November 6, 2007
British grandmother Peggy McAlpine celebrated her 100th birthday by becoming the world’s oldest paraglider. Not content with her letter from the Queen, Peggy floated into the record books just three years after moving to “start a new life” in Cyprus. She had already bungee-jumped with members of the Royal Parachute Regiment as an 80-year-old “youngster.”(…)
November 5, 2007
Whos going out to get the munchies? Scientists have found the part of the brain that makes cannabis users crave pizza, chocolate and chips. “Because smoking cannabis increases appetite, it was believed that this was somehow related to the effects of cannabis on some brain centre but that was until now not identified,” says Mallet,(…)
November 5, 2007
One of those things that you simply need to know!
November 5, 2007
Well, i suppose if you have to work, you may as well work somewhere like this… Googleplex, California Googles work ethos sets it apart from other employers. Free meals, a swimming spa, and free doctors onsite. Google engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects. Red Bull, LondonFeaturing slides and table tennis you could(…)
November 5, 2007
This is the new Michael Knight… Well, not strictly speaking. Soap star Justin Bruening will play the son of Michael Knight, Hasselhoff’s character in the original 1980s series Knight Rider, in the two-hour TV movie. Bourne Identity director Doug Liman will executive produce and possibly direct the NBC pilot, which will lead to a TV(…)
November 5, 2007
Meet Mr Zune! A guy so obsessed with his handheld gadget that he decided he wanted to become it! Apparently, the change is fully legal under trademark laws just as long as the individual is not benefiting from it or doing harm to the company in any way. Nah, im sure hes not benefiting from(…)
November 5, 2007
An indian toddler born with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess Vishnu, is set to undergo a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs. Lakshmi Tatma was born joined to a ‘parasitic twin’ and will go under the knife at the hands of 30 surgeons(…)
November 5, 2007
In 1995, working together with nutrition specialists from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, after a very strict diet, broke the record. The result: a 26 feet piece of crap… Unfortunately, this particular story of amazing colon action is actually full of poo too. According to Snopes; The entire length of an average human’s small(…)
November 5, 2007
This clock isnt designed to tell the time on the scale that we are used to on an hourly/day to day basis. This clock is designed to track a period of 1,000 years. The TiWalkMe concept uses a forest of trees planted along a strip of land. Annual plantings will set the pace of the(…)
November 5, 2007
A group of pensioners from a home for the elderly in Glasgow worked with artists “Henry VIII’s Wives” to re-enact famous photos from the 20th Century. The results, and i may be missing the point here, are hilarious! Killing a Vietcong in the Vietnam War Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference during the(…)
