Wednesday, September 8, 2010
And in Japan: Cultivating 'Rice Farm' Bras...
Japan is drawing abreast of cutting-edge green design with a bizarre "rice farm" bra that doubles as a field of dreams. The bra cups (presumably bigger than A's) double as recyclable plastic pots that can be filled with soil and rice seedlings. The wearer waters the crop with a hose that loops...
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Monday, August 30, 2010
And in Iran: Iran to replace Google with ‘Oh Lord’…
The home grown search engine is set to go by 2012. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome ‘Oh Lord,’ a homegrown Iranian search engine sure to highlight very high resolution photos of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the regretful testimony of green movement opposition activists. Hadi Malek-Parast,...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
And in North Carolina: Nude Man in Gunfight at a Church …
Sheriff's deputies have charged a nude man who was involved in a gunfight at a church in Lincoln County on Friday. Sheriff's deputies were called to Fellowship Baptist Church at 1920 Maiden-Salem Road on Saturday around noon. When deputies arrived, they found Jeremiah Roosevelt Blackburn, 49, nude...
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Sunday, August 1, 2010
And in Ohio: A Mansfield Man is facing Charges for Pushing a Stroller...
24-year-old Steven Melendez says his sons, who are one and three years-old, mean the world to him. However, Melendez concedes he had been drinking when he put the boys in a stroller and went to pick up a money order near their home on Monday. Melendez tells Fox 8 "stupidly after having a couple of...
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Friday, July 23, 2010
And in Toronto: Dog Receives Communion…
St. Peter’s Anglican Church has long been known as an open and inclusive place. So open, it seems, they won’t turn anyone away. Not even a dog. That’s how a blessed canine ended up receiving communion from interim priest Rev. Marguerite Rea during a morning service the last Sunday in June. According...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
And in the US: Bed Bugs are Becoming a National Epidemic…
The CBS News Early Show reports that across the country, bed bug infestations are becoming so common that exterminators can barely keep up. Manchester, NH even started an Action Committee tasked with bringing the issue under control. Big name retailers like Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie and...
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Monday, July 19, 2010
And in Saudi Arabia: Family Discovers Maid is a Dude…
The Arabic daily Al-Jazirah reported on Sunday that a Saudi family who employed a housemaid from the Philippines did not realize that the woman who had been serving them for seven months was a man. “No one in the family had any doubts about the gender of the housemaid. She had smooth skin and had a...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
And in Colorado: Man Designs Toilet Car…
A family in Colorado will never again have to worry about toilet breaks on the road after designing a twin-bowl toilet car. It took four years and three prototypes for Dave Hersch to perfect his design, inspired by a small ‘Hot Wheels’ toy car. It features a 6.5 hp motor capable of driving two...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
And in Washington: Xmas Tree Chosen, Requires Secret Service Protection...
The Capitol has selected its 2010 National Christmas Tree from a Wyoming forest! Park rangers, however, are worried about vandals cutting it down and "must figure out how to obscure its exact location within the 3.4 million acre park." ( Jim Newell, Gawker, July 14, 2010 ) The White House has...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
And in England: 'Walls of Fat' Removed from London's Sewers...
Enough fat to fill nine double-decker buses is being removed from sewers under London's Leicester Square. A team of "flushers" equipped with full breathing apparatus has been drafted in with shovels to dig out an estimated 1,000 tonnes of putrid fat. And powerful jets are being used to break it...
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