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• One-Eyed Child - Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:48 - 1 Comment
  Warning: Some may find these images disturbing. The mother of a one-eyed child born in Chennai, India, in early August might have been given an experimental anti-cancer drug, according to an internal hospital report seen by Wired News. However, the report does not say how or why the mother might have been given the drug. [...]
• Uri Geller debunked on Tonight Show - Tuesday, August 15, 2006 1:59 - 0 Comments
  
• Iran's President starts blogging - Tuesday, August 15, 2006 0:41 - 0 Comments
  Ok folks, here's one for your 'Politics' or 'World Leaders' (or 'Misc Crap') category of your favorite feed reader: Iran's 6th president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has started a blog. For those interested, our dear friend Wikipedia tells us more about Iran's top-brass: The President of Iran holds a very important office in Iran's political establishment. [...]
• Thousands of North Koreans killed in flooding - Wednesday, August 2, 2006 5:53 - 0 Comments
  SEOUL - Up to 10,000 North Koreans are believed dead or missing in what Pyongyang's official media is describing as the worst flooding in a century, a respected South Korean humanitarian group said Wednesday. A contributing factor is that North Korea's countryside has been stripped of trees which are burned for fuel and rainwater [...]
• The Sleazy Life and Nasty Death of Russia's Spam King - Wednesday, August 2, 2006 4:53 - 0 Comments
  Vardan Kushnir, Russia's spam king. He sent out over 25 million emails a day, finally ending in an open battle with Russia's Deputy Minister of Communications in which the Deputy Minister had to concede defeat. [...] Then, last July, his mother came home to Kushnir's apartment to find him in a pool of blood, bludgeoned to [...]
• Shotgun in Vietnam - Wednesday, August 2, 2006 3:19 - 1 Comment
  From Totally Crap comes this gem: I am sure at least of a couple of you out there have seen Platoon. It's supposed to be a harrowing film of war and the duality of man. But the only scene i remember is when Willem Defoe sticks a shotgun in Charlie Sheen's mouth and starts blowing [...]
• Israel using chemical weapons? - Wednesday, August 2, 2006 2:38 - 0 Comments
  Reports of Israel possibly using 'unapproved bombs'. Regardless, I think war sucks. Starvation and disease suck, too: Approximately 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in the world. Of this figure, 60 percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, nearly 11 million children die before they reach their fifth birthday. Almost all of these deaths occur [...]
• Photodocumenting the Lebanon bombings - Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:06 - 0 Comments
  The Flickr stream for blog/online newsletter "Arabist" (maintained by Issandr El Amrani, a journalist in Cairo) is filling up with photos taken on the ground in bombed-out areas of Lebanon. Link to stream, includes extremely disturbing, explicit images of burnt corpses. [via Boing Boing]
• Booby-trapped fires? - Monday, July 17, 2006 9:35 - 0 Comments
  Who? Why? What could possibly motivate people1 to do these things? The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) says crews have faced razor blades in banisters, holes in floors covered with carpet and "greased" steps. It claims the incidents, at least 40 reported a week, are so common they are considered an "occupational hazard". Merseyside Fire Service [...]