Gates Foundation To Help India’s Red-Light Workers Greg Levine, 08.19.05, 12:31 PM ET NEW YORK – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building a bridge from the postmodern information age to the world’s oldest profession. The charitable group created by the billionaire chairman of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT – news – people ) helped distribute…
Month: August 2005
Bad News Burning Man Clown
(It’s too bad shit like this happens…cd) Instead of bringing smiles to his fellow Burning Man revelers last year, Johnny Goodman, painted face and all, consumed too much alcohol, grabbed Dennis Hinkampâs bicycle and assaulted him so severely that he had to have two plates implanted into his arm. Then the clown disappeared into the…
Japundit » The latest craze in Japan . . . Not!!
(now who doesn’t love a good hoax, especially if it regards the fanny. B.E.) Japundit » The latest craze in Japan . . . Not!! What is it about Japanese women that people around the world are ready to believe just about any outrageous hoax about them that some knucklehead throws together and posts on…
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Bus Jumps Curb in Waikiki, Hits Tourists
(I swear to God, it wasn’t me driving. I swear on a peroigi!..cd)
Internet Casino Buys Jesus-Image Pierogi
(Praise the Lord! And could you pass me that sauce?…cd) POINT PLACE, Ohio – An Internet casino known for its collection of oddities has paid $1,775 for a pierogi that looks like an image of Jesus. GoldenPalace.com purchased the item Monday during an auction offered by eBay. The seller, Donna Lee, said the Jesus face…
Thais hope English soccer will calm Muslim unrest – Yahoo! News
(Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad idea? What about the soccer riots? Show them something else…cd) BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand is dishing out free cable television in its restive Muslim south in the hope that sports coverage such as English Premiership soccer will calm tensions in a region plagued by…
Police seek diaper-clad man who pesters women
LONDON (Reuters) – UK police said Monday they were searching for a man wearing just a diaper, who approaches women late at night and asks: “Are there any baby changing facilities around here?” Cleveland police in northeast England said the latest incident occurred around 11 p.m. Sunday when he surprised a women walking her dog…
U.S. Okays Virgin Galactic Spaceship Plans
A go-ahead was given last week by the U.S. Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) that clears the way for exchanges of technical information between Scaled Composites of Mojave, California and Virgin Galactic of the United Kingdom to build passenger-carrying suborbital spaceliners. LINK — U.S. Okays Virgin Galactic Spaceship Plans
Power of Pee Runs a Battery
Scientists have developed a way to turn pee into electricity. And there’s plenty were that came from, they point out. Cheap, disposable, and renewable, urine-powered batteries may be the perfect power source for disposable healthcare test kits called biochips, the researchers say. “We are striving to develop cheap, disposable credit card-sized biochips for disease detection,”…