Weblog » Archives » October 2005

  • A special headset designed by Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. can control human movement. Japan developing remote control for humans By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press …
  • Speaking of Halloween [POSTED BY SHANNON LARRATT] Here's a gallery of Halloween-themed tattoos... It's the bestest night of the year! …
  • Lauren Hutton: The Beautiful Persists Oct. 21, 2005 — The entire upcoming issue of Big magazine, "Lauren Hutton: The Beautiful Persists," is dedicated to Hutton's career and includes eight pages of nude photo…
  • 39 YEARS AGO TODAY Oct 31 1966 The Acid Test Graduation! Ken Kesey hosts, among others. "The question is no longer CAN you pass the Acid Test, but DID you pass the Acid Test." The Pranksters were mad…
  • The man who killed Halloween BY DAVID J. KRAJICEK SPECIAL TO THE NEWS Thirty-one year…
  • USA Today gives Condi 'demon eyes,' pulls photo Posted: October 26, 2005 5:10 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Manipulated Associated Press photo of …
  • Texas pastor electrocuted during baptism THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WACO, Texas -- A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after grabbing a microphone whil…
  • What identical twins teach us about religion In the United States during the 50s and 60s,it was considered best to separate at birth twins who were to be adopted. This led to a number of these childre…
  • Naked woman drops through ceiling Rozalia Valiakhmetova had been relaxing in the bath when the floor gave way, dropping her and the bath tub into the flat below. …
  • Three teenage girls beheaded in Indonesia By Tomi Soetjipto and Telly Nathalia Sat Oct 29, 2:30 PM ET JAKARTA (Reuters) - Me…
  • Governmental and Humanitarian Reports Disclose Violations of the Rights of Iraqi Female Detainees at Iraqi Interior Ministry Stations Baghdad – Reports prepared b…
  • Bar Owner Sent To Prison After Drink Kills Patron October 28, 2005 HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- The former owner of a bar in Kansas has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison, for t…
  • 'Experts' pluck Turkish chicken farmers October 27 2005 at 12:52PM Istanbu…
  • South Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-kyu is covered by bees in Daegu, south of Seoul. Ahn, a local bee farmer, released over 260,000 bees and attracted them to his body to celebrate the opening of a new subw…
  • Pyramid found - in the heart of Bosnia!!Nearthe city of Visoko, 30 km north of Sarajevo, there is a stone pyramidof monumental size, claims the Bos…
  • Image of pope seen in pancake By Brad Edwards Jackson - One Sunday morning, Myrna Kincaid's life changed with the flip of a pancake. "Look at my pancake," she reflects. "It looks like, looks l…
  • Why do we believe in God? Thursday October 13, 2005 The Guardian Religion and mental ill-health have long been linked. The disturbed individual who believes hims…
  • Cat ran off with severed toe Udo Ried, 41, was slicing bread in his kitchen when he dropped a large kitchen knife onto his bare foot, chopping off his second toe. …
  • A company in Spokane, Wash., has developed a plant that releases text messages during the seven- to 10-day germination process that shows up on the plant's bud, according to a Local 6 News report. The…
  • Boy waited while doctor rode unicycle A hospital has apologised after a six-month-old boy waited two hours for treatment while a doctor rode up and down a ward on a unicy…
  • Doctor tells jurors about teen's death By ASHLEY COOK, The Lufkin Daily News Wednesday, October 26, 2005 …
  • Pensioner swallowed false teeth A policeman saved a pensioner's life after she swallowed her false teeth whole eating a sandwich. Dmitar Tomasevic, 25, was walking …
  • Artist paid to drink beer and fall over A Japanese artist has been paid £5,000 of taxpayers' money to drink 48 bottles of beer and then fall off a wooden beam. An arts …
  • Paper to print only good news NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The Newark City Council has awarded the Newark Weekly News a $100,000 US no-bid contract to publish positive news about the city. "Do we have…
  • Mighty Mice Regrow Organs By Kristen Philipkoski Mice discovered accidentally at the Wistar Institute in Pennsylvania have the seemingly miraculous ability to regenerate like a salamander, a…
  • A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956
  • Kids Find Dogs Chewing On Human Infant's Corpse UPDATED: 10:18 am EDT October 27, 2005 PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- Investigators said the badly-mauled body of a newborn infant was foun…
  • Why we don't like vacationing with men: …
  • Quake kids sold to sex trade Dean Nelson, Islamabad October 24, 2005 SIX-YEAR-OLD Aisha loves the orange blouse and jeans given to her by the kind woman who rescued her …
  • Australian shoots woman, not cow When Rudolf Stadler offered to help his friend get rid of a troublesome cow, he could have had no idea of the consequences. The court heard how, on 17 April …
  • 23 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak The cast of administration characters with known connections to the outing of an undercover CIA agent: Karl Rove I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby …
  • Karim Ben Khelifa Manadel al-Jamadi's wife and son hold a photo of an American GI grinning over his corpse. -http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4977986
  • School District to Stop Reusing Cutlery Thu Oct 27, 5:05 PM ET LANSDALE, Pa. - After students objected to using utensils th…
  • Scooter Libby Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel By Murray Waas, special to National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005 Vice …
  • Actor George Takei greets the crowd with the Vulcan greeting as he arrives at the 'Star Trek; 30 Years and Beyond' tribute. George Takei Discloses His Homosexuality …
  • Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween…
  • Man Convicted of Sprinkling Fecal Matter on Pastries Oct 27, 2005, 04:36 AM A Dallas man will likely be sentenced today, one day after a jury convicted him of sprinkling feces on pastries at a…
  • Ramdulary Shah's brother Budhan Kumar Shah was kidnapped in Iraq. A recruiter had assured him that working with Americans wasn't dangerous. Jose More/Chicago Tribune Deception, Risks Bes…
  • Mom puts tot on tracks; train stops UNION-TRIBUNE October 26, 2005 MARINA – A woman shoved her 2-year-old son onto railroad tracks last night in front of an oncoming train, which …
  • Patrick Fitzgerald Prosecutor secures indictment in CIA outing case, lawyers say Jason Leopold The prosecutor investigating the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson has secured a…
  • Ayman al-Zawahri Pentagon releases text of al-Zawahri letter WASHINGTON (AP) — In a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader said the United States ‘‘ran and left their agents’’ in Vi…
  • Fake doo-doo a no-no, councilman says By William J. Kemble, Correspondent RHINECLIFF - Town Board members are warning pranksters that they could face criminal penalties for leaving phony dog dr…
  • RICHARD R. RADTKE/SOUTH O'BRIEN NEWS Fred Schuknecht shows off the 11-foot python he found in a field. Farmer unearths 11-foot python in his field By JARED STRONG…
  • FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations By Dan EggenWashington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 24, 2005; Page A01 The FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents for as …
  • 'Amanda' runs between the Swedish cities of Linkoping and Vastervik Cows make fuel for biogas train …
  • Office boss Tony Price said he watches 'a lot of television' Boss threatens DNA tests over gum An office boss threatened his staff with DNA tests after chewing gum got stuck on a dir…
  • School Orders Students to Remove Blogs By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 26, 7:42 PM ET NEWARK, N.J. - A Roman Ca…
  • Enough already with calling Iraq a “mistake” By Meteor Blades Someone said it again today. Invading Iraq was a mistake. Every time it gets said, I grind another layer of enamel off m…
  • Author's 'crap, poo, fart and bogey' earns expulsion from school LONDON: A top-selling British children's author - also a minister of religion into the bargain - has been thrown out of school …
  • Police scramble to squash pumpkin threat Tue Oct 25, 9:58 AM ET CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan security services…
  • Rome bans goldfish bowls seen as cruel Tue Oct 25,12:28 PM ET ROME (Reuters) - The city of Rome has banned goldfish bowls, wh…
  • Judge allows Bush plot confession …
  • Len Dresslar 1925 - 2005 By Joseph Sjostrom Tribune staff reporter Posted October 25 2005 Len Dresslar was familiar in Chicago-area entertainment circles a…
  • U.S. blows $1 million on 7 lemon cars in Iraq By SETH BORENSTEIN K…
  • China school crush kills children At least seven children have died and 37 injured in a stampede at a primary school in south-western China. The incident occurred as the children were stre…
  • Stones tour with heart machine The Rolling Stones have a heart machine reportedly backstage in case one collapses on their US tour. Organisers have brought in a d…
  • Traffic violators face ID theft check Judi Villa The Arizona Republic Oct. 20, 2005 12:00 AM Motorists cited for criminal traffic violations will have to give the…
  • You'll never squawk alone By Nigel Bunyan (Filed: 25/10/2005) They love to grieve in Liverpool. So when a passer-by found what looked like a human foetus in an alleyway they assumed the worst. …
  • 10.23.2005 If You're a Christian, Muslim or Jew - You are Wrong Cenk Uygur We live in a twisted world, where right is wrong and wrong re…
  • U.S. military death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq War has reached 2,000. CNN's count of U.S. fatalities reflects reports from military…
  • Kiss of Death October 23,2005 Richard Moore Outdoors Writer Some call it the "assassin bug" and others know it as …
  • Kentucky lands grant to protect bingo halls from terrorists FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Kentucky has been awarded a federal Homeland Security grant aimed at keeping terrorists from …
  • White House Seeks Exception in Abuse Ban By ERIC SCHMITT Published: October …
  • What Happened to the Revolt Black Athlete? A Look Back Thirty Years Later An Interview with Harry Edwards by David Leonard From RaiseYaFis…
  • Six-fingered cursed androgyne swills vodka 10/20/2005 23:54 In the Russian settlement of Barashevo lives an 11-year-old girl named Zhenya, but the looks of the child suggest that Zhenya is a boy. Zhe…
  • Boy, 9, charged with threatening to kill teacher The Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. -- A 9-year-old boy was arrested on a felony charge of making a written threat to kill his teacher, …
  • STINKY PANTS IN THE PAST Stinky underwear could soon be consigned to the dustbin of history. Thanks to the invention of what manufacturers claim are the first "pong-pro…
  • Halloween Do's and Don't's When it appears that you have killed the monster, never check to see if it's really dead. If you find that your house is built upon or near a cemetery, was once a church used…
  • The Haidl 3, praying for a miracle. No Juvie for Haidl 3 …
  • U.S. soldiers near Baghdad can be bolstered by the release of enemy body counts, a Marine spokesman said. Enemy Body Counts Revived By Bradley GrahamWashington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 24, …
  • Cultural clash thwarts effort to fend off polio virus Maura Lerner, Star Tribune October 19, 2005 at 10:03 PM A fifth Amish child in central Minnesota has been infected …
  • Fate of Iraqi charter in balance …
  • 45 YEARS AGO TODAY Catastrophic explosion of the R-16 Oct 24 1960 At the Soviet Union's Baykonur space facility, an R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad. The new R-16 ICBM was de…
  • Man Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Dog ONTARIO, Calif. Ubaldo Vasquez Huizar, 39, was arrested after neighbors reported seeing him se…
  • Prison Employee Ringer Lands in Prison Tuesday, October 4, 2005 now part of stylesheet --> …
  • From idealistic_idiot
  • Scientists unable to re-create ancient death ray SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It wasn't exactly the ancient siege of Syracuse, but rather a curious quest for scientific validation. According to sp…
  • Brian, the world's leading expert on European wasps and the sounds that they make, is taking a stroll down his local high street. As he passes by the record shop, a sign catches his eye. "Just Released …
  • FreshLook color contactshttp://www.freshlookcontacts.com/Request a certificate for a free pair of FreshLook color contact lenses in your choice of color. You'll receive the certificate via e-mail. …
  • Divine intervention axes school station By Jaclyn Pelletier/ Beacon Villager Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Maynard High School's radio frequency, 91.7 FM, is being seized by a network of Christ…
  • Two wheels: better than none ARRESTED FOR WALKING A woman has been detained under anti-terror laws for walking - rather than cycling - past a Scottish harbour. Sally Camer…
  • A chalk mark shows the place where the woman was slashed on the Shinjuku Station platform. Slasher attacks Tokyo train commuters' bottoms Two people had their buttocks slashed on heavily …
  • NEW HEAD JUGGLING RECORD A former Cuban football player has set a new world record for juggling a football with his head. Erich Hernandez reportedly made 146 consecutive he…
  • Corpse Involved in Mexico Motorcycle Crash Fri Oct 21,10:32 PM ET MEXICO CITY - Police discovered on Friday that a passenger …
  • Westlake police are investigating the case of a 2-year-old's arm getting stuck in a meat grinder Police: 2-Year-Old's Arm Stuck In Meat Grinder 5:13 pm EDT October 20, 2005 WES…
  • N.D. Man Asks: 'Will You Mary Me?' His tractor didn't come with spellcheck. Photo by Tom Mueller via Grand Forks Herald …
  • Out-of-this-world sex could jeopardise missions 17:42 21 October 2005 NewScientist.com news service Maggie McKee …
  • U.S. forces have started fighting Syrians at Iraq's border Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Dan Simpson Pittsburgh Post-Gazette U.S. military and Bush administration civilian officia…
  • War's toll on troops revealed in survey October 19, 2005 By Gregg Zoroya USA Today More than one in four U.S. troops have come home from Iraq with health problems that require medical…
  • Gasoline-Doused Man Recovers From Burns After Being Hit By Taser Gun October 20, 2005 CUMBERLAND COUNTY, N.C. -- Cumberland County deputies said a man wanted on kidnapping and robber…
  • Starbucks to serve up God with a skinny cappuccino Gary Younge in New York Saturday October 22, 2005 The Guardian Coffee drinkers in the US cou…