Subway Fires Gay pr0n Star	some dude/some chick
Link #140417 submitted by crataegus on Sep 6, 2008 01:14am.   (+100XP) http://www.bgay.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=...
22-year-old gay porn star Kurt Wild was fired from his day job at a Subway restaurant outside of St. Louis when a customer recognized him and threatened to boycott the fast food joint if Wild wasn't fired.     Wild gives a summary in an email included on the blog post. Not safe for work. Comments: 0   Hits: 4   Points: 163704   Vote Now!   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Wheelchair robber rolls in and rips off condoms	strangely funny
Link #140416 submitted by rover77 on Sep 5, 2008 09:21pm.   (+200XP) http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/3493189
A wheelchair getaway at a 7-Eleven has police looking for an unusual robbery suspect.(I like the energy drink part) Comments: 1   Hits: 26   Points: 161849   Vote Now!   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

CARL HAMMER GALLERY	it's the arts
Link #140415 submitted by lagbnaft on Sep 5, 2008 07:43pm.   (+250XP) http://www.hammergallery.com/Artists/Steber/Steber_Bill.htm
As the 21st century unfolds itself to a captive audience of both spectators and participants, the Carl Hammer Gallery stands ready in its third and newest location since its inaugural opening in 1979. For nearly thirty years, this gallery has been one of the primary international pioneers discovering, exhibiting, and contributing to the scholarship and connoisseurship of outsider art. This, in turn, has helped lead to the incorporation of outsider art into the contemporary art mainstream. The subsequent learning process contributed immensely to our uniqueness and to the gallery's growth and vision. Later, the addition of mainstream artists to the gallery's list of those it represented was aided, in large part, by the aesthetic earlier developed by the outsider art influence. Today the artists we are proud to go forward with into the 21st century are all decisively unique in their own personal visions and means of expression. They all share, however, in the process of successfully identifying that which makes us American, and, more importantly, that which makes us all Human. Their issues, as seen through their art, celebrate both the triumphs and tragedies of the human experience and range from the personal exploration of the ravages of breast cancer, to the exaltation of achieving freedom from externally imposed slavery. Comments: 2   Hits: 27   Points: 161044   Vote Now!   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Genome Quilts	it's the arts
Link #140414 submitted by lagbnaft on Sep 5, 2008 07:24pm.   (+300XP) http://genomequilts.com/genome.php
Beverly St. Clair has originated a way of encoding genetic information in quilt designs. The four bases in DNA are represented as follows: Comments: 0   Hits: 35   Points: 160928   Rating: 10.0 / 4   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Hi-tech centre brings abbey alive	destinations
Link #140413 submitted by lagbnaft on Sep 5, 2008 07:22pm.   (+200XP) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/7600230.stm
Holograms, a virtual reality tour and 3-D goggles are being used to bring a 14th Century abbey back to life. Comments: 0   Hits: 17   Points: 160872   Vote Now!   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Use your own Anonymous Phone Number	the wired
Link #140412 submitted by Mac on Sep 5, 2008 06:28pm.   (+230XP) http://letscall.me
This is a free service that makes it easy and safe for people to call you. Use with online services such as Craigslist, or any other situation you want to talk, but don't want to reveal your phone number.     * Accept calls anonymously without revealing your phone number   * No caller id blocking - always know who's calling   * Block unwanted callers   * Easier to remember than a phone number   * Great for Craigslist and other internet sites   * Be safe - don't give out your phone number, use LetsCall.me   Comments: 0   Hits: 69   Points: 160501   Rating: 9.3 / 3   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Crap Machine	strangely funny
Link #140411 submitted by Horpy SpoonDigger on Sep 5, 2008 04:06pm.   (+590XP) http://www.crapmachine.com/ground2.htm
Create your virtual TURD and send it to a friend! Not safe for work. Comments: 6   Hits: 120   Points: 159422   Rating: 7.7 / 7   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

DEAD MAN STANDING	some dude/some chick
Link #140410 submitted by LowFlyingMule on Sep 5, 2008 03:32pm.   (+220XP) http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/deadmanstandi...
It was 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina's wish to stand at his own funeral and when this man was found dead, his grieving family made that wish come true.     After being embalmed, his corpse was propped up for his three day wake in his mother's living room dressed in his favorite Yankees cap and sunglasses.     Man...that is creepy. Comments: 0   Hits: 81   Points: 159084   Rating: 8.0 / 4   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Pop star's murder sheds light on hidden world	vices
Link #140408 submitted by LinusMines on Sep 5, 2008 12:32pm.   (+290XP) http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/05/singer.slain.tamim.suzann...
It's the Mideast version of a sordid soap opera. A Lebanese pop star is brutally murdered in her luxury Dubai apartment, her throat slashed. Arrested in her death: One of Egypt's most politically connected businessmen, accused of paying $2 million to have her killed.     The slaying of Suzanne Tamim has gone beyond a lurid crime story to something more serious -- a glimpse into the close links between Egypt's government and powerful business tycoons long viewed as above the law.     It is also exposing strains between societies like Egypt's, where wealth and political power increasingly go hand in hand, and Dubai, which recently launched a high-profile push against corruption.     People in the Arab world have long followed with fascination and moral clucking the tales of businessmen and politicians cavorting with actresses, belly-dancers and singers -- a sort of Hollywood Babylon in the conservative Muslim Middle East.     But even by those standards, the Tamim drama is a stunner...     This week, Egyptian authorities arrested real estate mogul Hisham Talaat Moustafa, said to be Tamim's former lover.     For many, the surprise wasn't Moustafa's alleged involvement -- but his arrest... Comments: 0   Hits: 71   Points: 157631   Rating: 8.1 / 6   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Height Linked With Prostate Cancer Risk	health
Link #140407 submitted by Mac on Sep 5, 2008 11:24am.   (+100XP) http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/height-linked-with-prostat...
A man's risk for prostate cancer appears to increase with his height, a new study shows.     More for the correlation = causation file Comments: 0   Hits: 55   Points: 157024   Vote Now!   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Scorched Jimi Hendrix guitar sells for £280,000	shopping
Link #140406 submitted by Henry on Sep 5, 2008 07:33am.   (+280XP) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2684648/Sc...
The rock legend torched his 1965 Fender Stratocaster at the end of a show at the Astoria in Finsbury Park, north London, in March 1967.   The stunt sent roadies rushing to put out the flames and left Hendrix needing treatment for minor burns.   But amid the hubbub, press officer Tony Garland cleared away the scorched Stratocaster and stored it in his parents garage in Hove, East Sussex, where it lay forgotten for nearly 40 years. Comments: 2   Hits: 58   Points: 155172   Rating: 6.5 / 5   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth	destinations
Link #140405 submitted by dorian on Sep 5, 2008 06:18am.   (+650XP) http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on...
Socotra Island: you have to see it to believe it     We covered some otherwordly places before (see, for example, Bolvian Salt Lake, or The Richat Structure), but this island simply blows away any notion about what is considered "normal" for a landscape on Earth.   Comments: 0   Hits: 366   Points: 154956   Rating: 9.5 / 12   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Amazing Gutter Art	it's the arts
Link #140404 submitted by dorian on Sep 5, 2008 06:14am.   (+390XP) http://abduzeedo.com/amazing-gutter-art
Most of us would never think that a gutter could be a piece of art. Here in Brazil, some people are using these parts of urban scenery to bring a little bit of color to the commomly grey sidewalks. They are Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente from 6emeia.     The 6emeia project was created and developed by the artists Anderson Augusto, also known as SÃO, and Leonardo Delafuente, also known as Delafuente. The duo live in the Barra Funda neighborhood of São Paulo where they began the project with the purpose of changing and transforming daily life.     The duo's objective is to modify the means within which we all live, proposing a new way to view things by reflecting upon themes generated through creative and unusual works. Such modifications are made by painting storm drains, light posts, manhole covers and any other object which makes up the urban scenario. Comments: 1   Hits: 99   Points: 154597   Rating: 9.0 / 6   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Sarah Palin is Your New Bicycle's Flat Tire	strangely funny
Link #140403 submitted by dorian on Sep 5, 2008 06:09am.   (+360XP) http://palin.appspot.com
Sarah Palin threw away your Magic cards.   Sarah Palin double clicked a hyperlink.   Sarah Palin finished your dessert. Comments: 1   Hits: 206   Points: 154671   Rating: 7.3 / 9   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science	blinded by science
Link #140402 submitted by johnny2000 on Sep 5, 2008 05:23am.   (+100XP) http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/index.html
MPIWG in Berlin is one of 80 research institutes in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities administered by the Max Planck Society. It was established in 1994 as an international research center for the history of science in Germany.     Researchers at the MPIWG investigate how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged in the centuries-long interaction between the sciences and their ambient cultures. The specific research projects span several millenia, cultures north-south-east-west, and numerous scientific disciplines, ranging from the origins of counting systems in Mesopotamia to today’s postgenomics, from Renaissance natural history to the early days of quantum mechanics. Exemplary research questions include: How did the fundamental scientific concept (e.g. number, force, heredity, probability) and practices (e.g. experiment, proof, classification) develop in specific historical contexts? And in what ways did originally local knowledge, devised to solve specific problems, become universalized? Comments: 0   Hits: 35   Points: 154074   Vote Now!   [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]

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