Topic: STRANGE - on February 1, 2007 at 1:46:00 PM CET
Variety Is The Spice Of Life
Nestle is proud to announce the addition of a bold new flavor to it’s Nestle Crunch lineup. Nestle with Ketchup.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 29, 2007 at 2:07:00 PM CET
Craziest Laws in America
I found them searching around the net. Doubt these are real laws but i thought it was funny and interesting.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 28, 2007 at 5:03:00 PM CET
6 High School Girls Charged With Homicide Conspiracy After List Found With 300 Names
Six girls at a rural high school were charged with homicide conspiracy after their principal found a list of 300 names and officials discovered online postings suggesting they kill people.
School officials said the list, discovered in a classroom trash can, mostly named students and faculty members but also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer bunny.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 28, 2007 at 4:27:00 PM CET
Dirt Eating China Girl may set Guiness Record
A girl from north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region plans to set a new Guiness World Record after eating nothing but dirt for two months. We reported this back in December in “China girl eats pounds of dirt daily” and now she is back in the news.
weirdasianews.com Wuqibalaqiqige became a minor celebrity because of her curious habits of eating soil.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 23, 2007 at 5:19:00 PM CET
Even the tiniest London apartment attracts major interest
Almost anywhere else, the tiny dilapidated studio wouldn't attract much more than mice. But this is London and the six-square-metre former storage room - slightly bigger than a prison cell and without electricity - is going for US$335,000.
The closet-sized space in the exclusive Knightsbridge neighbourhood may be only "about the size of a ship's galley, said real estate agent Andrew Scott, who's handling the sale. "But it's permanently anchored to one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the world."
canoe.ca myway.com £170k for tiny 'depressing' flatTable-sized room going for £170,000
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 23, 2007 at 11:50:00 AM CET
Man sues over penis tattoo
A football fan is suing a tattooist who drew a penis on his back instead of his favourite team's badge.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 19, 2007 at 11:11:00 AM CET
Illegal Brands
I really had to laugh, when I’ve found these pictures. Illegal brands. Some people are obviously very creative.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 14, 2007 at 11:28:00 AM CET
Woman dies after water-drinking contest
A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 13, 2007 at 10:20:00 AM CET
German Makes Amends for 1970 Shoplifting
Thirty-six years of suffering a guilty conscience finally has proven too much for a German who shoplifted from a small store while on vacation in Norway in 1970.
Seeking to make amends, he sent a check for $375 to the small mountain town of Lom, and asked them to find the shopkeeper, Mayor Simen Bjoergen said on the town's Internet site on Thursday.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 12, 2007 at 3:10:00 PM CET
Letting your hair down
When Julia Roberts flashed under-arm hair at a film premiere there was uproar. But one woman, at least, wants to overturn prejudices and has taken a New Year's resolution not to shave.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 12, 2007 at 12:46:00 PM CET
MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents
It is no secret that the MPAA and other anti-piracy organizations track down alleged pirates by uploading fake torrents. Up until now it was always unclear where those files came from, and how to identify them.
The MPAA and other anti-piracy watchdogs try to trap people into downloading fake torrents, so they can collect IP addresses, and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs. They hire a company to put up fake copies of popular movies, music albums, and TV series. They even use pirate like filenames such as “Battlestar Galactica S03E07 REPACK DSR XviD-ORENJi” and “Miami Vice[2006]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo“.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 12, 2007 at 12:05:00 PM CET
Company with a camera that sees through walls gets $14 million
Camero, a company out of Israel that has developed a camera that can "see" things through solid walls, has raised $14 million, bringing the total is has raised to $20 million.
The investment comes about four months after it showed off a prototype of the Xaver800 and began to sell systems to customers. Investors include Greylock Partners, Motorola Ventures and Walden.
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