US Airways taking away frequent flyer miles

If you have frequent flier miles racked up with US Airways they may be taken away from you today.

Why Is This Man Smiling?

Because he manages Cooroy Mountain Spring Water in Queensland, an Australian state where they are running out of public fresh water. Premier Peter Beattie says said that falling water levels had left his state administration with no option but to introduce recycled water in south-eastern Queensland, ...

Concrete 'to stem Java mud flow'

A plan to drop concrete balls into the mouth of the mud volcano in East Java should be put into action next week.

Scott of the Antarctic?s Last Letter to His Wife.

The Telegraph has reprinted the unseen final letter than Captain Robert Falcon Scott [wiki] wrote to his wife from his ill-fated journey to the South Pole in 1912: "To my widow, Dearest Darling – we are in a very tight corner and I have doubts of pulling through – In our short lunch hours ...

Pop-UP Advertising Gone Wrong [ Hilarious Pic ]

Bad day for Toyota.

Edwards: Bush not a "good man trying to do the best he can"

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards told an audience at New Hampshire's Dartmouth College today that he doesn't believe President Bush is a good man trying to do the best he can when it comes to Iraq.

Here, women propose marriage and men can't refuse

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Reverend Moon Will Find 'Em For Three, Catch 'Em and Kill 'Em For Ten

Boy, just when you think Reverend Sun Myung Moon — cult leader, Messiah, owner of the Washington Times, and king of the ocean — can’t get any weirder, he goes and becomes a shark poacher. Federal prosecutors scored a coup last week when Reverend Kevin Thompson, Bay Area leader for ...

A Message to Shell Oil

Royal Dutch Shell Oil has announced record profits for 2006--earnings are up 17%--to $25bn. In response, Friends of the Earth has sponsored a full page ad in the Guardian and a dutch newspaper calling on Shell to ?Use your profits to clean up your mess?. It is signed by 7,000 people, as well as ...

Pass the Savage Chickens Please!

After weeks of research, we have finally concluded our quest for the funniest cartoon drawn entirely on Post-It notes. The clear leader in this category (by a beak) is the hilarious Savage Chickens by Doug Savage. Doug loved to draw cartoons as a kid, but stopped drawing entirely after entering the ...

Joe Biden Discovers Clean, Articulate Black Man

The problem with Joe Biden’s “candidacy” is that he’s announced so many times that he needs new gimmicks each week to remind a sleepy nation that he’s still running for president. This week’s tactic: Give a freewheeling (drunken) interview with the NY Observer with ...

Fox News, Chuck Norris Confuse Nation

At some point, while we were sleeping off election night ‘06 or something, the entire media landscape became a bad Worth1000 photoshop. How else to explain this clip, in which a lobotomized Chuck Norris, riding his ironic stoner internet rebirth into a gig subbing for Sean Hannity, interviews ...

Help Name 18 Lousy Little Baby Pandas!

Remember the innocent days of 2004 or whenever and how much you loved the National Zoo’s pet panda baby, Marion Barry “Butterstick” Jr.? Well, those days aren’t coming back. But the once-loved Chinese animals are now breeding like the vermin they are, and these days nobody wants ...

Mexicans stage tortilla protest

Tens of thousands of Mexicans join a march in Mexico City to protest against the rising price of tortillas.

Montgomery Burns Sex-Change Shocker!

[ed. note: Sadly, the post office just called and our Sea Monkeys died. Please enjoy some of these older posts you may have missed while we attend to our loss.]You'd think with that much cash he'd spring for the double D's but still, he looks great!

First bird flu death in Nigeria

A Lagos woman is the first person in Nigeria to have died with the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu, a minister says.

DIY invisible bookshelf

Collaborative DIY site Instructables posts a step-by-step for making your own invisible bookshelf. In a nutshell, you have to build a mount into a book you're not all that interested in using anymore (it won't ruin the book, but you'll have to rip out the mount if you want to use it again). All you ...

Student wants to 'rent' a girlfriend (AP)

AP - A desperate Chinese university student wants to "rent" a girlfriend for 10 days so he can show her off to his parents over the Lunar New Year holiday, state media reported Wednesday.

The Japanese Air Force is Recruiting

Interested in joining the Japanese Air Force? I am, after seeing a picture of their recruits in action: Apparently they take a very zen-like approach to flying: first learning to “be the plane” before flying it. Either that, or they have connected their 330 combat aircraft to Nintendo ...