Image via WikipediaThe town has taken its message to Facebook, saying that the name change would go ahead if it got 10,000 supporters -- a number hit within 24 hours. It currently has nearly 34,000 supporters. Too bad.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Town changes name from"Speed" to "Speedkills"
Image via WikipediaThe town has taken its message to Facebook, saying that the name change would go ahead if it got 10,000 supporters -- a number hit within 24 hours. It currently has nearly 34,000 supporters. Too bad.
Video: Terrorist terrier goes on rampage on plane
A Manchester terrier went on a rampage on a US Airways flight after escaping from its cage, biting and injuring a passenger and flight attendant. After landing the dog and its 89-year-old owner were allowed to continue on another flight. I'm hoping they at least strip searched them both.
Video: Must see – great tilt and shift video of Toronto by Belarusians
Have a look at this great tilt and shift video done by Belarusian band, Lyapis Trubetskoy
on Toronto and Niagara Falls. Of course, you have to wonder what a Belarusian band is doing filming a video in Canada ....
Video: 11-year-old boy arrested for stick figure drawing - led away in cuffs
An 11-year-old boy was arrested and hauled off in handcuffs for drawing stick figures in school, something his therapist told him to do. In a separate incident last October, he drew stick figures of himself with a gun, pointed at four other stick figures with the words "teacher must die." Bad boy – but sounds just a wee bit harsh on the punishment. Why not a public flogging while we are at it.
Sex scandals of the Presidents
Cover of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Video: Shop hypnotize shoppers to spend more mone
Have a look at this London shop that has resorted to hypnotizing its patrons into spending more money:
Monday, February 21, 2011
Video: Knife removed from man's head after 4 years of headaches
A Chinese man who suffered headaches for four years was found to have a knife embedded in his skull. He says he didn't know it was there and previous medical exams didn't notice it.
Video: Chinese to open World of Warcraft theme park
Image by swanky via FlickrClick here to go to a commercial for the park.
Video: Banned Calvin Klein porn casting commerical from 1990's – just creepy
Calvin Klein apparently pulled these "porn casting" commercials from the air in the 1990's. I don't remember ever seeing them on the air, but they are really, really creepy. Have a look.
Video: Teens from Kenyan slums rap about bikes – win $8,000 award
Teens from the slums of Nairobi have made a winning video on environmental protection. They entered their video in the "1 Minute To Save The World" competition in which young filmmakers are asked to create a one-minute film about climate change. Their film "Me And My Bike" won the $8000 Passion Pictures Best Film and Artists Project Earth Youth Visions award, after beating out films from around the world
Video: Fox crew attacked in dangerous IHOP parking lot
First Egypt – now IHOP. OK, maybe trivializing what happened in Egypt is a bit insensitive. This FOX TV crew was trying to interview people who had set up a memorial for 27-year-old Chester Jackson who was shot and killed in a parking lot outside an IHOP in Sacramento. Tempers flared and the TV crew payed the price.
President for an hour – sit behind JFK's desk, search for Marilyn Monroe's panties
The Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston has unveiled a new online feature: The President’s Desk. You can click around the desktop an get various videos, audio and text from the good old JFK days. There is even a secret recording button you can click. Clicking the telephone displays up a list of recorded conversations,from which you can listen to the president talk to his brothers Robert and Edward. "Hey Ted, what really happened at Chappy?" Well, I guess the time sequence is wrong to hear that one. Click the women's panties in the drawer and see a secret video of JFK and Marilyn Monroe. Too much to hope for I suppose.
Animation: Space Station growth between 1998-2008
Have a look at the growht of the International Space Station from 1998 until 2008. In just ten years it has grown and grown and grown. This is a brilliant animation by USA Today. Click on the graphic below to go to the animation.
Black students late because slaves were late says professor
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Mean mom sells kid's toys on eBay
Here is the mom's original eBay posting:
"We are selling 8 Beyblades, 2 of them light up. As you can tell they are not happy about this! They have been using their bathtub as a "battle arena" and Beyblades + Bathtub = Destruction!!! With the metal ones they managed to scrape the enamel off the tub, take a chunk of tub out and break off the soap holder. SO if you "win" this auction DON'T play with in a bathtub!!! We have recieved a quote of $500.00 to replace the tub, some tiles, and soap holder + labor of course! They had approxamently $125.67 in their piggy banks that will be going to toward the cost. We will use the profit from this auction towards the balance and then it is onto other toys!"
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Texas preparing to give college students and profs the right to carry guns on campus
Image via WikipediaRepublican Gov. Rick Perry, who sometimes packs a pistol when he jogs, has said he's all for of the idea. Supporters of the bill say this will allow students to shoot back when a wacko starts to shoot up the campus ... or I suppose, when that football player steals your babe.
World's largest family: 39 wives, 94 children, 33 grandchildren
Meet Ziona Chana, head of the largest family in the world. 181 members to be exact. They all live in a large four-story mansion in India and the women sleep in dorms. Ziona keeps the youngest wives closest to him and why not. Read more in the SUN.
Ultra-violent video game mimics Mexican drug violence
An ultra-violent video game that is set in the Mexican border town Ciuada Juraraz has officials up in arms. It's not surprising given that they are busy trying to fight the real crime the game mimics. 6,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Ciudad Juarez in 2009/10 making it one of the deadliest cities in the world.
Game creator Ubisoft Entertainment says the game is due for release this summer. The game's promotional slogan tells players to, "Take justice into your own hands and experience the lawlessness of the modern Wild West." Mexican politician Ricardo Boone Salmon, said the state legislature unanimously approved a request this week asking the federal Interior Department to ban the game.
Brazilian clown-congressman screws up first vote
Opposition leader Duarte Nogueira, was happy for the unexpected support, although the government still won the vote.
"I went and thanked him -- after all, it's the support of the deputy who won the most votes in Brazil," he was quoted as saying by the Agencia Estado news agency.
A clown is a clown is a clown. Never vote for a clown!
Video: Chinese TV uses clip from Top Gun as Chinese Air Force in news broadcast
Chinese TV. Fraud. So hard to imagine. Well, it looks Chinese Central Television grabbed a couple of clips from the Tom Cruise movie Top Gun and used it in a news broadcast about the Chinese air force. The clip is supposed to show a J-10 fighter firing a missile at another aircraft during a practice exercise, but it looks an awful lot like Tom Cruise's Top Gun action. No surprise, I suppose. The real question: What are the Scientologists doing about it!
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