Are you ready for the Rapture? If you are confident of being uplifted on the day of reckoning but want to pass on a message for us miserable sinners left behind, then The Post-Rapture Post is for you.
It’s a website run by a group of commited atheists who - since they are fairly likely to [...]
The eloquently titled “DUBAI IS FUCKING NUTS!!!!!” has some fantastic photos of Dubai’s expansion over the last 16 years
Happy Christmas, ya bams!
BBC News - 22/12/2006
A search warrant has been issued in the US for a potentially vital clue to a violent crime - a bullet lodged in a teenager’s head.
Texan prosecutors want the bullet, embedded under the skin in 17-year-old Joshua Bush’s forehead, to be removed.
They say it could help convict Mr Bush of the attempted [...]
The photo you see below is of a moth in Madagascar shooting a spiked, barbed proboscis through a sleeping bird’s eyelid to drink its tears.
Goodnight, children. Sweet dreams.
I’m completely intrigued about what the “gender test” actually involved. Too many jokes to pick just one.
I think one of the reasons that sites like The Onion aren’t as entertaining as they used to be is that they just can’t consistently out-spoof the real news. For the last fortnight in particular, the BBC has just [...]
Is it bad that my first reaction to this article was “Wow, only 11 years? That might almost be worth it.”?
MosNews - 16/11/2006
A court in the Russian internal republic of Bashkortostan has passed an 11-year sentence to a woman who killed her boyfriend with an axe and then cooked him in a variety of dishes [...]
One of the (many, many) reasons I should never be allowed to have kids is that I would mess with their heads even more than these parents:
Their kids stayed up late watching a chainsaw horror movie. This is a video of their Dad waking them up.
Radar magazine presents the ten most dangerous children’s toys of all time.
The downsides are that it’s a North American-centric list, and its conclusion is clearly wrong. Any child who ever had access to a Swingball set knows that, used correctly, it was by far the most vicious game on the planet.
Anyway, the list isn’t all [...]
People’s Daily Online CN. - 15/12/2006
Veteran archaeologist Zhu Zhongxi couldn’t believe the “irony” when Gansu provincial authorities announced their bids for the country’s 2006 ten most important archaeological discoveries with two ancient graves unearthed recently.
The discoveries of the graves, one dating back to the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.) and the other to ancestors of [...]
BBC News - 12/12/2006
Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.
Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.
Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.
There is [...]
World War Z - Max Brooks
My thinking goes like this: If you can, while browsing around a book shop, come across a book entitled “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” and somehow not buy it, then you probably shouldn’t ever try to talk to me. We just fundamentally wouldn’t be able [...]
BBC News - 07/12/2006 (Have you ever seen “Unbreakable“? This kid might be Bruce Willis in disguise.)
A boy whose head was effectively severed from his neck in a racing car crash “which should have killed him” has made a miraculous recovery.
Chris Stewart, 12, suffered an internal decapitation, separating his skull and neck, when he hit [...]
A nice solution to all of those sites which require you to “register” by responding to an email from them, dooming you to receive spam from them for ever and ever. 10 Minute Mail provides - duh - an address that’s valid for 10 minutes, giving you just enough time to respond to any mails [...]