Seriously, Crack Squirrels!
Squirrels in Brixton, South London, have been observed behaving bizarrely — and authorities there believe it may be because they’re hooked on crack cocaine hidden by addicts, according to the London Sun
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“My neighbor said dealers had used my garden to hide crack,” one Brixton resident told the Sun.
“Just an hour earlier I’d seen [...]
On the last weekend before Halloween
America:
FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.
London:
Disappointing on the spooooky front. I didn’t hear about any hugely interesting goings on, so ended up just going to a concert [...]
Sometimes people creep me right out. I was standing at the bar before the start of a show (review at some later date) randomly scanning around the room. I see one guy take some crisps out of a bag proffered by his friend, and in the process drop a couple of them. I stare in [...]
A story on the BBC about a cow-carcass derived biogas train in Sweden where they fail to grasp the golden opportunity to reuse the phrase “meat slurry”.
Seriously though, if this took off in a big way, would it mean that vegans would no longer be able to use trains/cars? Considering that the raw materials [...]
Today I ramble about an album for no apparent reason and to no good end. The back button is up and to your left if you’ve got better things to do.
I’ve just got “Livin’ in the City”, the latest Fun Lovin’ Criminals album. The ultra-short review is that it’s great, and sees them getting back [...]
Just yer average blonde-twin, so-cal, Olsen-knockoff, white-supremacist pop duo.
If you ever happen to find yourself within reach of their parents, please feel free to beat them with the clue-stick (read: lead pipe.)
Known as “Prussian Blue” — a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes — the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing [...]
A world in which there exists something called a “Corpse Flower” is ok by me.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The world’s tallest — and smelliest — flower has bloomed, reaching a height of 2.94 metres, 18 centimetres more than the previous record for the species, the Stuttgart botanical garden said on Friday.
The Titan Arum, or Amorphophallus Titanum, [...]
And you thought that British parking attendants were bad?
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities have apologized to the family of an elderly man who was given a parking ticket while he lay dead in his car in a suburban shopping center.
The 71-year-old man, known to be seriously ill, went missing nine days ago and his body [...]
An eBay auction for an awesome art deco Chinese phone.
The best part is the item description. It’s just hypnotically wonderful:
The photo was screened in nature condition. 99.98% similar to the real item, and you can justice this item factually. please enjoy this item from every aspect and angel, and enjoy its pretty, favor [...]
The last couple of days have shown me that I just don’t understand the world at all. And that I’m a grumpy sod.
So, today’s list of things which baffle me includes:
Why twelve-year-old kids can’t be trusted with pencil sharpeners.
How the Middle East situation could get any messier
Sudoku. The game itself and its inexplicable popularity amongst [...]
None of the following has anything to do with anything. Feel free to ignore.
1) My non-original ranting for the day is about service industry office opening hours. Specifically banks, post offices and the like. Which people are they designed for? What percentage of the population find the “10am-4pm minus 1 hour for lunch” schedule useful? [...]
Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy point out that releasing the genome of the 1918 ‘flu virus which killed 50 million people might not be the best idea ever.
Carrying on the theme: a ‘flu wiki. Yay obsessive-compulsiveness.
A creepy half-animal, half-plant microbe. A flagellate which divides into cells which either eat algae or perform photosynthesis.
And now [...]
tATu vs Charlotte Church: Fight!
Faux lesbian Russian pop lasses tATu have threatened to kill Charlotte Church - and all because of something the gorgeous Welsh songstress said to PlayLouder.
When we got Charlotte in to review the singles, she said that “They just sound real… shit. And one of them’s a minger as well! That’s fucking [...]
Halloween is coming, do you have your head-in-a-jar ready yet?
The hardware problems have mostly been bludgeoned into submission. After spending a while hoping there was a solution which didn’t involve screwdrivers and crawling around under the desk, I gave in and started moving cables at random.
I eventually got it to work by moving the disk from one of the ‘main’ SATA channels to [...]