Red Is A Flavor

War Plan Red
A military document outlining a hypothetical war between the United States and the British Empire, in which we would invade and occupy Canada. The plan was kept up-to-date until 1939, and was not declassified until 1974.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

Jedi census phenomenon
A phenomenon in which 390,000 British citizens listed their religion as Jedi Knight on a 2001 census form, which made Jedi Knight the fourth-largest religion in England and Wales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon

Stambovsky v. Ackley
A notable New York Supreme Court that held that a house was “legally haunted”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stambovsky_v._Ackley

Moon Trees
Trees grown from hundreds of seeds taken into orbit around the moon by Stuart Roosa during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Tree

Hiroo Onoda
A Japanese officer who fought in WWII. He was stationed at Lubang Island in the Phillipines, when the Allies claimed it. He hid in the jungles, apparently never knowing that the war ended. For 29 years he refused to surrender, dismissing every attempt to convince him that the war was over as a ruse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

Post-micturition convulsion syndrome
I’m thinking of joining a support group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-micturition_convulsion_syndrome

Extremely Useful Wikipedia Catagory
Every now and then you see a source of information that you just HAVE to hang on to. This is one of those.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Exploding_animals

Hachikō
An amazingly loyal Akita who would wait for his owner at the train station, for eleven years after his death. (seen to the right)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D?

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov
The man that literally saved the world, by not trusting Soviet Early warning systems, that indicated that there was an attack against USSR occuring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

Bluepoopapot
Originally uploaded by jking89

Christmas Eve practical joke I played on my Brother/Sister-in-Law.

Learn more about the Bluepoopapot at

http://www.mydrummond.com/2007/12/new-business-yard-decorations.html

I feel a change in the prank winds…2008 will be a good year!

Lake Wobegon Effect
Phenomenon whereby people who have little knowledge systematically think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon_effect

Dunning-Kruger effect
Phenomenon whereby people who have little knowledge systematically think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

Children’s Right to Roam
Interesting article showing how, over four generations, children have lost the right to explore the world around them. It it just another example of the “fear machine complex” at work.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=462091

Blind Faith
Very interesting article from the Washington Post showing how religiously ignorant many “religious” people are.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030102073.html

Knowledge – Fox vs. Daily Show
A new study by the Pew Research Study shows that viewers of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have the highest knowledge of national and international affairs, while Fox News viewers rank nearly dead last.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/daily-show-fox-knowledge/