Party planners take note. For the first time in almost twenty years, there’s going to be a Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve. “I remember the last time this happened,” says professor Philip Hiscock of the Dept. of Folklore at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. “December 1990 ended with a Blue Moon, and many New [...]
December 26, 2009
SHUNYI, Beijing — One is named Obama, another goes by Son of Bush. They charge tens of thousands of dollars for sex. Convoys of luxury cars, driven by fans, greet the most expensive studs at airports. Meet the canine gigolos — the purebred Tibetan Mastiffs that have become the latest symbol of China’s growing wealth. [...]
December 13, 2009
Lunch with a colleague from work should be a time to unwind – the most taxing task being to decide what to eat, drink, and choose for dessert. For Rick Mabry and Paul Deiermann it has never been that simple. They can’t think about sharing a pizza, for example, without falling headlong into the mathematics [...]
November 25, 2009
FRIERSON, LA. – Flushed evidence doesn’t go far if your toilet’s on a septic system. DeSoto Parish sheriff’s Lt. Toni Joe Morris said Tuesday that deputies brought in a backhoe when drug agents raided a home and business and met the owner coming out of a bathroom. He said a bag of methamphetamine and needles [...]
November 23, 2009
Thomas E. Mahany, a 62-year-old Vietnam veteran, is staging a hunger strike in Lafayette Square across from the White House to raise awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder and protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nothing weird about that. I applaud his efforts. The weird part comes from not being able to find any media [...]
November 22, 2009
If sniffing the scent of the ocean while booking a vacation online or the smell of whisky and cigars while digitally listening to jazz sounds appealing to you, the British cable company Telewest has a new device that adds a whole new dimension to the internet: Smell! The technology makes it possible to send and [...]
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