Saturday, September 6, 2008

Fed # for duck stamps leads to sex hotline.

Talk about "fowl" language! A-hahahaha!!! Ohh maaannn... *wipes brow*

Item!
People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, because of a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct.

The carrier card for the duck stamp transposes two numbers, so instead of listing 1-800-782-6724, it lists 1-800-872-6724. The first number spells out 1-800-STAMP24, while the second number spells out 1-800-TRAMP24.

People calling that second number are welcomed by "Intimate Connections" and enticed by a husky female voice to "talk only to the girls that turn you on," for $1.99 a minute.

Bear shuts down secret Utah marijuana camp.

From the Houston Chronicle:
Investigators say a large black bear raided a clandestine marijuana growing operation so often that it chased the grower away.

"This bear is definitely law-enforcement minded," said Garfield County Sheriff Danny Perkins. "If I can find this bear I'm going to deputize him."

Deputies found food containers ripped apart and strewn everywhere, cans with bear teeth marks, claw marks and bear prints across the Garfield County camp on Tuesday.

Perkins said the operation on Boulder Mountain included 4,000 "starter" sacks of pot and 888 young plants.

Trailer: Zack and Miri Make a Porno (R version)

R-version of the trailer of Kevin Smith's new one. (Yay, Randall's in it!)

NSFW, dummy.



PS - Lawrence of a Labia would be epic. Can we make this happen?

Nuclear trade ban lifted for India.

US now able to sell billions' worth of nuclear weapons and materials to India. Just forget the fact that India isn't part of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, created to halt the spread of nuclear weapons to the black market. Who needs life when you've got money?

Anyway, 45 nations approved this deal, and if you're wondering why they acted so irresponsibly:
A European diplomat in the Vienna gathering said: "For the first time in my experience of international diplomatic negotiations, a consensus decision was followed by complete silence in the room. No clapping, nothing.

"It showed a lot of us felt pressured to some extent into a decision by the Americans and few were totally satisfied."

And you have to love Condoleezza Rice's Orweillian soundbite:

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: "It's a really very big step forward for the non-proliferation framework."

Political candidates to blaspheme 9/11.

God, could these assholes please stay home?
US rivals to make 9/11 appearance

The US presidential rivals, Barack Obama and John McCain have said they will appear together on the anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks.

The senators said they would take part in the commemorations in New York - the site of two of the attacks.

The two candidates said they would put aside politics to honour the memory of the nearly 3,000 people who died.

[...] "All of us came together on 9/11 - not as Democrats or Republicans - but as Americans," the joint statement said.

Mickey Rourke movie considered best of the year.

I'm not too surprised - he kicked so much ass in Sin City that I've been anticipating a comeback. But the buzz from this new movie is tremendous, and it's won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. From BBC:

The Wrestler has won the coveted Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival.

The film stars Mickey Rourke as a has-been professional wrestler pitifully loath to throw in the towel. It marks Rourke's return from acting obscurity.

[...] The Wrestler, directed by Darren Aronofsky, drew praise from critics and the public alike.

Study: Large Hadron Collider probably won't destroy world.

The Large Hadron Collider has been in the works for years - I can't believe it's almost ready to be charged up. This unbelievably powerful particle accelerator could potentially figure out why particles have mass and whether it can be explained by a theoretical particle called the Higgs Boson. The existence of the Higgs Boson could potentially lead to the elusive Grand Unified Theory.

Of course, the power needed for such an experiment may cause a worldwide explosion, implosion, black hole, or other physics-bending mass cosmic devastation. However, a new study says that we don't have much to worry about.

Interestingly, it's the only safety study done since 2003 on the safety of this ginormous atom-smasher, and it was only conducted by five physicists.

In any case, we'll find out next week if all of known existence winks out. In the meantime, be sure to tell your parents you love them, and I'd recommend scoring some hot sex (these two recommendations are unrelated).

Stabbed teen ordered to befriend attackers.

In Australia, gang crashes teen party, stabs and repeatedly bashes teenager close to death and near blindness. Judge's response: They should "make friends" with each other. Story here.

Handsome teacher rewarding students with signed photos.

Damn, this dude must be the Chinese Clive Owen. From Ananova:

A handsome teacher in China is offering pupils autographed photos of himself to encourage them to work harder.

Ji Feng, also vice principal of Zhiyuan Foreign Language Elementary School, is so popular among students that a lot of them were asking him for pictures.

"I came up with the idea of giving them my signed pictures as a reward," he told the Nanjing Morning Post.

Firefox 3.0 driving you to murder?

Let's face it. Worst upgrade ever (well, since Vista).

If you've having problems with seeing or hearing videos, The Coozer Files recommends the add-ons MediaWrap and DownloadHelper. It seems to have done the trick for us.

But this doesn't let you off the hook, Mozilla. *shakes fist*

Gitmo detainees to be tortured by new Bill Gates-Jerry Seinfeld commercial.

So... painfully... unfunny....

Friday, September 5, 2008

Strange object orbiting the sun in the wrong direction.

A weird object, nicknamed after Dracula, isn't behaving properly. In fact, it's orbiting the sun the wrong way. Many comets orbit the sun strangely, but this doesn't appear to be a comet. Read all about our new interstellar overlords here.

Hurricane devastation in Haiti "catastrophic." US does nothing.

Continuing the US government's history of complete disinterest and antipathy of Haiti, we are turning a blind eye while hundreds of thousands of people, not too far from us, starve to death.

This is an excellent op-ed from the Aurora Sentinel in Colorado. Reprinted in full.
There's one Bush pattern that needs to change before the president leaves office in January.

Once again, life has become desperate in flood-ravaged, desperately poor Haiti, and the United States stands by disinterested in a calamity affecting tens of thousands of people.

Tropical Storm Hanna is soaking the flood-plagued Caribbean island nation and causing another wave of mudslides and floods, making worse the calamity Haitians have been living since the middle of August when Hurricane Faye tore through the country.

Stories yesterday pointed out that overcrowded hospitals were being flooded, tens of thousands of the luckiest people were in some kind of shelters, and that there were entire families stranded on rooftops, not begging, but screaming for help.

On the same day, the Bush administration announced it would seek to immediately send $1 billion in aid to Georgia to help rebuild that country unnerved by Russian intervention in a brewing civil war.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Haitians have no homes, no food and no hope.

This isn't the first time this ailing nation has been overlooked, Four years ago, the misery was nearly the same after two late-summer hurricanes left more than 80,000 people with absolutely nothing to eat. Disease was rampant as dead bodies floated everywhere, and the government couldn't even find the machinery or fuel to create mass graves for thousands of dead.

The United States provided $60,000 in aid. It was embarrassing and cruel.

There's not even a mention of any aid being funneled to the Haitians this time.

If for no other reason, the United States should selfishly donate all they can to Haitians to prevent more rounds of boat people descending on American shores.

But the best reason for us to help the Haitians is that this poor, disaster-racked country desperately needs generous help from the United States, and every able country in the world, to save hundreds of thousands of people from horrible fates.

The United States needs to give now.
This reminded me of an op-ed the Washington Post ran two years ago. It's about trade and not humanitarian aid, but it drives home the point that the US government couldn't care less about the people of Haiti. (Then again, they hardly care about the people of the US.) From the Post, circa 2006:

WHEN IT COMES to Haiti, the hemisphere's poorest country, the United States has a perverse history of being more generous with its troop deployments than its terms of trade. The time is ripe for a new approach.

For the past two years, Congress has turned a deaf ear to pleas that Washington extend trade preferences to Haitian-manufactured T-shirts, hospital scrubs and other apparel. The effect has been devastating for the nation's garment industry, once one of the few bright spots in an otherwise supine economy. Clothing assembly plants, already hit hard by the political violence of recent years, are closing nearly every month as customers move their business to Asia. A sector that once provided 100,000 jobs now employs only 12,000 to 20,000 and stands in peril of disappearing entirely.

Scientists: Heavy metal fans are gentle pussies.

Not only have scientists linked musical tastes with personality types, but they've discovered that fans of heavy metal are gentle, delicate creatures who just want to be loved. Article here.

But on second thought, anyone into music is essentially the same. Be sure to check out the table after the article. I find it interesting that every genre's listeners are outgoing, creative, hardworking, and "at ease." The only asshole of the bunch is the indie fan, no surprise there:
Indie: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard working, not gentle
Some genres weren't mentioned, so I'll take a stab at them:
Punk: Angsty, self-consciously suburban.

Ska: Dorky, consciously suburban.

Hardcore: Suppressing homoerotic thoughts, suburban.

Emo: Suburban and into really, really shitty music. Likely 12 years old and/or mentally handicapped.

Irish Punk: Suburban, 4th generation American-Bostonian who suddenly knows what it's like to drink a bottle of whiskey after a 20-hour day in the coal mines.

Skiffle/Jug Band: Likely an otter named Emmett. Kicks all ass.

Giant robot spider attacks London.


A 50' foot robo-spider has been sleeping on the side of a skyscraper. Until today. When it awoke.

From BBC News:

Commuters arriving at Liverpool's Lime Street station were greeted by a 50ft (15m) high mechanical spider clinging to a nearby redundant office block.

[...] The spider is believed to be "waking up" on Friday.

It will descend from its current position on the side of Concourse House on Thursday to be moved to the city's new arena, before coming to life on Friday.

The creature will then begin exploring the city later that evening.

We are doomed.

In Mother Russia, students enrich teachers!

Corruption is so rampant in Russia and Russian society, that buying good grades in school is par for the course. I bring this up out of jealousy. Not that I had the money, but it would've been nice to have had this option in college.

8 more shocking revelations about Sarah Palin.

I'm trying to avoid the Palin-bashing bandwagon (cmon guys - she looks like Tina Fey!), but this article has some interesting tidbits. Some of these "shocking revelations" are now leaking into the mainstream media and a couple are somewhat petty, but there are some gems I hadn't heard about.

For instance, Palin pressured local libraries to ban books with inappropriate language, threatening to fire the librarian if she didn't comply, and she mismanaged a recent business venture (running a car wash, of all things.... while mayor!).

This article also goes over some of the rougher patches of her record.

Nonprofit used funds for video games and beer.

Well, the real story is that this organization overcharged local government (and taxpayers) to the tune of almost a million. The beer only amounted to $27, and the video games were probably useful toward the org's mission (as a youth center), but these items are what will cause the outrage. People are stupid.

Bobcats moving into foreclosed homes.

One neat thing about the devastating housing crisis is that empty and abandoned houses are becoming homes for wild bobcats! I, for one, welcome our new furry landlords. Article here. (Thanks Jen!)

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Boeing 747 jumbo jet converted into hostel.

A hostel in a jumbo jet? That makes sense. Hostels and planes have a lot in common - cramped, uncomfortable space, limited entertainment, bad food, smelly people with too much luggage... But put these two things together and you've got awesomeness. From Gadling:
In December, Stockholm airport will be home to the first Boeing 747 hostel in the world. This 747-200 was built in 1976 and is currently being converted into a 25 room hostel with 3 beds per room.

Each room features a flat panel TV, wireless Internet access and a shared shower/toilet facility. The upper deck of this 747 has several more luxurious rooms with their own bathroom facility. For the ultimate in overnight luxury, you will even be able to spend the night in the cockpit, where you can enjoy a fantastic view of the air traffic at Stockholm's Arlanda airport.
More info is at the "Jumbo Hostel" official website.

Day of the Triffids 2.0.

Caught this commercial during the Colbert Report. It is the creepiest thing I've ever seen on tv since the Encyclopedia Britannica guy. Check this out... if you dare!



Is this a commercial for an HDTV or a Tool video?

Zombie Watch: Cremated father reunited with family.


Amnesia + mistaken identity = ZOMBIE!

From Reuters:
A father mistakenly declared dead after going missing eight years ago has been reunited with his family after his son spotted him on television, police said on Thursday.

The family of John Delaney thought he had died when he disappeared in April 2000. They held a funeral and cremation after police found what they thought was his body three years later.

But Delaney, 71, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, had in fact been admitted to hospital in a confused state 10 days after he was reported missing.

I think, therefore I'm fat.

Canadian scientists have found that using brain power creates much bigger glucose fluctuations and induces higher calorie intake than just sitting around on your ass.

Mutant vegetable shocks woman.

A Queens woman has grown a 6-foot, perfectly straight zucchini in her backyard. This brings up a very shocking question - there are backyards in Queens?

Article here.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

xkcd on Google Maps.

I love this comic from xkcd. So true.

Xbox now redonkulously cheap.

From ReadJunk:
Microsoft said Wednesday that it will drop the price of the Arcade on Friday to $199, breaking through what some have said is the all-important psychological price level of $200. At that price, industry observers say, the market opens up to mass levels of consumers.

Microsoft will also drop the price of its 60GB Xbox to $299 and its "Xbox Elite," which has a 120GB hard drive, to $399.
Okay, fine already! I'll get one! Jeez!

Howdy.

Just saying hi. What's up!

Giant robot ape mysteriously disappears.

A giant mechanical gorilla was stolen - in broad daylight - in front of a flea market store in Maine. Everyone's wondering who stole it without considering the more likely alternative. IT WALKED AWAY. And also: IT WILL KILL US ALL.

Zombie Watch: Dead for years, ferrets become fathers.

Who said the zombie outbreak has to start with humans? Clearly, our demise can easily begin with the black-footed ferret. We are all doomed.

Coozer-Bits.

Houston Chronicle: NYC man caught with 2,000 stolen bras.

Sign On San Diego: 8 in 10 Americans prefer ranch dressing with salad... I'm not sure why I care about this, but I do.

BBC News: Not speaking good annoys Brits.

Via HuffingtonPost: 4 ways to supercharge your metabolism.

US News: The science of aphrodisiacs. (Guess who's gonna start eating a lot of watermelon rind!)

Washington Post: Facebook ads use your profile information to target/insult you.

Scientists: Birds act like soccer hooligans.

But no word yet if birds dress like skinheads and are secretly homoerotic. From News.com.au:

RIVAL groups of birds behave like football fans, shouting chants at each other and commiserating after a loss, research from England's University of Bristol has revealed.

Green woodhoopoes, a South African bird, live together in gangs of up to 12 and "rival groups often engage in raucous vocal displays, akin to opposing football supporters chanting at one another'', the university in the west of England said.

The research by Dr Andy Radford, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, also revealed that the birds preen each other after a conflict, particularly when they have just lost or the battle lasted a long time.

"Just as football fans commiserate with their friends in the pub when their team loses a match... birds support one another following contests with their rivals,'' the university said.

Spontaneous rave party bursts out at IKEA.

From Ananova. You know, I once tried constructing a party at IKEA but it fell apart.
Ikea shoppers were stunned when 300 dancers held a spontaneous rave amongst the flatpack furniture.

[...] Pregnant women and families with their children were among the party crowd who danced for around five minutes in the textiles department, reports Sky News.

Video footage shows them jumping up and down, some wearing fluorescent vests and others blowing whistles.

Robot helicopter teaches itself how to fly.

Oh shit. We are so screwed now.

From Yahoo! News:
A new artificial intelligence system allows a robotic helicopter to teach itself how to fly and even do challenging stunts, just by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers.

[...] The artificial-intelligence helicopter, an off-the-shelf model other than its new brains, can do traveling flips, rolls, loops, stall-turns with pirouettes and more. It can even do the "tic toc," in which the helicopter, while pointed straight up, hovers with a side-to-side motion as if it were the pendulum of an upside down clock.
Yeah, good idea, let's give a hunk of flying metal some brains and a hatred of mankind. (The latter being inherent in all metal things.)

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Trend Spotting: Talking into teddy bears.

A hot new trend has hit the streets of Tokyo - mobile teddy bear phones!

That's right - what could be easier than carrying around a giant teddy bear and then talking into its crotch? From CScout Japan:
At the 2008 Good Design Expo PHS mobile provider Willcom showed off their concept Kuma Phone (Bear Phone), a stuffed bear that holds a SIM card and can actually be used for making and receiving phone calls by holding it up to your ears.

[...] The bear seems a bit silly and, yes, “Japanese” by cuteness standards, but the idea is fun and was adored by the expo crowd. You can save up to four speed dial numbers in the bear, one in each paw, which are activated by pinching internal sensors. It vibrates and makes custom noises for incoming calls, which can be answered and finished by pressing the tail.

Shopping center creates special parking spots for women.


You know, for all the time women spend calling this sexist, they could be baking delicious cakes. From Ananova:

A Croatian shopping centre has introduced special parking spaces for women drivers.

But the move has not gone down well as female motorists resent the implication that they need the extra wide bays, while men resent the fact women are getting special treatment.

[...] Decorated with pink flowers, the prime spots are wider, further apart, better lit and easier to get in and out of than ordinary spaces.

"Do they think we're disabled or something?" fumed one woman shopper.

ZombieWatch: Corpses, including Alistair Cooke's, plundered and sold.


This article is worth reprinting in full. A little graverobbing is no cause for concern, but if you read carefully, this guy has been hit with a hundred charges. 100 corpses, led by Alistair Cooke, would be an unstoppable army.
Two brothers who ran a Philadelphia funeral home have pleaded guilty to selling corpses, Among them that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke, to a company that trafficked in stolen body parts.

Louis and Gerald Garzone pleaded guilty Tuesday in Philadelphia to charges including conspiracy, theft and abuse of corpse. The pleas came on the day their trial was to begin.

The mastermind of the scheme, Michael Mastromarino, pleaded guilty Friday to hundred of charges that could send him to prison for life.

Mastromarino's company took bodies from funeral homes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and carved them up without families' permission and without medical tests.

And did you notice this guy's name is Mastromarino? Sounds like an evil necromancer name to me..

McCain fought teen pregnancy prevention programs.


According to HuffingtonPost, "Republican John McCain, whose running mate disclosed that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, has opposed proposals to spend federal money on teen-pregnancy prevention programs and voted to require poor teen mothers to stay in school or lose their benefits."

Whoops.

Turn your loved one into a diamond!

Hideously tacky, or the only foolproof (if flashily pricey) way to prevent a zombie apocalypse? From Reuters:
Diamonds really are forever. Algordanza, a small company based in the mountainous southeast of Switzerland, uses the ashes of dead people to make diamonds as a permanent memento for their nearest and dearest.

[...] Algordanza -- which means "remembrance" in the local language Romansch, spoken in some parts of the Swiss canton of Grisons -- is one of a handful of companies offering artificial diamonds that have sprung up as the technology has improved.

U.S.-based LifeGem and Britain's Phoenix Diamonds, for example, also offer diamonds made from hair, which contains more carbon than ashes meaning a gem can be created from the hair of a living person, or from someone who has been buried rather than cremated. LifeGem even offers diamonds made from dead pets.

US army to have weaponized lasers by 2013.


I'll give Boeing $36 million if they can add these lasers to Pink Floyd planetarium shows.

From New Scientist:
Laser weapons mounted on trucks could be ready to roll into battle within five years. This week Boeing won a $36 million contract from the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command to build the optics needed to track and focus lethal laser energy onto rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds. The High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator will use a new solid-state laser powered by electricity from a truck-mounted diesel generator, rather than bulky and dangerous chemicals.

Scientists finally figure out how Post-Its work.

The science nerd in me is fascinated by the ongoing mystery of adhesives; the 12-year-old in me though snickers at "liquid stickiness." *snort*

From Live Science:
Recently physicists discovered there are two distinct ways for adhesives to release their grip, with no middle way and no smooth transition. A sticky substance can either act like a liquid or like a solid, it turns out.

"The goal of the study was really to try to understand the intermediate state between what happens when you have a sticky liquid and when you have a sticky solid," said researcher Costantino Creton, a physicist at the École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI) in Paris. "We found there was no real continuous transition in behavior but a very sharp change from a very solid-like behavior to a viscous fluid behavior. We were surprised that there was no intermediate regime."

Viscous fluid! *giggle giggle snort*

Monday, September 1, 2008

It can?

Oddest headline I've seen today in reaction to the Palin pregnancy thing.

Err... really?

Gyoza-Gate coming to a close?

If you've been following my blog, you know that no story is more interesting to me than the escalating tensions between Japan and China over a handful of contaminated frozen dumplings. China has finally admitted that it may have been their fault (duh). Here's the latest:
Chinese authorities have told Japan it is highly likely that frozen dumplings linked to food poisonings in China in June were contaminated by workers at the Chinese factory where they were made, sources close to Japan-China relations said Sunday.

Tokyo and Beijing have been at odds over where the "gyoza" dumplings were contaminated with a toxic substance, with both denying tampering in their countries.

China's effective acknowledgment came after authorities there interrogated 55 employees of Tianyang Food in Hebei Province, suspecting one or more may also have been responsible for separate food poisoning incidents that occurred in Japan, the sources said.

Monogamy gene discovered.

Gene found that predicts how faithful a dude will be. I'm just glad there's a genetic excuse for why I run to the tv whenever there's a nip-slip. From New Scientist:

They found that variation in a section of the gene called RS3 334 was linked to how men bond with their partners. Men can have none, one or two copies of the RS3 334 section, and the higher the number of copies, the worse men scored on a measure of pair bonding.

Not only that, men with two copies of RS3 334 were more likely to be unmarried than men with one or none, and if they were married, they were twice as likely to have a marital crisis.

US postal truck eyed in fatal hit & run.

As if the postal service doesn't suck enough... From the NY Daily News:

Cops are searching for a U.S. mail truck that fatally mowed down a father of three Sunday as he crossed a Queens street on his way home from work.

Shakoor Khan, 75, died from injuries suffered when the Postal Service tractor-trailer rig clipped him in the crosswalk at Rockaway and Farmers Blvds. in Jamaica.

Detectives were reviewing surveillance videos from nearby businesses, looking for clues to identify the truck and driver involved in the 7 a.m. accident, police said.

A U.S. Postal Service spokesman did not return phone or e-mail messages yesterday.

Lamest hospital staff meeting ever.

I get that Australians drink a lot and wave knives at each other, but this is pretty lame...
ONE of Queensland's most senior surgeons is threatening to sue the State Government after a booze-fuelled staff meeting where doctors joked about a patient who bled to death on the operating table.

[...] "I think it is unethical to be drinking alcohol in a hospital staff meeting and making jokes at the expense of patients and surgeons," Dr Steffen told The Courier Mail. "It is typical of the culture within the hospital."

Only 5% of rapes reported in Britain end in a conviction.

I don't care much about this article about Helen Mirren except for this crazy statistic:
Only 5 percent of reported rapes in Britain end in a successful prosecution, according to a report from HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate -- one of the lowest conviction rates in the developed world. Campaigners argue that British attitudes often partially blaming a raped women for her behavior is part of the reason why so few sexual attacks are reported and successfully prosecuted.
That's messed up. Only 5%?? Jesus. I wouldn't be surprised if Pakistan has a better conviction rate of rapists than the UK. Appalling.

Palin's daughter's pregnancy a big deal.

I don't get what all the hoopla is. I mean, this is what happens when you open up virgin Alaskan land for pipe-laying.

From ABC News:
The news that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant rocked the political world Monday almost as much as Palin's joining the Republican ticket did just three days ago.

[...] The news -- released to the public on the first day of a Republican National Convention severely truncated by Hurricane Gustav -- sent shockwaves through St. Paul, the convention site. Many Republicans expressed relief that the timeline of her pregnancy apparently means that Internet reports that Palin pretended to be the mother of a child who was actually her daughter's cannot be true.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Trailer: Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django

A huge departure from his usual stylistic ultraviolent gorefests, Takashi Miike's new one is a spaghetti western. Looks a bit campy and Quentin Tarantino in an acting role is always a bad sign. But I'm intrigued...

Neighbors peed off at/on new club with glass roof.

I've heard about this restaurant and had wanted to check it out. But given their disregard for their neighbors, screw them. From the NY Post:

The glass-roofed lounge, which opened with red carpets and loud trance music in July, has neighbors at 265 Lafayette St. up in arms over the riotous party atmosphere.

But one unidentified building resident has taken matters into his own hands, emptying his bladder on the see-through ceiling from his apartment window above.

The stream of discontent prompted another apartment dweller to post a sign in the hallway that reads:

"I know not everyone is happy with Delicatessen but, please stop urinating on the glass roof. I have to buy a new a/c because you did not aim correctly! Thank you!"

[...] More than 10 of the building's 99 apartments look directly down on the leather couches, partying patrons and cocktail-carrying waitresses. The thin layer of glass barely holds back the noise, they gripe.

Liar gets zapped by lightning.

This type of divine intervention just goes to show that God is a dick. *ducks for cover*

From Ananova:

A Chinese man who swore to God that he didn't owe money to a neighbour was hit by lightning a minute later.

The man, named Xu, made the oath in front of a crowd of neighbours in Fuqing city, reports Southeast Express.

[...] "I told him that if he dared to swear to God that he didn't owe me the money, then I would waive his debt," said Huang.

Xu made the oath, but was suddenly struck by lightning a minute later.

Coozer-Bits.

San Diego Union Tribune: Not only God can make a tree. Columbia University geophysicist creating synthetic trees to suck up CO2.

Live Science: 10 Species You Can Kiss Goodbye. Sad..

Game Info Wire: New Resident Evil 5 screenshots!

Houston Chronicle: Gustav might be twice the size of Katrina.

AdWeek: US Army sets up recruitment center disguised as hip Apple-like store in mall.

ABC News: University president resigns after photos surface of him doing keg stands with students.

News.com.au: 80-year-old man becomes sex monster after taking Viagra.

Yahoo! Canada: Dead: Killer Kowalski

NY Daily News: Bush for once putting human life and presidential responsibilities ahead of politics.

NY1: Brooklyn man arrested for stealing 87 parking meters.