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Entries Tagged as 'Bizarre news'

What I’m reading: 11/05/2009

May 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Bizarre news, Diigo links, This sporting life

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What I’m reading: 06/05/2009

May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Bizarre news, But is it Art?, Diigo links

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What I’m reading: 04/05/2009

May 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Bizarre news, But is it Art?, Diigo links

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Reasons to be suspicious of surprise inheritances and magic money-cleansing chemicals

January 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Bizarre news, Speechless

Like the common cold, the advance fee fraud (or 419) scammers keep adapting to survive. Here’s a cautionary tale from The Register which seems to involve almost every trick in the scammers’ book

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Entropa: The best public art installation in the world, ever

January 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Bizarre news, But is it Art?, Lulz

On the verge of the unveiling, the public art project representing each of Europe’s nations as a pop-out piece from an Airfix kit, turns out to be not quite what the Great and Good were expecting. And everyone, absolutely everyone, has found something to be offended about.

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Recreating the heyday of Victorian exploration

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Bizarre news, Steampunk, The great outdoors

Just in case lack of daylight hours, extreme weather, worldwide recession, war in the Middle East, the march of government intrusion and Windows Vista’s impasse with your printer are making life hard to bear this grim Monday morning, here’s a bit of steampunk magic.

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You just can’t get the people nowadays…

December 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Bizarre news, Lulz, Speechless

This is one that the publisher of the below-mentioned magazine really should have seen coming: the so-called Chinese classical poem illustrating its cover is reputedly an ad for a Macau brothel.

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Taking animal welfare (or doing a friend a favour) very seriously

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Bizarre news

Something tells me that most of us would be better off not summoning the emergency services for hamster rescue – if we have no personal connection to trade on, that is…

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Breaking into Tesco: how not to do it.

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Bizarre news, Lulz

The moral of this tale? If contemplating breaking and entering – buy a decent belt.

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Make benefit glorious footballing nation of Kazakhstan

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Bizarre news

Football fever and dreams of World Cup glory have gripped Kazakhstan at a time of great national progress and development. Whether that can be translated into sporting success is another matter.

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