Posts tagged “News”
Island Fever in Indonesia
Indonesia’s Island Fever “The prosperous newcomers tend to think of the Dayaks as stupid and lazy. The powerless Dayaks see the Madurese as greedy and arrogant … “
ananova
Two from ananova: Toaster kills owner in caravan! Worker drowns after being sucked 200ft down drain
Scientific Research
A couple of interesting studies
Crazy Murder News
“Refusing to slap five? Spilling someone’s drink? Throwing money? Clearly someone had to die. Why is there even a trial?”
Computer-mad Generation Has a Memory Crash
“It’s a type of brain dysfunction,” said Toshiyuki Sawaguchi, the university’s professor of neurobiology. “Young people today are becoming stupid.” And … in a completely unrelated story … Doctors amputate first human hand transplant: Hallam said for the first year, the right hand – which had belonged to a French motorcyclist killed in an accident
Vegetable Slicer Thumb
Officials determined the thumb piece belonged to a cafeteria worker who had severed the top of her thumb in a vegetable slicer this week.
Pyra Folds
This is not good. I’m actually very depressed about this. These guys were my heroes, y’know? [link via ]
Nintendo and CrackerJap
Nintendo still apparently believed that “Pokemon” in Crackerjap’s meta tag was so harmful to its business that it had to threaten legal action. Why? Because for some reason, Nintendo thought that Crackerjap.com was a porn site.
Thursday News Two-Fer
Man Saws Off Hand, Shoots Nails into Head Bartron had shot several nails into his head with a pneumatic gun “because he could not stand the pain from the amputation.” Castro Says He Hopes Bush “Not as Stupid as He Seems” Castro said that “someone very strange, with very little promise, has taken charge of
USDA OKs Smaller Cheese Holes
Big news for people that like small holes