Some goats faints automatically when being excited. Look for yourself: Fainting Goats
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1,82,689 SMS
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...
20050508
I can't hear you
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
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 cardboard and that reminds us of all those people who today collect cardboard for recycling."
Honecker a bad kisser
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
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
No more booty-shaking on high-school games in Texas. The games will be pretty lame after this...
Fake ATMs
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.
20050507
Staged or stage-fright
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)
20050430
When security goes insane
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)
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Born in the gallery
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 newspaper
quoted 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."
The soon discover that the true art is to be able to feed, nurture and clothing the child - and at the same time keep one's sanity.
End of the fingerish Wendy-stuff
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."
20050420
Password collection
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
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.
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