Archive for the 'News You Can Use.' Category
7th May 2009
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I wasn’t aware that it was a potential problem. Still, safety first.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Female police officers told not to wear underwired bras on duty
4th May 2009
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Not surprising that it looks like Barack Obama.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Scientists reveal face of the first European
4th May 2009
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Well, I suppose he had a good reason.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Van Gogh’s ear was cut off by friend Gauguin with a sword
4th May 2009
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It’s all gone be plastic by-em-by.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Network Rail to replace wooden sleepers with recycled plastic
4th May 2009
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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Understanding motor neurone disease
1st May 2009
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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Micromuscle makes microrobots that can live inside you
1st May 2009
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Yeah, it’s obscure, but it’s interesting. Cope.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Green men cut in church stonework
1st May 2009
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I still want one.
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29th April 2009
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The establishment media is saying almost nothing about the man who co-founded Earth Day, and who also happens to be in jail for life for murder. Arlen Specter’s involvement with the Ira Einhorn case is an important event in the party-switching Senator’s career that curious readers would want to know about — if the establishment media cared to note it.
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28th April 2009
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I suspect that lashing your mother-in-law to a fender won’t count.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Cars could have external airbags
28th April 2009
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Be the first on your block….
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Australia’s tropical islands for sale at half price as financial hits
27th April 2009
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Video: La Machine à Ecrire le Temps writes time, mesmerizes brains
27th April 2009
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Guess she is trying to make up the deficit in the human birth rate for Britain.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Sheep stuns experts by giving birth to six healthy lambs
27th April 2009
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Sounds like a good excuse for a war.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Moustachioed horse evades barbers
27th April 2009
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Well, that’s a relief.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Swiss Alps bans naked German ramblers
27th April 2009
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This would make a great wall hanging for somebody into wine.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Planet of the Grapes
24th April 2009
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on World’s first electric car built by Victorian inventor in 1884
24th April 2009
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I am not making this up.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Model village is made entirely of wool
22nd April 2009
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You are what you eat.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Chocolate-powered 145mph racing car made of vegetables
22nd April 2009
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Well. Imagine that.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Antarctic ice cover ‘increasing due to hole in ozone layer’
22nd April 2009
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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a Hawaiian happy face spider.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on British scientists study Hawaiian happy face spider
21st April 2009
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The brown shirts immediately give them away.
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21st April 2009
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80 mph and 200 miles is not bad for an electric car.
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19th April 2009
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Egypt’s top archaeologist claims Antony and Cleopatra tomb found
16th April 2009
Steve Sailer has some fun with recent genetic research.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Breaking News: Your genes didn’t evolve to kill you
16th April 2009
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This actually sounds very American, somehow….
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Mourners to take advantage of pay-per-view funeral service
16th April 2009
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(Funny how you have to read an British newspaper to find out the interesting American news.)
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Library book stolen during US Civil War returned after 145 years
15th April 2009
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Immediately arrested and charged with a hate crime for having a white calf and not a brown or black calf.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Brown Highland cattle produce rare white calf
15th April 2009
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15th April 2009
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Well, my car would look lame, anyway, but look at the video and pretend you’re on Serenity.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Video: Chrysler’s iPhone-like dashboard makes your car look lame
15th April 2009
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The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S.), in South Carolina, has animals of the Royal Standard Bengal (which is orange and black), the Royal White Bengal (white with black stripes), the Snow White Bengal (all white or with ghost stripes), and the Golden Tabby Bengal (red to pale orange cream stripes and saddle).
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
Pictures here.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on All world’s Bengal tiger types reared at wildlife centre
15th April 2009
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Well. There it is.
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15th April 2009
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Looking like a refugee from an Alien movie: Priceless.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on The baby fleece inspired by the kangaroo
14th April 2009
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They’re missing one: Democrat politician — perhaps under the misapprehension that they only attack your wallet.
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14th April 2009
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Historic hoard of James VI coins valued at £50,000
13th April 2009
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We have the technology.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Scientists shoot down malaria-carrying mosquitoes with frickin’ lasers
12th April 2009
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Don’t say we never have useful stuff here.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Steam powered USB charger keeps your iPod alive with Victorian sensibility
10th April 2009
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Mount this on a ship, and send it to Somalia.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Raytheon developing compact, inexpensive human microwaves
10th April 2009
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Resin replaces ITO in latest flexible OLED prototype
9th April 2009
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Peapod the friendly Neighborhood Electric Vehicle in the flesh
9th April 2009
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Not that they’ll ever get much credit.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Tim Martin discovers that many phrases in popular use today were coined in science fiction
9th April 2009
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Cardboard cooker wins global climate change competition
9th April 2009
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Good news for us, bad news for the Regressives.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Cheaper Way To Extract Oil Shale Found?
8th April 2009
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on The Onion Dome: Orthodox vs. Other Faiths
8th April 2009
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Steam-powered vehicle looks to scald world record
8th April 2009
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No rose without a thorn.
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8th April 2009
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Put a 50-cal mount on that puppy and I’m in.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Video: Scarpar off-road powerboard absolutely must go commercial
8th April 2009
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I like the one with the lights inset into the roofline.
The Lamborghini isn’t bad, either.
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8th April 2009
Darwin Award nominee.
Let that be a lesson to us all.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on Teenager killed by train while listening to iPod
8th April 2009
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Another good reason not to live in the urban core.
Posted in News You Can Use. | Comments Off on House Dust Yields Clue to Asthma: Roaches