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Man Goes Fishing, Gets Stuck in Mud

Add another victim to North Carolina's prolonged drought. Donald Meeks set out Monday morning with bow and arrow in hand to hunt for carp on Falls Lake. He almost didn't return. The retired landscaper from Durham went one foot out on the lake because the drought had left the water level so low.

Mud Island Emerges Off Trinidad Coast

A mud-spewing fissure in the ocean floor has given birth to a tiny Caribbean island and is posing a threat to small boats.

Indonesian Engineers Plug Crater

Indonesian engineers successfully dropped several large concrete balls into a fissure Monday to try to stem a gushing mud eruption that has engulfed hundreds of homes and displaced 11,000 people.

The Vine

Obama: Being Married to a President Doesn't Make You One

Source: Truthdig

With the Iowa caucus fast approaching, the candidates are getting less shy about flinging a little mud. Take this jab from Barack Obama, for example: "I think the fact of the matter is that Sen.

Obama: Being Married to a President Doesn't Make You One

Source: Truthdig

"I think the fact of the matter is that Sen. Clinton is claiming basically the entire eight years of the Clinton presidency as her own, except for the stuff that didn't work out, in which case she says she has nothing to do with it. ... "

Clinton camp fires back over column

Source: Reuters

Top Democratic rivals for president tore into each other on Saturday after a conservative columnist asserted front-runner Hillary Clinton claimed to have damaging information about Barack Obama.

Wall of mud engulfs Welsh village

Source: Sky.com

Residents of this Welsh village don't even live that near a river. But they were woken up by a wall of water, rubble and silt cascading through their homes Pictures

Quake may have affected mud volcano

Source: The Age

Indonesia's powerful earthquake may have affected the devastating mudflow in East Java. The Sidoarjo Mudflow Management Board today said the massive crater had been spurting more mud than normal in recent days.

Paya Indah Wetland

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The Paya Indah Wetland is one of the top nature attractions in Malaysia. It is also the latest ecotourism park.

Clock powered by mud

Source: pcnews

This clock is powered by earth, no batteries or other power needed. Just mud… We need more mud for a computer powered by mud

Deep in arctic mud, geologists find strong evidence of climate change

Source: PhysOrg.com

How severe will global warming get? Jason P. Briner is looking for an answer buried deep in mud dozens of feet below the surface of lakes in the frigid Canadian Arctic.

Woman Burned Alive Trying To Drive Pickup Out Of Mud

Source: local6.com

A woman was burned to death in a freak accident Wednesday when her pickup became stuck in some thick mud and a fire ignited while she accelerated and spun her tires to free the vehicle, according to a Local 6 News report.

How to Shoot a Mud Bowl - Getting Down & Dirty with your Camera

This is a revision of an article I did for a blog some time ago. Content and photos updated for this version.

Sour grapes and mud

Source: The Miami Herald

Dave Barry, in usual stride, takes on the wine country of California. Along the way he encounters grapes, snobbish wine-tasters, and steaming hot mud. You just know it's going to be good.

Mud gusher buries homes, factories / 10,000 forced to flee vast flow in East Java

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

The gigantic lake of mud that spurted up from deep underground to engulf hundreds of homes and 19 factories in East Java is a depressingly familiar crisis for the geologists and engineers who have been trying for months to stop it, so far without success.

Java Mud Volcano Seems Unstoppable -

Source: nature.com

Could Indonesia's mud flow be put to good use? As steaming mud continues to pour over Sidoarjo, in eastern Java, Indonesia, geologists who have visited the scene say the four-month-old eruption may never be stopped — at least not by human intervention.

Indonesian President declares toxic spill a national disaster

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

A toxic mud spill spurting from a part-Australian-owned gas well in eastern Java has been declared a national disaster by the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The Gray Ooze That Ate the Indonesian Villages

Source: The L.A. Times

Nothing, it seems, can stop the mud. For more than three months, the hot, noxious goop has spewed up through a crack in the earth at a natural-gas exploration site, swamping everything in its path.

Man dies stuck in mud

Source: CNN

A man running from a routine traffic stop early Tuesday sank waist-deep in mud and apparently died of exhaustion and cold while authorities tried to pull him out.

WoW: The Text Adventure - Wired News

Source: Wired News

Zork and Mud fans will appreciate this.

Zach's socks

The socks were cotton fabric and very discolored with mud. Zach had been wearing them during his football games and run them inside the second drawer of his chest-of-drawers as if attacking an opposing player.

Trends in Japan - Shiny Mud Balls

Source: -

At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or balls of mud that shine.

Officials Puzzled by Okla. Gas Geysers

Source: Newsday.com

The geysers have appeared throughout the countryside of rural Kingfisher, with stretches of up to 12 miles between spots, and some as short as a quarter of a mile.