BBC News - 04/07/2008
Control Room: “South Wales Police, what’s your emergency?”
Caller: “It’s not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there’s a bright stationary object.”
Control room: “Right.”
Caller: “If you’ve got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It’s been there at least half an hour and [...]
Are you feeling overly happy right now? Slightly too optimistic about the general state of the human race? Then you’ll want to go and read “The 100 greatest quotes from fundamentalist Christian chat rooms”
You’ll laugh:
“I am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in [...]
Under normal circumstances, I never make New Years resolutions, but this time I’m going to make an exception: In 2008, if I happen to meet Jackie Ballard, I will punch her in the face. Possibly repeatedly.
The Times Online - 23/12/2007
DEAF parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a deaf [...]
Robot wins, because Robot can crush puny human hand into thin, squidgy flipper incapable of forming your silly “rock”, “paper” or “scissors” salutes.
U.S. scientist Craig Venter claims to have created the first artificial life form. The joyous, bodyless future where we all scoot around as jet-powered brains-in-jars is surely just around the corner.
Guardian - 06/10/2007
Mr Venter told the Guardian he thought this landmark would be “a very important philosophical step in the history of our species. We [...]
BBC News - 31/08/2007
An enormous spider web has been found at Lake Tawakoni State Park, Texas, US.
It is not the work of one giant spider - rather, millions of small ones have been spinning away and now it is twice the size of a football field.
Park rangers are not sure why the spiders have joined [...]
For the record, on my personal list of non-favoured ways to die, “Killed, eaten and turned into a habitat by your own collection of highly-deadly creepy-crawlies” features quite prominently.
Digital Journal - 03/08/2007
Mark Voegel, 30, was found dead in his Dortmund, Germany apartment. His body was draped in spider webs and more than 200 spiders, several [...]
The world clock shows the time according to the number of births, deaths by various causes, population growth, prison growth, divorces, abortions, temperature of the Earth, species extinct, forest lost, and barrels of oil produced.
If I have to go back to work tomorrow morning, then no one else is allowed to think happy thoughts either…
A survey by Carphone Warehouse shows that 1 in 3 people in Britain wouldn’t give up their mobile phone for £1 million. And people wonder why I want to go and live on top of a mountain with a team of attack-haggis to keep ramblers away?
Some more fun facts from the survey:
On average people send [...]
Yahoo! Finance - 20/04/2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–According to a nationwide online survey released today, 72 percent of the American public does not know that conventional plastic is made from petroleum products, primarily oil. The survey was conducted by national online market research firm InsightExpress for Telles(TM), a joint venture of Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX - News), [...]
Here’s to humanity’s non-stop efforts to get smashed on whatever is available at the time: Intentionally being bitten on the tongue by cobras and injecting spider venom.
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine - 1990
Case No. 1: 35-year-old, male married, front lower socio-economic class, working in a gambling den for last 10 years was admitted for treatment of [...]
CNN.com - 12/04/2007
Take a nation of do-it-yourselfers, add a ready supply of cheap nailguns and what do you get? About 37,000 nailgun injuries a year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Since 1991, nailgun injuries have risen about 200 percent, the CDC said in its weekly report on death and disease.
“This increase [...]
spEak You’re bRanes is a blog collecting “ignorance, narcissism, stupidity, hypocrisy and bad grammar” found on the BBC’s Have Your Say website.
Examples:
Global warming and the political parties. The Artic Icap reflects Sunlight back into space. As it melts more energy is aborbed by the dark sea. If we all painted our South facing roofs then [...]
Don’t feed the trolls
Did you know that there is a blog dedicated to pictures of women drinking tea? I didn’t, and now I sort of wish I still didn’t (Safe for work, I think, for now, but who knows what the future brings.)
More importantly, do you find this idea more or less creepy than:
Furries?
Cos-players?
Trekkies?
Slashfic?
H-dōjinshi?
Telemarketers?