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more about #turkey The5thElephant: Little did this particular turkey realize that his father's crazed ramblings about how his son would one day fly in space actually came true. more » Hello Mister Walrus: I doubt that "sneaking" the turkey into space really entailed violating some security rule. I bet that astronauts are allowed to bring some weight in ... more » Kirkaiya: Is it just me, or does that photo look like a jumping head-crab from HL2 is about to pounce on the shuttle Atlantis? more » SacredByte: Come on, astronauts sneaking things into space isn't really a new thing -- it goes back at least as far back as the Apollo missions where Alan She... more » TrapOx: The story is pure bull. You don't "sneak" anything into one of the most secure facilities on earth, especially into a ship where launch calculations a... more » ninjagin: Funny, I always thought Jesus lived in Spain, where they make paella for Spanish Thanksgiving, a celebration of the historic meeting of a guy from Mad... more » fryhole: Astronauts are fucking genius more » superhappyfuntime: I'm glad to see the Space Shuttle has less strict security than our airports. more » Th12eat: This is meant as partial sarcasm ... but, how in the hell do we have rigorous security in aviation all across the country; then a government funded sp... more » Nick1693: How do you sneak a turkey anywhere? more » -
#space
Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
NASA didn't plan any traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner for the astronauts at the International Space Station, but they had it anyway: Someone sneaked the real thing into the space shuttle Atlantis without anyone from ground control noticing it. More » -
#iphoneapps
The Week in iPhone Apps: A Horn O' Plenty
Today we give thanks together—thanks for our family, our friends, the delicious high-calorie spread before us, and the ability to slap your friend's face on a cartoon turkey and email it to their mom. Behold, it's the finest eating day of the year, and the App Store is here to help with some new holiday cheer and a few classics suited to the occasion. More » -
#thanksgiving
How To Safely Microwave a Turkey
Don't look at me that way. You know that you've at least considered it. This Thanksgiving, why slave away all day over a hot oven baking a turkey when you have space age microwave technology right in your own kitchen? According to the USDA, "Turkeys can be successfully cooked in a microwave oven—whole or in parts." And they've kindly included a complete set of useful tips on their site. More » -
#localizationproblems
A Cellphone's Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail
The life of 20-year-old Emine, and her 24-year-old husband Ramazan Çalçoban was pretty much the normal life of any couple in a separation process. After deciding to split up, the two kept having bitter arguments over the cellphone, sending text messages to each other until one day Ramazan wrote "you change the topic every time you run out of arguments." That day, the lack of a single dot over a letter—product of a faulty localization of the cellphone's typing system—caused a chain of events that ended in a violent blood bath (Warning: offensive language ahead.) More » -
