30 July 2003
Is Big Brother in your grocery
cart?
29 July 2003
A new weekly newspaper in Iraq has been
named Al-Sahhaf, after the former Iraqi information minister who became known worldwide as
"Baghdad Bob" and "Comical Ali."
28 July 2003
The mayor of Salzburg was rather piqued at the sight of a water-spouting
statue of a naked man.
A German court has ruled that police were right to confiscate the
driving licence of a woman they thought was too thin to drive.
U.S. troops found some interesting things alongside the
bloodied, battered body of Uday Hussein.
27 July 2003
Getting a quickie divorce has taken on a whole new meaning in
Malaysia after it was decided that a man can divorce his wife with a text message.
Girl attacked by beaver.
The prospect of finding life
on Mars is alive and well.
Martian warm spots could be towers of ice.
The universe
will ultimately become totally flat and empty of all matter.
Doctors and mental health experts are seeing a troubling rise in
the number of teenagers who deliberately cut themselves
to relieve emotional pain.
Companion
animals are being drafted into the U.S. war against terrorism.
A New Zealand man who threatened to kill and eat one
of his neighbours has been ordered to undergo anger management counselling.
Bank
Robber Writes Holdup Note on Resume.
This Cat Burglar Is Really a
Cat. I once had a cat who would go around my apartment complex stealing stuffed animals.
Miss Norway
was on her way to the Miss Universe final, but was sent to the wrong city in the wrong
country.
How Not
To Get Sued By The RIAA For File-Sharing
(And Other Ideas to Avoid Being Treated Like a Criminal)
Why ex-cons should be given the vote.
Man publicly desecrates
United States flag.
The Global Mind
26 July 2003
An alligator went
berserk and broke the glass cage in a Swedish zoo.
Boy with ants
crawling out of his eye baffles doctors.
Paul Robinson on the ancient code of insult
and revenge that is still prevalent in the American South.
Are you wanted by the RIAA?
112 gripes about the French.
Take the Dolphin stress test.
Everything within and around you is a representation of frequency.
A series described as ''Sesame Street
for adults'' gets a wide release next month on PBS stations nationwide.
Teens and young adults spend more time on the Net
than they do watching TV.
Optical
illusion
25 July 2003
Call it a tale of two chefs and a saucy lass.
If you're searching for the perfect pet, look no further than the
almighty hermit crab.
What dogs
do when they catch cars.
AN INDONESIAN maid was jailed 10 weeks in Singapore for lacing the
tea and coffee she served her employers with her urine.
A 79-year-old
disabled man apparently lost control of his car and plowed into a northern Florida
farmer's market Friday, leaving six people with moderate injuries, officials said.
Houston residents indicted in Nigerian e-mail scam.
A giant
catfish that ate a dog and terrorised a German lake for years has washed up dead but
the legend of "Kuno the Killer" lives on.
Did the Bush administration lie about the reasons for the war with
Iraq? Yes. Did they have good reasons
to lie? I think they did.
24 July 2003
Thousands Show Up to Get a Whiff and a Glimpse of the Largest
and Smelliest Flower.
MENDOZA, Argentina - A female polar bear at a zoo has turned purple
after she was given a special treatment for a dermatological problem.
Hundreds
of hungry monkeys have invaded a sprawling tea garden in eastern India.
As life goes, it doesn't get much better than for male Zeus
bugs.
22 July 2003
101 Amazing Earth Facts.
Given only a fraction of a second to respond to images of men
popping out from behind a garbage dumpster, people were more
likely to shoot blacks than whites, even when the men were holding a harmless object
such as a flashlight rather than a gun.
What's that stuff?
Gorging pizza
could help reduce the risk of certain forms of cancer -- Italian scientists say.
Cambodia's tough-talking chief-of-police is so keen to keep the
lid on any possible violence after this weekend's general elections he is even thinking
about drafting in riot
elephants.
German police deployed a helicopter to track and kill a ferocious
little pig after it attacked some cows, chasing one around a barn until it died.
Kansas really is flatter
than a pancake, U.S. geographers say.
Curves
are out at several Islamic universities in Indonesia, which have shut the door on
female students wearing tight jeans and body-hugging shirts.
20 July 2003
About two million dogs and cats
are killed in countries such as China, Korea and The Philippines each year and their skins
and fur used in clothing and textile products.
19 July 2003
Federal agents said Friday they are investigating the theft of
1,100 pounds of an explosive
chemical from construction companies in Colorado and California in the past week.
Highlights
of the Supreme Court’s 2002-2003 Term.
Parched soldiers could one day drink from the exhaust
pipes of their jeeps, trucks and tanks.
Legislation designed to provide law enforcement more tools to
fight online copyright theft
met a warm reception Thursday afternoon by those invited to testify at a Congressional
hearing and harsh words from those who weren't invited.
Borrowing from technology for tracking pets, a U.S. company on
Thursday launched Mexican sales of microchips
that can be implanted under a person's skin and used to confirm health history and
identity.
Biologists in southwest Florida have set out to trap a species of giant,
carnivorous lizards normally native to Africa that appear to be spreading through the
region.
18 July 2003
A chocolate-scented mousetrap
has been developed by UK scientists to catch the pests without the need for bait.
Jennifer Lopez’s bottom has been downsized
in publicity photos for her new film.
Little robots
in your pants.
Online etymology
dictionary.
Southeast Airlines said it plans to install digital video cameras
throughout the cabins of its planes to record the faces and activities of its passengers
at all times.
Judicial
Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government
corruption and abuse, said today that documents turned over by the Commerce Department,
under court order as a result of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit concerning the activities of the Cheney Energy Task Force, contain a map of Iraqi
oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing Iraqi oil
and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.”
Why A Special Prosecutor's Investigation Is Needed To Sort Out the
Niger Uranium And Related
WMDs Mess.
A new bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would land a person
in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file
to a peer-to-peer network.
Masturbating
may protect against prostate cancer.
14 July 2003
Tropical Storm Hurricane Claudette
A police
cat who proved adept at sniffing out fish smugglers in southern Russia could be
honoured with a memorial plaque after dying in the line of duty.
America may indeed be obsessed with guns, but much of what passes
as fact simply isn't true.
Exploding Toads!!!
13 July 2003
RUSSIA'S crime-fighting cat
who was helping to stamp out the smuggling of sturgeon and salmon from the Caspian Sea has
been run over and killed, perhaps the victim of a contract killing, media reported at the
weekend.
Labock is the only company to have successfully produced a bullet
resistant, high clarity glass/plastic armor system which has the unique quality of
protecting against hostile fire, while allowing return fire from the safe inside of a car,
building or other structure - this is our Patented OneWay protection system.
There are no errors on this page, except this one.
20 lies about
the war with Iraq.
Science toys you can make at
home.
8 July 2003
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Move over bomb-sniffing dogs, here comes Rusik,
the fish-sniffing
cat! (pic)
Norwegians with high levels of education apparently don't change their
underpants as often as those with less education.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Their weird
glowing green color makes them look like they've been swimming in a nuclear plant's
spent fuel pond.
Everyday conversation is now so foul-mouthed that
only a handful of words can be considered truly taboo.
American warships could be armed with disposable laser weapons within
five years.
RoboMarine
6 July 2003
Anglers from northern Europe are using live kittens for
bait while fishing in the Po river for the gigantic sheat-fish, according to police.
Millions of Americans accept what they are told and think they
understand what they see. And what they are told and what they see is most often news as a
manipulated commodity.
But the facts that really count rarely reach a significant number of the public's ears or
eyes.
The Scales
of Good and Evil
RATS high on drugs have been
running wild in the ceiling of a police station after munching on speed and pot.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has had his annual salary
hiked more than sixfold.
A man was arrested Friday after he allegedly tried to get through
a security checkpoint at MacDill Air Force Base with a loaded
handgun and a knife as he asked to see Gen. Tommy Franks.
Faulty parachute saves
pilot.
The International Banana Club® Museum (since 1976) is the first
and the largest banana museum in the world!
File Swappers to RIAA: Download
This!
5 July 2003
Crazy Jet-Powered
Vehicles.
4 July 2003
Happy Birthday,
America!!!
Companies that are major users of telemarketing calls are
preparing to shift efforts to e-mail and direct
mail once a new federal "do-not-call" list takes effect in October, according to
a published report.
In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme
weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled last night that the world's
weather is going haywire.
Learn how to use Japanese
toilets.
Here is a breakdown of what is considered kosher sex, and what
is considered unkosher.
The Open Government
Information Awareness suite of software tools acts as a framework for US citizens to
construct and analyze a comprehensive database on our government.
Build your own rocket.
3 July 2003
Many Christian-music listeners think of file-swapping as sharing God's message.
Pictures of planes breaking the sound barrier.
Celebrities with and without makeup.
What does it mean when your computer is making a hissing sound?
A US "charity" that raises money to buy alcohol for homeless people
was today attacked by the Salvation Army for adding "fuel to the fire".
1 July 2003
Two Northwest Airlines passengers praying
aboard a flight bound for Boston were handcuffed by air marshals and questioned by state
police when the plane landed at Logan International Airport yesterday.
How do fireworks
work?
How are shrunken
heads made?
Fun things you can do with your wiener.
No
brainer.
Duck!!!
Japanese bookstores are set to launch a national campaign to stop
so-called "digital
shoplifting" by customers using the lastest camera-equipped mobile phones.
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