link Kim Jong-il Bodyguards Show Superhuman Strength A video purportedly showing the training of Kim Jong-il’s bodyguards interspersed with footage from an interview with Lee Yong-guk, a former bodyguard for the North Korean leader, is making waves in cyberspace. The clip can be accessed on an overseas website. Jaw-dropping scenes show bodyguards snapping scantlings or…
Month: July 2005
Department of Homeland Security Surveillance Truck
If you think that truck across the street looks sort of normal…maybe you should peek in the back…just because you’re paranoid doensn’t mean they aren’t watching you…..cd Link from Boing Boing
SPACE.com — Richard Branson and Burt Rutan Form Spacecraft Building Company
SPACE.com — Richard Branson and Burt Rutan Form Spacecraft Building Company Richard Branson and Burt Rutan Form Spacecraft Building Company By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 27 July 2005 03:09 pm ET British entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has teamed up with aerospace designer, Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites to form a new aerospace production…
It's good to be Santa!!!
Surrounded by young female Santa Claus assistants, a Swedish Santa takes a swim during the annual Santa Claus World Congress in Copenhagen(AFP/SCANPIX)
Is this the unforseen effect of the London Bombs?
I can’t help wondering if the IRA watched the senseless deaths in London and made the decision to put themselves above such stupid action….cd IRA says ceasing all armed activity in N.Ireland – Yahoo! News UBLIN (Reuters) – The Irish Republican Army announced an end to its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland…
Fine Chardonnays….Get Em Fast…
California’s Montrachets Prior to the mid-1980’s, California winemaking techniques were hatched out of university laboratories where the focus was largely on making squeaky clean wines — wines without faults. The reigning (cynical) belief was that the French notion of ‘terroir’ was hogwash, and that moreover, all of the nuance of Old World wine was a…
Pilgrims try to catch 'miracle' on mobiles
ROME (Reuters) – Thousands of Italians have flocked to a small town outside Naples armed with mobile phones in the hopes of filming a statue of the Virgin Mary that residents say has miraculously moved her legs. Parishioners at St. Peter’s church in Acerra said they had witnessed the plaster statue’s legs turn flesh colored…
Amorous couple sparks rescue drama –
LONDON (Reuters) – A British couple who headed out to sea in a dinghy for an amorous liaison sparked a major rescue operation when their cries of passion were mistaken for someone in trouble, British police said Tuesday. A passer-by raised the alarm after hearing strange noises coming from the waters near a beach in…
Boing Boing: Shanghai Suicide
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things Fourteen ways to die in Shanghai English translation of a controversial, internet-propagated map that lists places and methods for bumping yourself off in Shanghai. # Huichunji pharmacy sells sleeping pills. # Suzhou Creek is uncovered. # The #57 bus goes directly to the zoo. You can jump into…
The Perils of China's Growth to the Chinese
STUFF : WORLD NEWS – STORY : New Zealand’s leading news and information website China facing epidemic of suicide, depression 26 July 2005 BEIJING: Suicide is the number one cause of death among people aged 20 to 35 in China, where an estimated quarter of a million people a year – or 685 a day…