`In order to run down and kill wolves, the people of Ireland bred the powerful and long-legged Irish Wolfhound. When they needed something to chase ill-tempered badgers into their holes to exterminate them, Europeans bred the feisty, short-legged dachshund. But five hundred or more years ago, the people on the northern coast of Norway had a different kind of prey to contend with: humble puffins. [..]
In order to fill this unique niche, the Norwegians bred a unique dog. The resulting Lundehund was an extraordinary animal with some unparalleled gifts. For all its uniqueness, the Lundehund is vanishingly rare. It has been so close to extinction that at one point there were only five of them in existence.’
Another one of those very cool flash games from EyeMaze.
This claims to be version 1, but I’m fairly sure I haven’t seen it before.
Michael Crowley was the critic, and here’s a short section of Michael Crichton’s latest book:
‘Alex Burnet was in the middle of the most difficult trial of her career, a rape case involving the sexual assault of a two-year-old boy in Malibu. The defendant, thirty-year-old Mick Crowley, was a Washington-based political columnist who was visiting his sister-in-law when he experienced an overwhelming urge to have anal sex with her young son, still in diapers. Crowley was a wealthy, spoiled Yale graduate and heir to a pharmaceutical fortune. …
It turned out Crowley’s taste in love objects was well known in Washington, but [his lawyer]–as was his custom–tried the case vigorously in the press months before the trial, repeatedly characterizing Alex and the child’s mother as “fantasizing feminist fundamentalists” who had made up the whole thing from “their sick, twisted imaginations.” This, despite a well-documented hospital examination of the child. (Crowley’s penis was small, but he had still caused significant tears to the toddler’s rectum.)’
`The CALM-COW® is a device for immobilization and anesthetization of cattle. The CALM-COW® is not an electroshock device. Weak electromagnetic waves are generated, whereby the animal is gently and safely immobilized – without harming the animal and without side effects. Watch our video to see for yourself. [..]
As soon as the rectal probe is removed, the animal returns to normal. ‘
The video is probably NSFW, the rest is fine.
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`A German woman is suing a foster agency, after her teenage foster son ruined valuable naked photos of her – by comitting an act of self-love all over them.
Marietta Anton, 50, who now lives in Portugal’s Algarve, was 25 when she was photographed naked by her boyfriend at the time, Sigmar Polke. After they split Polke went on to become a world famous artist, and the old pictures were valued at over £35,000.
But when Anton’s 15-year-old foster son Mehmet found the old snaps, he thought he had unearthed a secret porn stack, and proceeded to do what teenage boys will do.
In news that seem likely to keep local psychiatrists busy for a while, he did not realise who the model was whilst enjoying himself with the pictures.’
`Tamworth City Council voted this week to spurn an offer by the Department of Immigration to resettle the families for fear it could lead to a repetition of the Cronulla riots, said the Mayor, James Treloar.
Cr Treloar told the Herald people were worried that allowing the families to move to Tamworth “could lead to a Cronulla riots-type situation. Ask the people at Cronulla if they want more refugees.”
He added that “of the 12 Sudanese people who live in Tamworth, eight have been before the courts for everything from dangerous driving to rape. These people don’t respect authority … they come from countries where there are outbreaks of TB [tuberculosis] and polio. How can we trust the department to screen those things?”‘
People abseiling to the bottom of glaciers to see what’s going on. Melting, mostly, is what’s going on. :)
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`A soldier has been charged after a huge cache of defence force guns and ammunition was found on several properties in central Victoria.
Sources told the Herald Sun about 163 weapons, ordnance and other material were stockpiled on properties linked to a sergeant serving with the Puckapunyal School of Artillery.
The weaponry is said to fill six freight
`Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. “It was definitely a freak of nature,” Lisko said. “I guess it’s a real rarity.” [..]
When he looked at the animal, he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs. Later, he found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.
“It’s a pretty weird deer,” he said, describing the extra legs as resembling “crab pinchers.” [..]
“And by the way, I did eat it,” Lisko said. “It was tasty.”‘
‘A guest Chinese celebrity is invited to perform a simple trapeze act. As she is handed off in mid air her pants rip off and the guy has to drop her into the net below.’
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‘The world’s tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards.
Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishun was called in after the dolphins swallowed plastic used around their pool at an aquarium in Fushun, north-east China.
Attempts to use instruments failed as the dolphins contracted their stomachs. [..]
Chen Lujun, manager of Royal Jidi Ocean World, said Mr Bao was successful and the dolphins were “in very good condition now”.’
‘A surge in Christmas tree poaching has forced growers and property owners to take action. Smelly, discolored trees are less likely to be cut and dragged off by thieves, they say.
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for example, evergreens are sprayed with a fox urine mixture and tagged with a warning to discourage tree thieves.
“It is a strong odour, and it smells just like what it is,” said Kirby Baird, a landscape manager at the school.
When the tree is out in the cold, the smell isn’t noticeable, Mr. Baird said. But once the tree is inside and starts to warm up…
“It’s nasty,” he said.’
`A naked man arrested for indecent exposure in California was held at gunpoint – on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon.
At this point, you might be wondering exactly where a naked man might conceal a weapon. We can confirm that the most wince-inducing possibility you’re thinking of is the correct one.
He had a screwdriver hidden in his anus. [..]
Understandably, the police were a unsure what to do about this situation. So naturally, they called the fire brigade.’
`35. Walt Disney is cryogenically frozen beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean
33. Napoleon’s Bonaparte is a collector’s item
27. Led Zeppelin violated a groupie with a fish
26. Courteney Cox bleaches her . . .
18. Jennifer Lopez insured her ass
10. Catherine the Great died while having sex with a horse
3. Nancy Reagan was a blowjob queen’
Who knew silly string was flammable? :)
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`Heartless. Despicable. Disgusting.
Authorities struggled to describe Tuesday morning’s discovery that someone stole about 500 toys for children with cancer from a utility trailer in Dania Beach.
The firefighters who collected the Christmas presents were devastated, said Walter J. Dix, a captain for the Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire-Rescue and president of the International Association of Firefighters Local 4321.’
`A small spider bite turned out to be a big problem for Cindy Pettey. Pettey awoke when she was bitten on the stomach in the middle of the night a few weeks ago, but thought little else of it. Then she started running a fever, she felt achy and weak. The bite sore became larger.
Next thing Pettey knew, a doctor was telling her he believed she’d been bitten by a dangerous hobo spider.
Pettey had surgery that removed 10 pounds of skin and flesh, leaving her with an abdomen covered in stitches.’
‘Australia hasn’t witnessed a single mass shooting since a massacre 10 years ago prompted nationwide gun law reforms, according to a study Thursday that linked the tough laws with a dramatic reduction in firearm deaths. [..]
The study found the buyback coincided with an end to mass shootings and dramatic decreases in shooting deaths in Australia.
“The Australian example provides evidence that removing large numbers of firearms from a community can be associated with a sudden and ongoing decline in mass shootings and accelerated declines in total firearms-related deaths, firearm homicides and firearm suicides,” the report concluded.’
Seems obvious, really. :)
`”In Hitler’s Germany it was almost a capital offence to send gold out of the country. Since the names of the laureates were engraved on the medals, their discovery by the invading forces would have had very serious consequences,” explains the Nobel Foundation. Yet, when `the Nazis occupied Bohr’s Institute and searched it very carefully’ they found nothing. [..]
“While the invading forces marched in the streets of Copenhagen, I was busy dissolving von Laue’s and also Franck’s medals,” [Niels Bohr] wrote in `Adventures in Radioisotope Research’, published in 1962.
Dissolving the medals was not easy, he would recount. For, gold is “exceedingly unreactive and difficult to dissolve.” Thus, the solution was, literally, a solution. “The medals quietly waited out the war in a solution of aqua regia.” After the war, the gold was recovered from the solution and the Foundation presented von Laue and Frank with the `recoined’ Nobel medals.’
`Pranksters drew a willy on the roof of a top school that was so large it could be spotted from space. But it went unnoticed until it was seen on Google Earth.
A group of ex-pupils was last night blamed for the rude shape — snapped by satellite.
One former pupil of £2,906-a-term independent Yarm School at Stockton on Tees, Teesside, said: “A couple of ex-students hopped over the school fence on a weekend and went unnoticed by guards.
They managed to get on the roof of the Friary building and somehow mark on the willy. They also burnt a manhood into the grass.”’
‘A kid decides to strip naked, jump over a flaming bush, off a cliff and into the lake below. He doesn’t give himself enough room to clear the rocks below and gets knocked out cold. He floats to the surface face down bleeding from a cut which needed 30 stitches.’
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`A teenage hero told today of smothering the flames on a nine-year-old boy allegedly set ablaze after another youth doused him in petrol.
A doctor told the rescuer he probably saved the boy’s life, as another 10 seconds ablaze could have proved fatal.
Police said the victim was allegedly set alight by a 13-year-old acquaintance following an argument in the driveway of a home on Cook Avenue, Daceyville, about 5pm yesterday.
The boy suffered serious burns to his back and is in a stable condition.’
‘Actor and Rocky icon Sylvester Stallone thinks Richard Gere is still frosted at him for starting that whole crazy gerbil-hospital emergency room urban legend about Gere.
AintItCoolNews.com reporter/editor Harry Knowles broke the story that Gere harbors ill feelings because he allegedly believes it was Sylvester who started that ridiculous legend about Gere and the gerbil.
Allegedly the bad blood between the two actors became so intense that Gere got kicked off the film “The Lords of Flatbush.” “To this day [he] seriously dislikes me,” says Sly, who adds, for the record, that he did not start the rodent rumor. Gere’s rep had no comment.’
‘I’ll wrap my dick around your neck and start you up like a fucken lawn mower.’
(5.7meg Flash video)
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`During his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Gates mentioned why Iran might be seeking the means to build an atomic bomb: “They are surrounded by powers with nuclear weapons: Pakistan to their east, the Russians to the north, the Israelis to the west and us in the Persian Gulf,” he said.
The remark led Israeli news bulletins. State-run radio suggested Gates may have breached a U.S. “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that dates back to the late 1960s.
“It’s quite unprecedented,” a retired Israeli diplomat told Reuters on Thursday when asked about Gates’s testimony. “I can only assume he has yet to get to grips with the understandings that exist between us and the Americans.”‘
