A first British hardcover edition of George Orwell’s novel 1984 has turned up in a Lifeline charity bin in Wollongong, south of Sydney — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Britons find being older than 52 is nothing to laugh about because that’s the age when they start becoming grumpy, according to a survey — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The FBI has seized a set of John Lennon’s fingerprints from a Manhattan memorabilia shop — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Not even the sweet release of death can liberate you from New York’s relentless parking ticket blitz. Early Tuesday morning a traffic cop came across Nicholas Rappold, 21, of Flushing, who was slumped across the front seat of his Jeep Cherokee on 165th Street near 35th Avenue. Rappold was dead, but just because you’ve gone to your eternal resting place doesn’t mean you can park it wherever you want. Dying drivers should really know this by now — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A scrap metal dealer who paid thieves £61 for £15,000 worth of musical instruments has been found guilty of handling stolen goods.
Marcus Egan, 35, who runs Egan Metals in Gorseinon, then crushed the instruments belonging to Pontardulais Town Band to make a profit of £10 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As there is so much excellent work at the Brighton Photo Biennial this year, I’m going to put up a series of blog posts looking at some of the shows in more depth. First up is a series of photographs by Nick Gleis which reveal the interior opulence of the private jets owned by African dictators in the 1960s and 70s.
The photos, which belong to the Archive of Modern Conflict, are on show as part of an installation of vernacular photography at Fabrica art gallery in Brighton. Gleis has declined to reveal who’s jet these photos are taken in (I’m guessing they are all from the same one but perhaps it is two different planes), and the interior designer is also unknown, but the images all scream 70s glamour at its most extreme — via Creative Review
A Southwest Florida man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the face while trying to fight off a skunk — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When the two main loves in your life are helping people and reading comic books, the call is loud and clear: Become a superhero.
He calls himself the Watchman. He won’t give his real name.
His identity is obscured by a bright red mask that covers half his goateed face. He wears black boots, black pants, black leather gloves and a black trench coat, but there’s a large yellow circle on the chest of his black hooded sweatshirt, with a big W.
I’m what people refer to as a real-life superhero,
he says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An 81-year-old man was charged with using a metal rod to kill his 94-year-old roommate at a Laguna Woods rehabilitation center, authorities said Monday.
William Leo McDougall of Laguna Woods was charged with one felony count of murder and faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted, the Orange County district attorney’s office said.
McDougall was recovering from hip surgery at the Palm Terrace Healthcare Center when he allegedly became angry with Manh Van Nguyen, who had begun singing in Vietnamese, according to prosecutors. Nguyen was also recovering from hip surgery when the attack occurred. He was pronounced dead at a hospital, prosecutors said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police at Colac in western Victoria will question a 50-year-old man today after a man was allegedly attacked with the skeleton of a swordfish — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Grenades are not exactly synonymous with life-saving, but they have inspired a young Sydney designer to create an award-winning device that could save swimmers from drowning.
Sam Adeloju’s design, named Longreach, with the unofficial name ”Buoyancy Bazooka”, shoots an emergency flotation device 150 metres out to sea. Made from hydrophobic foam, the buoy can expand up to 40 times its size on contact with water so the swimmer can stay afloat without risk the buoy will spring a leak. The device is also equipped with flares for night-time — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A drunken man who infuriated his neighbours by bleating like a sheep and doing other animal impressions at the dead of night ended up in jail after resisting arrest, German police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google sure does capture a ton of interesting stuff when it sends Street View cars around the world. Sometimes its 360-degree cameras pick up a disturbing image or two.
That allegedly is the case after Google announced this week it has added Antartica, Brazil, and Ireland to its Street View library. Shortly after its announcement, Brazilian site G1, allegedly found a corpse in Google’s online mapping service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Florida man arrested Wednesday on drug charges told cops that a bag of cocaine found hidden inside his buttocks did not belong to him. Though the suspect did cop to ownership of a bag of marijuana hidden alongside the coke — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police said Greathouse traveled from Kansas City early Wednesday to allegedly kill Jamison because she believed that he made derogatory postings about her on the internet.
Too serious — via tyler.newsvine.com
The mysteries of bat sex and whale snot and an unusual way to deal with human pain were the focus on Thursday of the annual tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel Prizes.
ENGINEERING: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Agnes Rocha-Gosselin and Diane Gendron for developing a method to collect whale snot using a remote control helicopter.
MEDICINE: Simon Rietveld, Ilja van Beest for investigating asthma on a rollercoaster.
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi, Dan Bebber, Mark Fricker for using slime mould to determine the optimal routes for railroad tracks.
PHYSICS: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams and Patricia Priest for demonstrating that wearing socks on the outside of your shoes helps prevent slipping on ice.
PEACE: Richard Stephens, John Atkins and Andrew Kingston for confirming that swearing helps relieve pain.
PUBLIC HEALTH: Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews and Larry Taylor for determining that microbes cling to bearded scientists.
ECONOMICS: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk.
CHEMISTRY: Eric Adams, Scott Socolofsky and Stephen Masutani for disproving the belief that water and oil don’t mix.
MANAGEMENT: Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if promotions were made at random.
BIOLOGY: Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, Shuyi Zhang of China and Gareth Jones for scientifically documenting fruit bat fellatio — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Firefighters rescuing cats from trees is a cliché they are unlikely ever to shake off.
But on Sunday at least there was a twist to the tale when firefighters from Leatherhead found an owner, Mike Wall, perched next to his feline friend — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian man with criminal convictions for pretending to be a doctor has conned his way into a position at one of the most prestigious medical schools in Britain.
And despite being on a two-year-good behaviour bond, Vitomir Zepinic has continued the deception, telling an international war crimes tribunal he has a medical degree — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When the exciting new thing called social media first came along, it promised to do what years of reality television, forests’ worth of glossy magazines and countless fish-suppers’ worth of paparazzi shots failed quite to manage: it would allow celebrities to show us The Real Them.
If you ever wondered what really went on in the heads of the people you are used to goggling at on telly, you needed wonder no longer: now, thanks to the wonder of Twitter, we would be able to SEE DIRECTLY INTO THEIR BRAINS.
It seems to work; at least for celebrities who write their own tweets. You discover that Simon Pegg is funny and nice, Graham Linehan intelligent and politically conscious, William Gibson geeky and sociable, Amy Winehouse a bit erratic, and 50 Cent . . . well, you discover that 50 Cent is an absolutely epic plonker.
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A very useful supplementary feed – @English50Cent – interprets his sayings for those less with it. For instance, when Fiddy found himself having an online scrap with some pre-teen Justin Bieber fans, he tweeted: “I’m a take my belt off and beat one of you little motherfuckers were your mama and daddy at anyway bad ass kids.” @English50Cent translated: “I am going to remove my trousers and attack some children” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Max Carter and girlfriend Staci Barnes seemed unable to have a baby of their own. So Max, in the fine tradition of trailer park dwellers everywhere, decided to frame his 8-month-pregnant sister Alyssa Carter and steal her baby, thus saving his girlfriend from unsightly stretch marks… — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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