( I don’t know if I want them to cure my gambling addiction…I sort of like it…cd) Gambling Monkeys Compelled by Winner’s High By LiveScience Staff posted: 22 August 2005 01:31 pm ET When given a choice between steady rewards and the chance for more, monkeys will gamble, a new study found. And they’ll keep…
Category: Oddities
other odd stuff
Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered
( much to the consternation of Bush and his gang, the paper didn’t prove that the invasion of Iraq was justified….cd) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University’s Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, scholars said Saturday. The handwritten manuscript…
Hunter S. Thompson's ashes to be fired from cannon
DENVER, Colorado (AFP) – The ashes of the US writer Hunter S. Thompson are to be fired from a tower the height of the Statue of Liberty in a ceremony at his Colorado home on Saturday befitting his eccentric and controversial life. The actor Johnny Depp will fire the cannon to spread the ashes of…
Gates Foundation To Help India's Red-Light Workers – Forbes.com
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…
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…
The First Bernest Cast
(Bernest Ernstein has just sent me his first ever Podcast…from Japan…Profound doesn’t describe it as he discusses communication with God….cd) Bernest and God Podcast
Freelance Writers, Travel Writers
(I may have to write a Honolulu Guide for these guys…cd) Freelance Writers, Travel Writers theCitizen: is a unique travel guidebook written for the anti-tourist. If your idea of fun is taking a week off from work and heading out west to a dude ranch, theCitizen is not for you. If you lost your wallet…