`The Dutch are gearing up for climate change with amphibious houses. If rivers rise above their banks, the houses rise upwards as well.
37 “swimming” houses are already strung along a branch of the Maas. At first glance, they seem quite unremarkable. The cellar, in this case, is not built into the earth, but on a platform. The hollow foundation of each house works in the same way as the hull of a ship, buoying the structure up above water. To prevent the houses from floating away, they slide up two steel posts – and as the water level sinks, so they sink back down again.’
`While we knew that Tinky Winky was gay, TSG was unaware of the Teletubbies cocaine connection. When federal officials in New York yesterday announced the arrest of 22 members of an international drug cartel, they revealed that cocaine shipments seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were labeled with a sweet portrait of the colorful cartoon quartet.’
with pictures.
People are stupid and it’s funny. :)
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Some arty thing with mail boxes.
`Stunned Colin Cousins returned from a pub night out to find this Vauxhall Astra “buried” nose-down in his driveway.
The fork-lift driver was greeted by the amazing sight just before his 49th birthday.
But he quickly realised it was a revenge act by chum Ady Feeney, landlord of his local — Southampton’s Bridge Tavern.’
`Surveillance tape screened by police shows the two getting out of a taxi near an all-night rave club. A few moments later, Mark Kraynak and Steve Wright are seen running away. The taxi is captured on tape pursuing them down a back alley.
Police investigating the unsolved deaths say the pair jumped a fence surrounding a quarry near the club. Unbeknownst to them –it was pitch black — only 20 feet separate the fence from the quarry’s abyss.’
`Getting that grumbling snuffling bulk out from under the duvet in the morning is a challenge you really shouldn’t have to bother yourself with. Especially as the thing that emerges is inevitably grumpy and looks like a hung-over swamp monster. Well the Sonic Alarm makes the whole ‘getting them out of bed’ exercise a very simple, and indeed amusing, operation. Looking like an old-fashioned comedy hand grenade, the Sonic Alarm will wake pretty well anything up. Simply pull the pin, yell an emphatic “fire in the hole” and lob the grenade into the sleeper’s room. After ten seconds a very annoying and piercingly loud noise (there are three volume settings) will blast out from the alarm. That’s not all however, what makes this especially great is that to stop the alarm the sleeper has to find you so you can put the pin back in. It’s stupid, and brilliant, and will be the bane of every over-sleeper on the planet.’
`Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.’
`Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine State…but please, avoid any unnecessary confrontations with the locals.
They just might shoot you.
A new, shoot-first-ask-questions-later law goes into effect Monday, allowing gun-toting Floridians to shoot anyone they feel “threatens” them, including Canadian, for whom Florida is the number one tourist destination in the world.’
This guy gets very angry when he dies.
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see it here »
`Two major blasts are thought to have struck a crowded main square at central Kuta, at the Hard Rock Cafe and the Matahari shopping mall. Another two bombs were at the Jimbaran beach, one of which was outside the Four Seasons Hotel. These areas are generally popular with Western tourists.’
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`First the TC2K computer (any standard PC) is connected to the phone line via a Caller ID modem or serial Caller ID device. The user creates a setup text file (called a “hit list”) that declares all of the Caller ID strings (numbers and/or names) he considers “annoying” and wants intercepted on the first ring. When a call on the users “hit list” arrives, the computer intercepts the call and picks up the extension. This feature alone is very valuable. It gives the ability to identify legitimate calls anywhere in the house by simply waiting to hear a second ring.
As if that feature wasn’t enough, the TC2K then plays a wave file over the extension for the telemarketer to hear. The user can declare a list of wave files, in a specific order, that he wishes to be played to calls on his “hit list”. The first wave file is played immediately after picking up the extension, the TC2K then waits for the telemarketer to respond, then the TC2K waits for silence (for the telemarketer to finish speaking), then plays the next wave file on the list. The cycle of play wave file, wait for response, wait for silence is repeated for each wave file the user has declared in his setup text file. This way the TC2K can carry on a “virtual” conversation with the telemarketer and the content of that conversation is completely up to the user. All the user needs to do is record his own set of wave files to be played and declare them in a setup file.
Perhaps best of all, the “virtual” conversation between the TC2K and the telemarketer is recorded for the user to enjoy and share with other TC2K users. I will try to maintain links to as many TC2K conversations as possible from this page.’
More of the same here: AstCrapper 2000!
`A randy Mick Jagger impersonator got plenty of satisfaction at a Chelsea nightclub when the hoodwinked hot spot lavished him with VIP treatment — including free liquor, a personal security guard and lots of female attention. [..]
“After about an hour and a half of partying with what became a large crowd, the fake Mick told the security guard that he was becoming overwhelmed by the crowd and the cameras . . . and needed to leave,” Spirit spokeswoman Claire O’Connor said.
“The security guard called for additional backup, and the clone was whisked, with three girls, down a back staircase. He asked to stop at the ladies’ room on the way out, and spent 10 minutes in the ladies’ room with the three girls.” When they came out, the impish imposter and his date bid farewell to the groupies and hailed a taxi outside.’
`Featured here are some of the most unique Halloween props ever offered! Simple, yet highly effective, these morphing images are designed to transform when you change your position. When your unsuspecting guests walk past them they will see these seemingly normal “relatives” change into hideously frightening creatures or macabre apparitions! Check out their transformations by clicking on each character (if you dare!)’
`Investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center reported this month in the Journal of Virology that compounds secreted by frog skin are potent blockers of HIV infection.
The findings could lead to topical treatments for preventing HIV transmission, and they reinforce the value of preserving the Earth’s biodiversity.’
`One man was shot to death and another wounded after they allegedly attempted a carjacking against two FBI agents who were conducting surveillance, officials said.
The FBI agents apparently were targeted randomly and the incident remains under investigation. [..]
The agents were “accosted by four young male subjects, at least one of whom was armed” about midnight and an altercation ensued when the four suspects allegedly tried to take the agents’ vehicle, FBI officials said.
Authorities did not say how many shots were fired or how many individuals had guns.’
`Stray dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait, The Sun can shockingly reveal.
The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where Prince William spent two holidays.
A six-month-old labrador pup was recently found ALIVE with a huge double hook through its snout – like the dog above – and another through a leg.’
In other news, people are cunts.
`Children as young as 12 are licking cane toads in an attempt to get high, the Northern Territory News has learned.
Some juveniles and young adults in Katherine and Arnhem Land are even drying out the skins of cane toads and rolling them up as joints to get a hit.
But Territory health authorities have warned that those who lick or smoke cane toads are dicing with death and stress that there are no hallucinogenic effects possible from bufo toxin, the toxin excreted by the introduced pest.’
`AT least 19 people, including at least one Australian, have been killed in a series of terrorist bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Over 50 people were injured were also injured when at least four bombs detonated in separate locations around the island.’
Here we go again..
`Colombian police searching couriered packages for contraband made a chilling discovery on Wednesday: three human foetuses wrapped in plastic and concealed inside porcelain statues of Christian saints.
Anti-narcotics police chief General Jorge Baron said the four- to five-month-old foetuses were found at Bogota’s international airport, inside a cardboard box alongside crucifixes. [..]
Baron said officials did not know where they came from and he did not provide details on why he believed they were intended for satanic rituals.’
`There’s a mating ritual going on in the minefield.
Fortunately the would-be lovers are penguins, too light to detonate the deadly mines laid more than two decades ago during a war on the far-flung Falkland Islands.
Thousands of penguins and other feathered and amphibious friends choose to nest and rest in no-go zones. The British estimate that some 25,000 land mines, mostly sown by Argentine forces in the 1982 war with Britain, remain.
On a recent day, the squawking penguins were busily finding partners, preparing nests and waddling about the mating grounds.
Wildlife numbers in the mined areas appear to be on the rise and conservationists cannot hide their enthusiasm about this unorthodox form of protecting lands previously trampled by people or overgrazed by sheep.’
Including:
bomb filled with knives
crocodile with crocodiles for limbs
DDR-camouflage land mine
gun that shoots swords
orbital flamethrower
and many more..
`Devender Harne, 10, was born with 25 fingers and toes — six fingers on each hand, six toes on one foot and seven on the other.
Though it would be considered an abnormality to some, Devender says it allows him to work faster than the average child.’
`A man and his pet wild pig facing eviction from their Boulder Creek home have eluded authorities — the man by running into the woods, and the pig by attacking deputies. [..]
“The pig, and I don’t know her name, is aggressive,” sheriff’s Sgt. Fred Plageman said. “It seems to be a domesticated pig, and on past occasions it has chased deputies around and chewed up part of a patrol car.”
Deputies tried again to evict Canabou on Tuesday but found only the pig. They posted eviction notices and left the property.
“The rumor is that every time we go up there, the owner runs into the woods,” said Mike McFarland, general manager of Santa Cruz County Animal Services. “To be boldly honest, we don’t really want to take custody of a 200-pound pig.”‘
`Congressional Democrats blasted former Education Secretary William Bennett on Thursday for saying that aborting “every black baby in this country” would reduce the crime rate, and demanded their Republican counterparts do the same. [..]
Bennett, who held prominent posts in the administrations of former presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, told a caller to his syndicated radio talk show Wednesday: “If you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose — you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.
“That would be an impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down,” he said.’
`A man reported missing from a Florida hospital was found in North Carolina dressed like a doctor and driving a stolen ambulance with a dead deer wedged in the back, authorities said. [..]
It wasn’t known where Holliman got the deer, which had been dead for some time, Pearson said.
Holliman was admitted to a North Carolina hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. Police said they would decide whether to charge Holliman after that evaluation is complete.’
Update: This article a picture of the dead deer in the ambulance.
`Avoiding eating in order to improve your appearance is part of being a woman, and it’s natural for a woman to devote all of her time to achieving a figure pleasing to the male eye. While there are many ways to get hot, one of the simplest, fastest, and most effective is through self-starvation. However, anorexia, like all things, is best used in moderation. For example, you should never get so thin that you lose your tits. [..]
It’s like I told my ex-girlfriend Lisa: Feminine fragility is a plus, but if I actually snap your arm while having sex with you, you’ve gone too far. A woman should have a pleasingly light, impossibly fragile appearance, much like a piece of fine china, but if her body has begun digesting the calcium in its bones to sustain its necessary functions, there is a good chance she has starved herself beyond the point where I would even want to have sex with her at all.’
