30th, December 2013
Reviews
“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
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
“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
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
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 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 »
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
Camel, thank you for the ride, the rain has stopped outside.... More »
29th, December 2013
Books
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
Compare and contrast the Sun's treatment of foreign villains. The Sun is owned By Rupert Murdoch... More »
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
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 »
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
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
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.... More »
Grandma has a Facebook account.... More »
27th, December 2013
Madeleine McCann
The Daily Mirror interrupts your holiday season to bring news of 'Our Maddie'... More »
27th, December 2013
Books
2 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 »
"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 »
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 »
Tip of the day... More »
27th, December 2013
The Consumer
Visions of hell... More »
