Amazon Offering "Word to Word" For Free Today

If you have an Android device, get on over to Amazon today and get "Word to Word" for free.

Greant fun and it makes you think a little.

Case of Bubonic Plague Discovered in Oregon

Apparently Oregon has something in common with Europe during the Middle Ages.

The Bubonic Plague.

An Oregon man who contracted a rare case of bubonic plague, a disease that ravaged Europe during the Middle Ages, is expected to lose his fingers and some toes, but should be well enough to leave the hospital within weeks, his family said on Wednesday.

Paul Gaylord, 59, spent almost a month in intensive care, most of it on life support after he was infected while trying to take a rodent from the mouth of his cat on June 2. The choking cat bit his hand and scratched him.

Doctors at a clinic near his home in Prineville, Oregon, about 150 miles southeast of Portland, first prescribed an antibiotic for cat scratch fever, according to his niece, Andrea Gibb.

Several days later, his condition worsening, Gaylord returned to the clinic and was rushed to a local hospital. He was then transferred to a larger hospital in nearby Bend, Oregon.

"The doctors said he wasn't going to make it," Gibb said, adding that her uncle is expected to lose all of his fingers, which have turned a black, and most of his toes. "He has had ups and downs, but he is very strong."

Gaylord, a welder, begins physical therapy Wednesday.

The plague, often spread by flea bites or through contact with a sickened animal, is believed to have killed around 25 million Europeans during the Middle Ages, when it was known as the Black Death.

Yahoo Odd News with Greg Proops - Romantic Soldier

My wife says I don't have a romantic bone in my body.  This soldier sure does.

Greg has a great story on Odd News today.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/soldiers-incredibly-romantic-gesture-wife-193000462.html

Heavy Hundred of Sports Talk Generates Record Hits

The recently published Heavy Hundred of Sports Talk – The 100 Most Important Sports Talk Radio Hosts in America, has generated so much traffic to Talkers.com that – at times – navigation on the site slowed to a crawl, forcing the IT staff at Talkers.com to increase the site’s bandwidth to accommodate the visitors. 

This massive interest in America’s sports talk radio personalities is indicative of the format’s popularity with both consumers and from within the media industry.  TALKERS VP/managing editor Kevin Casey states, “Sports talk radio is off-the-charts popular in so many markets across the country – reflecting the importance of sports in American popular culture. 

The interest in the Heavy Hundred of Sports Talk from people working within the business is one thing, but the attention from consumers of sports talk and the rabid sports blogosphere is astounding.  The passion that exists for the format, the personalities, as well as the games and athletes themselves.

You can check out the Heavy Hundred here:

http://www.talkers.com/2012-talkers-heavy-hundred-of-sports-talk/

Static Pixels Brings Your Instagram Images Offline

From the birthplace of singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen and William Shatner (Montreal!), Static Pixels wants to bring digital photos "out of your devices and into the physical world". They're kicking off their mission with what they're calling DeepSquare prints: four-packs of your favorite Instagram pics thrown onto 5"x5" pieces of cardboard, proving once and for all that cardboard is indeed the most hipster of paper products. What's that? More details? OK, fine, here:

Show 'em off on a wall using their built-in mounts, or stand 'em upright thanks to swing-out stands, which is no longer just the most boring swing dance move ever

Like balls on a bull, each one is hand-examined for quality

The UV inks they use are fade resistant, so don't expect to find 'em Rollin' With Kid 'n Play

Sign up and you can directly Tweet them photos to print

They're made entirely from post-consumer, FSC-certified products, so whenever you tire of your photos of kittens whimsically playing with plastic bags, take a cue from Shatner's spoken-word work and recycle

Read more: http://www.thrillist.com/home-gadgets/nation/static-pixels_art_online-shops_custom#ixzz20t2iZ89A