Monday, September 08, 2003
Thursday, December 05, 2002
Mass chicken escape
ABOUT 5,000 chickens escaped onto on the streets of an outer Melbourne suburb today after the truck carrying them hit a tree and overturned.
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Weird Rating: 75%
ABOUT 5,000 chickens escaped onto on the streets of an outer Melbourne suburb today after the truck carrying them hit a tree and overturned.
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Weird Rating: 75%
Jury Duty Dodger Sentenced to Chair
A JURY SERVICE dodger has been sentenced to sit in a chair for three days.
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Weird Rating: 60%
A JURY SERVICE dodger has been sentenced to sit in a chair for three days.
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Monkeying Around
A COURT IN SWAZILAND found three youths guilty of dressing up as baboons and terrorising residents.
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Weird Rating: 80%
A COURT IN SWAZILAND found three youths guilty of dressing up as baboons and terrorising residents.
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Jim Carrey saves Jennifer Aniston's Life
"Jennifer had her back to the crane and didn't see it coming. But thank God, Jim did - and he pushed her out of the way. Jim was a real hero. She could have been killed. It could have been a real tragedy."
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"Jennifer had her back to the crane and didn't see it coming. But thank God, Jim did - and he pushed her out of the way. Jim was a real hero. She could have been killed. It could have been a real tragedy."
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The World's Thinnest Digital Camera
A model of the world's thinnest digital camera, which is only 2 millimeters thick, was designed by a research group from Osaka University and private companies including camera maker Minolta.
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Cool Rating: 90%
A model of the world's thinnest digital camera, which is only 2 millimeters thick, was designed by a research group from Osaka University and private companies including camera maker Minolta.
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Cool Rating: 90%
Jealous Wife Smashes 18 Cars With Hammer
A used-car salesman's wife, who suspected her husband of having an affair, smashed 18 cars with a hammer during a five-minute rampage at their Singapore dealership, police said Thursday.
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Weird Rating: 70%
A used-car salesman's wife, who suspected her husband of having an affair, smashed 18 cars with a hammer during a five-minute rampage at their Singapore dealership, police said Thursday.
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Sen. Strom Thurmond Turns 100 Years Old
He was born in the first term of Theodore Roosevelt, was first elected when Dwight Eisenhower was president and is retiring with the modern Republican party he helped form firmly in control. On Thursday, Sen. Strom Thurmond turned 100.
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Weird Rating: 70%
He was born in the first term of Theodore Roosevelt, was first elected when Dwight Eisenhower was president and is retiring with the modern Republican party he helped form firmly in control. On Thursday, Sen. Strom Thurmond turned 100.
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King of hungry Swaziland splashes out
MBABANE (Reuters) - The United States may ban the king of Swaziland from touching down on U.S. soil if he buys a $45 million private luxury jet while the poor of his tiny African kingdom go hungry, diplomatic sources said.
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MBABANE (Reuters) - The United States may ban the king of Swaziland from touching down on U.S. soil if he buys a $45 million private luxury jet while the poor of his tiny African kingdom go hungry, diplomatic sources said.
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Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Deputies stop patrolling for four hours each night
For four hours each night, sheriff's deputies no longer patrol Montcalm County's roads.
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Weird Rating: 50%
For four hours each night, sheriff's deputies no longer patrol Montcalm County's roads.
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Man denies trying to poison with beer
Liquid from a bottle of acid-tainted beer spilled and burned the leg of Ryan J. Gauthier before he drank any of it.
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Weird Rating: 60%
Liquid from a bottle of acid-tainted beer spilled and burned the leg of Ryan J. Gauthier before he drank any of it.
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Wife speeds off with naked man on car roof
Debbie DeMarco was driving west on Naamans Road about 4:30 a.m. Monday when she said a blue Volkswagen Jetta roared past her with a naked man clinging to the roof.
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Weird Rating: 90%
Debbie DeMarco was driving west on Naamans Road about 4:30 a.m. Monday when she said a blue Volkswagen Jetta roared past her with a naked man clinging to the roof.
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Businessman who slept in tells cops he was abducted
A man who was late for an important business meeting in Tokyo is in hot water after he told police that he was abducted by armed robbers, it was learned Wednesday.
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Weird Rating: 70%
A man who was late for an important business meeting in Tokyo is in hot water after he told police that he was abducted by armed robbers, it was learned Wednesday.
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First Baby of 2003 to Be a Clone?
Cloning enthusiast Severino Antinori is at it again. He claims the first cloned human will be born in January, and as usual, the scientific community is skeptical.
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Weird Rating: 80%
Cloning enthusiast Severino Antinori is at it again. He claims the first cloned human will be born in January, and as usual, the scientific community is skeptical.
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Weird Rating: 80%
Worlds Largest TFT LCD Screen
LG.Philips LCD on October 7 unveiled a 42-inch LCD monitor panel, the world’s largest TFT LCD, featuring wide XGA resolution, 500cd/m2 (nit) brightness, a 175-degree viewing angle, 12ms response time, 500:1 contrast ratio and a thickness of only 50.9mm. The product was developed using the company’s super-in-plane-switching (S-IPS) technology.
Cool Rating: 75%
LG.Philips LCD on October 7 unveiled a 42-inch LCD monitor panel, the world’s largest TFT LCD, featuring wide XGA resolution, 500cd/m2 (nit) brightness, a 175-degree viewing angle, 12ms response time, 500:1 contrast ratio and a thickness of only 50.9mm. The product was developed using the company’s super-in-plane-switching (S-IPS) technology.
Cool Rating: 75%
Chinese Internet users executed
Amnesty International issued a warning today on its Web site that Internet users in mainland China could be killed by the State for expressing their opinion online. Thirty three people were named as "prisoners of conscience" today, for apparently doing little more than expressing their opinions online.
Two "subversives" have already died in custody, it claimed.
And the statement, which it released today, also warns that overseas companies were colliding in a crack down we first reported last August.
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Amnesty International issued a warning today on its Web site that Internet users in mainland China could be killed by the State for expressing their opinion online. Thirty three people were named as "prisoners of conscience" today, for apparently doing little more than expressing their opinions online.
Two "subversives" have already died in custody, it claimed.
And the statement, which it released today, also warns that overseas companies were colliding in a crack down we first reported last August.
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Weird Rating: 65%
Google Introduces "Googlism"
Interesting little site, Googlism cross-references all of the search results from it's predecessor (Google), and displays the results in one easy package. Confused? Just check it out!
Googlism
Cool Rating: 80%
Interesting little site, Googlism cross-references all of the search results from it's predecessor (Google), and displays the results in one easy package. Confused? Just check it out!
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Cool Rating: 80%
Patients treated with radioactive material may trigger anti-terrorism devices
Patients treated with radioactive materials may be setting off anti-terrorism devices installed in public places.
The claim is in a medical journal letter detailing a case that occurred in the New York subway.
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Weird Rating: 40%
Patients treated with radioactive materials may be setting off anti-terrorism devices installed in public places.
The claim is in a medical journal letter detailing a case that occurred in the New York subway.
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Man steals computer to pay for criminal record rehab
A man charged with theft didn't have the money to pay for a rehabilitation program that would clear his criminal record, so he stole a courthouse computer.
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Weird Rating: 75%
A man charged with theft didn't have the money to pay for a rehabilitation program that would clear his criminal record, so he stole a courthouse computer.
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Women to Bare It All for Rain
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of women from drought-ravaged southern Australia plan to bare it all to the heavens in a bid to make it rain.
Inspired by a Nepalese drought-breaking tradition, the women from Ouyen in the far northwest of Victoria state will carry out a naked rain dance in the barren outback in early March, just ahead of the planting season for the next crop.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of women from drought-ravaged southern Australia plan to bare it all to the heavens in a bid to make it rain.
Inspired by a Nepalese drought-breaking tradition, the women from Ouyen in the far northwest of Victoria state will carry out a naked rain dance in the barren outback in early March, just ahead of the planting season for the next crop.
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Weird Rating: 60%
