January 28, 2009 – 3:34 pm
As we all know from watching TV, sweetbreads aren’t really sweet, and ill-prepared fugu can wipe you out. Not that practicality or the laws of probability have ever stopped gourmands trying these stupid (and frankly, not that great) foodstuffs however, as confirmed by an outbreak of mass blowfish-bollock poisoning Tsuruoka, Japan.
At least on a par with Hamster-removal in the ‘embarrassing reason for being in the emergency room’ stakes, seven diners developed paralysis and lost consciousness after eating the grilled balls on Monday night, where at least three remain in critical condition. Police are holding the chef for professional negligence and serving deadly neurotoxins without a licence. And you thought McDonalds was bad for you.
LINK (MSN)
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January 27, 2009 – 10:26 pm
I’m not sure what all the buttons do, but it looks really fucking cool. This is the cockpit of the space shuttle (currently for sale) in case you haven’t guessed. Amazing. The Enterprise’s controls look a lot more simle than this…
LINK (Huge Picture)
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January 25, 2009 – 11:16 pm
Africa. Cradel of civilisation and home to some very stupid and superstitious people. A goat has been arrested for armed robbery. Don’t worry, it’s not that dumb. The armed robber was obviously a shapeshifter who turned themself into a goat after the robbery, because, of couse a goat cannot carry a weapon.
Police in Nigeria are holding a goat handed to them by a vigilante group, which said it was a car thief who had used witchcraft to change shape.
A police spokesman in Kwara State has been quoted as saying that the “armed robbery suspect” would remain in custody until investigations were over.
And then it gets eaten.
LINK (BBC)
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January 23, 2009 – 12:47 pm
Bad news. Or good news, depending on the size of your wallet… but I’m betting this is not gonna be the best news you’ve heard.
Scientists have found that the pleasure women get from making love is directly linked to the size of their partner’s bank balance.
The study is certain to prove controversial, suggesting that women are inherently programmed to be gold-diggers.
Controversial?
“Women’s orgasm frequency increases with the income of their partner,” said Dr Thomas Pollet, the Newcastle University psychologist behind the research.
He believes the phenomenon is an “evolutionary adaptation” that is hard-wired into women, driving them to select men on the basis of their perceived quality.
Well, seeing as money has only been around relatively recently, it seems that women have adapted pretty damn quickly.
LINK (Times Online)
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January 22, 2009 – 10:21 pm
One for the mad science brigade, and explorers of abandoned futures. A network of nuclear powered Russian lighthouses in the Arctic Circle.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to build a chain of lighthouses to guide ships finding their way in the dark polar night across uninhabited shores of the Soviet Russian Empire. So it has been done and a series of such lighthouses has been erected. They had to be fully autonomous, because they were situated hundreds and hundreds miles aways from any populated areas. After reviewing different ideas on how to make them work for a years without service and any external power supply, Soviet engineers decided to implement atomic energy to power up those structures.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unattended automatic lighthouses did it job for some time, but after some time they collapsed too. Mostly as a result of the hunt for the metals like copper and other stuff which were performed by the looters. They didn’t care or maybe even didn’t know the meaning of the “Radioactive Danger” sign and ignored them, breaking in and destroying the equipment. It sounds creepy but they broke into the reactors too causing all the structures to become radioactively polluted.
Amazing what exists out there. Especially in Russia.
LINK (English Russia)
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