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Eyjafjallajökull blows off steam
What’s in a name? Eyjafjallajökull is the Icelandic glacier that erupted yesterday closing the airspace over Great Britain. Who knew the apocalypse would be so hard to spell? By the way, the last time this happened, in 1821, it apparently lasted more than a year. On the plus side, the lines to see Big Ben [...]
Today in Doom: Brit Hospital Gets Its Own Strain of Contagious Pneumonia
YouTube – “Don’t Fear the Reaper” – Blue Oyster Cult We’ve heard that H1N1 has had a resurgence, particularly in the southern United States. Now a hospital in Staffordshire, England has apparently developed its own brand of pneumonia. Yay? From the BBC:
Plane Crashes Into Building in Roanoke
UPDATE… Roanoke.com reports the following: “A small private plane with two people on board crashed into the side of a 2-story UPS Freight building near the Roanoke Regional Airport after reporting trouble to air traffic controllers…” So it appears it may have been a tragic accident. EARLIER… There are reports of a plane crashing into [...]
North Korea Just Wants to Make Sure We’re Listening
Don’t panic or anything, but just a day after North Korea announced they’d end us and get all nuclear and stuff, the rogue nation may have sunk a South Korean Naval vessel in waters near a disputed maritime border. Yonhap reported an explosion that occurred around 10:45 p.m. While first reports pointed toward the North, [...]
Televised autopsy proves science can be creepy
We consider the human body to be fascinating, natural and even, dare we say it, beautiful. It’s also kind of terrifying and icky, especially when flayed open, live on TV, by a cadaverous, fedora-wearing German. When Channel 4 in Britain posted clips from their groundbreaking series Anatomy for Beginners on the internet, they wisely required [...]
US Paramilitaries* Ordered to Principal’s Office to Get Slap on Wrist
[*UPDATE 7/26/10: When I first posted the article below, some took issue with my use of the word paramilitary to describe US Special Forces in Afghanistan. Well, just 4 months later the infamous Afghanistan archive has been leaked by Wiki-leaks, and lo and behold, the summary of its contents according to the New York Times includes [...]
In Which Chile Can’t Catch a Break: New 7.2 Quake Strikes
A 7.2 magnitude quake struck Chile this morning just as Chile was gearing up to swear in newly-elected president Sebastian Pinera. Early reports show the epicenter of the quake was 95 miles southwest of Santiago and 22 miles deep. At least there are no tsunami expected from this one. [CNN.com Blogs]
Ready-made For a Law & Order Script: A Mysterious Letter Surfaces in Major Bashinsky Missing Persons Case
Missing Houston exec Douglas Schantz was found floating in the Mississippi River yesterday, apparently bringing the mystery of his disappearance late last week to an end. Mountain Brook, Alabama Attorney Major Bashinsky, however, is still among the missing, and today The Birmingham News is reporting an odd wrinkle in the case, the kind of detail [...]
Corey Haim is Dead and Hurricanes Will Kill Us All
Because what’s a Wednesday without predictions of doom? UPI reports that Accuweather.com meteorologist Joe Bastardi is predicting a pretty nasty hurricane season: up to 18 tropical cyclones (storms and hurricanes) between June and November. Bastardi also believes as many as 15 storms will hit throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Bastardi believes this [...]
UFOs Over Brooklyn? Or Bad Acid in Williamsburg?
UFO sighting in Brooklyn, Jan. 29, 2010 (not connected to post below) Yes, it’s true. UFO sightings are apparently not confined only to meth and moonshine-mad rednecks cavorting wildly, naked in the dark for Jesus on hilltops somewhere near where they filmed Ned Beatty’s rape scene in Deliverance. No, UFO sightings happen in Brooklyn, too. [...]
Mysteriously Missing Men of Means: Douglas Schantz and Major Bashinsky
A business news blurb about Douglas Schantz’s disappearance Houston businessman Douglas Schantz, a 54-year-old executive with Sequent Energy Management, has been missing since last Friday. Schantz vanished while in New Orleans. He was last seen shortly after 2 in the morning, exiting Razzoo’s Bar and Patio on Bourbon Street. Surveillance cameras picked up images of [...]
NYT: Sketchy Doings in Blackwater Inquiry
There’s no disputing Blackwater (now called Xe Services) contract security goons mowed down 17 innocent Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square three years ago. Until today’s report in the New York Times, we didn’t know the State Dept. may have helped the North Carolina-based, billionaire fundy-owned company obfuscate investigation into the incident. Blackwater prosecutor Kenneth Kohl [...]
After Joe Stack, the deluge of mysterious white powder incidents? Hazmat teams at IRS facility in Utah
The fish are angry
It seems the world’s sea creatures are on the warpath. The above video of the aquarium at Dubai Mall, shows what happened when the the hammerheads and the needlenoses apparently combined forces and busted a crack in the aquarium’s glass wall. Basically all hell broke loose. As Gulf News reports, there was an interesting sound: [...]
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