CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE Kids as young as six who live on a cliff top in China’s Atule’er village in Sichuan province will no longer have to use flexible vine-based ladders to climb down and up the 2,600-foot descent from their homes to school. Beijing News disclosed in October, in a report carried by CNN, that a sturdy steel ladder was being built to aid the 400 villagers after … [Read more...] about NOTW: Ant Hell, judicial activism and odd ways to smuggle gold coins
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NOTW: Sex-tracking programs, giant centipedes and unusual mine crimes
THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT Among the health and fitness apps for computers and smartphones are sex-tracking programs to document the variety of acts and positions, degrees of frenzy and lengths of sessions (via an on-bed motion detector)–and menstrual trackers aimed at males (to help judge their partner's fertility but also her predicted friskiness and likelihood of orgasm). … [Read more...] about NOTW: Sex-tracking programs, giant centipedes and unusual mine crimes
Gun Rights Rally on Maui June 18 2014 [VID] [PICS]
Wanna see whose packin'? Gun rights rally, in Kahului Maui Wednesday afternoon June 18. Second Amendment supporters wave flags and signs in direct response to recent Senator Brian Schatz television campaign commercial. … [Read more...] about Gun Rights Rally on Maui June 18 2014 [VID] [PICS]
Vice Ministry Of Beer and Informal Georgia Sobriety Tests and Least Competent Criminals
FAMILY OF MAN The notorious white separatist Craig Cobb is currently soliciting like-skinned people to move to his tiny town of Leith, N.D. (pop. 16), to create a deluxe Caucasian enclave, but at the urging of a black TV host submitted to a DNA test in November to “prove” his lineage–and turned up 14 percent black (“Sub-Saharan African”). He has vowed to try other DNA tests … [Read more...] about Vice Ministry Of Beer and Informal Georgia Sobriety Tests and Least Competent Criminals
Busy Superheroes and Deaf Jam and Boring Surgery
‘FAIRLY’ IDIOT-PROOF? Which is more characteristically American–that a Texas company could invent an ordinary rifle that mimics a machine gun or that America’s incomparable legal minds could find a loophole in existing anti-machine-gun laws to permit it to be manufactured and sold? The Slide Fire company’s weapon can spray bullets “like a fire hose” from a legal, semi-automatic … [Read more...] about Busy Superheroes and Deaf Jam and Boring Surgery