• NJ cease and desist order brings scathing rebuttal

  NEWARK, N.J. -- Rare is the legal rebuttal that calls a cease and desist order a "literary gag gift" and uses the phrase "big meanie."Then there's the sarcasm-laden document that landed on the desk of the West Orange, N.J., township lawyer Monday.It's a response to a cease and desist order sent to a township resident who started using the website westorange.info in ...

• Smart watch for drunk people

  Kisai Intoxicated watch, offered for a launch price of $US99 until Friday night in Australia, shows the date and time, and offers alarms, as you would expect from any wristwatch.But a breathalyser is also hidden beneath what looks like a watch dial and can be used to rate the wearer's blood alcohol level from .001 per cent to as high as .2 per cent - four times the legal Australian driving ...

• Fluffy cows Old beauty practice gains attention

  In this photo provided by Matt Lautner is a fluffy male cow named Texas Tornado at Lautner Farms in Adel, Iowa. The art of grooming cows so they look like massive poodles is a well-known beautification practice in the show cattle industry that helps sell livestock. But tell that to the Internet, which became fascinated with the moniker “fluffy cow” after a photos of Texas Tornado and other ...

• Weird USB Drives Designed To Make Digital Data More Meaningful

  They may not have the keyring convenience of your typical USB drives, but they are addressing a very real problem. When data is so easily created and thoughtlessly filed away in folders on our hard drives, it's often lost ...

• Bizarre supernova completely normal in every way find astronomers

  A nearby white dwarf went supernova in 2011, giving scientists an unprecedented look at a rare Type Ia supernova. They discovered that it's remarkably, stunningly, perfectly ...

• John McAfee Continues to Be One Weird Dude

  After watching this gloriously NSFW video multiple times, the only things I know for sure is that John McAfee clearly isn't a fan of his former anti-virus software company that still bears his name, and that ...

• A true political warrior leaves the stage

  A true Canadian political warrior, Toronto Liberal MP Bob Rae is leaving the stage. Whatever opponents think of his political stances over the years, his departure is a loss. He was the interim Liberal leader after the disastrous 2011 federal campaign and gave the demoralized party some hope. He led the New Democratic Party to its only provincial victory in Ontario in 1990. He was a civil, ...

• NJ Transit probes bizarre bus trip into New York

  New Jersey Transit is investigating why a trip that normally takes about 45 minutes took nearly two hours more Thursday when the driver took a circuitous route into Manhattan's Port Authority bus terminal.A passenger on the ill-fated trip tells Newark's The Star-Ledger newspaper ...

• Nearly 6000 pounds of watermelons stolen

  The men are accused of stealing six pallets of watermelons weighing nearly 5,800 pounds in the early morning hours of June 7, Portland TV station KPTV ...

• VIDEO Governor Suntais True Mental State In The US Hospital

  A footage of the meeting between brain-damaged Governor Dambaba Suntai with acting Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar at a US hospital. In this video Mr. Suntai did not say anything, however, he laughed repeatedly, a condition consistent with his mental state. As can be seen from the video, Mr. Suntai had to be assisted to go back to his hospital room by his ...

• Cancer immunity of strange underground rat revealed

  Researchers have discovered how one of the world's oddest mammals developed resistance to cancer, and there is hope that their work could help fight the disease in humans. Naked mole rats live underground, where environmental conditions are harsh but predators are few. They can live for more than 30 years, almost seven years longer than their close cousin the house mouse--which is ...

• Top 5 Offbeat Cultural Centres in BA

  Share/Bookmark The cultural centres of Buenos Aires offer an eclectic mix of art, cinema, literature, and just about everything else from tango to table tennis. Some have interesting back-stories and maintain their traditional values while many are only a few years old, offering activities that appeal to a younger audience. This week's Top 5 looks at five offbeat centres, in less ...

• Dog Meat Festival Goes Ahead Despite Protest

  A "cruel" festival devoted to dog meat is going ahead in China despite protests by animal-rights campaigners. The annual celebration in the Guangxi province of Yulin sees dogs being packed into cages before being killed, skinned and cooked for thousands of hungry diners. However, China's growing animal rights movement has responded with increasing determination. ...

• Boston poised to begin condom giveaway in high schools

  By Stephanie Simon (Reuters) - Students at all Boston public high schools may soon be able to obtain free condoms at the front office - as long as they sit through a few minutes of counseling about safe sex - under a policy due to be voted on Wednesday by the school board. Condoms are already available in 19 high schools with on-site health centers. The policy, up for a vote by the Boston ...

• Driver says he was speeding so he could dry car

  BLACK DIAMOND, Alberta - He was drying off his freshly washed car.That's what the Canadian man told the Mounties when they stopped him doing 180 kilometers per hour (112 mph) south on Highway 22 south of Black Diamond, Alberta in Western Canada.The driver, a 67-year-old who lives in the area, was in court Monday.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Tuesday the judge fined the man $800 and ...

• Vikings Choice True Widow Wants To Make Your Summer A Bummer

  True Widow. Slow and steady wins the race, but sometimes, as in life, you need a moody sidekick to get you through it. (Or maybe that's ...

• Burglar bumps into body in the dark

  Inspector Greg Nicholls. Photo / Sarah Ivey A burglar made a shocking discovery when he stumbled upon a dead body hanging in the dark as he snooped around a house. The burglar's terrified screams alerted neighbours to a commotion at the house in Hamilton early yesterday. The Herald understands the burglar rang police and reported himself, in order to raise the alarm. Police confirmed ...

• The Strange Sad City of Baikonur the Worlds Gateway to the Heavens

  It is from this remote city in southern Kazakhstan that humans first sent a satellite, an animal, and a person into orbit. But it didn't get an MRI machine until ...

• Giant snake opens door

  The latest pet to experience internet fame is not a cat playing the piano or a dog "singing" to the camera. It's a giant python letting itself out of a closed room by turning the door handle without any human help and then slithering ...

• Paris tackles rudeness to tourists with new manual

  PARIS, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:29pm EDT PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - One of the world's most visited cities but also famous for its rudeness, Paris has embarked on a campaign to improve its reputation and better cater to the needs of tourists. Waiters, taxi drivers and sales staff in the French capital all too often come off as impolite, unhelpful and unable to speak foreign ...

• U.S. Corporate Media Government Officials Say it We Print it Ergo It Must Be True

  Poster of the Big Enchilada depicting Visionary Sleaze As expected, the government's propaganda mill is going at full throttle particularly coming on the heels of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing of the NSA's surveillance programs. Yesterday, NSA Chief General Keith Alexander, testifying before the House Intelligence Committee said more than 50 "potential terrorist ...

• The Martini This American Cocktail May Have An International Twist

  The martini: international drink of mystery? There's no cocktail more distinctly American than the martini. It's strong, sophisticated and sexy. It's everything we hope to project while ordering one. Baltimore-born satirist H.L. Mencken is said to have called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." But is the martini perfectly ...

• Mom son accused of stealing gopher feet

  The pair are accused of stealing the feet from a gopher trapper and giving them to local townships that offer rewards for the feet to keep gopher populations down, the Rochester Post-Bulletin reported. According to police, Dillon turned in more than $1,000 in feet in November of last year. Garrison turned over nearly $4,000 in feet the next month. She blamed her son, telling police she got the ...

• Nadler Particularly Morally Outrageous to Ban Late-Term Abortions

  Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) (AP) (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday it is "particularly morally outrageous" to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy. "It is morally outrageous, frankly," Nadler said about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill that would ban abortions 20 weeks post-fertilization, or five months into ...

• This is how I am Ahlam the true show-stopper on Arab Idol

  has a nifty insurance policy for any dull moment that may arise. The Emirati singer and all-out diva has more than once stolen the show from her fellow judges and contestants with controversial quotes, colourful outfits and a regal guest performance in the semi-final. The result so far has this year's series follow two plot-lines: Who will make it to the final? And what will Ahlam say ...

• Strange bedfellows are opposing the Farm Bill

  Subsidies-for both needy families and less-needy corporate interests-have drawn opponents as diverse as the Koch brothers and the Environmental Working Group. FORTUNE -- There are Democrats and Republicans on both sides of the farm-bill debate, but that doesn't mean the fight isn't partisan. The bill covers several big parts of the economy, and is so wide-ranging that the debate ...

• Build A Movement Not A Campaign And Youll Ignite Passion In Your Brands True Believers

  influencers or advocates in your brand's marketing campaigns. Before we join the discussion, we had better be clear what the differences are between these two groups of people, and the benefits of using each one. Both advocacy and influence are about using a third party to reach new audiences, but using entirely different techniques. Influencers are people who have a large following. They ...

• Twist-off wine cork may make corkscrews obsolete

  research project developed this, a twist off wind cork that could make corkscrews obsolete. it's easy to use. developers hope it's something that wineries might start using soon. i don't know, what do you guys think of ...

• Mass. couples 2001 message in a bottle found

  REHOBOTH, Mass. -- A message sealed in a champagne bottle and tossed into the waters off Tampa, Fla., more than a decade ago by a Massachusetts couple celebrating their engagement has been found.Karl and Michelle Kimmell of Rehoboth say occasionally they would wonder if anyone had found the message they cast away in August 2001. The message, announcing their engagement, had just their first ...

• Kochs tombstone with wrong date corrected

  Koch was born Dec. 12, 1924, but his tombstone at Trinity Church Cemetery in Upper Manhattan made him appear 18 years younger than he was -- Dec. 12, 1942 was set in ...

• Its time to give your chin a Brazilian Lucas

  Lucas, it has been long enough. We can't take it anymore. Whip out the razor or get yourself to the nearest beautician and wax that creepy thing off your face. Brazil won't stand for it. We won't stand for it. Australia says no to the soul ...

• I promise... to be true to myself and develop my beliefs Girl Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

  For decades, Brownies and Girl Guides have promised to "love my God," and "serve the Queen and my country". But now, in a triumph for secularists, the organisation has decided to drop references to the deity - and the nation - from the oath taken by ...

• Roberts ‘to resign’ if e-mails are true

  Sport Minister Anil Roberts yesterday promised to resign his position in Government if the alleged e-mail thread purportedly implicating his ministerial colleagues in misbehaviour proved to be ...

• Man stabs dad saws off own hands

  according to news reports .Jason Dunn, 27, was standing in the driveway with both of his hands cut off at the wrists.Police suspect an argument led to the stabbing and believe the younger man cut off his own hands using a radial saw.Neighbours heard the altercation, as did an unnamed witness who contacted ...

• Male foetuses pleasure themselves

  Texas Congressman and former obstetrician Michael Burgess says he's seen foetuses pleasure themselves, so therefore they feel pain. Picture: Michael Burgess/US ...

• Aboriginal humour the flip side of tragedy is comedy | Larissa Behrendt

  Eddy McGuire’s comments about Adam Goodes , the most frequent response I received from my Aboriginal friends was: "well, you’ve got to laugh". To an outsider, this might be interpreted as simply laughing the incident off – but there is something very serious about laughing in this context. It is a powerful antidote to the trauma, harm and hurt that comes with racism. ...

• Hairy stockings to fend off perverts

  Sina Weibo -- the Chinese equivalent of Twitter -- purports to promote 'hairy stockings'. The picture shows a pair of legs hairy from thigh to ankle but nonhairy feet -- leaving the gender of the subject open to debate. "Super sexy, summertime anti-pervert full-leg-of-hair stockings, essential for young girls going out," the post reads, according to trend watcher ChinaSMACK. ...

• Marijuana legalization What a long strange trip it has been

  Muraco Kyashna-Tocha started the Green Buddha marijuana dispensary in an unlabeled Seattle storefront in 2008. In 2009, she applied for a business license. In 2010, she began paying taxes and, in 2012, she passed a tax audit. She says, "And I expect to shut in April 2014" when the stores for the public are open for business. Cannabis is a new industry. Change is organic, not ...

• Lolo Jones attempt at humor backfires

  DES MOINES, Iowa -- Lolo Jones' attempt at humor in a video that's gone viral received a chilly reception from some members of the bobsledding community.Like that, the U.S. hurdler who also recently picked up bobsled finds herself under scrutiny again.Jones posted a Vine video in which she pokes fun at a check she received for $741.84 as prize money from the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton ...

• Boss starring role a super flop

  IT WAS supposed to be a super-funny video to encourage physical activity and combat stress. Instead, this British health system boss has landed himself in a mountain of ...

• True Grape Road 13 reflects the Okanagan’s historic Golden Mile

  EDMONTON - Road 13 Honest John's Red 2011, Okanagan, B.C.; $26.99; CSPC: 290684"It's all about the dirt." A simple, concise, seemingly obvious statement, yet inexplicably ignored by too many wineries around the world. But the motto ...

• Fast and curious Vancouver Island driver caught going 221 kmh loses car

  This 6,018-sq-ft penthouse condo at 1139 W. Cordova St. in Vancouver features three bedrooms with private sundecks, five bathrooms, rooftop deck with patio and 360-degree views of the North Shore, Burrard Inlet, Stanley Park and downtown Vancouver. Take a ...

• Naked gymnast faces charges over San Francisco transit stop antics

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A trained gymnast whose naked acrobatics and harassment of passengers at a San Francisco public transit station were captured on video and circulated widely on the Internet is facing criminal charges over his antics, authorities said on ...

• Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong

  A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on ...

• Rep. Nadler Post-Five Month Abortion Ban ‘Morally Outrageous’

  - Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday it is "morally outrageous" to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy. "It is morally outrageous, frankly," Nadler said about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), a bill that would ban abortions 20 weeks post-fertilization, or five months into ...

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