From YahooNews: 
Man sets sights on eye-popping record
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Claudio Paulo Pinto is looking to break an eye-popping record. Literally. Pinto can pop his eyeballs out of their sockets at least 7 millimeters (0.3 inches), a national record for eye-popping according to RankBrasil, an organization modeled after the Guinness Book of World Records […]

From YahooNews:
German joins China’s ancient warriors
HONG KONG - A German art student tried to join a Chinese dynasty’s army — but he volunteered centuries too late. The 26-year-old man — identified only as “Pablo” or by his Chinese name “Ma Lin” — made a dusty brown suit of armor, a tunic and a helmet, and […]

From The Australian News: 
Penis on again, off again
LONDON: Chinese surgeons who performed the world’s first penis transplant had to remove the new organ after the recipient developed severe psychological problems.
Doctors say the operation was a surgical success but psychological issues suffered by the man and his wife meant the donated organ had to be removed […]

From SFGATE.COM: 
Entrepreneur backs research on anti-aging
Scientist says humans could live indefinitely
A controversial scientist who hopes to help humans live for thousands of years has received a multimillion-dollar grant from a Bay Area entrepreneur.
Peter A. Thiel, co-founder and former chief executive officer of the online payments system PayPal, announced Saturday he is pledging $3.5 million “to […]

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From The Lompoc Record: 
Sheriff’s deputies encounter bizarre scene
Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies found a bizarre scene Wednesday morning when they stopped outside the La Purisima Mission to investigate an empty car.
Thinking they would find a suspect trespassing on state park property, deputies discovered 69-year-old Alfred Thomas Steven of Huntington Beach naked and […]

  
From the Daily News UK: 
Big Brother is shouting at you
Big Brother is not only watching you - now he’s barking orders too. Britain’s first ‘talking’ CCTV cameras have arrived, publicly berating bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly.
The system allows control room operators who spot any anti-social acts - from dropping litter to […]

From YahooNews:
Fawlty Towers relaunched - without mad manager
LONDON (Reuters) - The hotel that inspired the cult British television comedy series Fawlty Towers is relaunching after a makeover — but guests will be spared rants by the rudest hotelier of all time.
John Cleese was prompted to write the classic 1970s series with his then wife Connie […]

Over at Princeton University they’ve made a demonstration on how easy it is to streal an election with one of the new Electronic Diebold voting machines. Right now electronic voting machines are in roughly 40% of election districts nationwide, another 60% and stealing an entire election will become a snap!
And the best part? […]

From YahooNews: 
Mo. woman says monkey a ’service animal’
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A southwest Missouri woman has asked the Springfield-Greene County Health Department to allow her to take her pet monkey into local restaurants as a service animal.
Debby Rose, of Springfield, says Richard, her bonnet macaque monkey, provides emotional support that allows her to overcome an anxiety […]

So this morning I’m on Yahoo Instant Messenger, when I get a random instant message from someone I don’t know.  This happens once every few months, sometimes its mistaken identity, or they look you up on Yahoo or something.   So I start talking to this guy,  it turns out he lives in Europe,  his english […]

The only thing that sucks about this video is I didn’t think of this first.
Bravo!

From YahooNews: 
Astronomers find distant, fluffy planet
WASHINGTON - The largest planet ever found orbiting another star is so puffy it would float on water, astronomers said Thursday. The newly discovered planet, dubbed HAT-P-1, is both the largest and least dense of the nearly 200 worlds astronomers have found outside our own solar system.
HAT-P-1 orbits one of […]

Here we go again…
Cherry-picked intelligence,  exagerating facts,  crappy (or non existent) intel sources, and of don’t forget the most important part of the Republican Lie Machine… belittle, insult, and refute the claims of the people who are ACTUALLY ON THE GROUND and know the truth.
Sound familiar?  Have a feeling of De-Ja-Vu perhaps?
From SFGATE.COM:
U.N. inspectors challenge House […]

From YahooNews: 
Cult enters bunkers though doomsday uneventful
MAUCHE, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan followers of a U.S.-based religious sect which predicted the world would end after a September 12 outbreak of nuclear war moved into bunkers on Wednesday despite the failure of their prediction.
 
Dozens of members of the House of Yahweh — dressed in gas masks, gloves […]