Think it’s all been done? Nothing left to accomplish on the world stage if you haven’t won an Olympic medal by the time you’re 12 (even though the minimum age is older than that?)  You just need to get a little more creative – like this guy that just broke the lawnmower speed record.  Now [...]

For the most part requests under the Freedom of Information Act (or local equivalent) are fairly low on the entertainment scale unless you are really into conspiracy theories. That was until a recent request in Great Britain made the news when someone requested information regarding the official tracking of Sea monsters. I’m not sure if [...]

I’m not much for scatological humor and really hoping this is the one and only post on the subject. I just couldn’t pass by the recent discovery of the pitcher plant shaped like a toilet that’s actually designed for that purpose, at least by tree shrews.  Just proves you can find just about anything in [...]

So the exorcised ghost auction I mentioned last Friday has concluded and it turns out the going rate is just under $1000 US per ghost.  Which is interesting given that most people (including the seller)  want to get rid of ghosts not add them to the family. Of course, maybe the buyer just really wanted [...]

It seems like every four years the media wakes up and remembers curling is an Olympic sport and starts the same jokes all over again. I can’t really blame t hem as I once sat through a collegiate curling practice – 20 years later and I would still rate that experience up there with Vogon [...]

So when the woman in England’s Midlands got the official note that her gnomes had to go, did the official really think they were a fire hazard or just seized an opportunity to reduce the population by two?  (The gnome owner has prevailed – garden gnomes not currently deemed a fire hazard…)  It does seem [...]

It’s all over the news.  Okay, mostly in the odd and bizarre section but when even NPR reports on it, it’s at least legitimate. It’s the story of the Massachusetts high school that has banned the apparently disruptive word ‘meep’ on school grounds. It doesn’t take much imagination to calculate the annoyance factor of a [...]

When I used my metal detector for the first time, I found a piece of tin foil and a nail – both minted within the last 50 years which would qualify them as collectibles  -  not even antiques.  Unlike the guy that recently found a small iron-age hoard of gold in Scotland. I would once [...]

If you had 3 million dollars would you buy something tangible (like an island) or blow it all on four days in a space hotel?  At least 43 people have voted for space so far even though there is no mention of the food, and probably for a good reason.  There is a teasing reference [...]

Even if most of the userbase departed Second Life when gambling disappeared, businesses and organizations have been going the other way – to Second Life and elsewhere in cyberspace.  And they need to be ‘virtually’ staffed apparently by real people. Which means avatars. Which means someone is getting upset that the avatar in the next [...]