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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:23:12 GMT

"They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here."

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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:43:26 GMT

... was doused in petrol before sprinting 259ft ablaze to beat the previous fire-run record of 227ft. ... Afterwards Mr Malcolm said: "It was absolutely awesome."

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Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:51:21 GMT

Finland put an end to Estonia's 11-year reign and took gold and bronze o
n Saturday at the annual Wife-Carrying World Championships ... Taisto Miettinen raced through a 250-metre (273-yard) course with two hurdles and a pool in 62 seconds, carrying Kristiina Haapanen on his back.

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Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:21:19 GMT

species of spider that builds models of itself, which it uses as decoys to distract predators. ... may be the first example of an animal building a life-size replica of its own body ... The decoys worked, too. More often than not, a wasp would attack
a decoy rather than the spider ...

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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:40:04 GMT

An 21-year-old inmate at a Merced County lockup mouthed off about the late Michael Jackson and paid for it with a broken jaw. Sheriff's officials say the 50-year-old inmate who threw the punch is expected to b
e charged with aggravated assault and battery. ...

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:02:06 GMT

The women who spiked the twins' drinks are thought to be members of an organised crime gang who pose as prostitutes to attract victims. They normally just knock out their victims but the dose proved too much for
Alberto – aka 'La Parkita' (Little Death) and Alejandro – aka 'Espectrito II'.

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:47:06 GMT

... to Fox News or jail?

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:51:52 GMT

JULY 2--We're celebrating the 4th of July with this week's mug shot roundup, which kicks off with the below group of patriotic perps.

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:29:31 GMT

... to get so drunk I can't walk to the refrigerator.

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Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:22:58 GMT

Welcome to the home of the 8-bit Tarot! The illustrations are based on the classic Rider-Waite tarot ... designed at a resolution of 88x152 pixels, using the standard MacOS palette ...

My friend Indigo Kelleigh has finished off his awesome 8-Bit Tarot deck -- check it out and pass it around.

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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:02:30 GMT

THE French Government says it supports the return of more than a dozen mummified Maori heads to New Zealand, as lawmakers vote to hand back the remnants of a "barbaric trade" in human bodies.

"In what began as a ritual, a sign of respect from tribe and family towards the dead, these mummified heads led to a particularly barbaric trade, fuelled by the sinister curiosity of travellers and European collectors," he said.

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:42:32 GMT

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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:20:49 GMT

... most of the day. The colors on this one will be wild.

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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:07:17 GMT

... Frankenstein girls on the drawing board, all is good with this corner of the world.

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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:03:38 GMT

Villagers, many straight from their farms, and armed with machetes, sticks and axes, are shouting and crowding round in a big group ... Suddenly an old woman breaks from the crowd, screaming for mercy. Three or four people go after her, beat her and drag her back
, pushing her onto - what I can now ...

I was witnessing a horrific practice which appears to be on the increase in Kenya - the lynching of people accused of being witches. I personally saw the burning alive of five elderly men and women in Itii village.

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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:43:01 GMT

... Jackson for his moving love song to a killer rat in the 70s horror film Ben.

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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:22:42 GMT

A Columbus firefighter admits that he took his two dogs to the basement, tied them up and blasted them with a rifle so he and a girlfriend could vacation without paying to boar
d the animals.
"He said chunks of concrete were flying everywhere,"

... bragged to fellow firefighters about killing the dogs after he dumped the animals' carcasses in a trash bin behind his workplace

... In text messages, he lied to his children and ex-wife about what happened to Sloopy and Skeeter

... In the courtroom, Santuomo raised a middle finger to the reporters assembled to cover his case.

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Heather Flowers, who is a mermaid at the park ... was in an office making copies when "Tommy came in there and he said… ‘oh, you must be bubble butt’ and I’m like, ‘excuse me?’ and he’s like, ‘Bubble butt?’,

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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:50:09 GMT

... ever replace #MichaelJackson but still we need to go get our Jackson Five audition tapes together.

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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:30:03 GMT

... his heart couldn't just beat it beat it beat it. #MichaelJackson

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... #iranelection ? Enquiring minds want to know.

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... editorial cartoonists draw crappy pictures of Michael Jackson moonwalking thru pearly gates?

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... white to show solidarity with Michael Jackson.

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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:20:02 GMT

... Michael Jackson has been a zombie since at least the Thriller album.

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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:19:42 GMT

A woman pleaded no contest last week to prostitution charges, accused of agreeing to be paid for services with a box of chips by a man who said he was a Frito-Lay employee.

The man was not arrested. A police spokesman said the man was not arrested based on "officer discretion."

(Funny how that works.)

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A former warlord known as General Butt Naked has confessed t ... that his men killed 20,000 people ... earned his nom de guerre for charging into battle dressed only in his boots ... sacrificing children whose hearts they would eat before going into battle

... he is now an evangelical Christian preacher ...

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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:49:42 GMT

wallabies are increasingly entering the fields and eating the poppy heads. That causes them to get high and run around in circles creating "crop circles".

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Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:57:56 GMT

A Hungarian tourist used a banjo to beat a 69-year-old man before ramming the broken-off neck down his throat, a jury in the High Court at Auckland was told today. ... When police arrived on the scene, they found Mr Brown badly injured and Ambach yelling in Hungarian. He was throwing furniture throu...

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Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:34:53 GMT

Arguments transcribed from various Facebook polls; a work in progress: (click for larger view)

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Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:54:46 GMT

Police have made no arrests in the case of a 37-year-old Sumter man shot to death ... Davis became an international celebrity at the age of 16 when he reported the first sighting of the legendary Lizard Man of Lee County.</di>

Sounds like a cover-up.

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