Archive for February, 2006

CBS sues Howard Stern

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

With ratings dropping CBS files suit to get hands on $$ from Howard’s stock deal with Sirius - not sure if court can make us listen to David Lee Roth though.

Boobs in Flight

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

What better way to put that wind tunnel to use than to have girls in bikinis get tossed around. Now you know what a boobie looks like in a hurricane.

Move Over Google Maps

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Take a ride in the drivers seat (you can even choose your car) and take a virtual drive wherever you like, instantly. The beta is only good for Seattle or San Francisco thus far.

Save a Snowflake

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Ever wanted to catch a snowflake and keep it forever? You can. This is a photograph of a snowflake that fell in January 1979, but it isn’t a 27-year-old photo. It is a recent shot of a snowflake that’s been sitting in chemist Tryggvi Emilsson’s desk for 27 years, locked in a drop of that […]

Yes, we have no salt

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

In an old Soviet-era joke, a man rushes into a shop and demands of the clerk, “Do you have any meat?”
“No,” comes the reply, “this is where we don’t have fish. You want to go next door, where they don’t have meat.”
Russians consider shortages of basic foods part of a bygone era. But in […]

Meet your teacher

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Romans blush as pharmacies stock adult ‘toys’

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Adult sex toys jostled for space with cotton pads and cough syrup on pharmacy shelves in Rome this week, but a rash of publicity has prompted shopowners to spare the blushes of customers and withdraw them from view, though not from sale.
“It’s Time to Change your Toys” taunted the English-language slogan on the objects’ daring […]

Driving tip: Don’t honk at the cops

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

A Tennessee judge gave a college student a driving lesson in court this week: don’t correct the police.
Clay Palmer, a student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, honked his car horn when he saw a policeman turn on blue flashers to pass through a red traffic light. The officer then turned the flashers off […]

Who is afraid?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Don’t tell me you get frightened by a few waves…..

Weird Meat

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

WeirdMeat.com documents experiences eating strange food, as I travel around the world. In the end, what is weird to one, is normal to another. I want to find out why. Includes articles, travel stories, photos, pictures, video.
And what is the strangest stuff you have ever eaten? And what was the most disgusting food you ever […]