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News in Odd Things on 05/09/2013
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New posts Ore. smokejumpers skydive into illegal pot garden 0 Yahoo! Odd News RSS | Source 4 05/09/2013 at 19:20:05
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season.
New posts 'Raining Blooderator' pays tribute to late Slayer guitarist 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 12 05/09/2013 at 22:43:43

Hanneman honored with site-splattering bloody web app

In a tribute to recently deceased guitarist Jeff Hanneman of the heavy metal band Slayer, a Minneapolis, Minnesota–based ad agency has released a web app that can rain simulated blood onto any webpage.…

New posts Cops mistake man's tomato garden for marijuana farm 0 Yahoo! Odd News RSS | Source 10 05/09/2013 at 17:21:13
You say “tomato”, I say, “illegal pot farm on a Brooklyn rooftop.” A resident in a Brooklyn apartment building got an unexpected, and unmerited, visit from the police after his superintendent called the cops to report an illegal pot growing operation on the building’s roof. There was just one small problem … the plant growing [...]
New posts Landlord mistakes tenant's tomato plants for pot, calls cops 0 Yahoo! Odd News RSS | Source 8 05/09/2013 at 17:21:13
You say “tomato”, I say, “illegal pot farm on a Brooklyn rooftop.” A resident in a Brooklyn apartment building got an unexpected, and unmerited, visit from the police after his superintendent called the cops to report an illegal pot-growing operation on the building’s roof. There was just one small problem?the plants growing on the building’s [...]
New posts Your Prius does not impress them. Workers commute via excavators 0 Yahoo! Odd News RSS | Source 8 05/09/2013 at 17:06:10
Think your commute is fraught with peril? Check out what these workers in Siberia go through to get to their jobs. This video is a few months old, but it's getting renewed interest thanks to a segment on "Today." In the clip, bridge builders take turns climbing into the scooper of an excavator and taking [...]
New posts Animated graphic illustrates impact of meteorites on earth 0 Yahoo! Odd News RSS | Source 7 05/09/2013 at 16:45:47
Meteroites -– debris from space that fall to earth, usually in a fiery blaze, are few and far between. And they’re especially rare to witness. But over the millennia, they add up. A cool animated visualization by Carlo Zapponi called Bolides, tracks the meteorites that have collided with earth, focusing on ones that were seen [...]
New posts 16-year-old girl, born without legs and one arm, is now a swimming champ 0 Yahoo! Odd News RSS | Source 10 05/09/2013 at 15:07:17
Kayla Wheeler was born with three congenital amputations: missing both legs and one arm. Her doctor recommended swimming as a form of physical therapy. And now, at age 16, Wheeler is literally breaking world records. Massachusetts CNN affiliate KCPQ reports that Wheeler already has competed in Brazil, Mexico and the Netherlands and has her sights [...]
New posts Woman accused of slapping deputy so she'd go to jail and quit smoking 0 Yahoo! Odd News RSS | Source 9 05/09/2013 at 12:45:06
File this one under "B" for "Bad Ideas." A woman allegedly slapped a Sacramento County deputy in order to get arrested. Why? So she would go to jail and be forced to give up smoking cigarettes. CBS-Sacramento reports that Deputy Matt Campoy was leaving his shift when he felt a slap across his face. "It [...]
New posts Mass. panel: No profanity on rapper's headstone 0 Yahoo! Odd News RSS | Source 8 05/09/2013 at 09:24:22
LYNN, Mass. (AP) — Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones.
New posts China probes reports of film director Zhang Yimou's seven children 0 Yahoo! Odd News RSS | Source 12 05/08/2013 at 22:48:22

Chinese director Zhang Yimou answers a question during a news conference for his new movie "the 13 Women of Nanjing" in BeijingBEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have begun investigating reports that Zhang Yimou, one of China's best-known movie directors, has seven children in violation of strict family planning rules, which could result in a fine of 160 million yuan ($26.05 million), state media said on Thursday. Online reports have surfaced that Zhang, who dazzled the world in 2008 with his Beijing Olympic ceremonies, "has at least seven children and will face a 160 million yuan fine," said the website of the People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece. ...


New posts John McAfee talks of sex, drugs, and bad coding 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 8 05/08/2013 at 20:03:52

Disavows software that bears his name

Tech mogul turned fugitive blogger John McAfee has been taking questions in a Slashdot Q&A that reveal a claimed life of drug smuggling, political corruption, and living with a hammered testicle.…

New posts Vietnamese madam cuffed after advertising girls on Facebook 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 11 04/25/2013 at 14:19:21

Art museum nudies NO! But prostitutes, sure

Police in Vietnam have swooped on a prostitution ring after spotting one enterprising lady-of-the-night using Facebook to advertise her girls’ wares to potential punters.…

New posts Pyongyang Photoshop tomfoolery shows wet Norks, skirts blown up 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 9 03/28/2013 at 11:18:12

Virtual hover armada storms beach in propaganda pic

North Korea's official press agency has been caught with its hands in the Photoshop copy-and-paste jar, in a hopelessly bodged attempt to big up the amphibious-landing capability of the country's hovercraft.…

New posts Strategic SIEGE ROBOTS defeated by 'heavily intoxicated' man, 62 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 11 02/28/2013 at 06:03:10

Epic battle in Ohio: Fall of the Machines™

In yet another sign of the continued supremacy - for the moment at least - of humanity over its machines, reports are coming in that a duo of powerful police robots has been bested in combat by an elderly American man who was "heavily intoxicated" at the time after the "strategic" enforcement machines attempted to storm his dwelling.…