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This is asinine: The passengers on board the Vatican’s first flight to Lourdes may have been pilgrims in search of spiritual healing, but they still had to obey anti-terrorism rules, it has emerged, after several of them had their holy water confiscated. The Vatican’s new service, a Boeing 737 painted […]
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Russian police arrest man for stealing a bridge Russian police have detained a 45-year-old municipal worker for stealing a bridge. The 5-metre span metal bridge disappeared from a river crossing in the Ryazan region, east of Moscow. Police said they tracked it down to the man, who had used his […]
Hmmn Interesting, Nature, The Planet, Weird News Florida, Nature, SInk Hole
Hungry sinkhole ORLANDO, Fla. — A loud explosion heard inside an Apopka home led a family to a 30-foot sinkhole swallowing their kitchen, bathroom and other rooms inside the structure. Rodrigo Coronado, who is renting the home with nine other family members, said the structure could be heard cracking Thursday. […]
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From Ich Bin Ein Beijinger's blog The Midi Music Festival has become a real cultural phenomenon, drawing young people from all over the country and giving me increasing hope that the still-marginal rock culture has reached critical mass and momentum. This year, I hear there were 80,000 people on the […]
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The Twingo. Little did its creators know it would become the cause of so much marital strife From article: Hundreds of angry Dutch women have complained to car manufacturer Renault after receiving handwritten letters purporting to come from a unknown admirer who called them "darling", suggested meeting soon for a […]
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3 yr. old vs. Monster When this 3-year-old girl was asked what she was going to do if a monster came after her, the girl’s answer was far more intelligible than the recent Miss South Carolina hubbub.
History, Hmmn Interesting, Politics, Tech, Weird News
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act. The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI wiretapping rooms […]
Entertainment, Events, History, Hmmn Interesting, Vintage
Hilly Kristal, who founded CBGB, the Bowery bar that became the cradle of punk and art-rock in New York in the 1970s and served as the inspiration for musician-friendly rock dives throughout the world, died in Manhattan on Tuesday. He was 75. Continue reading
Arts, Events, Funny, Hmmn Interesting, Painting Cuba, Installation Art, Luis E Camejo, painting
Installation at Havana Biennnial From the Havana Club: Nocturnal and bohemian, for Luis Enrique Camejo, the city is also the place where contemporary life is unleashed. This artist does not draw inspiration from his own intimacy or internal space. Rather, he is interested in the fleeting, immediate relationship of man […]
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According to Scott Beale at Laughing Squid: Wow, this is a shocker. At around 3 am Tuesday morning at Burning Man 2007, during a rare lunar eclipse, the Burning Man sculpture was set on fire prematurely (it is normally burned on Saturday). The Black Rock City Emergency Services Department was […]