Topic: STRANGE - on December 15, 2008 at 5:44:49 PM CET
Revealed: desperate final hours of the world's biggest ever financial fraud
Bernard Madoff, one of Wall Street's most respected financiers, apparently planned to carve up his last $300m (£200m) between friends, family and employees before making the shocking confession that his investment prowess was really the result of one of the world's biggest ever frauds.
But, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the 70-year-old could not implement his plan before his huge pyramid scheme - whose 10-12% annual returns had attracted top-flight investors around the globe - collapsed with losses of at least $50bn
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Topic: STRANGE - on December 7, 2008 at 11:28:03 AM CET
Amsterdam to cut brothels by half
Dutch authorities have revealed details of their plans to clean up Amsterdam's famous red light district.
They say they will close half the city's brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafes in a bid to drive organised crime from the city centre.
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Topic: STRANGE - on December 3, 2008 at 11:54:45 AM CET
20 (More) Strange and Exotic Endangered Species
The bladder-chewing guppy not enough for you? Can’t stop thinking about exploding ants, boyfriend-devouring she-monsters of the sea and blood-spurting lizards? Don’t worry - terrifying oneself is a common ailment of the intertubes. Unfortunately, there is no cure…but there is more to learn! Reader, prepare thyself. Your eyeballs are about to be flooded with some of the strangest, creepiest, crawliest endangered creatures on the planet. Warning: content best consumed as far away from bedtime as possible.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 27, 2008 at 1:22:32 PM CET
The Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art, Around the World:
Check out the Hermitage, Guggenheim, Tate.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 27, 2008 at 1:09:10 PM CET
Optical Illusions - the top 20
Try and count the black dots....
If you keep your eyes on the black dots, they appear to form and vanish at the intersections of the horizonal and vertical lines. The effect is diminished if one is very close to the screen, further away or if one views at a 45 degree angle.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 20, 2008 at 3:24:00 PM CET
Satellite Radio Is Dead
I hate to say it, but somebody has to: Satellite radio will come crashing down to Earth within the next two years. The newly merged Sirius XM Radio is already living on borrowed time -- and borrowed money -- and simply will not and cannot survive.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 20, 2008 at 3:12:00 PM CET
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski - DIE KULT-KOMÖDIE DER COEN-BRÜDER 0.25 bis 2.15 | ORF 1 | FILM | USA 1997. Joel Coen
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 20, 2008 at 3:04:56 PM CET
Leiche von Milliardär Flick gestohlen - Noch keine Geldforderungen
Auch am Donnerstag tappen die Ermittler weiter im Dunklen, wohin der Sarg mitsamt dem Leichnam des Milliardärs Friedrich Karl Flick verschwunden ist. "Es gibt momentan keine konkreten Hinweise", erklärte ein Polizei-Pressesprecher am Donnerstag. Das Landeskriminalamt Kärnten ermittle nach wie vor auf Hochtouren in alle Richtungen. Über finanzielle Forderungen wurde bisher nichts bekannt, Erpressung als Tatmotiv wird aber nicht ausgeschlossen. Im Bezug auf aktuelle Ermittlungen gibt es seitens der Polizei vorerst keine Auskünfte.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 2, 2008 at 4:34:00 PM CET
Mann samt Klo ins Krankenhaus gebracht
Die Sitzung mutierte zum Alptraum: Da Unbekannte einen Toilettensitz mit Superkleber beschmierten, klebte ein Mann aus Mittelengland auf dem Klo fest. Ärzte befreiten den Geleimten schließlich von der Unglücksschüssel:
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 1, 2008 at 1:36:00 PM CET
Old Soviet Death-Ray Gun, Kazakhstan
Dominating the Kazakhstan skyline, like a giant death-ray gun from a sci-fi movie is a decrepit, rusting radioastronomy tower. The photograph was taken at Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory (TSAO) near the Great Almaty Lake, which sits at 2800m altitude.
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 12, 2008 at 1:06:00 PM CEST
STOCKS SOAR! (IN BAGHDAD)
Now it's stock and awe in Baghdad!
As the Dow plummeted nearly 700 points yesterday to fall well below the 9,000 mark, the Iraqi stock exchange where this broker was merrily keeping up with her booming business - was flourishing, buoyed by four-year lows in violence and hopes of a reconstruction windfall.
Last month, Iraq's general index went up nearly 40 percent, about the same percentage the Dow dropped over the past year. The jovial trading-floor mood is reminiscent of Wall Street's bygone "greed is good" era of the 1980s.
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 9, 2008 at 4:22:00 PM CEST
$13.5M lotto winner 7 seconds late
Joel Ifergan bought two Super Seven tickets at a convenience store last May 23 and says he ordered the tickets at 8:59 p.m., believing he had just made it under the deadline.
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