Huh. Archives
October 6, 2007
■ “I’m looking for a democratic perfect image of myself”. [#]
■ You can print a line on a Epson Printer located in Brugg, Switzerland. [#]
October 2, 2007
■ “The numerous road accidents, boat disasters, floods in the north, gas explosions in Kumasi and collapse of buildings that the country has witnessed in recent months may not be for nothing. A global meeting of witches, currently underway in Ghana, is targeting thousands of lives through fatal road and other accidents.” [#]
September 27, 2007
■ “A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after hiding inside the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow.” [#]
September 17, 2007
■ “Wright claims, by changing his diet and using meditative techniques, he is now able to switch over from his tired left hemisphere to his right, which he says can go several days without needing a recharge.” [#]
August 30, 2007
■ “Not only could Mr. Langevin use his eye socket to smoke, he could also blow up balloons and play a recorder.” [#]
August 23, 2007
■ “These questions lead Weisman at one point to discuss the underground cities of Cappadocia, Turkey, which, he says, will outlast nearly everything else humans have constructed here on Earth.” [#]
August 21, 2007
■ “A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a “nerd” over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson.” [#]
August 18, 2007
■ “A St. Augustine man who told police he was mad at God showed his displeasure by ramming his pickup truck into a Crescent Beach church, causing several thousand dollars in damage.” [#]
August 17, 2007
■ “‘It’s difficult to make plans for the prison terms when we have no idea who will show up and who won’t,’ said Ellinor Houm, director of the Norwegian Correctional Services, section for eastern Norway.” [#]
August 14, 2007
■ ” ‘It removes the foil carefully, eats the chocolate and leaves the store with the toy,’ Irene Lindroos said.” [#]
August 8, 2007
■ “A man smuggled a monkey onto an airplane, stashing the fist-size primate under his hat until passengers spotted it perched on his ponytail, an airline official in New York said.” [#]
August 6, 2007
■ “Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.” [#]
August 1, 2007
■ “John Feigenbaum flew out of San Jose this week in first class, with flip-flops on his feet, a T-shirt on his back and a dime worth $1.9 million in his pocke.” [#]
July 26, 2007
■ Burning Man Protest Protested by Burning Man Protesters: “What’s really strange is that during the protest, other Burning Man participants came out of the Burning Man office to protest the protesters.” [#]
July 25, 2007
■ “Flora Zimbelman says it all started 54 years ago when she put an uncooked hot dog in her sister’s suitcase”. [#]
July 19, 2007
■ “There’s been a new development in the BBC parrot-telepathy story. Last year, the reference to telepathy was silently removed; but now the whole parrot has been airbrushed out of the journalistic record.” [#]
July 14, 2007
■ A Gate-Crasher’s Change of Heart: The Guests Were Enjoying French Wine and Cheese on a Capitol Hill Patio. When a Gunman Burst In, the Would-Be Robbery Took an Unusual Turn. [#]
July 6, 2007
■ “Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies. [#]
July 2, 2007
■ “A peacock that roamed into the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant was attacked by a man who vilified the bird as a vampire, animal-control authorities said.” [#]
May 2, 2007
■ “To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001.” [#]
April 13, 2007
■ “That is the scientific answer to the question: what makes the perfect bacon sandwich?” [#]
April 3, 2007
■ “Here it is… the largest creative project I’ve ever worked on, period. A 101-gesture version of Rock-Paper-Scissors.” [#]
March 30, 2007
■ “Swim across the Atlantic Ocean. 3462 mi.” [#]
■ “You have to watch the video to believe it, but this restaurant in Japan has a goldfish tank…in the deep fryer.” [#]
■ “Ever feel as though you’re being followed? As if someone is behind you, shadowing your every move? It might be your ‘shadow person’, created by unusual activity in a specific brain region, a new study shows” [#]
March 28, 2007
■ “A Plano resident allegedly a class=”entry” title=”Star Community Newspapers” href=”http://www.allenamerican.com/articles/2007/03/24/breaking_news/01.txt”>sent his male monkey a sexually explicit audio tape while the animal was in custody at the Living Materials Center (LMC), according to LMC staff. [#]
March 13, 2007
■ “Sharkey’s pledge to impale President Bush, he makes clear, will only come into effect if he is actually elected to office.” [#]
March 12, 2007
■ “OTHERKIN—A soul or body of non-Human origins…Otherkin…are people who have had past lives as non-Humans. And for most, it has affected them enough for them to now consider their soul, their essence, other than human. “Other than Human”, of course, can have many different meanings, and it is because of this that the Otherkin community is so diverse…given that reincarnation knows no bounds of distance or space, it is reasonable to assume that many humans are of less than pure pedigree, so to speak.” [#]
March 7, 2007
■ “After watching the Calvin Klein commercial I feel like running blindly away from my computer and off of a cliff into the purifying sanctity of the ocean where I hope to drown.” [#]
February 20, 2007
■ “A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for conning people out of 3 billion yuan ($387 million) in a giant scam to breed ants, local media said on Thursda..” [#]
February 9, 2007
■ “Modern humans may have driven Neanderthals to extinction 30,000 years ago because Homo sapiens unlocked the secrets of free trade, say a group of US and Dutch economists.” [#]
February 1, 2007
■ “As Mr. Velde explained in an interview, ‘We face a very medieval problem so I took inspiration from the medieval practice of rebasing.’ He would rebase the penny by having the government declare it to be worth 5 cents.” [#]
January 30, 2007
■ “Starving North Koreans could soon be enjoying steaming platters of giant rabbit - thanks to German pensioner Karl Szmolinsky who recently sold 12 of the überbunnies to the nosh-strapped Communist state.” [#]
■ BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Do young children understand irony? Well, duh. [#]
January 26, 2007
■ eBay Australia: New Life for Sale!! : “Friends will treat you exactly as they have treated me. This includes friends who take me surfing, running, climbing and cook for me. All of these features will be transferred over to the winning applicant.” [#]
January 23, 2007
■ “A tiny group of worshippers plans a rare ceremony Sunday to honor the ancient Greek gods, at Athens’ 1,800-year-old Temple of Olympian Zeus. Greece’s Culture Ministry has declared the central Athens site off-limits, but worshippers say they will defy the decision.” [#]
January 16, 2007
■ “A new pair of shoes have been invented that vacuum as you walk. The Electrolux’ Dustmate has a tiny rechargeable vacuum inside the base.” [#]
January 13, 2007
■ Paging Neal Stephenson: “With the help of all the kopimists on Internets, we want to buy Sealand. Donate money and you will become a citizien.” [#]
January 5, 2007
■ “The bird, a captive African grey called N’kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. [#]
■ “I need to urgently make contact with a hacker that would be interested in doing a one-time job for me.” [#]
January 3, 2007
■ “Many teens are content (if not happy) to start over with most of their accounts in most places. Forgot your IM password? Sign up again. Forgot your email address? Create a new one. Forgot your login? Time for a change.apophenia: ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens).” [#]
■ Speculation abounds over ‘man sitting on dead horse’ photo [#]
December 30, 2006
■ “Did somebody say Wikipedia? Yes, and then some, according to word-of-mouth measurement firm Nielsen BuzzMetrics, which identified Wikipedia — the online encyclopedia anyone can edit — as one of popular words and resources of 2006.” [#]
December 29, 2006
■ DUBAI IS F*****G NUTS!!! [#]
December 22, 2006
■ “The restaurant now has agreed to reverse the policy of requiring customers to turn over their driver’s licenses before they can order - a rule that was enacted to discourage “dine and dash” thefts. [#]
December 20, 2006
■ OddPeak - 10 Most Bizarre People on Earth [#]
December 16, 2006
■ “Schoolchildren in Caversham have become the first in the country to learn about a new number - ‘nullity’ - which solves maths problems neither Newton nor Pythagoras could conquer.” Ehhhh … OK …. [#]
December 6, 2006
■ “A police-led initiative of spraying water on state highways to release the trapped spirits of those killed in motor crashes has been declared a success.” [#]
December 5, 2006
■ “The Fijian Army is taking on arch-rivals the Police in the much-anticipated annual Sukuna Bowl rugby clash, rather than stage a coup. [#]
■ “Take control of life’s finer details—like your coffee. Freshly brewed is best, but at 205 degrees, it’s just too hot to enjoy. Until now, coffee lovers faced a compromise—either try to blow on it, add ice, wait patiently or burn your mouth. Compromise no more!” [#]
November 30, 2006
■ “Here are two new fun lists for 2006. They represent my top ten choices (each) of white and black squirrels’ hot spots tied to their sightings and appearances.” [#]
November 14, 2006
■ “Scientists have taught dolphins to combine both rhythm and vocalisations to produce music, resulting in an extremely high-pitched, short version of the Batman theme song.” [#]
■ “To add to the problems, it had been raining, which made Jesus quite slippery.” [#]
November 8, 2006
■ WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM. I just like having all my conspiracy theories needs met on one site. [#]
■ Rescusing dumped Wikipedia entries: I think these type of entries — latest one: “10 longest reigning popes” — are the ones I most love stumbling across on Wikipedia, so it pleases me that someone is saving them. [#]
November 3, 2006
■ “With a rise in the popularity of Christian-style weddings in Japan, some Westerners are finding they can make a lucrative living by acting as priests. [#]
October 26, 2006
■ Rock Band Name Origins: “CHICAGO - Their first album was released as “Chicago Transit Authority”, but the city of Chicago sued them because Chicago Transit Authority is the name of Chicago’s public transportation department so they shortened it.” (One of the hundreds of entries.) Once again, the Internet has succeeded in making me go “huh.” [#]
October 25, 2006
■ “Dear Japan, Please stop experimenting with your sexuality in public. It’s starting to freak us out.” This actually utterly safe-for-work site is, well, a bit freaky. Not bad freaky, necessarily, just … oh, just go see for yourself. [#]
■ What if the Internet turned into a Were-wolf? [#]
October 24, 2006
■ “We looked for mythical beasts, met the PLO boy scouts (suicide bombers of tomorrow), chatted with a man who sold black market nuclear warheads and hung out with Osama bin Laden, and got shot at in the slums of Rio. This is travel at its most bizarre, equal parts LSD and adrenaline, and sometimes we can’t believe we made it back.” I haven’t watched the movie, and the comments on Amazon are pretty harsh, but, dang, the idea sounds intriguing. [#]
October 23, 2006
■ “This fellow is determined to hypnotize his way out of jail and we’re all having a good old time helping him practice.” A guy in prison (for what, he never seems to say, exactly) for 90 days mails out blog entries that get posted. The saga starts about halfway down this page. [#]
October 9, 2006
■ “Either that or they study really hard because they’re afraid he’ll eat them.” You got to follow that link just to see the picture. [#]