Finibus Bonorum et Malorum

Ellsworth AFB foam test

2006-04-16T09:12:00.000+02:00

4/12/2006: Ellsworth AFB foam test: "That's what happens when you put too much soap in the washing machine. "

Soilmover

2006-04-14T22:20:00.000+02:00

Ouch. This reminds me of the crash of the Swedish airfighter JAS a couple of years ago - very expensive soilmover...

I shot the coreographer

2006-04-05T09:59:00.000+02:00

Finnish rock'n'roll. And truly - that coreographer should be shot! A must see (via crrly)

Shaved beaver?

2006-03-15T21:18:00.000+01:00

This was not to un-obvious...

Tailor-made condoms

2006-03-03T21:30:00.000+01:00

Ananova: "Businessman Oliver Gothe, 36, is behind the Cologne-based company Lebenslust (Lust for Life), which has invented a system to make personalised prophylactics."And for £600 you can have the name engraved. Good for the woman with bad name-memory...

Bouncy

2006-03-02T12:01:00.000+01:00

Bouncy Video - yowsa...

Pinata Accidents

2006-03-02T09:03:00.000+01:00

Pinata Accidents - looking at this one wonder why such a tradition is still alive and ... banging.

Bad shit. And a suit filed.

2006-02-20T10:57:00.000+01:00

Ananova: "Hans-Juergen Bendt, 52, from Darmstadt, lodged a complaint about his dealer with police after he sold him seven ounces of 'completely un-enjoyable' hash."Darwin-award.

Wrecked

2006-02-15T22:35:00.000+01:00

FAZED: Ouch.And the fun thing is that the woman who ride the bike have discussed it on SoCalSportbikes. (via Fazed)

Remember to tie your shoelaces

2006-02-12T22:50:00.000+01:00

Chicago Sun Times: "''I snagged my shoelace, missed the step and crash, bang, wallop. There were a million pieces of high quality Qing ceramics lying around underneath me,'' said Nick Flynn, 42, of Fowlmere, a village near Cambridge."The story continues with the Chinese who thinks Flynns wallop was an attack on their culture and history: IOL: Nick Flynn, 42, said he hadn't meant to cause offence

Too much money to tax

2006-02-05T11:41:00.000+01:00

NEWS.com.au: "MICROSOFT founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said today the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.'My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers,"

RIAA sues computerless woman

2006-02-05T11:29:00.000+01:00

The Inquirer: "Marie Lindor, a home health aide who has never bought, used, or even turned on a computer in her life, was a little surprised when she got a writ for thousands of dollars saying that she was a using an online distribution system to nick music."She probably did whistle some song from the Top 40-list...

DJ:ing the reality

2006-02-01T22:54:00.000+01:00

Cool state of the art animation. Should be called "God is a DJ"...

Dumbest dealer ever

2006-01-24T22:50:00.000+01:00

CBS4 Boston: An accused drug dealer was arrested last night for trying to sell cocaine on the Internet. Tyrone Burgo, 20, of Brockton, posted an online advertisement for cocaine that included a phone number, according to Boston police. Police called the number 2:15 p.m. yesterday and arrangements were made to meet Burgo last night near City Hall. An undercover officer bought cocaine from Burgo

Comp-virus turns twenty

2006-01-24T00:50:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS: "The virus was discovered in January 1986 but may have been written some time before that as it used a relatively slow method to travel.Brain was known as a "boot-sector" virus because of the area on a floppy disk it hid on. By concealing itself in this region, the virus could ensure that it would be installed every time that floppy disk was used on another computer. The Brain virus is

Nine years and a fingertip

2006-01-22T00:38:00.000+01:00

MSNBC: A California court sentenced a couple to nine years in prison on Wednesday for planting a severed human finger in a bowl of chili to swindle a Wendy’s fast food restaurant.Finally the story somehow ends. More on the stuff: FB&M - Wendy's working hard to find the owner of the fingerFB&M - Finger-in-chili accuser has litigious historyFB&M - More on the fingerFB&M - The mystery of the

Rich and married

2006-01-22T00:35:00.000+01:00

MSNBC.com: A study by an Ohio State University researcher shows that a person who marries — and stays married — accumulates nearly twice as much personal wealth as a person who is single or divorced.Yeah. Sure...

05 Vaporware

2006-01-17T09:12:00.000+01:00

Wired: Time to suggest the 2005 Vaporware. "As in previous years, software that hasn't shipped is considered vaporware until it's shrink-wrapped. Any program that's in a never-ending, pre-release, beta-testing stage is considered vaporware, even if it's widely available.Likewise hardware. Prototypes may exist in some lab, but it's vaporware until it hits store shelves.And remember, if it shipped

Worst dressed 2005

2006-01-13T10:42:00.000+01:00

People.com: Calling her a victim of "Couture Chaos," fashion guru Mr. Blackwell on Tuesday named Britney Spears the worst dressed star of 2005."From the 'Princess of Pop' to the ultimate 'Fashion Flop,'" sneers Blackwell of Spears, claiming the new mom "looks like an over-the-hill Lolita."More celebs get their share of Blackwell's poison:Anna Nicole Smith: "Queen Kong."Shakira: "Coiffure by

mp3 diminishes feelings from musical experience

2006-01-12T13:26:00.000+01:00

MediaPost Publications: "'The pace of technological change has accelerated further over the last 20 years or so and these fundamental changes in the nature of musical experience and value have arguably become even more pronounced,' North told AFP. 'Because so much music of different styles and genres is now so widely available via portable MP3 players and the Internet, it is arguable that people

Prime time

2005-12-27T15:52:00.000+01:00

The 43rd Mersenne Prime is 9,152,052 digits long and holds the record in long prime. But the search continues since EFF have put a price of hundred grand for the prime with 10 million digits.

The struggle continues

2005-12-26T01:17:00.000+01:00

Boy vs Wall - 0-1.

Merry Xmas and boobs

2005-12-23T23:54:00.000+01:00

Suicide Girls take Santa out. Topless. So truly strange.

Romance turned into horror

2005-12-16T09:02:00.000+01:00

Yahoo! News: "Skirt-chasing playboy Daniel Anceneaux spent weeks talking with a sensual woman on the Internet before arranging a romantic rendezvous at a remote beach -- and discovering that his on-line sweetie of six months was his own mother!"Somehow this is the time to say: Be careful outthere... (hattip to Nina)

Bad stage-diving experience

2005-12-07T11:03:00.000+01:00

First rule of stage-diving: be sure there is someone watching. Mira forgot to check it. That hurts.

Man gets 5,000 channels on 12 dishes

2005-11-29T08:34:00.000+01:00

Boing Boing: "Al Jessup of Beckley, West Virginia, has 12 cheap satellite dishes stuck to his house, which pull in over 5,000 free-to-air channels from satellites all over the sky. He is retired, and delights in odd and foreign programming."

"I took my b*lls out and passed them in the bag to a friend."

2005-11-29T08:29:00.000+01:00

Smh.com.au: "A rugby fan who cut out his testicles with wire cutters to mark a Wales victory is at a loss to explain why he did it."

Scientists embrace plan for cyberhugs

2005-11-28T21:29:00.000+01:00

Yahoo! News: "The next step would be to use the same concept to transmit hugs over the Internet, it said. 'These days, parents go on a lot of business trips, but with children, hugging and touching are very important,' the paper quoted NTU Associate Professor Adrian David Cheok as saying." But at the moment it only are functional on chickens...

Check email with a riff

2005-11-28T21:08:00.000+01:00

CNN.com: "Intel spokesman Simon Shipley said the new guitar would help aspiring musicians to record and playback their music, or e-mail it to prospective agents, fellow band members or friends. They could also download and playback their favorite riffs from the Internet to try and copy the sound."

The Locks O' Truth

2005-11-27T16:18:00.000+01:00

The Box O' Truth: "1. "How hard is it to shoot off a lock?" Answer: Very hard. 2. Pistols won't shoot a lock off or even penetrate the lock. 3. Pistols are pistols and rifles are rifles. Enough said. 4. I now understand why our troops are often seen carrying "breeching shotguns" on their backs and a rifle in their hands. Shotguns will blow a lock off. Rifles will blow holes through a lock, but

Run the bike

2005-11-27T14:42:00.000+01:00

The Bicycle Forest: "Thinking of taking the Treadmill Bike to the grocery store? Be sure to stock up on ice cream while you're there. You will have earned it."

Pong the time

2005-11-27T14:40:00.000+01:00

C U L T I V A T E.: A clock showing the time in a game of pong.

Chinese float liquid condom concept

2005-11-23T21:32:00.000+01:00

The Register: "It's not known who makes the NCC, but Beijing-based Chinese-Canadian condom maker Blue Cross Biomedical has been touting something along these lines for a while now. It maintains its spray-in condom 'can effectively kill gynaecological disease pathogens such as staphylococcus aureus, Candida, coliform bacillus, and can prevent sexually transmitted diseases."

Robbing Four Banks still on the Phone

2005-11-13T15:48:00.000+01:00

Washington Post: "When it comes to multitasking, it's hard to beat the woman who can rob a bank and never interrupt her cell phone conversation. In an act of either incredible cool or something much more sinister, a young woman has robbed four Wachovia bank branches in Northern Virginia in recent weeks, all while seemingly immersed in cell phone chats, police say."

Mattel launches Barbie clothes for women

2005-10-30T19:39:00.000+01:00

Yahoo! News: " Toy maker Mattel Inc (NYSE:MAT - news), known for Barbie fashion dolls, is expanding the plastic icon's domain to include high-end designer clothing and accessories for adult women. [...] Weak sales of Barbie dolls, a lackluster retail environment, and strong competition have hurt Mattel recently. The company is working to raise Barbie's non-toy profile as well as tap a grown-up

Real people who have relationships with Barbaras

2005-10-29T12:35:00.000+02:00

Boing Boing: "Like many born in the sun sign Cancer, Sidore is a homebody, but then, she couldn't leave the comfort of the bed she shares with Davecat even if she wanted to because Sidore is a 100-pound solid silicone Real Doll."

Hanging victim thought Halloween prank

2005-10-28T15:10:00.000+02:00

United Press International: "The 42-year-old woman, who lived in Frederica, hung suspended from a branch for several hours, easily visible to passing motorists who dismissed it as a Halloween prank and did not alert authorities."

The Toy - SMS Controlled Vibrator

2005-10-28T10:00:00.000+02:00

Shiny Shiny: "The Toy is discreet - as all such toys should be - remaining invisible during Bluetooth searches. And since it isn't activated until the message is read, discretion won't be undone by sounds of surprise."

Billiard with a hamster

2005-10-28T09:40:00.000+02:00

The Sun Online: "Drunken Ackland, 31, had already tormented the tiny creature by: TRYING to “pot” her like a snooker ball using a table leg as a cue; POSTING her through a neighbour’s letterbox as a sick prank; HURLING her out of ground-floor and upstairs windows, damaging one of her legs." John Ackland probably will loose more than his freedom - it's probable that his girlfriend won't take him

Late for the doc

2005-10-28T09:35:00.000+02:00

Guardian Unlimited: "``It was total chaos,'' Horner said. ``There were so many people there that we didn't know who had been hit and injured, or who the witnesses were.''"87-year-old Ruth Otto was in a hurry. She did miss the parking lot and smashed her car into the lobby of the hospital in Bismarck, USA.

Living skeleton

2005-10-10T21:35:00.000+02:00

Yahoo! News: "Mothers use his name to scare their children while even adults hope they don't bump into him in the dark -- for more than 40 years Gopal Haldar has been making his living in India's Sunderbans mangrove region as a ghost. Measuring a mere 1.21 meters (four feet) and weighing a slight 24 kilograms (52 pound), Haldar -- now near to retirement age -- says he has been malnourished all

Explosive teeth

2005-10-10T21:27:00.000+02:00

AZ Central: An Army sergeant based at Fort Huachuca walked into a bank Monday, his mouth covered in duct tape, and presented a note saying he had a bomb in his mouth, police said.[---]A bomb squad robot removed the tape. Robinson said once the tape was taken off, Lewis spat out an unidentified object, which was not an explosive device. (via Boing Boing

Twiggy: Fat folk have no excuse

2005-09-25T13:57:00.000+02:00

This is London: "Sixties supermodel Twiggy has hit out at fat people - after replacing a size-16 woman as the new face and body of Marks and Spencer."

Ring my ass, darling

2005-09-25T13:40:00.000+02:00

The Register: "Petronela Brandus, 24, has become the latest 'body cavity phone blagger' to have her collar felt after police stopped the suspected thief as she got off a bus in Iasi. Passengers had apparently seen the 24-year-old lift the device, but cops could find no trace of it.[...]In the time-honoured fashion, they then rang the number and heard the tell-tale sound of internal phone action.

Too sexy for the job

2005-09-15T18:33:00.000+02:00

CNN.com: Caterina Bonci, 38, got sacked from her work as a teacher in religion. The official explanation is that she had a divorce. But the fact is that she had it back in 2000 and scratching on the official explanation's surface she was sacked because of her looks. She was too good-looking. Bonci said she separated from her husband in 1995 and divorced in 2000 and that both events had not

Pet dryer

2005-09-12T22:03:00.000+02:00

Aving: This is pretty strange. A big machine to dry wet pets.

R-trainwanker caught

2005-09-07T22:06:00.000+02:00

wnbc.com: Remember the wanker? He is in custody. Daniel Hoyt, 43 years old will flash his "badge" inside the slammer.

The punkrockers Holy Grail

2005-09-07T21:56:00.000+02:00

Fortean Times: A punk rock legend and an ex-music journalist from Brentford – not your average Grail hunters, one might think. Nevertheless, Rat Scabies – former drummer for The Damned – and his neighbour Christopher Dawes travelled far from their native West London in search of buried treasure and secret wisdom.Scabies father was a Grail-hunter for years so it's not because of Brown's book. Or

Fun with the mp3

2005-09-03T10:41:00.000+02:00

Prylfeber: What so funny?

The fountain of... chocolate

2005-08-30T14:00:00.000+02:00

Chocolate Fountain: chocolate-lovers, the spectacular Chocolate Fountain really does flow with lashings of liquid choccy. All you have to do is fill it up, turn it on and watch in wonder. Once you've recovered from the shock of seeing those mesmerising curtains of cascading Belgian chocolate you can get busy dipping your delicacies into the fountain's warm liquid embrace. To me it looks rather

The danger of bicycling

2005-08-29T12:42:00.000+02:00

FAZED: This is no boom. Ouch! And people just continue to strolling by. The danger of bicycling indeed.

With mobilecam no perv is safe

2005-08-28T12:46:00.000+02:00

New York Daily News: ""I saw him massaging himself and then he unzipped and pulled it out. I thought, 'I can't believe he's doing this in the middle of the day!' "The subway car was mostly empty and Nguyen felt nervous, so she pulled out her Samsung P777 cell phone, equipped with a 1.3 megapixel digital phone.[...]"he posted the degenerate's photo on the Web sites Flickr and Craigslist, and

Hot blow job

2005-08-27T15:09:00.000+02:00

Perez Hilton gives another one: Tara Reid is one hot bitch. Kinda firing blow job on this one:

The little shemale of Tompa

2005-08-27T15:01:00.000+02:00

Perez Hilton gives away: Who is this? I give you some clues: Top Gun Scientology Making out with young Katie Holmes.

Hubby for hire

2005-08-25T19:59:00.000+02:00

Ananova: "Nadia Manfroid, from Brussels, says she's sick of spending all her time with her husband Denis, 28. She wants some time to herself to visit the shops or go to the cinema. [...] Denis has entered into the spirit of the auction and says he's willing to do everything - except have sex. He said: "I'd prefer a lady to take me out for dinner during these four hours. But if she wants I will

Rules for gunfight (re-post)

2005-08-15T20:07:00.000+02:00

1. Have a plan.2. Have a backup-plan if the first doesn't work.(Pay your life insurance.). Read the Rules for a Gunfight. Strange.

Dumb villain

2005-08-13T16:24:00.000+02:00

Probably the most stupid villain. A man tries to rob Gary Spirito, host of the Shopping Mania Auction Show in Fort Smith, Arkansas. In the middle of the show sent live over radio. The Milwaukee Channel have the stuff. (via Boing Boing)

More...

2005-08-13T15:23:00.000+02:00

Some sort of stupid stunt: flaring your parachute. This is the real crazy guys - bikers in NYC with a deathwish.I love the explanation on the site: College students never fail to come up with brilliant ideas like jumping out of the fourth floor of their dorm. I think the reason you don’t see more people doing stuff like this later on in life is because they all died in college. and the fact that

Time for Xtreme stunts and owned stupidity

2005-08-13T14:45:00.000+02:00

Some guys who do martial art-stunts. Totally freaked: EMC Monkeys. Check a flic here. And in the higher grounds - Joe Jennings total xtreme skydivers: the reel. Here's some outtake with a cool parkour and good stunts. And now for the real stuff: crashes compilation.And to all us who never do stupid things: owned.

Coke river

2005-08-06T14:28:00.000+02:00

Wired: Drug enforcement officials may soon have an accurate yet secret way to detect drug use -- the toilets of the world. Italian scientists discovered that nearly 10 pounds of cocaine residues flow into Italy's Po River every day.Time to stop the kids swimming in the river...

The Great Flip-Flop Scandal

2005-08-01T17:18:00.000+02:00

Slate: "The last time a thong was glimpsed at the White House, it was clinging to the backside of Monica Lewinsky. But recently thongs of a different sort—the shoes more popularly known as flip-flops—appeared at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In a photograph of the Northwestern University women's lacrosse team taken with President Bush, four sets of flip-flops are plainly on display. The president, a

Tits for peace

2005-07-31T14:40:00.000+02:00

Breasts not bombs: "On Saturday, July 23, an impromptu crew of exhibitionists and flashers decided it was a good day to expose their private parts to everyone in Berkeley. In order to avoid possible arrest, they cleverly disguised their public sexual escapade as a political protest. They dubbed the protest "Breasts Not Bombs."Somehow it feel like Bush and his cohorts is starting the old fashioned

It's war

2005-07-14T02:08:00.000+02:00

FireworksWAR.com: "Each year, months before the battle, the participants design and construct weaponry and armor to improve the quality and quantity of 'ammunition' they can fire at the opposing team. Any size/type of fireworks you can afford is fair game, with a few guidelines set in place so we don't literally blow each other to bits... completely."Shit. via Boing Boing

Childs play

2005-07-12T17:12:00.000+02:00

Roundabout solves water problem: "Cavorting on a roundabout has always been fun for children. Now pure, clean borehole water can be pumped into water storage tanks while the playground roundabout equipment is in use. The Play-Pump is a specifically designed and patented playground roundabout that drives conventional borehole pumps, keeping costs and maintenance to an absolute minimum, while

Ouch...

2005-07-12T05:56:00.000+02:00

dailyrecord: "A MAN who shoved a fire extinguisher hose up a pal's bottom and set it off was yesterday told to pay his victim £4500 compensation.[...]He then felt an object being placed in his back passage and he became aware of a loud hissing sound and the fire extinguisher being discharged. 'He was in immediate pain but didn't realise the extent of his pain until he got up to go to work and

"They're covering all the bases"

2005-07-11T19:46:00.000+02:00

Boing Boing: Willie Nelsons new album "Countryman" have made the recordlabel sort of sweaty. One, with the pot leaves, will be the original but the Wal-Mart won't sell it so they done a palm-tree-artwork.

More on the China Way

2005-07-10T22:15:00.000+02:00

Excite News: "A crowd of several thousand people, including China's ministers of extreme sports and culture, gathered at the Ju Yong Guan Gate about a 40-minute drive from Beijing, Quiksilver's greater China marketing director Ryan Hollis said."Minister of extreme sports... my godness... hang loose.

Danny Way Mega X Event

2005-07-10T22:13:00.000+02:00

Danny Way Mega X Event: Not one, not two - but five times jumping over the Great Wall of China... Danny Way and his Megaramp is totally insane...

Strange behavior

2005-07-01T13:07:00.000+02:00

Roofskater: In development trial and error is the thing. This guy is trying. And trying. And trying. Freak.

China 'is more popular' than US

2005-06-27T10:04:00.000+02:00

BBC NEWS: "America's image is still so tattered abroad after the Iraq war that China is viewed more favourably than the US in many countries, a global poll finds."Tough luck for all the right-wing trolls that tries to make some communistic point outta the critic on USA.

Binary Manicure

2005-06-19T22:14:00.000+02:00

Shiny Shiny: Binary Manicure. Geeky ladies behave. And some hawk-eyed nerd have read the binary to "Silver".

Pringles Mom

2005-06-13T01:18:00.000+02:00

Exploding Cigar: "Two daughters are suing a synagogue after discovering their mother's remains had been replaced with a can of sour-cream-and-onion flavored potato chips. The incident occurred a year ago and the remains are still missing, according to the women's attorney." (Yahoo!)

Chips is flameable

2005-06-09T20:14:00.000+02:00

Ekot: The national test department in Sweden issues a warning - potato chips are flameable! You not only get fat but the fat-soaked potatobits can burst in flames...

Brooke Shields disses Tom Cruise

2005-06-09T09:45:00.000+02:00

Exploding Cigar: "Brooke Shields Strikes Back at Tom Cruise. In response to Tom Cruise's criticism of her use of antidepressants, Brooke Shields has offered a gift: two tickets to see her perform in the London musical Chicago. Taking a jab at the age difference between Cruise and his girlfriend, Shields is offering the star one adult and one child ticket for the event."

G-strings verboten?

2005-06-01T21:06:00.000+02:00

The Sun Online: German doctors are calling a ban on the G-string. Those minimalistic thongs which have been on every women-ass for some years can "G-strings can abrade and injure the sensitive skin around the genital area — especially if they are too tight or made with badly stitched material." (via Exploding Cigar)Nod to the weasel.

Fainting Goats

2005-05-20T22:43:00.000+02:00

Some goats faints automatically when being excited. Look for yourself: Fainting Goats

1,82,689 SMS

2005-05-13T21:56:00.000+02:00

Webindia123.com: "1,82,689 SMS in one month. Deepak Sharma aims to increase the number to 3,00,000 in the coming month. [...] Sharma received a bill of 1411 pages this month, which was sent specially to him by Airtel. He is making the best out of Airtel's scheme of unlimited SMS with 99 paise."Wowsa...

I can't hear you

2005-05-08T18:53:00.000+02:00

Reuters.com: "Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch."Sorry, what did you say?

The Museum of Foreign Dept

2005-05-08T18:51:00.000+02:00

Reuters: "Three years after staging the largest debt default in modern history, Argentina Thursday opened what may be the first Museum of Foreign Debt to teach people the perils of borrowing abroad."Educational creativity I say. And the museum director are somewhat a poet: "a golden cart sculpture made out of cardboard..."It symbolizes Argentina's reality: everything's golden, but it's made of

Honecker a bad kisser

2005-05-08T18:47:00.000+02:00

Reuters.com: "- Being kissed by East German Communist leader Erich Honecker was "disgusting," former Polish communist leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski... "I exchanged many embraces with Honecker. He had this disgusting way of kissing."

A though call

2005-05-08T18:37:00.000+02:00

Reuters.com: "After a fight with his wife, the jobless Nabiullah left his family [...] During his absence, he got himself castrated and became a eunuch, earning money by singing and dancing [...] His wife, Shama Parveen, fainted when he returned home late last month and now wants a divorce."

No more booty-shaking at the game

2005-05-08T18:34:00.000+02:00

Reuters: "The state's House of Representatives voted 85-55 to approve a bill that would forbid sexy cheers and give the Texas Education Agency authority to punish schools that allow 'overtly sexually suggestive' routines at football games and other events.". No more booty-shaking on high-school games in Texas. The games will be pretty lame after this...

Fake ATMs

2005-05-08T18:26:00.000+02:00

Reuters.com: "Fake ATMs have appeared at apartment buildings or in areas of the capital where there are no banks, local papers reported.". The usual suspects place a fake panel on the ATM. Not these guys - they have constructed a complete machine. All to steal peoples PIN's.

Staged or stage-fright

2005-05-07T16:19:00.000+02:00

It might be a prank or the worst stagefright ever seen... Tyrone on the news. Warning on weak-stomached... (via Fast Company Now and panopticist)

When security goes insane

2005-04-30T13:40:00.000+02:00

Yahoo News: The police was called to a school in New Mexico after bystanders had spot a boy carrying a long, tinfoiled, gunlike thing into the school. Radio news was warning the parents and everything was developing into a craze. Problem was that it was Morrissey, a pupil in the school, and his gigantic burrito... (via VeryBigBlog)

When nature calls in the nature

2005-04-23T14:30:00.000+02:00

Boing Boing: The Bumper Dumper. A toilet mounted on the towing hitch. How... creative...

Born in the gallery

2005-04-22T16:01:00.000+02:00

Reuters.com: "Berlin couple plan to have their first baby at an art gallery.[...] 'It's a gift to humanity, a once in a lifetime thing,' Bild newspaperquoted Winfried Witt, partner of mother-to-be Ramune Gele, as saying.[...]30 people are expected to attend the birth, scheduled for April 24. They would be told to come to the gallery as soon as the 27-year-old Gele's contractions became regular."

End of the fingerish Wendy-stuff

2005-04-22T15:50:00.000+02:00

Reviewjournal: "Officer Enrique Garcia, a spokesman for San Jose police, confirmed that officers arrested Ayala in Las Vegas. He would not provide details of the arrest or the charges she will face. Those details will be announced during a news conference in San Jose today."

Password collection

2005-04-20T20:10:00.000+02:00

Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting: "Not as titillating as some of the other items in this well-mounted collection by Spanish designer."

The waves from the top

2005-04-20T19:09:00.000+02:00

Koh Jum Online.com: Those fascinating pics of the Thai waves taken by a Swede, Anders Grawin, who was hiking up on the Mt. Pu on the morning of Dec. 26 '04.

What digit detectives can learn from a tip

2005-04-16T07:39:00.000+02:00

Slate: A pretty nasty explanation on the police work on the finger in the Chili bowl at Wendy's. FB&M - Wendy's working hard to find the owner of the fingerFB&M - Finger-in-chili accuser has litigious historyFB&M - More on the fingerFB&M - The mystery of the chili-fingertip.

Wendy's working hard to find the owner of the finger

2005-04-16T00:17:00.000+02:00

MSNBC: "SAN JOSE, Calif. - Somewhere out there is a woman, dead or alive, who is missing a well-manicured finger about 1� inches long."

Finger-in-chili accuser has litigious history

2005-04-10T22:27:00.000+02:00

MSNBC.com: Anna Ayala, 39, who hired a San Jose, Calif., attorney to represent her in the Wendy’s case, has been involved in at least half a dozen legal battles in the San Francisco Bay area, according to court records. [...]“Lies, lies, lies, that’s all I am hearing,” she said. “They should look at Wendy’s. What are they hiding? Why are we being victimized again and again?”.

Shooter mourns pope's death

2005-04-05T21:23:00.000+02:00

MSNBC: Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, said from his Turkish prison Monday that he was mourning the death of his “spiritual brother” and wanted to attend his funeral.So totally insane.

Woman breastfeeds tiger cubs

2005-04-04T21:39:00.000+02:00

News.com.au:"'I felt sorry for them so I decided to feed them before their teeth grow,'. Hla Htay, 40, a relative of a Yangon Zoological Gardens staffer and a mother of three including a seven-month-old baby, stepped in when she learned the cubs needed breast milk to survive. Veterinarian Kyaw Myo Hlaing said they were being bottle-fed along with Hla Htay's half-hour breastfeeding sessions four

Bono cheers the memory of the Evil Polish Pope

2005-04-04T00:35:00.000+02:00

BBC NEWS: U2 lead singer Bono has paid tribute to Pope John Paul II, calling him the "best frontman the Roman Catholic Church ever had". They met when they campaigned to end world debt and both were nominees for the Nobel peace prize. Bono described the late pontiff - who died on Saturday - as "a great show man, a great communicator of ideas". For the first time in my life I feel ashamed for the

Strangeways here we come

2005-04-01T16:41:00.000+02:00

Guardian Unlimited:Fifteen years ago, on the April Fool's Day, the worst riot in the juridical system of Britain was at hand. On the prison Strangeways in Manchester it all started at the Sunday sermon. Later on The Smiths did name one of their best albums after this event.

Sick of the Christians of USA

2005-04-01T07:50:00.000+02:00

I feel sick of the so-called Christians who totally dismiss the Terri Schiavo as some sort of symbol of life. The same Christians is putting the Bush's and the republicans in charge. They wanted to force Terri and her spouse to let her live even if the life wasn't worthy but at the same time they hail the American way in the Iraq. I feel sick.

More on the finger

2005-03-25T11:03:00.000+01:00

Urban Legends Reference Pages: It´s true. Snopes says it is. Then it is. More on the tip-story is sure to come.

The mystery of the chili-fingertip

2005-03-25T07:57:00.000+01:00

MSNBC: A woman was not amused when eating her hot chili at an Ohio Wendy's joint and found a fingertip in the meaty hot dish. The police was doing their job and accounted all the employees fingers. There was ten of them on every employee. The mystery is that the finger seem to come from a woman and that no accident have been reported at the food processing plants either.