From YahooNews:
Oregon Man Survives 12 Nails to the Head
By SARAH SKIDMORE
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say.
Surgeons removed the nails with needle-nosed pliers and a drill, and […]

There’s an interesting article over on the Nova Web Page called “Dimming of the Sun”  It’s all about how contrails from airplanes may be aiding Global Warming, or at least modifying our weather.
I’ve noticed over the past 5-8 years, that when I look out an airplane window I see a lot more yellowish/brown haze off into […]

From The China Daily:
Bra producers bust out D cups as breasts grow
A recent report suggesting Chinese women are growing larger breast made headlines around the country, but it wasn’t news to bra makers, many of whom have been producing larger cup sizes for the last year.
Some underwear companies have even created sub-brands specializing in larger […]

                       
Todays Terrorist Chimp      Tomorrow’s Ape Overlords
 
From NEWSDAY.COM:
Police Hunt for Chimps After Fatal Attack
By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Police hunted Monday for chimpanzees that escaped from a Sierra Leone preserve and mauled a group of American and local sightseers, killing one man and injuring four people.
The U.S. Embassy warned Americans against traveling to the […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
5-hour nude chimney stay ends with arrest
Man locks himself out, tries flue entry, gets stuck; police suspect drug use
HAYWARD, Calif. - Police arrested a man who spent five hours naked and stuck in the chimney of his stepmother’s California home.
Police say Michael Urbano locked himself out of the house early Saturday morning and decided […]

 
From CNN.COM:
Man dies when large hole opens in home
ALTA, California (AP — It was like a scene from a horror film: A 27-year-old man plummeted into a gaping hole that suddenly opened beneath a house, trapping him beneath foundation rubble and killing him.
Authorities say the home, built in the 1980s, may have been sitting atop […]

It’s pretty hard to make a bad Rap Video, as most of them pretty much suck ass anyways (How many times do I need to see wanna-be gangsters yelling at me about their bling bling)  but this poor guy… 
What was he thinking ?!?
 

Could this be the beginning of the Long Emergency?   For more on this, check out the review I wrote by James Howard Kunstler a few weeks ago. 
From CNN Money.COM:
Oil turns higher, hits record above $74
Inventory worries linger; keeping an eye on Iran, new front-month contract.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices turned higher and hit a record […]

Have you ever wanted to add a Google Map to your Web Page or Blog?
Over on the Exploration Age Blog they have a really good step-by-step guide on how to do it.

 
From MSNBC.COM:
New Mexico spaceport ‘open for business’
Construction pace picks up in preparation for maiden launch in July
Work at the New Mexico spaceport has reached a milestone as facilities are ready to support the first rocket flight from the site, now targeted for July. Meanwhile, state planners have issued a request for proposals to design and […]

 
From NEWSDAY.COM:
82-year-old kidney in 55-year-old man
BY JIM RITTER Staff Reporter
His birth certificate says he’s 55, but Bill Thompson’s kidney is 82 years old.
Thompson received the kidney in a 1966 transplant at Children’s Memorial Hospital that saved his life and made medical history.
(more here)

 
 From CNN.COM:
John Travolta as J.R. Ewing?
‘Dallas’ movie to also include Jennifer Lopez as Sue Ellen
LONDON, England (AP) — British director Gurinder Chadha announced Friday that she would direct John Travolta and Jennifer Lopez in a big-screen version of the 1980s TV show “Dallas.”
The “Bend it Like Beckham” director said she had signed a deal […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
At 80, queen’s popularity endures and grows
How about recognition for a job well done after 54 years on the throne?
LONDON — So what do you give a queen celebrating her 80th birthday?
Another crown seems pointless — she owns the world’s most magnificent ones.
Wait, she’s an animal lover!
Nah — the London Zoo is full of […]

Apparently there are parents out there who were stupid enough to send their kids to go play with “Uncle Kenny”…
 
At his Beautifull Neverland Ranch style compound…

In his Dungeon of Joy…

From CNN.COM:
Uncle Kenny’s dungeon inspires crackdown
State pushes execution for repeat rapists of children
HARTSVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — Neighborhood teenagers called him Uncle Kenny, the wiry man […]