[monochrom] Unabomber objects to display of his cabin at crime museum

2008-08-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UNABOMBER_CABIN?SITE=APSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULTLink -- Posted By David Fine to

[monochrom] Blogging merit badge (at last)

2008-08-13 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The Boy Scouts of America online store has an entire section devoted to humorous spoof merit badges. If you think you've earned it, you can purchase badges for such things as Blogging, UFO sighting, and Lighting Farts. http://www.boyscoutstore.com/store/Scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=252Link

[monochrom] 'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award

2008-08-13 Diskussionsfäden Rainer Fuegenstein
Pioneering research into a gay bomb that makes enemy troops sexually irresistible to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes. Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with impotency drugs, extracting vanilla from cow dung, and the side-effects of sword