From BuyClamsOnline.com to billromanowskisucks.com, a stroll through the graveyard of defunct domain names offers a melancholy vision of monumentally stupid hopes that were cruelly dashed
Thanks to GPS, it seems quite a few people are discovering they don’t live where they thought. Prior to GPS, state, county and city borders were part law, part measurement, and part guesswork. Now, they’re able to go back and discover where actual borders should be, and it’s making many people unhappy — via Slashdot
For more than 20 years, FBI headquarters in Washington knew that its Boston agents were using hit men and mob leaders as informants and shielding them from prosecution for serious crimes including murder. Until now, the still-unravelling Boston FBI scandal has been portrayed largely as the work of a handful of local agents — mavericks willing to deal with the devil to bring down a Mafia family. But documents have been obtained that directly connect FBI headquarters to a pattern of collusion with notorious killers
A web site invites visitors to donate selflessly to Karyn, a struggling 26-year-old resident of Brooklyn Heights. And they do. I can’t believe so many morons are willing to part with money for a brainless bimbo with a credit card addiction
Israeli doctors have discovered a gruesome new way to catch hepatitis and possibly other blood-borne diseases — from the flying bone fragments of suicide bombers
A British couple are laying claim to the best-travelled pet in the world after their cat, Ozzy, hid in the hold of a passenger jet and clocked up 63,000 miles
New Idea, that bastion of Australian journalism, picked on the wrong man to tell tabloid tales about. Their story about James Packer had Daddy ensuring the issue was pulped
Russell Pritchard III, an antiques dealer, was sentenced to a year in a prison and ordered to repay US$830,000 for staging phoney appraisals on the American Antiques Roadshow and defrauding Civil War collectors
According to a new survey; the man who wrecked his sports car by towing a boat, the fisherman who left his car infested with maggots and the overweight couple whose amorous engagements broke the suspension of their Mini — are all examples of how Britons mistreat their cars
Recent mutilations of cattle and horses in the Argentine countryside were the work of rodents, scientists said on Monday, not ritualistic slayings by extraterrestrials or vampires as some farmers feared
The newest candidate challenging Secretary of State Katherine Harris in her bid for Congress is truly an underdog: a border collie mix. According to his owner and campaign manager, Wayne Genthner, Percy the dog is running as a write-in candidate in the Republican primary
Tschibsi, an Austrian farmer’s faithful dog, saved his life by running for help after a hay-making machine sliced up the 62-year-old’s left foot
An Alaskan chicken-hypnotist who cycles around the world with a travelling circus has ground to a halt after a charity clothes shop in Scotland sold her bicycle by mistake while she was in the fitting-room
From Doomsday Devices to Robotic Tigers and Randroids, VillainSupply.com have got it all. Don’t forget the convenient, accessible self-destruct device
A 28-year-old Panamanian accused of killing a judge was eaten by a crocodile as he swam across a river after escaping from prison
A Boy Scout who went a little too far in trying to achieve a merit badge in Atomic Energy. From smoke alarms, lantern components, the paint from radio clocks, and a little help from the Nuclear Regulator Commission, David Hahn attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his mother’s shed
British intelligence service MI5 may be well-known for leaving top-secret laptops on trains, in taxis and at other public locations, but Britons have also found a variety of innovative ways to destroy their portable computers — from running them over to dropping them off bridges
Beijing’s most popular newspaper, the Beijing Evening News, has unwittingly republished a bogus story about US Congress threats to skip town for Memphis or Charlotte unless Washington builds them a new Capitol building with a retractable dome. The source? America’s celebrated spoof tabloid, The Onion
Police in the west of England said on Friday they had recovered a cache of stolen property having been led to the hoard — by a squirrel
The Pentagon plans to use genetically modified bugs that eat
the enemy’s fuel and ammunition supplies without harming humans. Should be loads of fun when that escapes into the surrounding environment
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