Posted in Odd News, Politics, Uncategorized on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Interesting article on Russian torture devices. The handsaw torture technique seems especially barbaric…
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Torture devices don’t come more downright extreme than the Hand Saw, and the diagram leaves little to the imagination. The victim was hung upside down to supply the brain with oxygen and slow down the blood loss so that they [...]
Posted in Health, Women, tagged Health, women's health on March 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Ginny Graves
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updated 11:54 a.m. ET, Fri., March. 13, 2009
Most minor discomfort is a sign of … not much. Maybe you had a heavy meal, a stressful day, a hard workout — and by the next day you feel fine again. But a handful of trivial-sounding symptoms can sometimes be red flags for something [...]
Posted in Humor, Jokes, Political Humor, Women on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gets the SNL treatment.
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Posted in Art, Photography, Random Thoughts, Society, Uncategorized on September 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
http://www.skytopia.com
Try this out, and experience natural hallucination. Stare at the center, keep your eyes still & look away when instructed. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those lame “something pops up & scares you” videos.
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of attention was paid this week to several categories of controversial YouTube videos. The New York Times reported on the trend of videos depicting users smoking Salvia divinorum, a highly potent natural hallucinogen. Web Scout took a look at the thriving online pot video culture, much of which lives on YouTube. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The veteran journalist and her co-hosts on The View vet the GOP ticket far more effectively than any mainstream journalist in recent memory–and that’s kind of embarrassing.
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Posted in Health, Society, Uncategorized on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From cannabis to ecstasy, scientists fight to study illicit drugs’ medical properties. The DEA, FDA, other governmental bureaucracies, and other barriers also remain in the way of conducting medical research on these illegal drugs.
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A woman found dead in a sewage tank may have become lost in a maze of tunnels before being overcome by poison gas.
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Posted in Odd News, Society, Uncategorized on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Madame Tussaud’s says it has returned a wax figure of Adolf Hitler to its newly opened Berlin branch weeks after the statue was beheaded by a 41-year-old German.
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Posted in Odd News, Society, Uncategorized on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An estimated 150 million people continued to be without social lives as a massive system failure at MySpace.com entered its third day. “I’ve just been wandering in and out of my cubicle in a daze, not knowing what to say and who to talk to,”
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just thinking about it is enough to rattle your teeth. The Dutch media are enthralled by the trials of two men dubbed the “horror dentists.” They were caught separately practicing without licenses – and, according to the allegations, without much skill, either.
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Posted in Celebrity, Uncategorized on September 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
AC/DC fans everywhere are more excited than a cheerleader on speed right now as the band has just revealed the opening leg of the Black Ice World Tour.
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