Social Networker Tries to Extort Money From New York Life
$1.2M in debt and he asks for $200K. I guess that explains how he ended up in the red. Read more @ MyFoxDC »
news of the unusual, weird and just plain stupid
Windows Kill Birds
March 10, 2010
Up to a billion a year in North America. What I want to know is how much of that carnage can really be blamed on Mac OS and Linux. Read more @ MNN »
Nurse Sleeps With Men Who Just Lost Their Wives to Cancer
March 10, 2010
That’s the UK. Here they just give you the bill. If that doesn’t sell healthcare reform, nothing will. Read more @ The Sun »
Want a Bird Poop Facial?
March 9, 2010
Too expensive at $115 for the basic facial. It would have been a no-brainer at $99.95! Read more @ ScienceBlogs »
Granite for Curling Stones Running Out
March 9, 2010
Curling — my absolute last hope of becoming an actual Olympian assuming I can find a school hereabouts that can teach me how to play it — may go the way of the dodo. Seems that the curling stones can only be made from one type of granite, and we have yet to figure out [...]
Jurassic Cattle Park
March 9, 2010
More proof that we humans are just really fixated on breeding: Scientists attempt to breed aurochs — huge European wild cattle that died off in 1627 — back into existence. Read more @ Time »
Weedkiller Castrates – Even Changes the Sex of – Male Frogs
March 9, 2010
Scroll down to the second picture. So tell me: Do those two male frogs look like they’re having fun or what? Read more @ CNN »
Very Last Speaker of Ancient Dialect Dies
March 8, 2010
The dialect’s now officially extinct and lost to the ages. She was 85-years-old. Didn’t they effing know she was bound to go soon? Read more @ Reuters »
$41,300 Paid for Vintage Nintendo NES Game on eBay
March 8, 2010
If you thought $13,105 for a Nintendo system was weird, check out what this guy got for his game… and he didn’t even get to play it! Read more @ Plugged In »
Pole Dancing in the Olympics
March 8, 2010
Seriously if curling is a “sport,” why not this? Read more @ Newser »
March 10, 2010