Posted on April 27th, 2007 by reflex
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Free of his wheelchair and tethered only to heart rate and blood pressure monitors, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking on Thursday fulfilled a dream of floating weightless on a zero-gravity jet, a step he hopes leads to further space adventures.
The modified jet carrying Hawking, a handful of his physicians and nurses, and dozens […]
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Filed under: Celebrities, Science
Posted on April 26th, 2007 by MaxPower
Some demonstrators called Gere’s embrace of Shetty “vulgar”.
Actor Richard Gere has sparked protests in India after kissing Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty at an Aids awareness rally in New Delhi.
Demonstrators in Mumbai (Bombay) set light to effigies of the Hollywood star, while protesters in other cities shouted “death to Shilpa Shetty”.
The protesters said […]
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Filed under: Celebrities, Other, Television
Posted on April 21st, 2007 by BrainwashedMonkey
BEAUFORT, S.C. — A Navy Blue Angel jet crashed during an air show Saturday, plunging into a neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot.
Witnesses said the planes were flying in formation during the show at the Marine Corps Air Station at about 4 p.m. and one dropped below the trees and crashed, […]
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Posted on April 21st, 2007 by Jason
SYDNEY, Australia - Australian rescuers were on Friday trying to solve the “Mary Celeste” style mystery of a yacht found floating off the coast with its engine running, food on its table ready to eat, but no crew.
The 36-foot catamaran was found 80 nautical miles off Townsville on the northeast coast, but there was no […]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Paranormal / UFO
Posted on April 20th, 2007 by Jason
The Shawshank Redemption filmmaker Frank Darabont has hit out at movie mogul George Lucas for preventing Steven Spielberg from shooting his script for the upcoming Indiana Jones sequel, claiming his efforts were “a waste of a year.” Darabont wrote a screenplay for the highly-anticipated movie, which is still known by its working title of Indiana […]
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Posted on April 14th, 2007 by BRiT
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) — Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune “Tiny Bubbles,” has died. He was 76.He died Saturday morning of heart failure, publicist Donna Jung said.
Ho had suffered with heart problems for the past several years and had a pacemaker installed last […]
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Filed under: Celebrities, Music
Posted on April 10th, 2007 by reflex
A Brampton woman who purchased dark brown leather sofa, loveseat and chair from a Mississauga furnitute store said she was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as “Nigger-brown.” Doris Moore said said it was actually her seven-year-old daughter who first noticed the shocking label on the chocolate-coloured sofa set that she and […]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Commentary, Dumbass, Funny Bone
Posted on April 6th, 2007 by Jason
A horror movie fanatic who repeatedly slashed his terrified friend with a home-made Freddy Krueger glove was jailed for life yesterday.
Jason Moore was obsessed with the Nightmare on Elm Street killer and spent hours crafting various recreations of his ‘horrific’ weapon.
His final model featured four curved steel blades - each as sharp as a cut-throat […]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Dumbass, Movies
Posted on April 1st, 2007 by MaxPower
APRIL FOOLS!
Well, I guess nothing lasts forever… Though truth is, I never through this would happen quite so soon.
A site I used to be staff on, wtf.com, has recently sold it’s domain name to everyone’s favorite evil search giant, Google.com and the sale closed more than 3 weeks ago.
While the old site, a nice place […]
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Filed under: Commentary, Internet
Posted on April 1st, 2007 by BRiT
SAN FRANCISCO — The tech industry largely avoided a daylight-saving time disaster this month, but a few new glitches might pop up this weekend.
Daylight-saving time began three weeks early this year, causing a problem for thousands of older PCs, cellphones and other electronic devices. They were programmed to automatically switch the time on the traditional […]
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Filed under: Other, Technology
