`Meow. A Pennsylvania judge is being asked to decide whether that word is a harmless taunt or grounds for misdemeanor harassment.
Police have charged a 14-year-old boy with that crime. Michael Loughner is accused of meowing whenever he sees his 78-year-old neighbor, Alexandria Carasia.
The boy’s family got rid of their cat after Carasia complained that it was using her flower garden as a litter box. Now, she said, the boy makes meowing sounds every time he sees her.
He said he’s only meowed at her twice.’
`Striptease send-offs at funerals may become a thing of the past in east China after five people were arrested for organizing the intimate farewells, state media reported on Wednesday.
Police swooped last week after two groups of strippers gave “obscene performances” at a farmer’s funeral in Donghai County, Jiangsu province, Xinhua news agency said.
The disrobing served a higher purpose, the report noted.
“Striptease used to be a common practice at funerals in Donghai’s rural areas to allure viewers,” it said. “Local villagers believe that the more people who attend the funeral, the more the dead person is honored.”‘
‘Some dude takes a shot with his buddy defending. The shot hits the side of the goal and ricochets off the post straight into his friends face.’
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`Raccoons are cute, until they kill one of your cats.
That is what a west Olympia neighborhood is learning this summer.
Raccoons have killed about 10 cats in a three-block area near the Garfield Nature Trail at Harrison Avenue West and Foote Street Southwest.
Problem wildlife coordinator Sean Carrell of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife called the situation “bizarre, weird.”‘
`One of the CIA’s most bizarre Cold War efforts was Operation Acoustic Kitty. In declassified documents from the CIA’s super-secret Science and Technology Directorate, it was revealed that some Cold-War-era cats were surgically altered to become sophisticated bugging devices. The idea was that the cats would eavesdrop on Soviet conversations from park benches, windowsills and garbage containers. The cat was meant to just stroll up to the sensitive conversations, completely unnoticed. The clandestine cat’s electrical internals would then capture and relay the audio to awaiting agents.’
‘…and the other girls just keep on singing! An instant classic.’
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`The Armor Of God PJ’s were inspired by a mother reading Ephesians 6:10-18 every night to her daughter to give her a safe and secure feeling in the dark. As they read the scriptures, they put on each spiritual and powerful piece of the Armor of God to keep them safe and peaceful thile they slept.’
`”Harukarin Blog,” the hot bestseller, tells the supposedly true story of Harukarin Nakagawa, a 23-year-old who claims to have undergone a sex change operation that made him a woman because his girlfriend of several years decided she was a lesbian and would prefer he was female.
“Harukarin Blog” is comprised mainly of excerpts taken from Nakagawa’s blog entries detailing her transformation from man to woman and has sold steadily since it hit bookstore shelves in May.
“Our love was truly a matter of life or death. I truly believe I can overcome any fate to be with the woman I love so much,” Cyzo quotes Harukarin saying in the preface to her story.’
‘Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, was obsessed with the singer Whitney Houston and wanted to marry her, a new book claims.
Kola Boof, a Sudanese poet and novelist, who says she was kept against her will as the terrorism mastermind’s mistress in 1996, writes in her autobiography that he wanted to give the star a mansion and make her one of his wives.
“He told me that Whitney Houston was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen,” Boof claims in Diary of a Lost Girl, excerpts of which are published in Harper’s magazine.
But bin Laden had less respect for Houston’s husband Bobby Brown, apparently talking about the possibility of having him killed.’
I think the Richard Pryor interview is hilarious:
‘Around 6:29, he launches into a vigorous fit of mock masturbation which, when conducted on national TV, is a pretty good indicator that you’re out of your fucking gourd. Pryor also says a few things that might suggest he’s on drugs, such as: “I didn’t get caught yesterday buying seven pounds of cocaine in front of eight policemen.”’
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`A thief in Perth is stealing expensive motorbikes while on test rides after leaving dogs behind as security.
Police believe one man is responsible for stealing two bikes and abandoning two dogs in two separate thefts this month.
The first theft occurred almost two weeks ago after a Wanneroo man advertised his motorcycle for $10,000, officers say.
“A man arrived at his house with a dog and was given permission to take the bike for a test ride, leaving his dog with the seller,” police said.
“The man did not return with the bike, or for his pit-bull terrier dog.”‘
`Don’t put your clothes on, put them IN! (In your anus, your vagina, whatever you’ve got to work with).
Inventor John Mott Goodman has patented an entirely new way to hang clothing–snap them into your genitals. Tired of that thong creeping up your bum? Your best solution might be to jam it in further. This invention holds your clothes in place by snapping them onto a bulb that is inserted into your vagina and/or rectum. Don’t just cover your orifices, fill them in as well!’
‘This really mean babysitter scares the crap out of some kid by screaming THE MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!’
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`[..] Computational modeling of the THC-AChE interaction revealed that THC binds in the peripheral anionic site of AChE, the critical region involved in amyloidgenesis. Compared to currently approved drugs prescribed for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, THC is a considerably superior inhibitor of A aggregation, and this study provides a previously unrecognized molecular mechanism through which cannabinoid molecules may directly impact the progression of this debilitating disease.
[..] Therefore, AChE inhibitors such as THC and its analogues may provide an improved therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease, augmenting acetylcholine levels by preventing neurotransmitter degradation and reducing A aggregation, thereby simultaneously treating both the symptoms and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.’
Do you deserve to be thanked a million times?
`Out of more than 36 million search queries that hundreds of thousands of AOL users typed into AOL’s Internet search engine from March to May, here is the term most queried: Google.
That so many customers would use one search engine to find another is among the odd truths being mined from AOL’s public release of search data. The company last week called the incident involving 658,000 users’ queries a “screw-up” and apologized. But for better or worse, the data offer the first widespread public glimpse of how people search the Internet, of what they are interested in. Of how people think.’
`Officials may have solved the mystery of a tree that has gurgled water from its trunk for months, attracting a steady stream of pilgrims who consider it holy water.
Officials with the San Antonio Water System shut off water service to Lucille Pope’s modest East Side home and found that the tree stopped leaking, according to Wednesday’s online edition of the San Antonio Express-News.
“They think the roots have gotten into the waterline,” said Lloyd Pope, Lucille’s 47-year-old son. “They don’t know where yet, though.” [..]
Despite officials’ explanation Wednesday and despite the “Do Not Enter” sign outside, the visitors kept on coming for the water, which they believe has healing properties.’
`A man knocked on the door of the fire station near the corner of San Ramon Way and San Marin Drive in Novato at about 11:30 p.m.
A firefighter answered and saw a man wearing goggles and surgical gloves and holding a gallon-sized bag with a white powdery, crystal-like substance inside. The man tried to hand the firefighter the bag but the firefighter refused. The man turned and ran to a car where a second person and they drove away.
The firefighter did not handle the bag but he said he felt a burning sensation on his face.’
`A birthday party went horribly wrong yesterday when a goat at the Winnipeg Zoo was killed by its herd in front of the birthday girl.
Terry Geiger and her boyfriend had taken Geiger’s daughter, Angie, and a friend to the zoo for the six-year-old’s birthday when two Alpine ibex goats started fighting in the enclosure in front of them.
“At first it was entertaining,” Geiger said. “It was like watching the Discovery Channel but it just got worse and worse.”‘
`A husband and wife in Mozambique face multiple charges after confessing to exhuming corpses to eat the flesh and powdered bones, say police.
They were arrested in the western village of Vanduzi last weekend in possession of human organs.
In a confession, the couple said that eating human flesh strengthened their power to heal people, police say.’
`A seven-member family faces eviction from an east Berlin apartment tower after neighbours complained about loud prayer sessions that keep the whole building awake at night, a German newspaper said on Thursday.
“I really don’t want to disturb the neighbours but the high volume is needed in the battle against the devil,” Pierre D., the 42-year-old father of the Christian family, told Bild newspaper. He is fighting an eviction order in court.
Neighbours told Bild the screams and singing that are part of the family prayers in the second storey sometimes begin at 2:30 a.m. and can be heard all the way up to the fifth floor.’
`As a chocolatier to the rich and famous, Martucci Angiano has posed with many celebrities – but on Thursday she held in her hand a figure that dazzles her more than any Hollywood star.
Workers at Angiano’s gourmet chocolate company, Bodega Chocolates, discovered under a vat a 2-inch-tall column of chocolate drippings that they believe bears a striking resemblance to the Virgin Mary.
Since the discovery Monday, Angiano’s employees have spent much of their time hovering over the tiny figure, praying and placing rose petals and candles around it.’
Pretty cool animations of people using laser pointers to make moving images.
`A radical new project could permit human beings to create a “baby universe” in a laboratory in Japan. While it sounds like a dangerous undertaking, the physicists involved believe that if the project is successful, the space-time around a tiny point within our universe will be distorted in such a way that it will begin to form a new superfluid space, and eventually break off, separate in all respects from our experience of space and time, causing no harm to the fabric of our universe.’
Brittany Spears sitting around at home eating food and acting kinda stoned. Apparently people are time travelling but not telling her.
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This is a short clip from a reality TV show. One of the contestants has an unfortunate problem, and ends up sharing it with everyone else.
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A robot you can drive around some guys room. With a webcam so you can see where you’re going.
I kept running into his legs, so I think he might have gotten annoyed. Oops. :) Or, not oops, as the case may be. :)
`A suspect has been arrested “for the December 26, 1996, murder of JonBenet Ramsey,” the district attorney in Boulder, Colorado, said Wednesday.
A law enforcement source identified the suspect as 41-year-old John Mark Karr, a one-time school teacher and American citizen who has lived in Conyers, Georgia.
It is the first arrest in the decade-long investigation of child beauty pageant contestant’s slaying. The breakthrough came as a surprise to many who feared the case might never be solved.’
‘A 21-year-old man suffered severe burns to his face and head when he ignited a mortar-style firework that he taped to an old football helmet and placed on his head.
Police say Kaleb Spangler of Bloomington attempted the stunt while drinking at a party along Indiana 46 between Bloomington and Nashville early Saturday morning.
His girlfriend says Spangler decided to duct tape the large firework to the old football helmet. He then put on the helmet and ignited it.
She told police she saw a large flash, then saw Spangler on the ground, unconscious and bleeding from the head. The helmet was destroyed by the blast.’
