As much as I hate the train system in the UK, I’ll freely admit that it could be worse:
BEIJING, Jan. 24 — Sales of adult diapers are booming as residents prepare themselves for long-haul journeys home on crowded trains for Lunar New Year.
Many supermarkets in Foshan, a city in South China’s [...]
The police in Edinburgh are, if nothing else, amusingly optimistic
Police are hunting for a scruffy-looking bag-snatcher after a young woman was mugged in Edinburgh at the weekend.
The 22-year-old victim was walking through Anchor Close, just off the High Street, at about 1730 GMT on Saturday when she was approached from behind.
The man grabbed her handbag [...]
Dear Japan, all is forgiven.
I realise that our relationship has been on rocky ground for a while, after your attempts to scar my brain with your lunatic gameshows, your obsession with cat ears, and your scary tentacle porn (find your own link you perverts.)
But now you have redeemed yourself and are once again the apple [...]
Firstly, as a result of a somewhat overzealous goalmouth scramble and ensuing collision with a goalpost whilst playing football, I now have a very heavily bruised ribcage.
Secondly, I’m now developing a fairly heavy chesty cough.
The combination of the two is, shall we say, unwelcome.
The case for never leaving the house again is growing stronger [...]
OGLE is a Windows program that snoops the output being sent from OpenGL to a window and saves it out to a generic 3D format. The page has a neat example of feeding some data from World of Warcraft to a 3D printer to make a model of the player’s avatar.
A snake in a Tokyo [...]
A list of the 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005.
Amusing enough on its own, but entry 42 earns the author my undying adoration for managing to use the word ‘intrauterine‘ outside of a medical textbook.
The Roman Catholic Church is set to abolish the concept of ‘limbo’ (the zone between heaven and hell where the souls of children who die unbaptised are said to go.)
This move is supposedly to help the church retain and extend the number of its followers in underdeveloped countries, where more than six million children die [...]
The Lib-Dem comedy cavalcade carries right along, but that’s not the point. More interestingly, I had no idea that the popular media would still use the term ‘Rent Boy’. Is political correctness finally dying off, or was the term always considered too funny to be covered by those rules?
Giant Jellyfish numbers have increased a hundredfold in some areas of Japan and are killing fishing stock and even humans.
Uncyclopedia on ‘Recursion’.
A Spanish museum has ‘lost’ a 38 tonne steel sculpture.
Did you know that there was a ‘World Beard and Moustache Championship‘ held every 2 years? The site is the stuff of nightmares, but the award for the best category ever goes to: ‘Partial beard, freestyle’
A kidney stone passed by William Shatner has been sold for $25,000 with the proceeds going to charity.
After discovering that it’s illegal to send a hamster via Royal Mail, the BBC presents a list of animals which can legally be sent via the postal service.
Tablets made from a West African berry do scary things to [...]
Continuing a theme:
A scarily large gallery of manhole covers in Japan
A 53-year-old woman suffering from depression paid a friend £20,000 to arrange for a hitman to kill her. The friend kept the money without arranging the hit, and has been convicted of deception and jailed for 15 months.