Archive for December, 2006
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Hacker Cracks High-Def DVD Encryption System:
The movie industry may rue the day it challenged hackers to break its new encryption system for high-def DVDs, claiming it was bulletproof. The day after Christmas, a hacker known only as Muslix64 posted a hack to a Doom 9 forum that appears to shoot holes in their claim. The hack consists of a program, BackupHDDVD, and a set of encryption keys that would allow users to decrypt, and thus copy, high-definition movies protected by the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), such as Full Metal Jacket, The Last Samurai, and The Fugitive.
You can find his video announcement on YouTube.
Source code and executable can be found here.
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
China chokes on a coal-fired boom
A GREAT coal rush is under way across China on a scale not seen anywhere since the 19th century.
Its consequences have been detected half a world away in toxic clouds so big that they can seen from space, drifting across the Pacific to California laden with microscopic particles of chemicals that cause cancer and diseases of the heart and lung.
Nonetheless, the Chinese plan to build no fewer than 500 new coal-fired power stations, adding to some 2,000, most of them unmodernised, that spew smoke, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere.
Posted in End of the World Update | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Minister: Britons Enjoy Getting Drunk
New 24-hour alcohol licensing laws have failed to help Britons adopt a more relaxed attitude toward drinking, a Cabinet minister said, according to a Sunday newspaper. Most Britons enjoy drinking too much to emulate the cafe culture of continental Europe, said Hazel Blears, chairman the governing Labour Party and a member of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Cabinet.
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Police Pull Over Man Smoking Pot, Find $250K Worth:
A man was caught with a quarter million dollars’ worth of marijuana Thursday evening after he was caught allegedly smoking a joint when police pulled him over on a traffic stop.
Posted in Drugs, Idiot Criminals | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Incoming Judiciary Committee Chair Admits Breaking Ethics Rules:
John Conyers (D-Mich.) “accepted responsibility” for breaking House Ethics rules (and possibly some laws) for requiring “his official staffers to work on campaigns, babysit his children, and run personal errands.” So what does the House Ethics Committee do to punish him? They quietly released a public statement, perfectly timed to minimize coverage in the press, that simply says Conyers ought to refrain from breaking ethics rules and laws in the future.
Posted in Politico Follies | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Air Force pursuing antimatter weapons
The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source — antimatter, the eerie “mirror” of ordinary matter — in future weapons.
The most powerful potential energy source presently thought to be available to humanity, antimatter is a term normally heard in science-fiction films and TV shows, whose heroes fly “antimatter-powered spaceships” and do battle with “antimatter guns.”
But antimatter itself isn’t fiction; it actually exists and has been intensively studied by physicists since the 1930s. In a sense, matter and antimatter are the yin and yang of reality: Every type of subatomic particle has its antimatter counterpart. But when matter and antimatter collide, they annihilate each other in an immense burst of energy.
During the Cold war, the Air Force funded numerous scientific studies of the basic physics of antimatter. With the knowledge gained, some Air Force insiders are beginning to think seriously about potential military uses — for example, antimatter bombs small enough to hold in one’s hand, and antimatter engines for 24/7 surveillance aircraft.
Posted in Technological Travesties, War | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Mankind’s population living mostly in cities for the first time
The coming year marks a great milestone in the human saga, a development similar in magnitude to the agricultural era and the Industrial Revolution. For the first time in history, a majority of human beings will be living in vast urban areas, many in megacities and suburban extensions with populations of 10 million or more, according to the United Nations. We have become “Homo Urbanus.” Two hundred years ago, the average person on Earth might meet 200 to 300 people in a lifetime. Today a resident of New York City can live and work among 220,000 people within a 10-minute radius of his home or office in midtown Manhattan.
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Martian robot rovers outlive expectations
Their 90-day warranties expired long ago. But NASA’s six-wheeled Martian rovers still are going strong. After a bleak winter on the fourth rock from the sun, Spirit and Opportunity are rolling again.
Three years ago, when the first of the two rovers bounced to a landing on Mars, scientists hoped one of them might last long enough to transmit a few hundred pictures from the surface and help them decide where the arid planet’s water went.
Few dared dream that, come Wednesday, they would be celebrating the third anniversary of operations by two rovers on opposite sides of the planet.
So far, the two little robots have beamed back 160,000 pictures. NASA now aims to keep the solar-powered robots running through September.
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Ex-Agent Reveals KGB Mind Control Techniques
A former KGB officer has divulged secrets of special mind control techniques that security services in developed nations used during and after the Cold War, a Russian government daily said Friday. General Boris Ratnikov, who served in the KGB department for Moscow and the Moscow Region, told Rossiiskaya Gazeta that people in power had resorted to various methods of manipulating individuals’ thoughts since ancient times, and that it was hardly surprising that secret services adopted the practice when it acquired a scientific foundation in the 20th century.
Posted in Crazed Dictatorships | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
A tale of two cities for confused tourist
A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometres away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Snake handler bitten by 4-metre Burmese python during Florida aquarium show:
A four-metre python bit its handler and tried to drag her into its cage during a show at an aquarium, and wouldn’t release the woman until a police officer zapped the reptile with a stun gun.
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Animal Sacrifices Maim 1,400 in Turkey:
Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards on Sunday after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled animals. At least 1,413 people – referred to as “amateur butchers” by the Turkish media – were treated at hospitals across the country, most suffering cuts to their hands and legs, the Anatolia news agency reported. Four people were severely injured, crushed under the weight of large animals that fell on top of them, the agency reported. Another person was hurt when a crane used to lift an animal tumbled onto him, the agency said.
Posted in Animal Rebellion Update, Cultural Oddities | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Hip-Hop Car Stunt Leaves Two Dead:
“Ghost riding the whip,” a stunt in which a driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a thumping hip-hop beat, has gotten at least two people killed, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond.
Posted in Teen Antics | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Now that Saddam is gone, the spotlight turns to Mugabe:
Mugabe’s party resists bid to extend his rule
Despite claims by Mugabe to the contrary, the Zanu-PF conference held on 15-17 December failed to endorse the veteran leader’s proposal to lengthen his rule from 2008 to 2010. The Zanu-PF chairman, John Nkomo, confirmed that the conference did not pass the measure, referring it instead to the party’s central committee. Zanu-PF insiders say the stiff resistance within the party to Mugabe’s proposal is the first sign of the vulnerability of the 82-year-old leader, who has been in power for 26 years. It is the first time a party conference has failed to adopt a resolution supported by Mugabe, who will succeed in amending the constitution only if his proposal is passed by the central committee.
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Thirsty German sells beagle to buy beer
A thirsty German sold his 6-year-old step-daughter’s pet beagle to the owner of a bar to pay for beer, the Bild newspaper reported on Friday.
Posted in Fun with Alcohol | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
1,600 Years Ago: Barbarian Invasion
1,600 years ago today, on December 31, 406, the Vandals invaded France. Europe was going through a minor ice age. The Rhine had frozen over. Several Germanic tribes, the Vandals, Suebians, Alamannians, Alans and Burgundians, fleeing the Huns, crossed the river near Mainz and invaded Gaul.
Posted in Historical Oddities | No Comments »
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Two-Headed Reptile Fossil From Age of Dinosaurs Found:
Palaeontologists have found a tiny dinosaur-era reptile with two heads—the first time the extremely rare developmental anomaly has been found in a fossil. The 120-million-year-old specimen, just 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) long, is a hatchling of a species of Choristodere—extinct aquatic reptiles resembling modern-day crocodiles or lizards.
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Mosque plans trigger neighbor’s pig races
A man unhappy with an Islamic association’s plans to build a mosque next to his property has staged pig races as a protest during afternoon prayers. Craig Baker, 46, sold merchandise and grilled sausages Friday for about 100 people who showed up in heavy rain. He insisted he wasn’t trying to offend anyone with the pigs, which are forbidden from the Muslim diet. “I am just defending my rights and my property,” Baker said. “They totally disrespected me and my family.”
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Severed goat head sent to Italian soccer GM
Palermo general manager Rino Foschi received a surprise in the mail for Christmas — the severed head of a young goat, covered in blood
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Parrot’s oratory stuns scientists:
The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N’kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Science told: hands off gay sheep
SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of “gay” sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans. The technique being developed by American researchers adjusts the hormonal balance in the brains of homosexual rams so that they are more inclined to mate with ewes.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Woman Charged With Malicious Castration
A woman attacked a man in his genitals during a Christmas party, injuring him badly enough that he needed 50 stitches, authorities said Friday. Rebecca Arnold Dawson, 34, was charged with malicious castration in a fight early Tuesday at a party hosted by the 38-year-old man’s girlfriend, police said.
Posted in Concentrated Criminality, Fun with Alcohol | No Comments »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
World’s Oldest Mom Bears Twins at 67
The woman, whose identity has not been revealed by Sant Pau hospital, gave birth by caesarian section on Saturday having previously undergone in vitro fertilization in the United States, according to the national news agency EFE.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
How to Pop a Cork With a Sword:
The clock’s counting down good riddance to 2006, and a crowd of thirsty revelers encircles you, the designated popper of the cork. But how will you free the bubbly from its bottle to greet the new year? You can always go manual, or geek out with a gadget like the single-squeeze Descorjet. But perhaps you want to start 2007 feeling a little more jaunty than usual. Maybe you feel like living life on the edge — the edge of a saber. If so, it might be time to try champagne sabering, the delicate art of decapitating bottles of champagne.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Flying like a bird at 5,000ft, the winged wonder
Because being truly at one with the air, able to swoop and soar like a falcon or an albatross, remained an impossibility. And in legends where the dream became real, as in the myth of the Ancient Greek birdman Icarus, the price was a heavy one; an ignominious crashing to Earth. But for one brave Swiss pioneer, a former military pilot called Yves Rossy, the dream has become reality.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
UA study positive on psychedelic substance
In a small-scale preliminary study, a UA psychiatrist has found that psilocybin, the active agent in psychedelic mushrooms, is effective in relieving the symptoms of people who suffer from severe obsessive compulsive disorder.
Posted in Drugs, Medical Monstrosities | No Comments »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Thailand tree apes use song as warning
Wah, wow, hoo! Turns out humans aren’t the only primates using songs to warn of life’s dangers and travails. White-handed gibbons in Thailand’s forests have been found to communicate threats from predators by singing — the first time the behavior has been discovered among non-human primates, researchers said Wednesday.
Posted in Animal Weirdness | No Comments »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
2006 A Year End Wrapup:
Something was in the air we agreed. Sightings, some of a remarkable nature, were being reported monthly if not weekly and this phenomena seemed to be increasing. We could both remember when a single sighting of significance would incur once every few years or at best annually. Now it seemed the floodgates were opening, inch by inch, and month by month.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Flopping Aces presents The WHOLE Saddam Execution Video
Here is the whole video, resolution sucks tho. You do see him drop but the camera doesnt follow him all the way down. They do zoom in on him after tho. Be forewarned that the video shows Saddam hang. DO NOT press play if you don’t want to see it.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Making trouble for the Air Force:
“In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.
I have taken special interest in these (UFO) accounts because many of the latest reported sightings have been made in my home state of Michigan…Because I think there may be substance to some of these reports and because I believe The American people are entitled to a more thorough explanation than has been given them by the Air force to date”
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
French space agency to publish UFO archive online
The French space agency is to publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics. Jacques Arnould, an official at the National Space Studies Center (CNES), said the French database of around 1,600 incidents would go live in late January or mid-February.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Just who’s guilty?
Given last week’s revelation that Durham, N.C., District Attorney Mike Nifong had kept exculpatory DNA evidence from defense attorneys for the three Duke lacrosse players accused of a March sexual attack on a local stripper-college student, it may be just a matter of time before David Evans, Reade Seligmann and Collin Finerty are cleared of all charges. Now that the North Carolina bar has filed ethics charges against Nifong, the spotlight finally can shift to the most troubling behavior in this matter: the DA’s repellent assault on the civil rights of the Duke trio.
The Smoking Gun has the full scoop, including the 17-page ethics complaint filed against Nifong.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
The Year In Drugs: DEA Highlights
From Operation Liquid Heroin which involved drug traffickers using puppies to smuggle heroin to the arrest of notorious drug kingpin Francisco Javier Arellano-Felix, DEA agents have been on the frontlines helping to keep the United States safer for every American.
Posted in Concentrated Criminality, Drugs | No Comments »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
“Silent” Speech Device May Aid Divers, Firefighters, Cell Phone Users:
NASA scientists are developing a speech recognition system that can understand and relay words that haven’t been said out loud.
The system uses electrodes attached to the throat to detect biological signals that occur as a person reads or talks to him- or herself. The signals can then be converted into text or synthesized speech.
Posted in Medical Monstrosities | No Comments »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Teen accidentally shoots self in face
A teenager has been hospitalized with facial injuries caused when a bullet he found fired while held in a vice, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday.
The victim, Alex Carman, 15, was taken to Bayfront Medical Center with injuries to the right upper cheek.
Investigators say the Riverridge H.S. student found a 380 bullet on the side of a road, brought it home and put it into a vice. He apparently struck the the primer end of the bullet with a metal screw, causing it to fire.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Kung Fu brickies
Most gardeners would buy bricks for their new patio from a building supplier. But Eileen Sullivan took the more unusual route – and got hers delivered and broken in her driveway by a group of Kung-Fu experts.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
French woman stuck in elevator for 3 days
A French woman’s Christmas celebrations were almost ruined this year after she got stuck in a lift for 72 hours. The 19-year-old, identified only as Safiatou, got into the lift in a Parisian housing estate on Tuesday, December 19. She was found dehydrated but alive the following Friday.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
£25k of stolen broccoli could be world’s largest ever veg theft
Street prices of broccoli could plummet over coming weeks after a trailer loaded with £25,000 worth of the vegetable was nicked. The 48ft container disappeared from its parking space in a suburb of Chicago prompting questions over whether this is the largest ever single heist of vegetable matter.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Anniversary of Promulgation of Socialist Constitution Marked
The socialist system in the DPRK has grown stronger and developed and its might has been augmented despite grim ordeals unprecedented in history.
The Korean-style socialism is a genuine man-centered socialism where people are considered to be the most valuable and everything serves them.
It is the supreme principle of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the state of the DPRK in all activities to give top priority to the interests of the people.
The Korean-style socialism is a powerful one unswervingly advancing with the might of the single-minded unity of the army and people around the headquarters of the revolution.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Mystery billionaire pays $200m in back tax – and keeps a state afloat
Feeling nervous about your end-of-year tax bill? Already suffering from bouts of loathing towards Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then consolation can be found in California, where a mysterious “Taxpayer X” has just come clean about his income and handed over $200 million in unpaid taxes — almost single-handedly eliminating the revenue shortfall of the state.
Posted in Doh! | No Comments »
Friday, December 29th, 2006
GAL GOES CUCKOO OVER COCOA
A Brooklyn woman went dough-nuts, throwing a cup of steaming hot chocolate in the face of a Dunkin’ Donuts counter clerk after he failed to top the drink with whipped cream, police sources said yesterday. Crazed customer Jasmine Aly, 29, was whipped into such a frenzy about the beverage oversight that she also scratched the worker’s face and then ripped the door off a refrigerator and hit him in the head with it.
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Friday, December 29th, 2006
Police: Carjacker Gets Lost, Calls 911 On Self
Police said a man who carjacked an SUV in Boca Raton drove all the way to Palm Springs before becoming lost and calling 911 on himself. According to police reports, Claude King, 31, approached Caroline Funkey’s black GMC Envoy while it was stopped at a red light in Boca Raton. The report said King smashed the driver’s side window and pulled the driver out of the vehicle. Once inside, police said King began to punch the other four passengers.
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Thursday, December 28th, 2006
Head-banging snakes may predict quakes
China has come up with an earthquake prediction system which relies on the behavior of snakes, state media said on Thursday, two days after two quakes struck off neighboring Taiwan. The earthquake bureau in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi autonomous region in southern China, had developed its system using a combination of natural instinct and modern technology, the China Daily newspaper said.
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Double hand transplant ’success’:
A woman who became the first in the world to receive a double hand transplant has left hospital. A team of surgeons at Hospital La Fe in Valencia carried out the pioneering operation. Alba Lucia, 47, originally from Columbia, who had the 10-hour operation on November 30, said she was “very happy and enormously satisfied”. Both her original hands were amputated after an explosion in her student chemistry lab nearly 30 years ago.
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Quake cuts off much of Asia Internet:
Internet and phone services have been disrupted across much of Asia after an earthquake damaged undersea cables, leaving one of the world’s most tech-savvy regions in a virtual blackout. From frustrated traders seeking in vain for stock quotes to anxious newshounds accustomed to round-the-clock updates on world events, millions of people from China to Japan to Australia were believed to have been affected. There was no chaos on the stock exchanges or any of the other doomsday scenarios of science fiction, but reports that services could be down for weeks were dramatic enough.
Posted in Technological Travesties | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Airline Luggage Found Near Houston Store
Authorities were trying Tuesday to figure out how dozens of pieces of luggage belonging to air travelers ended up in a trash bin behind a Houston pet store. The store’s owners discovered 60 to 70 pieces of luggage, which belonged to passengers of Continental Airlines, Lufthansa, British Airways and U.S. Airways, and contacted the Harris County Sheriff’s Department, according to Houston television station KRIV.
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Hundreds of Iraqis Apply to Kill Saddam Hussein:
The impending death of one of the most notorious dictators of the 20th century has caused a morbid contest in Baghdad as Iraqis express an interest in executing Saddam Hussein. After losing a court appeal, the former Iraqi leader is scheduled for hanging in the next 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in the central city of Dujail. An advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told ABC News that hundreds of Iraqis have inquired about the job as Hussein’s hangman, even though officially, no such position exists and the government has not advertised for it.
Posted in Crazed Dictatorships | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Antarctic ozone layer 90 to 99 per cent gone
The study found “massive” and “widespread” localised ozone depletion in the heart of Antartica’s ozone hole region, beginning in the late 1970s, but becoming more pronounced in the 1980s and `90s. The US government scientists who conducted the study said that there was an almost complete absence of ozone in certain atmospheric air samples taken after 1980, compared to earlier decades. In contrast, the ozone losses in the Arctic were sporadic, and even the greatest losses did not begin to approach the regular losses in the southern hemisphere, the researchers said.
Posted in End of the World Update | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Mussolini’s Roman villa restored to glory
The magnificent historic villa that was the home of Benito Mussolini when he was the all-powerful Duce of Italy has been reopened to the public after nearly 30 years of restoration. The nine buildings and gardens of the Villa Torlonia, which were largely built in the 19th century by the Torlonia princes of the Vatican aristocracy, will now house an art museum dedicated to the Roman school of 20th-century painting.
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Lagos pipeline blast kills scores:
At least 260 people have been killed and 60 injured in an oil pipeline blast in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) officials say. Officials say they are still counting bodies and it is feared the death toll could be much higher.
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Leaping dolphin leaves woman seriously injured
A spokesman for the Auckland rescue helicopter said the woman was sitting in the bow of a small pleasure craft around 2.30pm today when it appeared a dolphin miscalculated its leap out of the water. “It jumped up out of the water and hit the woman, giving her a number of injuries,” the spokesman said.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Japanese man in mystery survival:
A Japanese man has survived for 24 days in cold weather and without food and water by falling into a state of “hibernation”, his doctor has said. Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, 35, went missing on 7 October after going with friends to climb Mount Rokko in western Japan. He had almost no pulse, his organs had shut down and his body temperature dropped to 22C (71F) when he was found. Medics say they are still puzzled how he survived because his metabolism was apparently almost at a standstill.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Tiger attacks trainer at S.F. Zoo
A 350-pound Siberian tiger attacked and injured her trainer Friday at the San Francisco Zoo as at least 50 visitors looked on, zoo officials said. The woman may lose an arm and was in surgery Friday at San Francisco General Hospital with injuries to both arms, Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said. “My understanding is the injuries are not life-threatening, but perhaps limb-threatening,” Hayes-White said.
Hat tip to Kara!
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Woman Allegedly Steals ID for Inmate Sex
A 29-year-old woman allegedly forged documents and assumed the identity of an Annapolis attorney, apparently for the sole purpose of having sex with an inmate at a Baltimore prison. “It was an elaborate scheme,” said Maj. Priscilla Doggett, a spokeswoman for the prison system. “I’m not aware of something like this ever occurring before.” Police charged Tiffany Gwen Weaver, of Reisterstown with seven counts stemming from the alleged incident, including forgery, fraud, and false use of government identification. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Patrons Toss Dead Cat Through Drive-Thru
An employee working the drive-through window at a McDonald’s will have a tale to tell. When the worker went to the open window thinking the car pulling up had already ordered, the people in the car threw a dead cat through the window, police said.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Asom conservationists criticise officials for killing elephant:
Conservationists in Asom have lashed out at forest officials for shooting dead an elephant, mistaking it to be a killer. The forest officials resorted to the extreme step after an elephant named ‘Osama bin Laden’ ran amok, killing 27 people. However, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) officials said ‘Osama’ was not the actual one who created the havoc, but a look-a-like. “We always suspect this. We collected evidence, went to the spot and interviewed local people. They said that this is not the actual one who created havoc. And surprisingly very next night another person was killed by an elephant in the nearby village,” said Anupam Sharma, a representative of the WWF.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Saab gives man new car after he drive his old one a million miles:
The traveling salesman from Glendale who put a million miles on his Saab 900 is getting a free replacement from the automaker after being deluged with publicity for his unusual feat.
“I am on cloud nine right now. This is exactly the car I wanted,” Peter Gilbert said Monday. Gilbert recently donated his 17-year-old Saab to the Wisconsin Automotive Museum after the car had survived more than 1 million miles and eight deer collisions, including one that punched a hole in the radiator.
Saab, the Swedish car-maker that’s a division of General Motors, verified the high mileage on Gilbert’s car last summer. Almost everything on the vehicle was original equipment, except for the hoods and other parts that were replaced after the car-deer collisions.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Police arrest woman for selling sex on Craigslist
Police have arrested a 21-year-old Mesa woman who was selling sex on craigslist.org and has admitted to taking in $1,400 for sex acts during the last two weeks, according to court records.
Renee Marie Kachinski was arrested late Tuesday night after authorities received a tip from a manager at Homestead Studio Suites Hotel, 1920 W. Isabella Ave. Police had been conducting surveillance for several days at the location.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Santa dons hardhat after pie attack
Santa Claus was forced to swap his traditional red and white hat for protective headgear after children pelted him with mince pies in Scotland. Santa was hit on the head by pastries thrown from a balcony as he handed out gold chocolate coins at a shopping center in the town of Paisley, near Glasgow, at the weekend.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Purse-wielding women bag suspect
“There they were, all minding their own business, when they realized simultaneously that action needed to be taken,” said Richard Bull, spokesman for West Mercia Police. “They didn’t know one another, but they all thought the same thing.” “They surprised the man, but also demoralized him — after all, the world and his wife were already after him,” Bull added.
Posted in Doh! | No Comments »
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Live Giant Squid Caught on Film:
A Japanese research team has succeeded in filming a giant squid live — possibly for the first time — and says the elusive creatures may be more plentiful than previously believed, a researcher said Friday.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Norway threatened by WWII-era submarine
More than 60 years after being torpedoed by the British navy, a Nazi submarine built to threaten allied ships continues to spread fear off the coast of Norway.The rusting wreckage of the U-864, sunk in a desperate mission to supply Japan with advanced weapons technology, now poses a major environmental threat due to its poisonous cargo: 70 tons of mercury.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
‘42 midget sub committed to the deep
The wartime midget submarine discovered off the beaches of Sydney is to be left on the ocean floor and is expected to become a permanent tomb for the two crewmen killed inside the vessel after their attack on Sydney Harbour in 1942.
Australian government officials have confirmed that the sub will probably never be raised for various reasons, including technical difficulties. The vessel’s discovery last month by amateur divers ended a 64-year mystery about its whereabouts.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
So was David Icke right?
The much ridiculed world of David Icke has been shocked into real-life turmoil by a court case that threatens to bankrupt Britain’s self-styled conspiracy guru. Icke is fighting to retain copyright of the 16 books he has written over the same number of years. He is involved in a legal battle with a business associate over the written work, artwork and printing disks of his self- published tomes on the theme that we are all victims of a sinister global campaign.The case, which is being fought in the US, is costing Icke huge amounts. Since losing his job as a BBC sports commentator 15 years ago, after he appeared on the Wogan show in a turquoise shellsuit claiming to be the son of God, Icke has eked out a living from his bizarre theories. He explains: “It’s emotionally frustrating when you put 16 years of work in and take enormous amounts of ridicule and now you turn the corner and someone is trying to take it all from you.” But, he adds guardedly, things are “well on the way to being sorted”.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Head-butt by horse restores man’s sight:
A Second World War veteran who was blinded in his right eye when he was hit by shrapnel can see again after being head-butted by a pedigree racehorse. Doctors tried in vain for 64 years to restore Don Karkos’s sight, until My Buddy Chimo stepped in. Hours after the horse smacked the 82-year-old paddock security guard in exactly the same spot as the shrapnel gashed his forehead in combat in 1942, he realised his vision was returning.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Miss Nevada’s no flasher in the pan:
Former Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees said yesterday her breast-licking, thong-flashing pictures were a youthful mistake – but a friend who witnessed the display said it wasn’t her first revealing episode. “I had seen her doing similar things before,” the friend told the Daily News about the March 2004 night when Rees’ indiscretions were caught on camera. “It was not unusual for her. She was always out drinking with friends and getting wild.”
And here’s a special treat for those of you who want to see the uncensored photos of her hot and steamy action, but have had trouble finding them.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Macy’s Pulls Sean John Jackets For Dog Fur Use:
Macy’s has pulled from its shelves and its Web site two styles of Sean John hooded jackets, originally advertised as featuring faux fur, after an investigation by the nation’s largest animal protection organization concluded that the garments were actually made from a certain species of dog called “raccoon dog.” “First these jackets were falsely advertised as faux fur, and then it turned out that the fur came from a type of dog,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Cops: Bronx Psychic Tried To Get Husband Killed
Foreseeing the future is Bonnie Davido’s business. But she didn’t see through an undercover detective posing as a hit man, police said. Davido, who runs a palm-reading business from her Bronx apartment, was being held on $100,000 bail, charged with conspiracy and criminal solicitation. Police said she plotted to have her husband’s mistress killed.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
It was a mild week – only 3 reported incidents, including this:
01.11.2006 at km 346 Parana River Anchorage, Argentina. 17 robbers boarded a general cargo ship. They destroyed communication equipment on board, broke into containers and stole electronic and other goods from the vessel. The robbers escaped in a boat. The vessel contacted a naval base which responded by sending three naval cutters. The navy succeeded in intercepting the pirate boat marked “Luchando Voy” bearing no. “M-1085″. The robbers were arrested and stolen goods confiscated. Robbers will be prosecuted in a local court.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Christmas is just poo in Spain
What’s the most prized figure in an average nativity scene – a wise man, a donkey, perhaps a shepherd? Well in certain parts of Spain the one character no self-respecting manger would be without is “El Caganer” or “The Crapper”. Every year homes across the Spanish region of Catalonia proudly boast a statuette of a smartly dressed peasant squatting behind a rock with his trousers around his knees and his butt sticking out.
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Squatting monks in holy punch-up
In a punch up that would put the Hell’s Angels to shame, a face-off between two rival gangs of Greek monks ended with police being called to end the brawl in which crowbars and fire extinguishers were used as weapons
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Victim doesn’t remember if she was raped or not:
Nifong’s investigator interviewed the woman Thursday, and she told the investigator that she couldn’t testify “with certainty” that she was raped. Prosecutors said they couldn’t proceed without her testimony, so they decided to dismiss the rape charges in the case.
Meanwhile, the deeply shameful President of Duke, who earlier celebrated the opportunity to smack down and humiliate rich white kids based on no evidence whatsoever, is now cutting and running from Typhoid Nifong: Brodhead calls for Nifong to step down as prosecutor
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Al Qaeda’s message to the Left:
Al Qaeda has sent a message to leaders of the Democratic party that credit for the defeat of congressional Republicans belongs to the terrorists. In a portion of the tape from al Qaeda No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahri, made available only today, Zawahri says he has two messages for American Democrats. “The first is that you aren’t the ones who won the midterm elections, nor are the Republicans the ones who lost. Rather, the Mujahideen — the Muslim Ummah’s vanguard in Afghanistan and Iraq — are the ones who won, and the American forces and their Crusader allies are the ones who lost,” Zawahri said, according to a full transcript obtained by ABC News.
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Iraqi soldiers eat frogs, rabbit at handover ceremony
Iraqi soldiers bit the heads off frogs and ate the heart of a rabbit as signs of courage on Wednesday at a ceremony to transfer Najaf province, home to one of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest shrines, from U.S. to Iraqi control.
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Marijuana top US cash crop, analyst says
U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country’s largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released on Monday.
The report, conducted by Jon Gettman, a public policy analyst and former head of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, also concluded that five U.S. states produce more than $1 billion worth of marijuana apiece: California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii and Washington.
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
X-51 Hypersonic Cruise Missile: The Pentagon’s Prompt Global Strike Weapon Plan
The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon’s bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war?
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
‘Santa Claus does not exist’ school tells stunned kids
A primary school has been accused of spoiling Christmas for pupils after a lesson telling them that Santa Claus does not exist. Children as young as nine were told that only ’small children believe in Father Christmas’.
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Charges don’t keep Austin frat from partying
The Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity in Austin began the fall semester the same as always — with plans for a pledge class and plenty of house parties. It would appear that a criminal investigation following last year’s drinking death of 18-year-old Houston freshman Phanta “Jack” Phoummarath — after a frat pledge party — did little to slow them down. The group threw a series of parties with alcohol culminating in “Scream,” its Halloween bash. More than 500 people packed into the Lambda’s backyard to see rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Dutch women’s breasts getting bigger
Dutch women are getting bigger breasts and 32 percent of them now have a D-cup or bigger compared with 20 percent five years ago. In Europe, Dutch women are ranked third behind British and Danish women in terms of bra size, research commissioned by Bodyfashion Promotion indicated on Wednesday.
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Man wins damages for sex overdrive
A devout Christian who said an accident at work boosted his libido and wrecked his marriage as he turned to prostitutes and pornography was awarded more than £3 million ($7.51 million) in damages.
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Fingers point to cat in Beanie Baby mystery
For weeks, Piedmont police were stumped by the Beanie Baby bandit. The popular stuffed animals were mysteriously showing up overnight on porches and in the yards of two homes on Rose Avenue. One of the families feared a stalker. Now, police in the tranquil East Bay city think they may have identified a suspect: Gertie, one of the family’s cats, which was caught on a surveillance camera carrying the plush toys in its mouth.
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Semper Fly: Marines in Space
If a group of Marine Corps visionaries have their way, however, 30 years from now, Marines could touch down anywhere on the globe in less than two hours, without needing to negotiate passage through foreign airspace. The breathtaking efficiency of such a delivery system could change forever the way the U.S. does battle. The proposal, part of the Corps’s push toward greater speed and flexibility, is called Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion, or Sustain. Using a suborbital transport—that is, a vehicle that flies into space to achieve high travel speeds but doesn’t actually enter orbit—the Corps will be able, in effect, to instantaneously deliver Marine squads anywhere on Earth.
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Descendants of Nazi doctor lose fight over compensation for looted art
Relatives of a gynaecologist who was committed to Hitler’s Master Race have been refused compensation for valuable artworks confiscated by Soviet soldiers after the war. The ruling, by a top administrative court in Leipzig, deals a blow to the offspring of thousands of Nazis who believe the time has come to reclaim some of the property taken by the Soviets. It has raised the question: what rights are enjoyed by the children of Nazis?
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Man strangled by pet snake
A 13-foot boa constrictor wrapped itself around its owner’s neck and killed the man in his home, authorities said. An acquaintance found Ted Dres, 48, inside the snake’s cage Saturday and called police, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s office said. The snake was still strangling Dres when deputies arrived, and the officers had to work with members of an animal protection group to remove the reptile, the sheriff’s office said.
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
Perez takes ‘em on!
It’s hard to know whom to sympathize with in this fight. On one side: the paparazzi who stalk celebrities in their moments of greatest vulnerability — at doctors’ offices, with their newborns, when they are falling-down drunk. On the other: a blogger who helps himself to those photos, scrawls puerile comments on them, and posts them on his immensely popular and profitable website.
The owners of one L.A. photo agency are so frustrated with what they consider to be blatant theft by self-styled “gossip gangsta” Perez Hilton that they’ve decided to make a federal case of it.
On Nov. 30, X17 Inc., known for the aggressive pursuit of celebrity prey, filed a $7.6-million federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Hilton, alleging that he has used 51 photos without permission, payment or credit.
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
Danish police arrest hundreds
Police in Denmark have arrested some 300 demonstrators in the capital, after a protest against the closure of a youth centre turned violent. About 1,000 protesters in Copenhagen threw cobblestones, bottles and fireworks and erected barricades. Police used teargas to try to break up the protests, comparing the scene on the streets to that of a “war zone”.
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
How to Quit Your Job and Live Like a King
Think you could never leave everything behind and start a completely new life on a tropical island? Well, you’re wrong. Here are six different amazing spots 1,000 miles from any rat race where you can decompress for a year or more, whether you’ve got a ton of money, a little, or next to nothing.
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Maintenance of Revolutionary and Class Principles Urged
The Songun politics of the Workers’ Party of Korea is the highest manifestation of the revolutionary and class principles. It represents indomitable faith in shattering the aggressive moves of the enemies and firmly defending the sovereignty of the country and the nation and it is pulsating with the iron will of the Korean people to safeguard the interests of the working masses to the end. It is due to the might of Songun that the U.S. imperialists dare not provoke the DPRK while wantonly trampling upon the sovereignty of other countries, preoccupied with the “doctrine of strength.” To firmly maintain the above-said principles is a major requirement for working constant miracles in socialist construction by giving fullest scope to the creativity of the popular masses.
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Threat gang poses to police examined
They were drawn together by the grinding guitars of the punk rock scene in Long Beach and Huntington Beach. But it was neo-Nazism and methamphetamine that bonded their brotherhood. A highly organized and corrupt leadership helped Public Enemy Number 1 evolve over the past quarter-decade from music fans and casual drug users to a violent skinhead gang that has mauled and killed its way through the methamphetamine trade across much of Southern California.
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