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Cat dung coffee
2008-04-12 17:31:00 From the Daily Telegraph: "Coffee made from cat droppings is to go on sale at £50 a cup." The shit is actually "civet cat droppings that sells for £324 a kilo." I'm really happy I drink tee.
Limits on stem cell research eased in Germany
2008-04-12 17:27:00 Better than nothing: "German lawmakers voted on Friday to ease restrictions on stem cell research although the approved changes did not go as far as many scientists had hoped." More About: Research , Germany , Cell , Stem Cell Research , Limits
The human tree to tell his story on television
2008-04-12 17:23:00 Reported by the Daily Telegraph. More About: Television , Story , Human , Tree
Vote for Milly D'Abbraccio
2008-04-12 15:53:00 She's running for public office in Rome, and if she's elected, she wants "to create a red light area with strip clubs, erotic discos and sex shops called 'Love City' just kilometers away from the Vatican." Oh, and she's a veteran porn star. More About: Vote , Milly
Flowers are losing their scent
2008-04-12 15:52:00 Because of pollutants from power plants and automobiles. More About: Flowers
Chuck Norris is so lame that even teens want to kill him
2008-04-12 15:48:00 According to CBS News: "Two Pennsauken High School students have been arrested after a teacher found what was believed to be a hit list that targeted actor Chuck Norris ." The students said the list was a joke, and no weapons were found. More About: Teens , Kill , Lame
The internet black holes
2008-04-12 13:34:00 LiveScience: "At any given moment, messages throughout the world are lost to cyber black holes, according to new computer science research." More About: Internet , Black , The Internet , Holes
Bulgarian farmer swaps third wife for goat
2008-04-12 13:29:00 He got the goat from a friend, and the friend, who had had "no luck with women," got the wife... More About: Wife , Bulgarian , Farmer
Sheep shearing contest scrapped in case sheep are hurt
2008-04-12 13:25:00 Because of complaints from clueless "animal welfare" activists. More About: Contest , Hurt , Case , Sheep
Alicia Keys and her conspiracy theories
2008-04-12 10:49:00 Alicia Keys is apparently an utter, utter nutjob, if this is to be believed: The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter tells Blender magazine: "`Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. `Gangsta rap' didn't exist." Um... Black people (or any other people) don't need any convincing to kill each other. They will happily do it anyway. But, as usual, it's easier to blame someone else rather than to accept personal responsibility for anything. Whenever something goes wrong, it's because "the white man" is behind it (or the Jews). Keys, 27, said she's read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck "to symbolize strength, power and killing 'em dead," according to an interview in the magazine's May issue, on newsstands Tuesday. Another of her theories: That the bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled "by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from... More About: Alicia Keys , Conspiracy , Conspiracy Theories , Theories , Alicia
World's oldest living tree
2008-04-12 08:42:00 An 8000-year-old spruce has been found in the mountains in western Sweden. More About: Living , Tree
Witchdoctor escapes
2008-04-11 17:51:00 After the rebel attack in Chad in February: A Sudanese witch doctor and a Chadian jailed over a French charity’s bid to smuggle children from the central African nation of Chad escaped after a rebel attack on the capital, an official said today. "Both of them left" the prison where they were being held, after the February 2-3 rebel onslaught on Ndjamena, Chad’s top prison official Adoum Doungous told AFP. "The Sudanese (Souleimane Ibrahim Adam) is still on the run, we are still trying to track him down but he had a lot of time and could be very far," he said. Adam, a witch doctor, and Chadian national Mahamat Dagot were sentenced to four years in jail over an attempt by the French Zoe’s Ark charity to fly 103 children to France for adoption after claiming they were orphans or refugees from Sudan’s war-wracked Darfur region. The French aid workers were detained on October 25 while trying to fly the children out. The aid workers were eventually pardoned and released, prompti...
Pope Bobblehead
2008-04-11 17:47:00 The Catholic Church, as usual, complained. This would have been funnier back in the final days of John Paul II... More About: Pope
First speed limits on Germany's motorways
2008-04-11 17:41:00 Reuters: "The northern city of Bremen became the first state in Germany to introduce a speed limit on its motorways on Wednesday, breaking a taboo in a country proud of its fast cars." More About: Limits , Speed
Conan O'Brien's priest stalker apologized
2008-04-11 17:38:00 Reuters: "A Boston priest apologized in a New York court on Tuesday for stalking U.S. television host Conan O'Brien and his family and accepted an order to stay away from the comedian's home and office for two years." More About: Stalker , Priest
Russian army generals are too fat
2008-04-11 17:35:00 The Daily Telegraph: "The Russian army has launched a fitness regime to help its fat generals lose weight and squeeze into a new designer uniform." A third of the army's elite officers are overweight and 25% failed a fitness test, according to defence ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Sedov. Related posts • The German army is swelling More About: Army , Generals , Russian Army
The fully automated robot restaurant
2008-04-11 16:17:00 More About: Robot , Restaurant , Automated
Artificial sperm
2008-04-11 16:14:00 From the Courier-Mail in Australia: "Artificial human sperm could come to the aid of infertile men, according to a team of scientists who have used lab-grown sperm to inseminate female mice." And feminists rejoice: "Artificial sperm could also make males totally redundant, permitting women to give birth without a biological male mate." More About: Sperm
Rat woman
2008-04-11 14:36:00 Associated Press: "Authorities say a woman has been found living with hundreds of rats and four malnourished snakes in a home outside Rochester." The woman is being "uncooperative," saying only that the rats are her "friends." More About: Woman
No surgery for baby with two faces
2008-04-11 14:22:00 The unfortunate Indian baby who was born with "two faces" has been condemned to death by her parents, who are refusing to let doctors examine her. "And if she dies it's as God wishes," says her father. More About: Baby , Faces , Surgery
Nuclear power is safe
2008-04-11 12:57:00 Reuters: "The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday may fine Florida Power & Light Co $130,000 after security officers at the company's Turkey Point nuclear power plant near Miami were found sleeping on the job." More About: Nuclear power , Safe
Padlocked pants on masseuses
2008-04-11 12:04:00 That's the bright idea hatched by a local government in Indonesia's East Java province in an attempt to curb prostitution. Meuthia Hatta, state minister for women's empowerment, said the idea was "misguided." More About: Pants
Mother forced preteen daughters to have sex for pictures
2008-04-05 17:14:00 Mother-of-the-year in Australia: "A woman has been jailed for at least nine years for forcing her daughters aged six and nine to perform sex acts on each other, photographing them and emailing the pictures to an American man she met over the internet." More About: Pictures , Forced , Mother , Daughters
Sex trade in Aboriginal girls still thriving despite $1.5 billion intervent
2008-04-05 17:10:00 The Sydney Morning Herald: "Aboriginal girls as young as 13 have been given cash, drugs, alcohol and taxi rides in exchange for sex in the Northern Territory mining town of Nhulunbuy." More About: Girls , Trade , Billion
Teacher in jail for "unauthorized sex"
2008-04-05 17:04:00 A teacher who pleaded guilty to having had sex with a student is now in jail for having violated her parole - by having "unauthorized sex" and testing positive for alcohol: The sexual encounter was discovered on March 6 when a parole officer arrived at the apartment of a parolee under his supervision and found McCandless in bed. The sexual encounter violated the terms of her probation because it was not reported to or approved by McCandless' treatment team. The encounter also resulted in a violation of the 8:30 p.m. curfew established as a term of her probation. Source David Montero, "Teacher in Brighton sex case jailed for violating probation," Rocky Mountain News, April 1, 2008 More About: Jail
Police catch man who dumped cat litter
2008-04-05 16:55:00 For two months, police in full camouflage hid in the woods and staked out spots in unmarked cars before they finally managed to catch notorious super-criminal Donald J. Klens, aged 63. His crime? Tossing hundreds of grocery bags full of dirty cat litter along streets in Pennsylvania over the past two years... Klens could now face 500 counts of littering with fines of $300 each. More About: Police , Catch
Lay faith healer excommunicated by Indian bishop
2008-04-05 13:05:00 Spero News: "An Oriental-rite Catholic archbishop has excommunicated a lay retreat leader who preached against Catholic teachings." More About: Faith , Indian , Bishop
Couple preparing to sue over haunted house
2008-04-05 12:47:00 In Italy: After enduring howls in the night and creaking staircases for the past three years, an Italian family is preparing to sue the previous owners of their house for not telling them it was haunted. ... The couple claim they were unaware that the house in Santo Chiodo road had been built close to the disused Pozzi Ginori cemetery, or that strange goings-on at the address during the 1970s had necessitated an exorcism - and prompted a visit from Perugia University's paranormal research team. "The ghosts started their haunting on the first night," said Mr Bastianelli, a former long-distance lorry driver. "I woke suddenly at around one or two in the morning. There was water seeping from under the bathroom door. "The hot water tap was pouring out boiling water and the room was full of steam. My wife was stunned, because she had turned off everything before going to bed." He claimed that by next morning, malevolent spirits had left "luminous green mould all over the walls". After t... More About: House , Couple , Haunted
Missing pastor found in strip club
More articles from this author:2008-04-05 12:42:00 Craig Rhodenizer, pastor of a church in Lyndonville, New York, disappeared last week after telling his wife that he was going to get his computer fixed. Police found him a few days later in an Ohio strip club. More About: Club , Missing , Strip , Pastor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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