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… and I thought it was a naughty word: Mingus, TX (city, FIPS 48720)Location: 32.53683 N, 98.42393 WPopulation: (2000): 246 (130 housing units)Area: 1.5 square milesZip codes: 76463Mayor: Milo Moffit MINGUS, TEXAS. (map here). It was named after William Mingus, an 1856 settler, and developed because of the 1881 construction of the Texas and Pacific

Opera is Spyware!?!Dodgy goings on backstage“Now I’m worried. At this point, I no longer trust Opera, and will soon be removing it from all the PC’s I own and influence – and that’s a great lot of PC’s BTW. So Opera folks – unless you can come up with a complete and thorough explanation, you

A few months ago there was an amazing story on TV about the meeting and process of healing that Jo Tuffnell had to go through with the IRA man who killed her father in the 1984 ‘Brighton Bomb’, Patrick Magee. “I knew that I had a choice in the days after the bomb: to stay

The Shape of Life provides some amazing piccies of a variety of creatures… from sponges to jellyfish, flatworms, spiders, sluggies and many more.

Hot air ballooning with a twist… A Cloudhopper is a single-person hot-air balloon. There is no basket: the pilot wears a harness that is attached to the balloon, with a fuel tank and burner situated behind him or her. Compared to conventional hot-air balloons, cloudhoppers are very maneuverable and can land in relatively small areas;