teacher explain how to do it. and i want an example since all i know its 5 sylbols, 7, then 5.

best example gets 10 points. :]
okayy well i wrote this one about fear is it good?
Silent lightning bolts
Come from the air around me
Pulling me under

i have problems with starting my renault 11 gtl it cranks just a bit but doesn’t start. the batery i fine

the battery has 12 volts if i turn the key another time i just get a click from the starter motor.

KABUL, Afghanistan — a second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.

The family of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, had been notified of his death, the U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to disclose the information.

Newlove and Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley went missing last Friday in Logar province. NATO recovered the body of McNeley – a 30-year-old father of two from Wheat Ridge, Colorado – in the area Sunday.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in Kabul on Thursday that two days ago the Taliban left the “body of a dead American soldier for the U.S. forces” to recover. The Taliban said McNeley was killed in a firefight and insurgents had captured Newlove. Mujahid offered no explanation for Newlove’s death.

NATO officials have not offered an explanation as to why the two service members were in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan.

The sailors were instructors at a counterinsurgency school for Afghan security forces, according to senior military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. The school was headquartered in Kabul and had classrooms outside the capital, but they were never assigned anywhere near where McNeley’s body was recovered, officials said.

The chief of police of Logar province, Gen. Mustafa Mosseini, said coalition troops removed Newlove’s body about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Newlove was shot once in the head and twice in the torso, according to Logar provincial spokesman Din Mohammad Darwesh. he speculated Newlove may have been wounded in a shootout with the Taliban and died because there was no medical care available in the rugged mountain area.

Mosseini said he believed the body washed downstream after rains Tuesday night.

Who will control the northwest passage if thawed as predicted?

Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are rising twice as fast as in the southern half. the summers are getting longer and the pack ice is getting thinner. By the year 2015 the North Pole is expected to be navigable for normal ships six months out of the year. Canada states that the passage is like the Mississippi river for the u.s. since it has land on both sides of the passage, not very wide on the north, but still it’s Canadian land.then it passes by Alaska, so the u.s. says it’s international water.who will end up with the Northwest Passage?

Angelina Jolie Joins Council on Foreign Relations

Angelina Jolie has been showing her glamorous side lately – walking red carpets from Cannes to Hollywood – but Thursday she was honored for her philanthropic work by joining the Council on Foreign Relations, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

The prestigious think tank officially approved Jolie’s membership nomination, adding her to a group whose membership includes presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Secretary ofState Condoleezza Rice and journalist Tom Brokaw.

Earlier this year, Jolie, already a UN Goodwill Ambassador, was nominated and recommended for approval by the CFR membership.

“Angelina Jolie is accomplished in her field and has demonstrated serious interest in issues such as Darfur, international education and refugees,” says Lisa Shields, vice president of communications at CFR.”As such, her profile fits very well with other young professionals we’ve selected as the next generation of foreign policy leaders.”

In the new issue of Esquire, Jolie says she wants to be remembered for her humanitarian work, not her acting. “When I die, do I want to be remembered as an actress? no.” she tells the magazine. “I recently had a column published in a newspaper and at the end it didn’t say I was an actress. it said that I was a UN Goodwill Ambassador – that’s all. And I was really proud.”

For Jolie, her CFR membership is another big step in a path that began in 2001, when she first joined the United Nations refugee agency after visiting Cambodia while filming Tomb Raider, the country where she also adopted her first child, Maddox. Since that time, Jolie has visited refugee camps in over 30 countries, and adopted two other children, Zahara, 2, from Ethiopia and Pax Thien, 3, from Vietnam. She and boyfriend Brad Pitt also have a 1-year-old daughter, Shiloh.

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Aveyond: How do i find the daeva to save the druid of agriculture when I’m already inside the black bone cave?

I’m already inside the black bone caves behind the man with the glass eye’s house. I can’t seem to find any door leading further inside and I’ve been around so many times already. All I can see is this crack on the wall. HELP! PLEASE!

Radar Turns Mobile Pictures Into Conversation Starters

There are plenty of mobile apps that let you snap a picture and share it with your friends or the world—Zannel, Umundo, Mocospace, Pikki, MobyPicture, Yahoo Go—but one that does an especially good job at just sharing pictures among your friends is Radar. the service is run by Tiny Pictures, a San Francisco startup that has raised $4 million from Mohr Davidow Ventures. whenever you snap a picture you want to share, you send it via e-mail to your Radar account. it appears immediately, and everyone you’ve invited as a friend can see the pictures and comment on them—either online or on their phones. the best way to use Radar is to download the application to your phone (it just added a custom iPhone app today). whenever you log in, you see a stream of thumbnails of every picture you and your friends have posted. the commenting interface is pretty slick (you can plug it into AIM for instant notifcations of when a new comment has been posted to one of your pics). it the key to Radar because it turns each picture into a conversation starter.

This only works, of course if you A) have friends on Radar, and B) they post pictures on a regular basis. Radar, which launched more than a year ago in the summer of 2006, has only 600,000 users worldwide. But that number has been doubling every month for the past three months. So we might be at an inflection point here, especially as more capable phones come onto the market that can take advantage of its Web-like features. Radar serves 250,000 pictures and videos a day. eighty percent of its traffic comes from mobile devices (it also has a regular Website), and 70 percent of its users are outside the U.S.

While most of the conversations and photos on Radar are private, you can choose to make them public. and today the company is also launching a public gallery, where advertisers can try to entice Radar members to subscribe to their photo streams. right now, there are photo streams for the upcoming movie Hitman, pictures of frivolous but funny merchandise from iWoot, top video picks from Vimeo, and CEO John Poisson’s own Radar stream. there will soon be Radar channels from Hendrick’s Gin, iTunes, and the stealth Web video series Nowhere Men (which will focus on a group people “missing” since 2002 and the audience has to help unravel the mystery). this sort of advertising will only work in so far as people don’t see it as advertising, which is why I like it.