Month: January 2006
Vampire runs for governor
Minnesota voters, who eight years ago elected a former professional wrestler as their governor, may find a self-proclaimed...
Snarge: Rabbits at 1,800 feet
Wired News: 'Each day, the Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Laboratory receives about a dozen packages from around the...
Turning dead cats into diesel
A German inventor says he's found a way to make cheap diesel fuel out of dead cats. Dr...
Children in Tweed
The advertisement read: "While laudable efforts are made by elderly pop icons to feed the world's hungry millions,...
Indian Schools Closed Due To Ghosts
A number of schools in remote areas of India have been forced to close or relocate after an...
Friday 13th: Hijacked airliner ploughs into UK Nuclear Power Plant
Well, not really - but this disturbing little 'home movie' shows how any morning could be a 'Friday...
There’s a New Buddha. In Nepal.
A mysterious so-called "new Buddha" has come to light in the jungle of Bara district of Katmandu. Every...
The Dublin Event Guide, King Kong and the Koalas of New Zealand
Email sent by blather.net to the Dublin Event Guide: "Your writer, Paul Byrne, needs to get his geography...
Persinger Locked out of Lab
Before neuroscience PhD student Linda St. Pierre was locked out of the Paul A. Field Animal Care facility...
Colombian town orders teenagers to carry condoms
Somehow, I just can't see this happening in my hometown. That's not to say it wouldn't sort out...