Asian CD pirates now produce thousands of pirated VCDs on anchored ships in international waters to avoid getting caught. Malaysian marine police have been asked to be on the lookout for pirate ships — via Slashdot
LifeGem Memorials, the world’s first purveyor of diamond memorials, announced the availability of the LifeGem, a certified, high quality diamond created from the carbon remains of deceased loved ones
Italian porn star and former Italian parliamentarian La Cicciolina
has offered to give herself to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in exchange for world peace
Congratulations to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of Sydney, who was awarded the Ig Nobel Award for Interdisciplinary Research, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint — who gets it, when, what colour and how much
A US Senate hopeful in the state of Montana, Libertarian candidate Stan Jones, has a bad case of the blues after years of drinking a home-made silver solution for medical reasons
Police arrested a Texas man on child abuse charges on Friday after he allegedly used a 100,000-volt stun gun to discipline his 8-year-old stepson for missing the school bus
A 92-year-old Australian woman has become the nation’s oldest first-time home buyer after securing a housing loan she does not have to pay off for another 30 years
An urgent business proposition
and requests for urgent assistance
from a so-called Nigerian official were heeded by a Detroit bank secretary in the latest example of how the ubiquitous e-mail scam actually works
All that was missing was the Wonder Woman costume. Witnesses say a Jordanian woman ripped off her enveloping black cloak and veil — to reveal a traditional long dress that was nearly as enveloping — and punched and kicked into submission three young men who had been verbally harassing her.
Seven men who bared all in Toronto’s Gay Pride Parade have been cleared of public nudity charges because they were wearing shoes. The men, from a social group calling itself Totally Naked Toronto Men Enjoying Nudity (TNT!MEN), were arrested and charged under Canada’s Criminal Code after they marched in the annual festival wearing only footwear — and sunscreen
Local officials in Britain were reported to be furious after road workers apparently painted a white line on the side of a highway right over the furry body of a dead badger
Detectives are investigating the mystery of a hamster found driving a toy racing car along a promenade at a northern seaside resort
Wanted: Talented shepherd to manage flock of 600 sheep on remote Lundy Island. Must enjoy virtual solitude. Spouse recommended
An escaped emu caused confusion in Hamburg after a woman called police to report what she thought was a bare-chested man with two big white dots on his forehead staring into her window
It’s easy when you have drunk 12 pints to forget that lions are carnivores and do not like ice cream. And it probably seemed a good idea after a night on the beer to break into a zoo, find a cage and stuff Cornettos through the mesh
The mayor of the French Mediterranean town of Le Lavandou, faced with a cemetery full to bursting
, has banned local residents from dying until he can find somewhere else to bury them
Steady
Ed Headrick, the California inventor who figured out a way to make the Frisbee fly fast and straight, has died at the age of 78. His family said his ashes will be made into Frisbees
Egyptian police have arrested a man who performed brain surgery on a number of people even though he had only a primary school education
More than 200 years after they went out of fashion in Britain, professional hermits are back in the job market. A newspaper advertisement seeking a resident hermit for the stately Shugborough Home in Staffordshire, central England, has prompted a flood of replies from men eager to ditch stressed-out modern life for a spot of peaceful cave-dwelling
Real estate agents say location is everything, but these tenants don’t care about the neighbourhood — the worse, the better. Carnegie Mellon University is looking for property — two or more sites of 300 acres apiece — on which to test robots developed by its National Robotics Engineering Consortium. And when it comes to running robots through their paces, a house in the suburbs just won’t do
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