October 2007
Norsk lögregla hefur upprætt það sem kallað hefur verið Kebab-mafía, glæpahring sem framleiddi kjöt… (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)
Ekkert lát virðist vera á því að fólki kasti af sér vatni á almannafæri eða hafi í frammi ýmiss konar ólæti í miðbænum um helgar þrátt fyrir að lögregla hafi tekið harðar á slíkum brotum undanfarna mánuði. (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsScientist at North Carolina’s PULSTAR nuclear reactor facility fired a positron bean five times stronger than any other ever created earlier this month, breaking a record previously held by a team in Germany. The antimatter device — which apparently looks like a Star Trek warp reactor — was developed as part of a two year project by NC State, the...
(12 votes - 1 comment - 91 views) How should we care for America’s 1.5 million schizophrenics? By spying on them, of course. (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)
Gærdagurinn var áhugaverður fyrir áhugafólk um trúmál á Íslandi. Hæstiréttur staðfesti í úrskurði sínum að hin evangelíska Lútherska Þjóðkirkja er réttnefnd Ríkiskirkja. Við í Vantrú höfum notað þetta heiti í mörg ár og það er því ágætt að fá staðfestingu… (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)
A Japanese designer has proposed that women alone could walk in greater safety (though, in reality, Japanese crime levels are in decline, despite national anxiety to the contrary) by disguising themselves as vending machines:
Deftly, Ms. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo...
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, forseti Íslands, tók við fyrsta eintaki nýrrar útgáfu Biblíunnar við hátíðlega athöfn í Dómkirkjunni í dag. Biblían er ekki eins karllæg og hún var áður segir einn aðalþýðandi hennar. (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)
(16 votes - 9 comments - 190 views) This is not a bodega! (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)
I know a zillion other people have blogged about this, but c’mon, none of them used this title. And it’s a good one.
At a wake for Pope John Paul II on the second anniversary of his death, a bonfire took on the shape of the ex-pontiff:
I am something of an expert at pareidolia, and I’m here to tell you, that’s a pretty good one. A Polish priest, who knew JPII, even said it was him.
Now, I...
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Þessi “eldmynd” fer eins og “eldur í sinu” um heimsbyggðina og trúaðir segja að þarna sé um að ræða Jóhannes Pál páfa II sem veifar frá gröf sinni.
Eldurinn var kveiktur við athöfn í Beskid Zywiecki, skammt frá fæðingarstað páfa, þegar minnst var tveggja ára dánarafmæli hans.
Sjónvarpsstöð í Vatikaninu heldur því fram að greinilega […] (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)
A couple of good signs from the always enjoyable Engrish.com. Link
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In a survey of 5,000 people in the UK, six percent claimed that they had done DIY dentistry, including yanking their own teeth and fixing cracked crowns with glue. Apparently they resorted to such self treatment because they couldn’t get in to see a National Health Service dentist or pay for private care. From CNN:
One respondent in Lancashire, northern England, claimed to have extracted 14...
Það gerist ekki oft að bærinn Guderup á Suður-Jótlandi baði sig í kastljósi fjölmiðlanna en það gerðist þó um helgina þegar heimsins “heimskustu” þjófar voru handteknir þar, að sögn fréttavefsins 180grader.
Á föstudagsmorgun komu tveir ungir menn inn í verslunina Quick Stop
í Guderup og meðan afgreiðslustúlkan brá sér afsíðis stálu þeir bunka af skafmiðum og […] (via hsj’s shared...
Árum saman hefur fólk trúað því að dýru fínu hrukkukremin væru betri en þau ódýru. Það er rangt, ef marka má nýlega rannsókn í Svíþjóð. (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)
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Last week I discussed the (charitably characterized) arguments of John Martignoni by which he concludes that atheists have no basis for morality. This week, as promised, I will deal with the second half of his conclusions - that atheists should have no rights under our legal system. He writes: So, I advocate that those who wish to take God out of our school’s, out of our legal system, out of the...
Braklítillar flugvélar fannst í morgun í Wasingtonfylki en mikil leit hefur staðið yfir aðhenni eftir að hún hvarf af radarskjám seint aðfararnótt mánudagsins. Um borð voru níu fallhlífastökkvarar og flugmaður og eru þeir allir taldir látnir. (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)
(19 votes - 2 comments - 170 views) A caller tries to get Hovind to come up with one useful application of creation “science”. Hovind cant hear the question, since its only repeated 48 times or so. (via hsj’s shared items in Google Reader)