(note, I haven’t cross referenced these figures but if they are right, it explains a lot…thanks for sending this Matthew.) Dear Red States We’re ticked off at the way you’ve treated California, and we’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case…
Category: Oddities
other odd stuff
The Science of Shark Attacks and How to Avoid Them
The Science of Shark Attacks and How to Avoid Them Despite two highly publicized shark attacks last month along the U.S. coast, at least one scientist says it’s safe to go back in the water. In fact, he points out that you’re actually in more danger on the way to the beach. “There are millions…
Scary Biting Babies
TODDLER SCARRED ALL OVER BODY A one-year-old boy has been bitten 30 times by a group of more than a dozen other babies at a nursery in Croatia. Frane Simic was covered in a series of deep bite wounds all over his body, including his face. He was attacked after the class nanny stepped out…
Art vidéo Anthony Rousseau
Anthony ROUSSEAU has put on line a multimedia work, “Voyelles” at http://screenplayer.free.fr/ The project rests upon a poem of Arthur Rimbaud, “Voyelles” (1871), which uses a poetic correspondence between the vowels, colours and sounds. His work uses an extensive text in which the user can compose his text and edit it to actualize images and…
Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Mission –
MOSCOW – NASA’s mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust — it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer. Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday “ruins the natural…
The things a guy will do for his sister…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A young Russian man who dressed in women’s clothes to take an exam for his sister was caught after his oversize bust gave him away, Interfax news agency reported Monday. The youth’s “unusually prominent female features,” and heavy make-up drew security guards’ attention and they stopped him from taking the test, Yasen…
(M- Diddy) Martha Stewart knows the score
Martha Stewart Calls Lockdown ‘Hideous’ – Yahoo! News “I hate lockdown. It’s hideous,” Stewart tells the August issue of the magazine, on newsstands July 12. Asked about the electronic monitoring device she must wear on her ankle — she has complained repeatedly that it irritates her skin — Stewart says she knows how to remove…
Paris Hilton's never ending fall
Just click on it….it’s bizarre..I don’t think it is really Paris Hilton, but similar for sure… (Thanks ES!) neverendingfall.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Kidman monkeys around
I knew she was cool…people say she is very intense but then she is just about the hardest working actress in show business…lolok how many films she is in this year alone… Actress Nicole Kidman stunned crowds at Los Angeles Zoo recently by acting like a chimpanzee to entertain her children. Actress Nicole Kidman stunned…
Pi memory record broken (from Boing Boing)
I always remember 3.1415 but then I start cheating ….16171819110111112….no one ever catches me…. Boing Boing: Pi memory record broken Pi memory record broken Akira Haraguchi, 59 of Tokyo, recited Pi from memory to 83,431 decimal places, doubling the world record. According to a BBC News report, Haraguchi lost his place three hours into his…