C
may be for cookie, but A
is for assault, one man learned after allegedly assaulting the Cookie Monster at the Sesame Place theme park — assaulting Elmo I can understand, but the Cookie Monster?
A 10-year-old Chilean boy who had been abandoned by his parents survived for two years in a cave with a pack of stray dogs who scavenged for food with him and may even have suckled him
Apple Computer, which gained fame with its iconoclastic marketing, has told the Church of Satan it does not want to be associated with it
The next time a serious press seminar is held on just why so many readers are so sceptical, so disbelieving and so hostile about who we in the press are and what we write, I have an answer: the Nationally Circulated Hoax in the mainstream press that Clinton staffers had vandalised the White House and Air Force One
Nepal’s new regent has tried to pass off the slaying of almost the entire royal family as a bizarre accident
, as public discontent grows over sanitised official versions of the tragedy
Security Service MI5 once planned to recruit a team of specially-trained gerbils as a secret weapon to sniff out spies, it has been revealed. The animals were to help interrogate suspects because they could use their acute sense of smell to detect a rise in adrenaline — the chemical released in sweat when people feel under stress
Glacial deposits in the tropics 600 million years ago are proof that the Earth at one stage was a giant snowball, with the oceans entirely covered by ice.The cause: carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was reduced by weathering of silicate rocks
The G8 Group of the world’s leading industrial nations are making progress — albeit slowly — on plans to combat cybercrime. At a meeting in Tokyo, the G8 Government/Private Sector High Level Meeting on High-tech Crime workshsopped five themes — data retention, data preservation, threat assessment and prevention, protection of e-commerce, and user authentication
If the retarded monkey boy‘s first budget is any indication, the business of America today is big business. Small companies, it seems, are somebody else’s business
Against the background of the recent ‘deaths’ of Nowheremom and Kaycee, beloved but fictional members of online communities Anandtech and MetaFilter, respectively, FEED itself got to play a walk-on role in a case of a fictional identity with global reach
Thousands of faithful Web fans were duped into believing the tragic tale of Kaycee Nicole, a young, beautiful Kansas teen dying of leukaemia. Until the truth emerged: Kaycee Nicole was a fabrication, a figment of Debbie Swenson’s imagination, and the star player in an intricate, detailed, and extended hoax
With his unauthorised exorcisms and faith healings, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo has long rankled the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church. But his action yesterday at a New York hotel may represent his final break with the Vatican: he was married in a group wedding presided over by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Socialites
, babes
and bad hair days
are some of the words and phrases that have been declared off limits by the various magazines, in an effort to steer writers away from language that is hackneyed, imprecise or slangy
The Email Disclaimer Awards 2001 were set up to honour disclaimer messages usually included at the foot of corporate e-mail messages. The winner of the longest disclaimer was awarded to global financial services firm UBS Warburg for its 1081 word spiel
Apparently a logo is a must for a wedding these days. If your intended is obsessing over the width of flower petals and the colour of the stitching on the wedding press kits — get out now
And speaking of drugs; meet the monkeyman. The bizarre figure is vividly described as anything from a tiny man dressed as a monkey to a 2m beast with illuminated green eyes.
‘It’s going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be covered in deep-pile pink and purple carpet. But wait — here’s the best part. It will look like an abstract sculpture of a giant turkey. We’ll bill it as a romantic getaway — and call it The Gobbler!’ Take some time out of your day to visit the shrine to The Gobbler, you too will wonder at the abundance of mind-altering substances available to architects and interior designers of the 60s.
A very brave, or possibly stupid, French Vietnamese man decided to strip naked and take a stroll through bustling Changi airport on Friday — just the sort of activity the Singaporean authorities frown upon.
Neighbours had long assumed the lonely old man moved from his Chicago home years ago. Mail piled up. Utilities were shut off. Grass grew. Paint peeled. The house was sold at a tax auction on Tuesday, and the new owners found him when they entered. He was sitting in a rocking chair, dead. Apparently, he had died in the chair and remained there for at least four years
The British army has paid for a small number of female soldiers to have breast enlargements to make them happier — ludicrous just doesn’t cover this policy.
If you love watching stormtroopers walk into door frames or see blood on a sword magically disappear from one shot to the next, you’re a die-hard devotee of the blooper kind, so just get ready to point and click.
The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn’t missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn’t find the server. IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by maintenance workers.
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