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.
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Let’s hope it doesn’t start a flood.
Millions of tax dollars melting away… guess Katrina victims didn’t need ice after all.
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“I will never use garlic!”
Sicilian chef Filippo La Mantia has sworn off garlic. La Mantia says that garlic is a "leftover from when Italians were poor", and feels it is overplayed and unnecessary. Others disagree, like chef Antonello Colonna: "eliminating garlic is like "eliminating violins from an orchestra".
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Solomon Islands to be clearcut?
In Collapse, Jared Diamond wondered what the person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island was thinking as he did so. On the Solomon Islands, he’ll soon have the chance to put that question to that person.
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Black is Guilty
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Go ahead, kick that kitty! You’re covered.
Feel like you’ve racked up too many sins to be admitted into Heaven? Fret not, my evil friend… just hire a Sin Eater to gobble them all up for you. Voila! More here.
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Running of the Not-So-Bright
Bulls on Parade: Rage against the runners. Not for the squeamish (especially the first picture).
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“Double Muscle” Mutants
Myostatin is a genetic protein that affects muscle growth in humans and animals. Scientists have learned a lot about this protein from a noticeable myostatin mutation common in the Whippet dog breed. Whippets with one mutant copy of the gene are faster, so these are desirable for racing dog breeders. But selective breeding has caused increased instances of both copies of the myostatin genes mutating, which results in "double muscle" Incredible Hulk dogs!?
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Sexy Bike!
Got me a sexy new bike, woo hoo. Had a hard time picking the color, but settled on classic black. Very sporty.
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Let Slip The Badgers of War
Dateline Basra: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."
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To Boldly Go . . .
Star Trek as you’ve never seen it. In a clever, terribly NSFW voice-over parody of Star Trek, Star Hood Trek takes the crew of the Enterprise to . . . well, it’s NSFW. But Spock falls in love, Kirk shows himself to be an insufferable martinet, and Bones, well, Bones just wants the tang. Eight part series: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, and Part 8.
Also, you’d think in the 24th century, they’d have a cure for mono . . . .
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Rule #1: Don’t Post About Yourself Anonymously on the Internet
In January 2005 , someone using the name "Rahodeb" went online to a Yahoo stock-market forum and posted this opinion: "No company would want to buy Wild Oats Markets Inc., a natural-foods grocer, at its price then of about $8 a share." Who was that random fool? Why, none other than John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods. Whole Foods purchased Wild Oats earlier this year for approximately $18.50 a share, but the FTC has an issue with Whole Foods buying out their competitor. Mackey had responded to the FTC’s complaint on his blog, but has not posted since some of his other online comments became publicly attached to his name.
RobDurdle.com 
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