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These pictures are making the blog rounds, with a different story on each blog. The key facts though: 727, lots of hail, and not a fun place to be.

Check out the pictures, they’re pretty amazing.

Pictures: just what did happen to this hail-damaged Boeing aircraft?-22/09/2006-London-Flightglobal.com

One of the random friends that I’ve picked up on facebook (she grew up in my home town) just posted a bunch of Christmas pictures which show her in front of the Christmas tree, in the kitchen, etc.

No, that’s not the odd part. The odd part is the pet deer walking around the house with her.

It raises all sorts of questions… do deer make good pets? what do you feed a pet deer? how did they even get a pet deer to begin with? Also, the deer didn’t have on a diaper or anything, so can deer be trained to use a litter box or hold it until they go outside?

Here’s an impossible time-waster thanks to facebook. If you go to your friends list and then click “friend game” at the top of the page, you can answer trivia questions about your friends. Things like “Which of your friends has “hardcore industrial techno” in their favorite music?” with a list of names after the question.

Of course, this gets to be a problem when someone has entered “almost anything” under their favorite music. I ended up at about 10% correct answers. Yes, that does seem to be worse than randomly picking.