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Every day, the same, again

Barefoot thief steals shoes for left feet.

Self-identified vampires create community in South Florida.

The Swiss Criminal Court said it still considered Roman Polanski a high flight risk, but that his new bail offer of $4.5 million offset those concerns.

Man trapped in 23-year coma reveals horror of being unable to tell doctors he was conscious. Update: Reborn coma man’s words may be bogus.

UK Police are routinely arresting people simply to record their DNA profiles on the national database.

The Underground market of Sperm donors. Those “in need” are single women, lesbian couples, and married couples challenged by male infertility who can’t afford the expense for traditional sperm banks.

In bed with Silvio Berlusconi.

Mariah Carey carries own toilet paper for interview on Brit TV show.

A man who hit a golf ball straight at another player, injuring him, has been ordered to pay more than $225,000 in damages.

On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad…and NEWSWEEK. This is the story of his captivity.

You told me that already! Why we’re so poor at remembering to whom we told what.

Does mimicking other people’s body language really make them like us?

A study on male gamblers just published in the Journal of Gambling Studies found that having a girl on your arm does bring ‘luck’ of sorts, as slot machine gamblers had fewer losses when accompanied by a female.

The 8½ laws of rumor spread. Related: The psychology of rumors.

Nearly half of the 3- to 6-year-old girls worry about being fat, study says.

How can racing yachts sail faster than the wind?

Mathematician solves rowing boat “wiggle” problem.

New research suggests that math has evolved its way right into our neurons—and monkeys’, too.

ls.jpgCigarettes themselves could be the direct source of exposure to a wide array of potentially pathogenic microbes among smokers and other people exposed to secondhand smoke.

Last week Google made a preemptive strike against Microsoft, revealing details of its Chrome OS months before that product reaches its near-infinite beta release.

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most expensive science experiment, produced its first collisions Monday.

Hi! We’re the staff at your family dentistry practice. It’s great to see you. Have you been brushing and flossing? Let’s take a look…

Mayhem erupted after the killer boarded the first car of a northbound D train at Rockefeller Center at around 2 a.m. Saturday.

Runaway spent 11 days in the subways.

Researchers have been spying on us on the subway. Here’s what they’ve learned.

NYC Subway, historical maps, 1880-present.

Marcel Broodthaers’ parrot (Le Perroquet) at Peter Freeman.

Susan Sontag’s On Photography was published in 1977 and remains an essential text for writers on photography and cultural criticism.

Book-length study of Chris Marker’s La Jetée, the celebrated short science-fiction film composed almost entirely of still photographs.

It would be all too easy to romanticise Banksy’s work. I think he has been both lucky and canny.

10 bad messages from good movies. Unconventional creative play is very, very wrong (from Toy Story). No matter how appallingly bad conditions on Earth get, so long as there is one tiny plant on the planet, it can still be restored to its former beauty and sustainability (from WALL-E).

Will Ferrell, Hollywood’s most overpaid star.

World tallest model.

Deformscape is an optical illusion designed by Faulders Studio for the garden of Jeff Dauber.

Ten places where life shouldn’t exist, but does. And: Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean.

Scenes from Tokyo.

Mega Churches.

fj.jpgStrange inflatable stuff.

Flags by colors.

China’s 56 ethnicities [pics].

Luke Butler, Leaders of Men.

Blueprints database (Trucks, Science Fiction, Mobile phones, etc)

Clients from hell. I present the following exchange with ‘Mike The Client’ without comment. It’s long but impossible to excerpt because he has a knack for throwing out a curveball just when you think you know where he’s going.

Postmortem identification accessories.

Cats for Gold.

“Don’t Let Cat Out.”





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