Currently browsing the category “just plain weird”.
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Webbed feet optional.
Nepal seeks new child goddess: must have voice like a duck - Times Online
If you are female, possess “the voice of a duck” and are between 2 and 4 years old, it could be just the job for you - Nepal is advertising for a new living goddess.
Despite being revered as a powerful Hindu divinity, [...] -
They make great pets.
Clone dog mistress denies she is ’sex in chains’ McKinney | The Register
… For those whose knowledge of news stretches back no further than the launch of Eudora, Joyce McKinney was the former Miss Wyoming who was accused in 1977 of stalking Kirk Anderson, young Mormon Missionary, all the way from Utah to Ewell [...] -
Your lying eyes.
How magicians control your mind - The Boston Globe
… The vanishing ball illusion is one of the most basic tricks a magician can learn: a ball is thrown repeatedly into the air and caught. Then, on the final throw, it disappears in midair. In fact, the magician has merely mimed the last throw, following [...] -
Strange days.
Los Angeles Times: Apparent suicide in anthrax case
A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Bruce E. Ivins, [...] -
It’s Friday and the editors left early, so…
unchain those metaphors!
DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it
… Once the Yahoo store goes down and the key servers go offline, existing tracks cannot be authorized to play on new computers. Instead, Yahoo recommends the old, lame, and lossy workaround of burning the files to CD, then reripping them onto [...] -
Three years ago this week.
Issue of August 8, 2005
So one afternoon in mid-July … I’m struggling to get an enormous air-conditioner into the west window of the living room. It’s 95 degrees with a heat index of 105 and there are nasty storms coming on the radar, but so far there’s only spotty rain and very distant [...]