30 June 2003
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.
28 June 2003
Why cats paint.
A cat
in a quiet Hampshire town has triggered a Royal Mail boycott after drawing blood from
seven postmen and women.
"Tofu
Shrinks Brain!" Not a science fiction scenario, this sobering soybean revelation
is for real.
RFID
Chips Are Here.
27 June 2003
Pot
Doesn't Cause Permanent Brain Damage.
Insect repellent DEET does cause
brain damage.
Dog and cat meat
increasingly popular in Switzerland.
Swiss authorities have banned giant bugs from the menu in
local Thai restaurants.
Is there a secret message behing the GEICO ads featuring a gecko? Are the Reptilians preparing us for the day when they make themselves known? Since reptiles
are cold-blooded creatures, are they behind global warming?
Do you know your state motto?
Poor Eddie. He thought he could look at all the porn he wanted to
without any apparent consequences to his life. If only someone would have told him, if
only someone had warned Eddie that porn would STUNT HIS GROWTH!
Moderate drinking
may actually improve brain power.
Quantum theory of socks.
Where is Jesus?
It's like finda the Pope inna the pizza.
26 June 2003
Scientists get wind of a flatulence-free
bean.
Acts of God: America's Warning Not to Divide Israel.
If you're sharing music online, the record
industry is coming after you.
The U.S. soldiers who invaded Iraq went into battle with the most
modern and lethal equipment ever carried by an armed force. In some cases, they
paid for it themselves.
25 June 2003
'Pens'
Owned by Schoolkids Are a Bit of a Shock.
THE DOORS OF
PERCEPTION:
WHY AMERICANS WILL BELIEVE ALMOST ANYTHING
The U.S.
birth rate fell to its lowest level since statistics have been kept.
Talking on a mobile phone while
driving your car is just as dangerous when using hands-free equipment as when holding the
phone in your hand.
How two students built an A-bomb.
To track domestic terrorist threats against the military, the
Pentagon is creating a new database that
will contain "raw, non-validated" reports of "anomalous activities"
within the United States.
Young men in South Korea are having themselves tattooed
in an attempt to avoid being called up for military service.
Did a meteor over central Italy
in AD 312 change the course of Roman and Christian history?
83 percent of American women don't think lap
dances count as sexual contact. I don't think they've ever seen a lap dance.
21 June 2003
What the heck is a Valkyrie?
'Apocalypse Now' Music Fires Up
U.S. Troops for Raid.
Life is something to do when you can't get
to sleep.
20 June 2003
Sixty-five percent of Iraqis polled in Baghdad claimed they want
the U.S. military to stay until Iraq
is stable and secure.
Netanyahu says Iraq-Israel oil line not
pipe-dream.
BAYWATCH beauty Angelica Bridges
bounded after two car thieves — while wearing just a thong.
Man accused of pointing gun at wife in porn dispute.
A New York teen-ager has alleged teachers violated her civil
rights when they suspended her from school for wearing a "Barbie
is a Lesbian" T-shirt.
The Bad Kitty List.
Links to weird
stuff you can only find online.
Stray
Cats Overrun Thailand's Main Temple.
Giant Sea Spiders!!!
Today's tip
for job seekers.
Animal 'fart
tax' puts wind up New Zealand farmers.
Technology Settles Longstanding Debate: Do Bubbles in a Glass of Guinness Go
Down?
Scientists have created the ultimate
pet: genetically modified fish that glow in the dark.
Shattered
bones could soon be replaced by segments of artificial bone that can be
"printed" within hours.
19 June 2003
Great White
Hooked From Public Pier.
Dog
clears the table, helps with laundry, and fetches beer.
What Is Happening in America?
In the Bible, who were the "giant sons of God"?
While Wednesday's fatal attack on a 12-year-old boy in central
Florida has thrown a spotlight on alligators, several animals are known to take human lives at a
higher rate than those swimming reptiles.
President Bush meant to fall off his Segway.
In some areas, summertime means rolling
blackouts.
Some relatives upset over vice
principal's remarks at kindergarten graduation.
Nigeria's traffic authorities confirmed Thursday they had ordered psychiatric
tests of traffic offenders blamed for "insane" gridlock in sub-Saharan
Africa's largest city.
Summer
starts on June 21st, except here in Houston where it started in March.
Safe summer sex in
the sun.
Longer and harder: no good.
Fast-food restaurants told to warn of addiction.
Hip-baring jeans give rise to a new kind of cleavage.
18 June 2003
Want to ward off Alzheimer's
disease? Play some mental games or go dancing.
Eating three or more bowls of the Japanese delicacy Miso soup could cut women's risk
of developing breast cancer.
A nine-year-old girl was married
off to a dog in the presence of more than 100 people in eastern India under a tribal
custom to protect the child from evil.
Orrin Hatch, software pirate?
Where is the Sargasso
Sea? Do ships really disappear there?
¿Habla usted el Español?
Global health experts claimed victory Tuesday in the 100-day war
against SARS.
We're All Gonna Die!
Demodex
folliculorum, or the demodicid, is a tiny mite, less than 0.4 mm long, that lives in
your pores and hair follicles, usually on the nose, forehead, cheek, and chin, and often
in the roots of your eyelashes.
Did early Christians use Magic Mushrooms?
Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis
user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug.
17 June 2003
Drug Turns Crime Victims Into Zombies.
Can't quit smoking? Drinking too much? Blame
your genes.
Scientists believe they may now know why some of us are early risers while others prefer
to burn the midnight oil.
WatchBlog: 2004 Election
News, Opinion and Commentary.
The U.S. outbreak of monkeypox
should be a warning to all countries that new and unusual diseases can strike at any time
A man-made version of a hormone found in the saliva of Gila
monsters may become the first in a new class of drugs to help manage diabetes and
obesity.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday he
favors developing new technology to remotely destroy
the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet.
Cigarette
smoking may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Sexist Symbol
of '60s Now a Hot Seller.
Vatican skeptical of woman’s visions of Virgin Mary.
Perfume manufacturers may not want to believe it, but a person's
attractiveness is determined more by the color of their
shirt than their scent.
Playful pooch makes climbing
trees a habit.
Lightning strikes peeping
toms.
16 June 2003
Fish
spawned love of loud music.
Mind
Uploading Home Page.
14 June 2003
Don't forget to wave it today.
Get ready now
for June
Teenth.
Of all the things I've lost,
I miss my mind the most.
The Butchery
of English.
A note to all job
seekers: you know that your employment interview did not go well when your prospective
boss calls the police in to arrest you.
Crank Dot Net is
devoted to presenting Web sites by and about cranks, crankism, crankishness, and
crankosity. All cranks, all the time.
At the Gas
Station of Love, I Got the Self Service Pump.
13 June 2003
It's Friday
the 13th, cause for trepidation for anyone who ever refused to walk underneath
scaffolding, postponed an engagement or called in sick because of a quirk in the calendar.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia:
Fear of Friday the 13th.
Friday 13th not so unlucky,
insurance group claims.
The 13th is more
likely to be a Friday than any other day of the week.
Friday the 13th: the movies.
President George W. Bush is pictured in this combo image falling
off a Segway
personal transporter.
Husband says he cut off wife's head, stuffed body in suitcase.
40 Percent Of Americans Iron
While Naked.
The prime
suspect in a vandalism spree in Bloomingdale has red hair, a prominent nose, and
stands about a foot tall.
Fish
can be turned on by an aquatic equivalent of pornography.
Lost from the Baghdad museum: truth.
Our kids do more than talk about oral
sex.
The Gettysburg Powerpoint
Presentation.
Dress me up! Please! Meow.....
Cable
Clock
North Korea claimed Friday that it has developed a wearable device
that uses a "jewel"
to convert the sun's rays into a photo-electromagnetic field to purify blood and heal a
range of serious diseases.
Mark Twain's View of the French:
"France has usually been governed by prostitutes."
"A Frenchman's home is where another man's wife is."
"French are the connecting link between man and the monkey."
"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these draw-backs it is
a fine country."
- From Mark Twain's Diaries (1879-1883)
Swarms of Mormon crickets are
marching across the West, destroying rangeland and crops, slickening highways with their
carcasses and leaving disgusted residents in their wake.
7 June 2003
Working the night shift
causes cancer.
Doing housework
prevents cancer.
So what happens if you do your housework at night?
A recently declassified study said the CIA was five years behind the
rest of the world when it came to using technology to do its job.
Is lying about the reason
for a war an impeachable offense?
Prime Minister Jean Chretien earned the dubious distinction of the
stupidest person in Canada at the World Stupidity
Awards.
Bush revels in cowboy speak.
Family Subdues Apparently Hungry
Burglar.
Toilet
facilities in the Middle Ages may not have been as primitive as previously thought.
Kids be warned: Flushing
your pet fish down the drain will not send it safely into the ocean as depicted in the
new computer-animated movie by Disney and Pixar "Finding Nemo."
There's a Hillary Rodham Clinton TV movie on the way - and Sharon Stone
may star as the former first lady. I wonder if she'll remember to wear panties?
Beginning July 1, Tennessee motorcyclists can
legally run red lights.
It
could be months before companies start hiring again. Great news for us unemployed
folks.
Caterpillars Propel Poop to Avoid Predators.
Troops hunting for Saddam's weapons
of mass destruction have searched 87 "prime" sites in Iraq - and have found
nothing.
Politicians
say the dumbest things: "I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat
any more broccoli."
--President George Bush
Worst Dog Breath in
America.
A nature park in northern China has drawn complaints by allowing
visitors to use real guns to kill baby chickens.
A hi-tech
scanner deployed by Singapore to screen cargo containers for dangerous weapons that
could be used by terrorists has turned up an unusual discovery: Russian vodka disguised as
fruit juice. Better raise the terror alert again.
Fungus
of the Month
Fun in Canada: snakeballs.
Exhaust from
NASA's space shuttle, which is almost 97 percent water vapor, can travel to the Arctic in
the Earth's thermosphere where it forms ice to create some of the Earth's highest clouds
that literally shine at night.
1 June 2003
2003 Hurricane Season Data Sheet and Poster (PDF File)
I am Mr. Laurent Mpeti Kabila, a senior assistant leader of the
Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone. I present to you an urgent and confidential
request: I request your attendance at The
3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. This is an excellent opportunity to meet your
distinguished colleagues, learn new marketing techniques, and spend your hard-earned
money. Attending this conference demands the highest trust, security and confidentiality
between us.
For your next court-ordered psychological evaluation, here's how
to cheat on the Rorschach
test.
The Case of the Woman Who Played
Her Radio Too Loud ended Wednesday with a judge sending her to jail for 10 days and
taking her stereo away.
Ice
cream man accused of enticing, fondling girls.
Rent a Negro
Cat-Centric
TV Show Set for Its Debut.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - What do U.S. soldiers use to cope with the grit
and heat of Iraq? Why, cottony
women's underthings, diaper ointments, pantyhose, and moist wipes with the aroma of
baby powder.
An illicit distillery
discovered at a low-security prison in South Australia was fashioned from a fire
extinguisher hooked up to a heating element.
Revealing your thong underwear in
Massachusetts is not a crime.
Russia suggested on Friday that the United States join it in
building a nuclear power plant in Iran.
Machine allows cattle to effectively milk themselves as often as they want to.
After 10,000 years of living with people, cats have evolved into con artists, learning what
sounds get results and using different meows to manipulate their owners.
Swaziland's absolute monarch has singled out women
wearing trousers as the cause of the world's ills.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz cited bureaucratic
reasons for focusing on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, and said a
"huge" result of the war was to enable Washington to withdraw its troops from
Saudi Arabia.
The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct says Jefferson County
Justice of the Peace Thurman Bartie told inmates he knew their home addresses and would have sex with their
wives while they were locked up.
There's more than water
falling to earth when it rains in Indiana.
A wanted man was
arrested after his parole officer spotted him kissing his girlfriend in a live crowd shot
displayed on the scoreboard at a Cincinnati Reds game.
Naughty
devices once relegated to downtown venues find home in picket-fence America.
Single
fathers stand a better chance of scoring with the opposite sex than their
"selfish" and "immature" child-free friends.
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