From YahooNews:
Man builds 3,300-pound rubber band ball
EUGENE, Ore. - With all due respect to The Spinners and T.I., prepare yourself for the new rubber-band man. Steve Milton, through concentration and perseverance, has created a 3,300-pound ball comprised of rubber bands. His creation measures almost 5 feet tall and takes up half his two-car garage. […]

From Aftenposten.no: 
What in the world?
A mysterious gelatinous ball has puzzled and fascinated researchers after undersea photographer Rudolf Svensen spotted it while diving at the mouth of the Matre fjord in Hordaland, western Norway.
On Oct. 1 Rudolf and his brother Erling were diving when he spotted the unusual object.
“It was 50-70 centimeters (19.5-27.5 inches) in diameter […]

From CNN.COM:
Iraqi prime minister: ‘I’m not America’s man’
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday referred to the boundary between himself and the United States, telling U.S. President Bush that he answers first to the Iraqi government and people, according to an Iraqi official.
The clarification first came up Friday during a private […]

 
I stumbled upon this today, the pictures are pretty amazing so I thought I would share.  No this machine is not a model from some new Star Wars movie, these pictures are of a real $100 million dollar, 45,000 ton trenching machine being used on an open air coal mine in Europe.   These pictures are of its […]

From YahooNews: 
Extra rear ends New Zealand’s four-legged chicken
WELLINGTON, New Zeland (AFP) - Forzie, the four-legged chicken hatched in New Zealand last month, has died, and it appears it was an extra anus rather than the extra legs which led to its death.
“He developed two bottoms and I think he got glugged up,” said owner Marlene […]

“That Guy was a Homo!”
Watch the Tool being trained to be a Tool.

The Tool has his “Nazi Moment”

Pat Robertson & Friends. More Blah blah blah… Katrina is Gods Wrath blah blah blah God said this, God said that…blah blah blah… God vomited…. blah blah blah….Homos bad….blah blah blah.

The “700 Gang” Pat Robertson SNL Sketch. […]

From MSNBC.COM:
Cheney endorses simulated drowning
Says use of water boarding to get terrorist intelligence is ‘no brainer’
WASHINGTON - Dick Cheney, US vice-president, has endorsed the use of “water boarding” for terror suspects and confirmed that the controversial interrogation technique was used on Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qaeda operative now being held at Guantánamo Bay.
Cheney was […]

50 years ago we had Elvis & Sinatra, now we have idiots like Kevin Feder-swine and his bubble-gun smacking white-trash wife. It’s Dukes of Hazzard meets Corpo-Rap. woo hoo!
From YahooNews:  
K-Fed: ‘If you want to hate me, cool, hate me’
NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Federline, aka K-Fed and Mr. Britney Spears, says he […]

From YahooNews: 
New fast food debuts in U.S. fairs — fried Coke
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new fast food is making its debut at U.S. fairs this fall — fried Coke. Abel Gonzales, 36, a computer analyst from Dallas, tried about 15 different varieties before coming up with his perfect recipe — a batter mix made […]

A week and a half to go until the 2006 congressional elections,  it’s looking pretty good for the Democrats to re-take the House of Representatives for the first time since the infamous “Contract with America” Republican take-over in 1994.
And what a swell contract that was,  here we are 12 years later, with our nation in […]

Is America still falling for Bush’s crap? I guess we’ll see in 10 more days.

From YahooNews:
Vampyre club seeks new recruits
LONDON (Reuters) - Vampyres are prowling for new recruits in London as Halloween approaches to partake in wild parties, trips to Transylvania and bat spotting nights — but coffin-dwelling, blood drinkers need not apply.
With a penchant for custom-made fangs, striking make-up and gothic clothes, members of the London Vampyre Group […]

Over on Addictinggames.com they have this really cool game for Geography nerds like me, click here to fit State puzzle pieces onto a blank map of the USA. Can you beat my score? I got one wrong, and that’s only because I put Nebraska a wee bit to far to the left. […]

From YahooNews:
Hunt for alien life turns to ET-TV
PARIS (AFP) - A new generation of ultra-powerful radio telescopes designed to peer into the origins of the Universe could reportedly also be used to look for any radio or TV emissions by extraterrestrial civilisations.
According to the New Scientist, TV and radio broadcasts are in the 50-400 megahertz […]