The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine, The Northern Territory News reports.
Christine Balmer, who took the photos of the fish on the ground and in a bucket, said she had to pinch herself when she was told “hundreds and hundreds” [...]
Somewhere Eris is Laughing.
“It doesn’t mean they have stopped teaching this, it means they are going to do a better job at hiding their purpose. [Meyers] believes in anarchy, pagan worship and that Jesus was just a leader of a small cult and is a real vampire! He advocates radical socialism, limiting families to two [...]
A bill is being proposed in Utah that would criminalize pregnant women who do intentional harm to the fetus. The bill came about after a teenager, probably in response to the difficulty of obtaining a legal abortion in Utah, had someone throttle her stomach in order to stop the pregnancy. Instead of getting this girl [...]
Confused.com argues that social media services like Foursquare and Buzz can increase the risk of theft by alerting burglars to times when people are out of their homes, thus leading to home insurance hikes.
Confused.com isn’t alone in worrying about the ‘dark side’ of status updates. As we wrote last week, the site ‘PleaseRobMe.com’ was created [...]
A Wiccan inmate has cancer and the prison guards refuse to transport him to his chemotherapy treatments unless he removes his religious pentacle medallion which they have objections to. He chooses to forgo his chemotherapy and keep his pentacle. A Wiccan inmate has been trying to go to Wiccan services for months, but the guard [...]
Poet Lucille Clifton, known for mixing humor and profundity in her works, died in Baltimore after a battle with cancer, her sister, Elaine Philip, said.
The Baltimore Sun reported Sunday the former Maryland state poet laureate died of undetermined causes Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, one day after she had a portion of her [...]
Colorado Springs is turning off streetlights. Flipping the switch on about 1/3 of the city’s 24,512 streetlights is expected to save $1.245 million in electricity. But that’s just a down payment on a $28 million budget gap for 2010.
Perhaps the most noticeable change for Colorado Springs’ 400,000 residents will be in parks, where budgets have [...]
