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This page has a lot of pictures of power generating wind turbines.

These things are huge. The shot of the fan blade on the back of a truck gives you a good idea of scale.

`A devoted mother is battling a rare medical condition that puts her into a coma every time she tells her children: ‘I love you.’

Wendy Richmond, 53, slips into a ‘waking sleep’ that leaves her almost paralysed every time she becomes emotional or wants to laugh or cry.

But drugs to treat the condition are expensive and not funded by her local NHS trust, meaning she has to shut off her emotions to avoid collapsing.’

‘A drunken redneck dude tries out skateboarding. He doesnt do too well at all.’

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`The Bush administration is expected to announce next week a major step forward in the building of the country’s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades. It will propose combining elements of competing designs from two weapons laboratories in an approach that some experts argue is untested and risky.

The new weapon would not add to but replace the nation’s existing arsenal of aging warheads, with a new generation meant to be sturdier, more reliable, safer from accidental detonation and more secure from theft by terrorists.’

`So much development so many job Dubai is the place of oppotunity itself. However if you are a born idiot and have no repsect for other people then I guess you have no chance of getting a job no matter what. Check out the email converstation below and to think this guy actually applied for a job at the company North 55. I don’t think this man will ever get a job in Dubai as the whole agency network will know about him by now, total loser.’

Tapeworms in your intestines are bad enough. But erk.

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This is a fun little IRC trivia channel where you can play trivia, funnily enough. :)

Link goes to the website. You’ll need an IRC client to play.

‘I will not accept that its a highly dangerous road..’

(943kB Windows media)

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`Who is going to care for your pets after you are raptured into heaven?

Many Christians believe that animals do not go to heaven. So when Jesus comes back and you return with him to heaven, will there be somebody to take care of your dog or cat? [..]

With the imminent collapse of the global economy and rampant godlessness, even the community shelters will not have the resources to care for your poor, hungry animals. So you need to make preparations.

That’s what JesusPets is for. We are assembling a community of heathen pet-lovers to care for pets that are “left-behind.” We are coordinating with feed mills and kennels in preparation for your post-apocalyptic pet care needs.’

`Cooler, quieter computers and [possibly] warmer pool water with very little extra cost and added energy savings.’

‘The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.

The letters were sent a few days after Christmas to more than 5,100 Army officers who had recently left the service. Included were letters to about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action.’

Update: now with a video.

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‘Simple physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thats why you dont hold the butt of a shotgun close to your face when shooting. The same is also true for less powerful objects like this potato gun launcher.’

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`You would think that being a former sitcom star would make it easy to find love and sex in La-La-Land. You would be wrong. Danny Pintauro, who played adorable Jonathan Bower on Who’s The Boss for eight seasons, posted a personal ad on a gay Web site, describing himself as “sexy, passionate, fun, verbal, obedient (and) open to anything.” The ex-child star, now 30, didn’t use his real name on the hook-up site but displayed a photo of his face and one of his naked body in which his hand hides most of his penis (which was described in the personal ad as 7″ and circumcised).’

`Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.

The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.’

`A drugs and alcohol expert says road deaths could be reduced in Queensland if the legal drinking age went back to 21.

The legal drinking age was lowered in 1974 from 21 to 18.

Professor Wayne Hall of the University of Queensland, who has researched the effects of drinking on young people, said that where the legal drinking age in the US was raised to 21 in the 1980s, road fatalities fell.

“I think it’s a possibility that we should seriously consider and one we should be debating,” he said.’

Looks like it hurt a bit. :)

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`For anyone who thought the reason for Coca Cola’s popularity in the West due to it’;s secret ingredient (rumoured to have been cocaine at one time) think again. According to this Chechen Jihad website the Coca Cola logo is actually a backwards rendition of the Arabic for No Muhammed and No Mecca !’

`A French prisoner who killed his cellmate “very probably” ate some of the victim’s body parts, a prosecutor in the northern town of Rouen said on Friday.

The victim’s body was discovered in a prison cell on Wednesday, with a large wound to the chest. The alleged killer, who shared the cell, told investigators he had removed and eaten his victim’s heart.

Investigators initially discounted the possibility of cannibalism after the victim’s heart was “found intact in its usual place and in its membrane which was also intact,” Rouen state prosecutor Joseph Schmit said in a statement.

However an autopsy revealed that pieces of muscle from the victim’s rib area and part of his lung were missing.’

‘James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, was remembered this week as a music legend who instilled black pride, and also as a man who gave black men across the nation justification to beat their wives and girlfriends.

Mr. Brown died of congestive heart failure after taking a swing at his girlfriend, and missing. The uncontrolled motion of his arm, not having been slowed by its intended target, tore his left ventricle, according to his agent, Frank Copsidas.

Mr. Brown sold millions of records and slapped thousands of women in a career that lasted half a century, and his music provided the rhythms that are the basis of hip-hop and much of current pop. Mr. Copsidas said Mr. Brown was working up until the day he died, and said his slogan was: “I’m the hardest working man in show business, and I’ll slap anyone who says otherwise.”‘

‘The government of Dubai installed a rather large speed bump on a street that locals had developed a habit of traveling on at very high speeds. Only one minor problem, the government didn’t tell anyone it had installed the speed bump. Including a Lamborghini Gallardo.’

This might be a repost, but it’s pretty funny. :)

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`Self-cleaning fabrics could revolutionize the sport apparel industry. The technology, created by scientists working for the U.S. Air Force, has already been used to create t-shirts and underwear that can be worn hygenically for weeks without washing.

The new technology attaches nanoparticles to clothing fibers using microwaves. Then, chemicals that can repel water, oil and bacteria are directly bound to the nanoparticles. These two elements combine to create a protective coating on the fibers of the material.

This coating both kills bacteria, and forces liquids to bead and run off.’

`A Gilbert man who rummaged through a Mesa family’s drawers and took a pair of their daughter’s underwear Wednesday night also introduced himself to the residents and gave them drugs and drug paraphernalia, police records show. [..]

The residents saw Burford take a pair of their daughter’s underwear from a dresser and place it in his pocket before he left the house through the front door and met them in their driveway, records show.

“Burford introduced himself by name to the victims and handed them a clear Tupperware container with a red top containing a glass pipe, lighter and bag of a green leafy substance that later tested positive for marijuana,” police reported.’

`A 17-year-old boy in northeastern China was so disappointed with the looks of a woman he met over the Internet that he hanged himself after seeing her face-to-face, state media reported Friday. [..]

The girl described herself as a beautiful 19-year-old and the pair chatted on the Web for weeks before arranging a December 26 rendezvous in the nearby city of Mudanjiang, in far northeastern Heilongjiang province.

The boy arrived to discover the woman far less attractive than advertised and 10 years older than him, Xinhua said.

The boy immediately returned home, lost his appetite, and four days later hanged himself from a tree.’

‘Who is that mysterious, elegant man? And why is he sitting on a dead horse?

Such are the questions sparked by a black-and-white photograph taken in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, between 1876 and 1884 that has led to nationwide curiosity, speculation and jokes.

It’s a picture of a mustachioed man in a suit and top hat who sits rakishly on the side of an expired horse in the middle of a dusty street. [..]

Some of the ideas about what the picture depicts include the thoughtful — it was staged for a political campaign perhaps related to sanitation issues — to the bizarre — the horse is being helped to relieve “excess flatulence.”‘

Exactly what you expect. :)

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`An opera singer has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the Hilton Hotels Corp., complaining that bedbugs bit her over her arms, chest, neck and face when she stayed in one of its Phoenix hotels in November.

Soprano Alison Trainer says in court papers she had 150 bites all over her body, a “horrific” experience that left her afraid to sleep in a bed, caused her to lose weight and made her uncomfortable about her physical appearance.

Trainer’s lawyer, Kenneth J. Glassman, said that because of the bites his client suffered at Phoenix’s Hilton Suites between Nov. 20 and Nov. 26, “She looks like a piece of wood that has been attacked by termites.”‘

`Animated educative film showing a scientific experiment. For three minutes two kids are exposed to ten years of puberty.’

‘Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have a go at converting a Renault Espace into a convertable, then putting it through some tests.’

This is hilarious. :)

(40.1meg Flash video)

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`A 21-year-old woman was hospitalized for intoxication over the weekend after “continually providing wrong answers” during a game of Trivial Pursuit where participants drank alcohol and did drugs when they answered incorrectly. [..]

If a player provided an incorrect answer, that person would take a shot of E&J Brandy and take a “hit” off a cannabis “blunt,” according to the report, which defined a “blunt” as the street name for cannabis rolled up in cigar leaves.

Cooper, 21, who was the yellow piece, continually provided wrong answers, resulting in over intoxication. She was taken to Norwegian-American Hospital where was listed in good condition, the report stated.’