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Chess queen triggers 'Gormallygate'
The “Anna Kournikova of Chess” is 19 years old, and likes “…green lights, cooking, pina colada’s, vodka, red wine, Kahlua, dwarfs and the odd Cuban cigar.” (Thanks MeFi.) There’s making moves in chess and making moves in night clubs – and you wouldn’t think the two would involve the same players. Think again. To the…
Ghost ship reaches Big Isle after 4,500 miles adrift – The Honolulu Advertiser
HILO, Hawai’i — A derelict, battered 33-foot sailboat abandoned in rough weather off Costa Rica last year apparently drifted for six months and more than 4,500 miles before it was sighted a few miles off the southwestern coast of the Big Island. A Big Island Fire Department rescue crew was lowered to the deck of…
Aide organization uses biker gang to reach injured in Java
JOGJAKARTA: AUSTCARE and Australian Aid International (AAI) have partnered to send a team of medical personnel to Java, to help people injured in last Saturday’s earthquake. AUSTCARE and AAI are using the local Tigers motorbike club to travel to areas inaccessible by car, to reach people injured by the quake. The Tigers are volunteers, donating…
Corrupt Beijing doctors urged to pay back bribes
And they think this is going to work why?? OK, governments all do stuff just so they can look like they are doing something, but this seems like particularly brazen ineffectual hand-waving. BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) – Beijing health officials have called on corrupt doctors and other medical staff to hand over bribes taken from…
Mexican Midget Rodeo
A LA institution…. Â What wonders are conjured, what rough magic promised by the phrase “Mexican Midget Rodeo”? Let us pause to savor that more slowly: Mexican . . . Midget . . . Rodeo. That is to say, a touring troupe of little people, renowned in their native land but unheralded in our own,…
Lost Dimension Yields Accidental Discovery
Hopefully, we are beating boing boing to the punch on this one….that is one of our major purposes in life. cd Using strong magnets and a pigment developed by ancient Chinese warriors, scientists turned a three-dimensional system into one with just two dimensions. The transformation was accidental, but it provides physical evidence for several theories…
How often are emergency exits used? Are seats getting smaller? Can you open an emergency door in midflight? And answers to other questions you always wondered about airline travel but felt too moronic and paranoid to ask
Two weeks ago, a disturbed man aboard a United Airlines flight out of Chicago had to be subdued after claiming to have a bomb and attempting to open a cabin door during flight. Passengers, along with three Secret Service agents en route to join President Bush’s entourage in California, wrestled Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega to the…
Hamster survives giant shredder
A hamster has survived almost unscathed after spending several minutes passing through an industrial shredder. The rodent is thought to have got into a skip of rubbish that was taken to Recyclo recycling plant in Flintshire. It survived a giant shredder used to destroy waste such as washing machines and was found in a sorting…
Lacklustre robber asks for advice
A would-be robber failed in his bid to raid a Japanese bank after asking staff for tips on how to carry out the crime, according to the Reuters news agency. And as he was escorted out of the branch in Kumagaya, north of Tokyo the man accidentally stabbed himself with the knife he was carrying….