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30th, December 2013 Reviews

Christmas Row Watch: Liverpool Lovers Racially Abuse Perth Police In Tinsel Fight

“This was at their home and they are partners who live together. Officers attended regarding a domestic incident. This was a minor incident regarding the Christmas decorations...The officers could hear Lappin in a heated exchange with his partner..." More »

30th, December 2013 Strange But True

Human Magnet Etibar Elchyev Attracts 53 Spoons To His Body

Elchyev, 41, now holds the world record for having metal objects stuck by magnetic force to his body. His record stands at 53 spoons. Says Elchyev:"When the time comes I am going (to move) an airplane, then an empty train carriage, something like this, I won't reveal all my cards at once."... More »

30th, December 2013 Strange But True

Muggers Refuse To Steal New York Man's Old Mobile

“Once he saw my phone, he looked at it like, ‘What the f–k is this?’ and gave it back to me,” recalled Kevin Cook... More »

30th, December 2013 Reviews

Man Alive: Kentucky Man Runs About Bingo Hall With His Trousers Down

To Louisville, Kentucky, where Deharra Waters is at the Bingo hall on Blue Lick Road. That's him running about the place with his trousers halfway down his legs yelling 'BINGO!" ... More »

30th, December 2013 Key Posts

The Hanging Dolls Of Mexico's Dead Girl Island

They’re in the trees and on the ground, bunched together on wooden fence posts and hanging from clotheslines like laundry left to dry. Their dead eyes stare at you from half empty sockets, their dirty hair hangs like cobwebs. Their skin is scabbed and peeling away, and their plump limbs are scattered everywhere—arms and legs strewn about haphazardly, decapitated heads impaled on stakes... More »

29th, December 2013 Books 2

Amazon Is Banning Sales Of Virginia Wade's Monster Smut e-Books

Author Virginia Wade’s fiction debut follows a group of women who embark on a week-long camping trip to Mt. Hood National Forest. There, in the shadow of Oregon’s highest mountain, they are kidnapped and assaulted by a mysterious woodland creature. “What the hell is that thing?” asks one protagonist.... More »

29th, December 2013 Technology 1

Can Thoughts Alter Gene Activity?

With evidence growing that training the mind or inducing certain modes of consciousness can have positive health effects, researchers have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body. A new study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France reports the first evidence of specific molecular changes in the body following a period of intensive mindfulness practice... More »

29th, December 2013 Flashback

Lost Sesame Street: Take Me For A Ride To See Crack Monkey On Your Crack Camel

Camel, thank you for the ride, the rain has stopped outside.... More »

29th, December 2013 Books

J.G. Ballard: The Death Of Imagination

On surrealism... More »

29th, December 2013 Books

Library Rules of The Insane Asylum of California (1861)

1. The Library of the male department shall be under the charge of the Supervisor. Every volume taken therefrom shall be charged to the borrower, except for the use of the patients, when it shall be charged to the Attendant, into whose ward it is taken, who will be responsible for its being used with ordinary care and returned in proper time.... More »

29th, December 2013 Sports

Mike Tyson's Message To Foreign Criminals: Get A Book Deal With The Sun's Rupert Murdoch

Compare and contrast the Sun's treatment of foreign villains. The Sun is owned By Rupert Murdoch... More »

29th, December 2013 Money 2

Hurrah! Student Loans Are Working!

No this is excellent news, the entire point of our having student loans to pay fees, rather than grants or the government paying, seems to have sunk through into the head of at least one student. The point is, of course, to get people concentrating on what they are doing at university More »

29th, December 2013 Reviews

All Fox Hunters Are Scum - Well, Anyone Rural, Traditional And Conservative Has To Be

Are hunters scum? Is their desire to dress in tights and cropped jackets (for him) and hunt foxes offending you? Or is your problem with hunters, that they embody all the things you aren't allowed to like, things labelled "rural", "traditional", "local" and "conservative"?.. More »

29th, December 2013 Money

Why Facebook Is Dead And Buried

This is a fairly strong prediction: that Facebook is actually dead and buried. At the same time as it manages to increase the number of users, increase the amount of time they spend on the site and also charge more money for each of the more ads they see... More »

28th, December 2013 Reviews

Pussy Riot Will Not Be Appearing At The Sochi Olympics

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have been granted amnesty, two months short of their scheduled release after spending nearly two years in prison for their protest at Moscow's main cathedral... More »

28th, December 2013 Reviews

Princeton Student Kiki Lin Screws Her Eponymous Cat Into A Jar

The Mary Bale Fan Club welcomes Taiwanese-born Princeton student Kiki Lin who stuffed her cat - also called Kiki Lin - into a jar before closing the lid... More »

28th, December 2013 Reviews

Christmas Row Watch: Stabbed By A Squirrel And Other Seasonal Family Fights

Christmas Row Watch.... More »

27th, December 2013 Technology

Facebook Is Dead: British Parents Use It To Spy on Their Kids Who Want To Be On Snapchat

Grandma has a Facebook account.... More »

27th, December 2013 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Bungling 'Cops', The Suspect Who Wasn't And The Maddie Advent Calendar

The Daily Mirror interrupts your holiday season to bring news of 'Our Maddie'... More »

27th, December 2013 Books 2

Extreme Dieting: Keith Moon Versus Hunter S Thompson

The late Keith Moon was once asked whether he thought he was the greatest drummer in the world, he replied: “I’m the greatest Keith Moon-style drummer in the world”, and no one can argue with that. However Moon is just as famous, even today, for packing in far more than his fair share of convivial nights during his short eventful life... More »

27th, December 2013 Strange But True

Walmart Sells Nintendo 3DS With Free Dirty Photos - Hurry Whilst Stocks Last!

"After a while, [the kids] took pictures of themselves and when the picture was taken it went to a file. When that file was opened, there were already pictures on it..." More »

27th, December 2013 Film

Are You Ready For Candy Crush, The Movie?

Films everyone can remember first time round are being remade, Ryan Reynolds is still getting work and, weirdest of all, films are being made based on toys... More »

27th, December 2013 Flashback

In 1994 Tom Tomorrow Predicted The NSA Would Spy On All Of Us

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27th, December 2013 Strange But True

Security Guard Killed By Arrested Snake He Placed About His Shoulders

Tip of the day... More »

27th, December 2013 The Consumer

Spot the difference: Dante's Hell vs Boxing Day at Westfield

Visions of hell... More »