ProTraveller blog has a neat post about 10 of the coolest hotel suites I’ll never be able to afford. Oh well, here’s what most of us just have to satisfy ourselves with while counting our meager savings: amazing photos of amazing hotels around the world.
This one above is the Over-Water ...
Posted 4.15.2008 2:13pm (4 months ago)
Jason Beghe is the bravest actor in Hollywood. He's come clean about his 14 years in Scientology, the religious sect that Tom Cruise reveres. He says the purpose of Scientology is to create a 'brainwashed, robotic version of you.'
Posted 4.16.2008 4:41am (4 months ago)
Drowning is the number-one cause of accidental death for children ages one- to four-years-old - and even those who survive often have long-term side effects.
Posted 4.14.2008 6:02pm (4 months ago)
Michael Johns is gone! David Cook performs badly! Kristy Lee has momentum? It's true, y'all!
Posted 4.14.2008 12:39am (4 months ago)
Jurors are often thought of as impartial and disinterested evaluators, but one jury in Fort Worth, TX recently reminded us that jurors are not only sympathetic, they can sometimes demonstrate that sympathy in tangible ways too:
On Friday afternoon, a Tarrant County jury sentenced an Azle woman to five ...
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ally when you see and alligator, instinct tells you to run in the opposite direction. But NBC2 found out alligator blood may soon help fight deadly human infections.
Posted 4.11.2008 11:14pm (4 months ago)
Postcard From Yo Momma is a neat website where you can send (anonymously) emails from your mom. Some are very Internet-literate, whereas others still use their AOL emails and send out little guilt traps like "I wish you’d call more often."
Reading the entries are like getting glimpses ...
Posted 4.10.2008 4:01pm (4 months ago)
Giving a whole new meaning to coffee tasting like crap, the secret behind the special blend about to go on sale at an upmarket department store in London, is that it is made from cats’ droppings. The beans are extracted from the droppings of the palm civet, a cross between a cat and a monkey which ...
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Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
Posted 4.6.2008 2:31am (5 months ago)
A woman who may have spent nearly two years in a bathroom, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to sores on her body, remains hospitalized and in pain from medical procedures, family members said Wednesday.
Posted 3.26.2008 8:59pm (5 months ago)
Image: DC Comics
The New York Times has a fantastic interactive gallery featuring Al Jaffee’s fold-ins for MAD magazine from the 1960s to the present.
This one above, titled "Who Wants to be President More Than Anything"
is from the June 1964 issue, with the captions of "Rich candidates ...
Posted 3.31.2008 1:46pm (5 months ago)
Canoe.caDutch Lawmaker to Edit Anti-Quran FilmThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoAMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A Dutch lawmaker whose anti-Quran film drew worldwide condemnations will edit out a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad after complaints of copyright infringement, his office said Monday.Dutch ...
Posted 3.31.2008 12:11pm (5 months ago)
The $7.2 million check used to pay for Alaska (Source: Wikipedia)
In March 1867, the Russian Empire sold Russian America, the territory that would later become the State of Alaska, to the US Government for $7.2 million or about 1.9¢ per acre.
Tsar Alexander II was fearful that he was going to lose ...
Posted 3.31.2008 5:27am (5 months ago)
Scientists may finally be on the cusp of finding a vaccine for the Ebola virus. According to an article in EurekAlert:
Because Ebola virus is so dangerous, producing and testing a vaccine is extremely challenging for the scientists. One significant factor slowing down progress has been that there are ...
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"BarelyPolitical.com has unearthed archival footage of Hillary's alleged dangerous trip to Bosnia in 1996. Warning: This will shock you."
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Posted 3.26.2008 1:05pm (5 months ago)
"Babies are the only things that manage to simultaneously be cute and gross."
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