17th, January 2014
Key Posts
1 Mikaeel Kular is missing. He's three. His mother, Rosdeep Kular, him last at 9pm on Wednesday, at his home in Ferry Gait Crescent, Edinburgh. That was when she put him to bed. He lives there with his four siblings. He noticed he was missing at 7:15am... More »
17th, January 2014
Celebrities
According to a statement given by the longest face in town, Morrissey is "thrilled" with the new contract. He'll be off to France to record the album, working with his longtime/long suffering touring band... More »
17th, January 2014
Reviews
This week a sperm whale washed up on Portobello beach in Edinburgh. Want to see what happened to the whales that too too close to a boat? ... More »
17th, January 2014
Flashback
Five members of the Alcohol Prohibition Research Committee depart on the bus Diogenes, named after the man who sought in vain for an honest man, in New York City... More »
17th, January 2014
Strange But True
"It is a historic decision not to offer funeral prayers of the drunkards who die," says Hafiz Maulana Mahtab Alam Makhdumi, of the Anjuman Faizane Mustafa Committee, Nalanda... More »
17th, January 2014
Reviews
Last week, an assistant manager at a Savannah Panera Bread, told Duke's 2-year-old daughter to remove her shoes. A customer had complained they were squeaking "too much". "We weren't welcome with the shoes. It was very blatant,” adds Duke. "Emma has an undiagnosed developmental disorder that prevented her from walking until she was 23-months-old. These are special shoes. They squeak when she walks properly.".. More »
17th, January 2014
Flashback
1 It is a common misconception that the 1970s were this wildly liberal time where every tradition was fair game. Sure, there were a lot of ‘progressive’ philosophies that entered Main Street which had heretofore been relegated to liberal back alleys. However, with each New Idea came the predictable resistance. Nothing epitomizes this better than the Women’s Lib movement which gained traction in the late sixties and became a buzz word for the ensuing decade... More »
16th, January 2014
In Pictures
In these pictures, men belonging to a self-defense group formed to fight organized crime are manning a checkpoint in Paracuaro. Paracuaro residents set at least three trailer trucks on fire to protest the arrival of more than 100 vigilantes to their town in the western state of Michoacan... More »
16th, January 2014
Reviews
Who ate all the pies..? More »
16th, January 2014
Celebrities
3 I LEE PIPECOCK JACKSON PERRY would LOVE to express my concern over your consideration of one quarter kilo to be an excessive amount of herbs in the case as it pertains to master PAUL McCARTNEY... More »
16th, January 2014
Reviews
8 Lady mannequins inside the American Apparel store window displays on East Houston Street in New York City are now sporting full bush... More »
16th, January 2014
Flashback
1 Flashback to August 5, 1953: Exiled Egyptian King Farouk strolls in the sun by the swimming pool at singer Gracie Fields' restaurant, Canzone del Mare, on the Isle of Capri, Italy. King Farouk and his family spent time as guests of the British star... More »
16th, January 2014
Music
So, from the week ending Sunday 12 January, a piddling 4.25m units (CD and vinyl) were sold across the US. Frampton Comes Alive probably sold that in the first minute of sales back in the 70s... More »
The music streaming service, Spotify, now allows unlimited free listening. This is seen as a great step forward: the company's technology is getting better, they're getting better at selling ads and all that sort of stuff. This may or may not be the actual reason they're lifting their previous limits though... More »
16th, January 2014
Sports
2 Let's change the words a little: "It's absurd that a country like that sends four blacks to Nazi Germany just to demonstrate that in their country equal rights have (been established).." More »
16th, January 2014
Music
See if you can listen twice without getting a headache... More »
16th, January 2014
The Consumer
No. Not a Pete Doherty X-Ray... More »
What news of West Ham United's Ravel Morrison?... More »
16th, January 2014
Flashback
3 You are looking at NASA's picture of the "Typical ECG signal received during Apollo 11 mission"... More »
16th, January 2014
Sports
CNN'S James Masters, reports on news that the Polish prosecutor says Lech Poznan fans chanting "Move on, Jews! Your home is at Auschwitz! Send you to the gas (chamber)!" to Widzew Lodz supporters is not anti-Semitic... More »
16th, January 2014
Flashback
Eyes in the sky are now commonplace. But at the beginning of the last century, surveying land from up there was limited to looking down from hot-air balloons and sketching the view. Cameras had been used, notably when tethered to pigeons, but George R. Lawrence had an idea. What if he strapped the panoramic camera he had designed and built to a kite?... More »
16th, January 2014
Strange But True
Does what it says on the door... More »
16th, January 2014
Gifs
I say, I say, I say, my dog drinks water backwards.... More »
16th, January 2014
In Pictures
16th, January 2014
Film
Recently, a few well-meaning New Yorkers stopped to check on a crying baby in an abandoned stroller and got seriously spooked when a hideous demonic baby shot straight up from beneath the blankets... More »
