The miracle that is duct tape

And the magic word is "duct tape"

The Associated Press this week revealed that since at least 2001 NASA has had protocols in place to subdue crazed astronauts (in orbit) with duct tape (it also helped save Apollo 13). Known in Scandinavia as "Jesus Tape", duct tape is a well documented restraint for unruly movie characters, airline passengers, children, and patients. The Duct Tape Guys claim to have the world's most exhaustive duct tape website and have written more than seven books about duct tape. The fourth annual Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival and Parade will kick off on June 15, 2007. Avon, Ohio is also home to Duck brand duct tape. Duck Products hosts the Duck Tape Club; and annually sponsors Stuck at the Prom, a competition that offers a college scholarship to the person who creates the most stylish prom formal wear made from duct tape. There's lots of purveyors of duct tape novelty items: designer handbags, wallets, hats, belts, roses, and more. One that helped begin the trend is ducttapefashion.com. There's even fully inkjet printable sheets of duct tape at rippedsheets.com.

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Spinal Immobilization Protocol for Combative Patients

Welcome to DuctTapeGuys.com

Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival

Duck Products official website

Duck Tape Club

Duct Tape Fashions

Inkjet Printable Duct Tape

The nova in Scorpius

Watch The Skies

There's a nova in Scorpius visible by the naked-eye right now. Just discovered this month, it's below Jupiter looking south-southeast just before dawn. SkyTonight has an online almanac you can use to determine when and where for your location. Your Sky at Fourmilab can also give you a sky map, horizon view, and virtual telescope for your place and time. Don't forget the total lunar eclipse on March 3-4, you can use the US Navy's Lunar Eclipse Computer to find the when in your area. There were two Near Earth Object approaches today, and there will be one during the eclipse according to NASA's Earth Close-Approaches webpage. SpaceWeather can also give you information about these; plus solar flares, auroras, and the mystery rocket burn over Australia last night. But remember, The Earth Is Not Moving, your heliocentric beliefs are a carefully crafted Bible-bashing lie.

A Naked-Eye Nova in Scorpius

Your Sky

Lunar Eclipse Computer

NEO Earth Close-Approaches

SpaceWeather

The Earth Is Not Moving

The Week Behind circa March 28, 1997

The Wayback Machine

Last month there were bloglinks around about the Government guide to destroying old Woodsy Owl costumes including the mandatory oversight of an official USDA Forest Service law enforcement officer. Unfortunately the offending page had been removed by the powers that be at symbols.gov. Enter the Wayback Machine, the name for the Internet Archive's snapshot archives of the World Wide Web. The Internet Archive can help you locate removed pages, rotted links, and classics like ancient Week Behind pages. They also archive multimedia like Duck and Cover, Reefer Madness, and Battleship Potemkin. Denizens of the Sixties will remember the original Wayback Machine was in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Alas Poor Woodsy

Hokey Smoke! Rocky and Bullwinkle

The Axis of Evil Spinner

Terror in the comfort of your living room

Secular or spiritual, it's your choice. War On Terror: The Board Game has been banned from British department stores, condemned by the media, and forced to relocate its warehouse operation three times in five months. You can be either terrorists or the Empire and seek to dominate and/or liberate the world. More (or less) mainstream and available at Wal-Mart is Left Behind: Eternal Forces, based on the evangelical Left Behind series of books. You can join the Christian Tribulation Force (or the Antichrist's Global Community Peacekeepers) and try to kill your way to the top of the post-Rapture world. With either game you can taunt your (real-life) opponents with Terrorism Finger Puppets. For Apple users there's always Lamprey Systems' free vintage downloads of Mormonoids From The Deep or MacSpudd!

War On Terror, The Board Game

Left Behind Games

Left Behind: Eternal Forces

Terrorism Finger Puppets

Lamprey Systems