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Breast milk ice cream?

Posted by peter on 2008-09-28 Also filed under PETA and Weird News

In the past I’ve written about some of PETA’s outragous and offensive publicity stunts. Their at it again, now PETA wants Ben & Jerry to use human breast milk to make their ice cream. Why anyone takes PETA seriously is beyond me.

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Obama on visiting 57 of the 50 United States

Posted by peter on 2008-05-14 Also filed under General, Politics and Quote of whenever

“It is just wonderful to be back in Oregon and over the last 15 months we’ve traveled uh to every corner of the United States, uh I’ve now been in 57 states, I think, one left to go. One left to go, uh Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go even though […]

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Stupid criminals 2008-02-28

Posted by peter on 2008-02-28 Also filed under Weird News

Stupid criminal stories are always fun:
SYDNEY, Australia - An armed robber picked the wrong target when he raided an Australian bar where a biker gang was holding a meeting. He ended up hog-tied and in a hospital. Read the rest at Yahoo!

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Police dogs wearing shoes?

Posted by peter on 2008-02-26 Also filed under Weird News

This is kind of an interesting weird news item, police dogs in Germany forced to wear shoes to protect their paws.

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Scary Windows hole patched

Posted by peter on 2008-01-08 Also filed under General and Tech News

It’s Patch Tuesday again, as I usually do, I reviewed the Window updates that had been pushed out before installing them. The first update in the list is a rather scary bug in the Windows TCP/IP stack, which could allow remote code execution.

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Clinton heckled by robot

Posted by peter on 2007-12-11 Also filed under Weird News

Man In Robot Costume Heckles Former President Bill Clinton
Video of the incident is now available.

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Reuters calls noted racist David Duke an “American Academic”

Posted by peter on 2007-02-25 Also filed under General, Media Bias, Politics and Weird News

This is the first of several unposted entries that I’ve gone back and finished. I started writing this post back when this actually happened but I never finished it. Unfortunately, the link to the Reuters story now seems to be dead (I’ve left it intact for posterity’s sake), but this is too big […]

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Hitler the sugar spokesmodel?

Posted by peter on 2007-02-25 Also filed under General and Weird News

Croatia probes why Hitler image on sugar packets

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Weird news round-up 2007-02-07

Posted by peter on 2007-02-07 Also filed under General and Weird News

Migrant hidden in dashboard
Ark. May Drop Schoolchildren Weigh-Ins
And of course Charged astronaut returns to Texas

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Tech news round-up 2006-12-28

Posted by peter on 2006-12-28 Also filed under General and Tech News

The good news: Wireless home theaters are on the way. That bad news: They’ll be expensive.
The Open Relay Database has shut itself down
An ink-less pen?
The new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be coming at the end of February

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