May 2008
65 posts
Man finds trespasser has moved in to his house -... →
Who needs sex when you can steal DNA? →
Tiny organism exists only as females, but steals DNA from other organisms - including bacteria, fungi and plants.
Uncontacted Amazon tribe photographed →
Top student scholarship goes to second-top... →
How to Unleash Your Creativity: Scientific... →
Green Insulation Gets Warm Reception →
“Greensulate” is an insulation material made from mushroom fibres, rice hulls, and recycled paper that is being tested for approval in actual lbuilding use in the US right now. ANd it’s cheaper than the non-green alternatives.
Would You Vaccinate Your Kids Against Drugs? →
Scientists find living spruce tree is almost...
Weezer, "Pork and Beans" →
- a music video made of almose all the youtube celebrities you can think of!
Popup Scrollbar Concept Demo →
Interesting new way to do scrollbars. I like it. I’d love both Mac and Win to enable this as an option. Alternately, does either of thoe OSen allow third party apps to replace this basic functionality system wide?
Woman Wakes Up After 17 Hours Brain Dead. →
Rigor mortis had even set in. They only kept the ventalator on to talk about organ donation.
School student finds microbe that eats plastic... →
Potentially, this can help enormously with a huge environmental problem worldwide.
Blogging--It's Good for You: Scientific American →
Man Sentenced To Prison After Girl's MySpace Page... →
This is apalling. What is he supposed to do, get a verified I.D.? Still, part of me thinks it shouldn’t be so easy anyway.
WorldWide Telescope Brings Universe Home →
Science To Life : Google Health →
Pay What You Want: Businesses that Give their... →
World's most obese man vies for different record →
… he’s going for the most weight lost by a human. He’s using a low carb diet.
Be sure to check the slideshow!
Gecko in egg 'must have crawled up cloaca' →
Paul McCartney furious as new eco-friendly car... →
… causing a carbon footprint about 100 times larger than if it were sent by boat.
Parents board flight, forget their child →
Lies We Tell Kids →
Omaha man says this was his second... →
Hooray! I made it on to News of the Weird again!
Again, as a newsranger, not the subject of a story. I think I’ll try to keep it that way.
http://newsoftheweird.blogspot.com/2008/05/mondays-creme-de-la-weird-there-were.html
Its this story, for the record.
Actually, there are no fewer than 3 stories in that edition that were on this blog in some form or another before they showed up there. I must be doing something right!
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Snoring pill may let partners breathe easy - Times... →
Missing Link of Electronics Discovered:... →
A fundamentally new type of electronics component that might wind up in your pocket in the not-too-distant future.
Can You Catch Up on Lost Sleep? →
Can I? Please?
Stolen laptop leads victim to alleged thieves →
Smile, Mac thieves - my laptop’s taking your photo!
Kids, mom lived with 90-year-old's corpse for... →
Sickeningly nuts.
Nine Tips for Making TV-Watching a Source of... →