‘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.
Astronaut Bill Shepherd was stunned — and frustrated — when he moved into the international space station last fall and discovered the kitchen table would not be arriving any time soon. Shepherd did what any self-respecting home mechanic would do. He built his own table, out of space station scraps
A runaway freight train that barrelled through 100km of north-western Ohio with no one aboard was halted safely Tuesday by a railroad worker who jumped onto the moving train and pulled its brake
If you’re the kind of person who is always fiddling around with your computer then you’re probably sick of crawling behind it to reach the rear ports. FrontX Multimedia Ports are designed to relocate the user’s choice of computer ports from the rear to the front of the machine
By odd coincidence, on the day writer Douglas Adams died, the Minor Planet Centre, a branch of the International Astronomical Union, named an asteroid Arthurdent, from a character from his best-known work, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organisation has ruled the City of Brisbane in Queensland does not have rights to BrisbaneCity.com, currently held by a private individual
American soldiers have been accused of shooting up Australian wildlife while on military manoeuvres in Queensland
The US Supreme Court recently ruled unanimously against distributors of medical marijuana — William Randolph Hearst’s legacy of protecting his personal business interests lives on long after his death
He was a trusted citizen of Hyde, a family doctor who cared for its townspeople with a dedication that won him widespread adoration. But he was also a man who hid a horrible secret: Dr Harold Frederick Shipman, 55, was England’s — and perhaps the world’s — most prolific serial killer. How could so prolific a killer live among them for so long, in plain sight, and go undetected? The answer lies partly with the confidentiality allowed by British law and tradition. Professionals — in government, law, and medicine — are granted a degree of trust that often keeps their work beyond rigorous public review. Dr Shipman took advantage of this, covering his crimes by lying on death certificates and other official documents
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.
Evil
is not a word most psychiatrists like, but some are trying to find a way to measure it. During a symposium Thursday at the American Psychiatric Association convention, Dr Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist, asked more than 120 psychiatrists to help create a depravity scale which could be used by the courts to judge criminals
Two New Zealand pensioners inadvertently attended their first and last hard rock concert after winning tickets to see Pantera in a newspaper competition
Author Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, has died suddenly aged 49. Mr Adams died on Friday morning in Santa Barbara, California, following a heart attack
Boffins at Oxford University are about to turn on a tabletop pulsar
which, if the controversial theory behind it is right, will produce faster than light messages
An upstate New York turkey hunter is receiving rabies shots after he was attacked by coyotes. A wildlife expert says the coyotes may have mistaken the hunter for a turkey — if you look like a turkey and sound like a turkey, don’t be surprised if you’re mistaken for a turkey
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
I don’t know if it’s the pneumatic swoosh
and thunk
sounds they make or the wonderful shininess, but, damn, I want one. While I was delighted to see capsule pipeline systems make a return to local supermarkets, plastic just isn’t the same as great networks of shiny brass tubing
Influential Republicans and Democrats in the House have threatened to hold back $244 million in dues to the United Nations if the United States does not recover a seat on the Human Rights Commission next year — it’s not like the bastards ever paid up in the past, nothing like throwing a childish tantrum on a global scale
Naomi Klein’s No Logo won the National Business Book Award, netting her $10,000 from the likes of PriceWaterhouse and the Bank of Montreal. A decision which greatly upset University of Toronto Dean of Graduate Studies juror, Michael Marrus, who took the highly unusual step of resigning from the jury
A Norwegian swan attacked an elderly woman, biting her bottom, dragging her into a lake and dunking her twice before letting go — sure, they look nice and placid, but swans have serious territorial issues
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