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Possibly of biblical proportions

Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions 251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth. [1] [...]

Mourn ‘n dine

A New Zealand funeral home has stepped in to stop a fake mourner who was attending up to four funerals a week to stock up on food, even filling up tupperware containers to take home, according to media reports. Harbour City Funeral Home director Danny Langstraat told local newspaper The Dominion Post that the “grim [...]

Crude calculations and images

Images on TV and the internet continually tick off the number of gallons of crude oil leaking into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the numbers are quickly becoming unfathomable to us in our daily lives. We have no reference point for tens of millions of gallons, except to know that’s a lot [...]

Worse than we thought? It’s even worse than we can imagine

Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, AFP reported Saturday citing The New York Times. One of the plumes was 10 miles (16 kilometers) long, three miles wide and [...]

Waiter! My food is moving

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has said a restaurant or two in New York City is serving a dish called san-nakji (live octopus). The story was first reported by the New York Daily according to UPI. PETA has been picketing the restaurants and issued letters to legal authorities about the alleged practice. Some say that [...]

Dying in the age of advertising

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Aaron Jamison is dying from colon cancer and not wanting to leave his wife with bills after he’s gone, he sold ad space on his urn. “I’m 400 pounds, so there’s enough ashes to go around,” Aaron joked Wednesday. And joking around is what he knows, since he’s a comedian. His humor [...]