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While driving in suburbia, I saw a sign in the yard of a home whose grounds were being renovated. It was an ad for the landscaping company that was doing the work. "Mesmerize visitors with your garden," it read. Judging from your astrological omens, Taurus, I think you're in an excellent position to do just that. It's your turn to enthrall and enchant people with your metaphorical "garden," whether that's a gourmet meal you cook, an outing you plan, a set of songs you sing, a report you prepare, or any other fine demonstration of your beauty and talents.
    — Brezsny

Good (news) Friday

According to some Dutch statisticians, it's safer to drive on Friday the 13th is safer than an average Friday, at least in The Netherlands. Also fewer reports of fire & theft.

A weedy sea dragon in Georgia is expecting. "Sea dragon pregnancies are rare because researchers don't know what gets them in the mood to mate."

Life expectancies continue to go up.

"[D]eath rates for 8 of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States all dropped significantly in 2006 ... Life expectancy at birth [chart] hit a new record high in 2006 of 78.1 years, a 0.3 increase from 2005."
— CDC press release with a link to the PDF of the report; this chart is from the report.

Michigan teenager survives lightening strike AND wins lottery. Ok, it's only $20, but who can resist a headline like that?

The Mars Phoenix lander is not only on Twitter, it's "conversing" with other folks on Twitter.

mixed tweets

• 10:06 Firefox 3 will be out soon www.crn.com/software/208403863
• 11:11 There appear to be birds right outside my office window. *tweet* *tweet* *tweet*
• 18:33 Northlake UU is flying a pride flag. I don't see those as often working on the eastside.

Automatically copied from http://www.twitter.com/jenk3 via LoudTwitter cause it's easy :)