I Told You Not To Kill That Albatross!
Disaster at Sea!! A collection of dozens & dozens of photographs of misfortune striking those GIGANTIC shipping vessels, the kind that bring goods from China to Wal Mart. Every kind of affliction imaginable, from shipboard fire to heavy weather to grounding amidst crushing waves to capsizing from ill balanced loads to random explosive cargo to terrorist attack to so much more. Descriptions of the vessels and what brought them down are included in the first link.
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Recreational Genetics
As advances in DNA testing allow us to discover our genetic origins in ever-greater detail, many people are making surprising discoveries. Especially in the melting-pot that is the USA. Of course there are always those who feel that access to such information about who we are will only lead to bad things
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The Seven Luminaries
This site explains the link, apparently via Mesopotamia, between the ancient Roman and modern Japanese calendrical systems.
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See, it IS fun
Battleship Extreme, Operation Tiger, Operation Thunderbolt, Operation Seahawk, Operation Allied Shield, are newly released online games from the Australian Defence Force. But where�s Operation Tank Rage?
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I’ve got moves you haven’t even seen yet
What is the relationship between the optical groove in a record or wax cylinder and sound, and how can we use this to recover analog recordings from the past? Dr. Carl Haber explains IRENE.
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Giant, lion eating chimps not mythical after all
There is a remote part of the Congolese jungle, called the Bili forest, where local legend has long told of a breed of giant apes that eat lions, catch fish and howl at the moon. To his surprise Dutch researcher Cleve Hicks found them. In fact they are large chimps but they appear to have a number of behavioural differences from other groups seen in the wild. (More information from Wikipedia).
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Japan suffers major earthquake
Strong earthquake hits Japan, hundreds of homes have been destroyed, bridges have been leveled, tsunamis are forming, and most frightening, the nuclear power plant appears to be leaking radioactive water. The quake registered as a 6.8 on the Richter scale.
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Bruce Campbell – Amy of Darkness (Clip)
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Bruce Campbell – Amy of Darkness (Clip)
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Bruce Campbell – Amy of Darkness (Clip)
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Bruce Campbell – Old Spice 1
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Bruce Campbell – Old Spice 2
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Ticket Hell
“I’d been a fugitive for too long and it was time to turn myself in.” the sicilian misadventures of a Reuters journalist with Agrigento’s police department.
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Cabinet of Wonders
"What we have here is a Cabinet of Wonders, a place where things of interest are set out, in possibly bizarre, possibly fetishistic presentation, for perusal by the discerning, who understand that presentation, and scientific interest, are all a form of magic."
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Robbery,……… Style
Robbery American Style. Robbery French Style. Robbery Italian Style. Classic Soviet animation from Soyuzmultfilm.
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Painter finds hand-me-down severed hand
Police in Waldboro, Maine, have seized a severed hand that had apparently been, er, handed-down over fifty to eighty years. A construction worker found the hand in a box at a home he was painting for the owner, a man who buys homes to restore and sell. The owner and police contacted the woman who lived there previously to (sorry) get a grip on the situation. From the Associated Press:
(Current home owner Bo) Jespersen was struck by its size, with fingers about an inch and
a half longer than his own…The wrist portion appeared jagged, Jespersen said, as if the
hand had been removed violently, and 6 to 8 inches of what appeared to be tendons were looped around it…
The previous owner claimed she had gotten the hand from a man down the road, who is now in his 80s and remembers his father having the hand.
“She had heard it was from a farming accident,” Jespersen said.
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Hmm, good idea for long drives
The Bladder Buddy. You can thank ABC’s American Inventor for this.
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July 14, 1999
Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I’ve seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
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Babies arrive wet with various fluids, and this sets the tone for their first year of life
So you’ve gone and made a baby! A father of two provides some helpful advice to friends about what to expect from their newborns.
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Sketchy Evidence
One day while crossing an empty field, fifteen-year-old Tim Masters happened to see a dead body. Twenty years later, he remains in prison, serving time for a crime that he almost certainly did not commit.
A haunting, bizarre tale of a murder investigation gone wrong.
RobDurdle.com 
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