Every day, the same, again
Two 6-year-olds and 3-year-old burglarize home, taking among other things a board game and a jar of vegetables, according to police.
Hospital sent man home with bone stuck in throat.
Polish policeman fines himself for walking on railway to meet daily quota.
Nashville billboards claim Jesus will return May 21, 2011.
Nurse guilty of raping another woman in Brisbane hotel toilets.
Digital video recorders do not change shopping behavior.
Woman shocked to find squirrel in toilet.
A lawsuit’s been filed by lawyers at the Texas Civil Rights Project because, allegedly, for the last seven years, the state’s Department of State Health Services has “deceptively and unlawfully sold, traded, bartered, and distributed blood samples” taken from babies.
Interview with John Pistole, head of the TSA.
The global nuclear industry is willing to take big risks to get a piece of China’s nuclear budget. The danger is that in landing those fat contracts — and sharing technology with Chinese partners — the industry will help build a formidable rival.
Africa has more Serial-Killers than U.S. and Europe.
Asking children and teenagers to promise to tell the truth actually works.
Children who don’t like fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to be constipated.
The Era of Error-Tolerant Computing. Errors will abound in future processors…and that’s okay.
A map of the emotions, according to Spinoza, showing the dependency of all the emotions on Desire, Pleasure and Pain. Related: Metaphors, models & theories
Synesthesia and Artistic Experimentation [PDF]
Rich Women Prefer Attractive Older Men.
Fish Have Feelings (And They Can Be Seen In Their DNA).
Why do flamingoes like to stand on one leg? [via TYWKIWDBI]
Bees deprived of a good night’s sleep make shoddy dancers and poor communicators.
Cosmic accidents: 10 lucky breaks for humanity.
How to create temperatures below absolute zero.
Concentric circles in WMAP data may provide evidence of violent pre-Big-Bang activity.
Facebook is a few steps away from trademarking the word ‘face,’ online documents reveal.
It appears that non-Facebook members can also be traced via the Like button.
Branding in the Digital Age: You’re Spending Your Money in All the Wrong Places.
Why People Pay for Bizarre Experiences. “Contrary to what people predict, it’s not young and impulsive people who want to pay so much for these crazy experiences. It’s actually people who plan and are obsessed with being productive,” says Anat Keinan, who now teaches marketing at Harvard Business School.
Confessions of a College Pimp.
Memoirs of an Anonymous Phone Sex Worker.
How infidelity has become accepted and even expected in Russia.
How did chemists become the greatest force in fragrance? Few perfumes are crafted by hand in a dusty atelier. Instead, they come to life in the lab.
Can science explain art, music and literature?
Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian.
Warhol Foundation Threatens to End Financing of Smithsonian Exhibitions.
The Murder that Changed the Movies. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, shot in four weeks for $800,000, released 50 years ago.
George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay.
Five Boys: The Story of a Picture.
Why do we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?
How To Present Yourself In Court To Be Optimally Likable and Persuasive.
How to identify a shark on a biting rampage.
If a bear charges you, what exactly are you supposed to do?
How to hire a programmer when you’re not a programmer
A Brief History—and Future—of the Shopping Cart.
Interview with gastroenterologist Michael D. Levitt, the world’s leading authority on flatulence.
Attention-grabbing ambient advertising via New Zealand.
u gave away an iphone for a treo??? ewww man… wtf?
This is the uniform for crap party promoters all over Europe.
Lawyer Commercial. [via copyranter]