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Last night and through today it appears that the Libyan rebels who have been seeking to overthrow Col. Gaddafi have made gains through the capital city of Tripoli. Coming perhaps quicker than anyone expected, there were uprisings throughout the city...
At the World Scrabble Championship, one player accused another of hiding a 'G' tile and requested he be taken to the toilets and strip searched to find the missing piece. The match was decided by one point and the request was overruled by the...
A MAN who ordered a special size 14.5 slipper to fit his oversized foot was sent a size 1,450 after the Chinese manufacturers failed to spot a decimal point in his order. Tom Boddingham, 27, has a size 13 right foot while his left is slightly...
Following on from the other Middle East countries that have seen popular uprisings over the last few months, it appears the people of Libya are attempting to do the same. However, it appears that Colonel Gaddafi is not prepared to go without a...
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2011/10/greenwich_villa_2.php Yesterday morning in the early hours a McDonald's employee assaulted a pair of female customers with a metal rod. One was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull and...
Done as a way to boost ad revenue, amongst other things.The Guardian found evidence that the Journal had been channelling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down rate, misleading...
Apparently the state of Colorado owes approximately 42million litres of water to two other states and so to pay it off they are draining a local beauty spot and allowing the water to run downstream to the other states. The beauty spot in question,...
I have no real opinion on whether a Carbon Tax is a good idea. And who can blame me. Too much rhetoric flying around. Having said that, if you held a gun to my head and made me take one side or another, I'd say I'm in favour of it. Taxing...
Due to the Earhtquake and disaster at Fukishima, the number of tourists going to Japan has fallen dramatically and so the government is trying a new scheme to boost the numbers again. They will be handing out 10,000 pairs of free trips to...
Another legend in the Bay Area, though perhaps less beloved than Steve Jobs, has passed away. Al Davis, for those who don't follow American football, was the coach, and later owner, of the Oakland Raiders team. He pioneered the "vertical...
The programme Great British Bake Off were down to the finalists when the camera lingered perhaps a little too long on one of the squirrels and its rather explicitly shown masculine attributes. Warning: Link contains Nuts
http://gizmodo.com/5838847/steve-jobs-is-dead I wasn't a huge Apple fan, and I imagine some of the diehards are crying their guts out right now. He worked very hard, and very astutely in the realm of computing which has so impacted our modern...
Those clever scientists have been at it again working out that Elephants can communicate. Ok, that's a bit harsh, they have actually been working out how elephant's communicate and what parts of their language might be. More here Makes you...
I'm happy to see this is being addressed in a New York Times editorial, as this is a wall I've beaten my head into many times. Frankly, no, junk food is not cheaper. The alternative to soda is water, and the alternative to junk food is not...
Oh, Gawker. Up to your usual standards of journalistic integrity, I see. We drew up the census in such a way that "Hispanic" people were almost forced to join the dark side—or should I say The White Side? High five, white devils! All of your...
So a new competitor enters the tablet PC market seeking to challenge the iPad, This time it's Amazon with the Kindle Fire which looks to be retailing at half the price of the iPad. There will also be new, and cheaper, versions of the Kindle as...
Uh, yeah. This Dutch traveller was caught trying to smuggle more than a dozen live hummingbirds in special pouches sewn into the inside of his underwear at Rochambeau airport in Cayenne, French Guiana. The birds were individually wrapped in...
In a protest against the uptight laws in Utah, a crowd of people stripped off and went on an Undie Run across Salt Lake City. Of course, runners were not allowed to be too risque, no nude running or thongs allowed. They could have gone the whole...
The last bullfight has taken place in Barcelona with tickets going up to 8 times their face value as crowds packed to see the final bouts. From this point on, those in favour would call it an attack on civil liberties, others would call it then end...
Sometime between 5pm Fri and 5am Sat GMT a large satellite is going to fall to earth. NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite has come to the end of its life and is now destined to become a nice fiery mark in the sky.... ...if it wasn't for...
The UK government is to pay compensation to the families of those killed on Bloody Sunday, 1972 in Derry City, Northern Ireland. That day, the Parachute Regiment opened fire on a civil rights march and killed 13 people. I don't know how well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Davis_case I'm against the death penalty even without the innocents being killed angle, I just don't think the state should be allowed do that to their citizens, erase their lives. Anyway, it seems there is...
"There are too many redheads in relation to demand," he told Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet. "I do not think you chose a redhead, unless the partner - for example, the sterile male - has red hair, or because the lone woman has a preference for...
Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein MP and "ex"-IRA has declared that he is running for the Irish Presidency. They have been looking to build the party in the Republic after doing well enough in Northern Ireland. The idea here is probably to pick up...
Just when you though the banking crisis wasn't going to get any worse and all the financial institutions were saying that it was all under control, a singel trader has managed to lose £1.3 billion in rogue trading at Swiss bank UBS. So much for...
So in the unauthorised biography of Sarah Palin we get plenty juicy material to sit and ponder. There is the taking of cocaine, smoking marijuana, having an affair with her husband's business partner as well as having a one-night stand with a...
It has become more and more common nowadays for biochemists looking for their doctorates to turn their hand to making animals glow. We've had worms, mice, rabbits and now we have kittens. The reason for this genetic amendment is to assist...
and it's none other than that crazy dictator Colonel Gaddafi. It appears that when his main compund was overrun, secret photo albums were found with a lot of photos of her. Who knew eh? More on the story here
A really rare find, maybe not as impressive as the Terracotta Army but still quite incredible. The well preserved remains of several horses and chariots from approximately 770BC in a previously uncovered tomb. It was found when a new hospital...
In 1968, the then liberal government removed the royal designation from Canada's armed forces when they were amalgamated into just the Canadian Military Forces. This is soon to be reversed by the currect conservative government and the Royal prefix...
Saudi Arabia is looking to build the world's tallest tower and so beat the 1km mark. I'm sure the views will be amazing, but its going to make a big mark if it falls over. More here
I've been watching the news feeds of the incoming riots, civil disturbances, looting, call it what you may and I feel sick. My home city is burning and the police are stretched beyond all measures. This isn't an anarchistic riot, this isn't a...
There's a woman who has won a total of $20 million in four different Texas lotteries. Turns out, she's got a PhD in statistics from Stanford, and since three of the wins were scratch-off tickets, a reporter has a theory that she might have figured...
Dear God, how do people in St. Louis and Atlanta deal with this? I know it gets like this every year, but now it's hear. Temps just under 100 and high humidity. I hate this crap! I recall watching the evening news some years ago during...
Please add this to your "What the hell?" list if you have one. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/samosas-banned_n_913249.html
http://news.discovery.com/space/time-travel-impossible-photon-110724.html So, the Borg aren't coming back for us, but the whales do go extinct.
This is a bit on an article in Cosmopolitan from 1967. "It's just like planning a dinner," explains Dr. Grace Hopper, now a staff scientist in systems programming for Univac. (She helped develop the first electronic digital computer, the Eniac,...
A business selling replica Stormtrooper outfits being run by the person who originally made them has triumphed over George Lucas in an ongoing copyright battle. As a result, he will be allowed to continue making and selling the helmets. In the...
I can honestly say this isn't a question I'd ever considered. Can a misogynist jog? Can liberals drink? We feminists typically view dieting — and, particularly, the diet industry – as an expression of patriarchy that is bad for women. As a...
There's no way this course of action works out better for her than just ignoring it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/celine-dions-lawyers-shut_n_906547.html No she's Leno/Letterman fodder. Fool.
I know I'm part of their problem...I've got my nook, and I love it. I don't buy nearly as many real books as I used to. Plus, long before e-books came along, I'd bought my fair share on Amazon, just for the convenience of it. But it seems so...
As part of the current phone hacking crisis, Rupert and James Murdoch were "invited" to give evidence in front of a select committee to answer questions about what happened. In the middle of the questioning, a protestor attempted to smear a pie...
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Human-derived gelatin. I...uh...I don't think I have anything else to say here. To create the human-derived gelatin, human genes are inserted into yeast strains that are tuned to produce gelatin in specific, controlled ways. That creates for a...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-newscorp-hackingtre7641io-20110707,0,1038264.story Most everyone has probably heard about the closure of Britian's News of the World newspaper. Hell of a scandal. What I am impressed by is...
Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world's first synthetic organ transplant. The key to the latest technique is modelling a structure or scaffold that is an exact replica of the patient's own windpipe, removing the need for a donor organ. ...
There's no irony like lethal irony: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/04/new.york.motorcyclist.death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Of course this will make all opponents to helmet laws change their tune, right? Uh... no. Not so much, I'm guessing.
While photographing in Indonesia, award-winner David Slater found his cameras at the mercy of a tribe of macaques. It looks as though they were interested in the reflections and then one of them pressed the shutter switch More on the story...
and it's a scandal for quite a few reasons. Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the head of the IMF and has spent the last few years running around the globe trying to prevent the banking structure from imploding. He was also due to run for the French...
Sometimes sending instructions to your future daughter-in-law by email is not such a good idea, in case she decides to forward it on to all her friends, who pass it on to their friends, and well, you know the routine...it's gone viral. What was...
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