These are the links that were the first headline on cliffdweller.com during the month of March 2005.
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- March 1, 2005: Happy Birthday two of my good friends today, Worldwide Pablo here in Portland and Dana Lande in Oslo! See if you can find pictures of each of them here on cliffdweller…
I won't tell you how old he is, that's for him to spread around. Send him an email and wish him a happy birthday! - March 2, 2005: Because God hates people who think they know what God hates.
A promising article from CNN showing that the Fred Phelps Agenda fails even in his home town. - March 3, 2005: Keeping up with the White Shark Weekly Capsule at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
From the website: Over the years, some of the large sharks in our exhibits have occasionally bit or eaten a tankmate. Until last Wednesday, that hadn't been the case with the white shark. That night, however, she bit and killed a soupfin shark in the Outer Bay exhibit. - March 4, 2005: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The most true words ever spoken by a politician were offered by FDR in his inaugural speech on this day in 1933. - March 10, 2005: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." Today in 1876 was the day that Alexander Graham Bell transmitted these words in the first Telephone Message using human speech.
Taken out of context, that quote seems a little gay. - March 11, 2005: What's all this hoopla about Saving Toby?
Save Toby is a campaign from someone who put up an anonymous website where he said he'd kill and cook his bunny if he didn't recieve $50k by June. The link is an article about it. - March 12, 2005: Who knew? James Taylor and Liza Minelli have the same birthday: today!
One's a member of Gay Royalty, the other is just an icon. Can you guess which is which? - March 14, 2005: Happy Pi Day!
Today is Pi (3.14) Day. Lest you think I'm the geek here, check out the link… Next year is Pi's 300th birthday. - March 21, 2005: Selma to Montgomery March begins.
In the name of African-American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators, led by Martin Luther King Jr., begin a historic march from Selma, Alabama, to the State Capitol at Montgomery. Read all about it at The History Channel… - March 25, 2005: Fun with Credit Cards.
The Credit Card Prank II is some guy's very detailed account of trying to get the clerks at stores to pay attention to his signature. - March 26, 2005: Not content to clog the webways and the magazines and the mailboxes and the movies and the tvs and so on, Marketers are now beaming classified ads into space. And, remember, Craigslist was there first.
From the Q&A page:
Q: Do you really think there is a chance that Extraterrestrials will receive and understand this transmission?
A: DSCN has assured us that there is a nonzero chance of this happening. Pretty exciting! - March 31, 2005: Free at last! Today the Monterey Bay Aquarium released it's White Shark back into the wild.
For the first time ever, a young white shark thrived for more than six months on exhibit before we tagged her and returned her to the wild on March 31, 2005. Aquarium staff released the shark in the offshore waters south of Monterey Bay.
