No, this is not about the heavy metal band from Phoenix, Arizona called Flotsam and Jetsam. Rather I've used a bit of poetic licence to group stories about things floating in the ocean and/or washed up on the shore. 1. Message in a Bottle a. "Woman gets 26yo bottled message" <http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6877571%255E13762,00.html> b. "Swiss tourist finds old message in bottle" <http://www.herald-sun.com/nationworld/14-375169.html> 2. "Rubber ducks spotted floating in the Pacific" <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s910822.htm> "Rubber duck armada goes with flow to provide clues on current affairs" <http://old.smh.com.au/news/0112/08/world/world19.html> 3. "Cubans found at sea on converted pickup truck" <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_802810.html> "Cubans try to 'drive' over Florida Straits" <http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6368557.htm> 4. "Climate change blamed as largest Arctic ice shelf breaks in two after 3,000 years" <http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=446434> 5. "Whale stranded on golf course" <http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=1706&item=277142> 6. "It's not an octopus, so what is 'the blob'?" <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s897695.htm> 7. "Flotsam and Jetsam" - a self-referential artwork <http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/flotsam.htm>
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Posted by Bruno at 2:41pm