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Here’s a scary pic and story turned reassuring from Wisconsin, USAE: This picture shows wild game hunter Jon holding a live homo sapiens cub that he caught in a Wisconsin forest this summer. This blood-sucking little beast had been on a rampage in the neighbourhood for three months before Jon was able to track it […]

Last Thursday I received this mail from a reader: Hi, my name is Anh and for my BA-Thesis I’m currently conducting a study about American Bloggers. I would like to invite you to participate in the survey. It will only take about 15 minutes and it’s completely anonymous. Just visit the following URL: http://onlineforschung.org/usblogger Even […]

The Bureau of Public Secrets website is 10 years old! Inaugurated 22 August 1998, the site now includes over 600 webpages in 13 languages, and has received over 5,000,000 visits from people in more than 220 countries. For this 10th anniversary, Ken Knabb has posted a brief account of the development of the site, along […]

Behold the EYE MASSAGER from the 1920s: Apparently it was not enough to have a gadget for massaging the body. By the 1920s, it was also deemed necessary to devise a mechanism to massage the eyeballs. This convoluted gadget was pressed to the face. The user would then operate the small lever to compress the […]

I’m an avid reader of various cryptozoology sites, that is, websites covering the news of cryptids and the cryptozoology community. A ‘cryptid’ is any creature unknown to science that exist or previously existed and has been described in folklore and legends. Take the dragon of the fairy tale for instance. Or the Loch Ness monster […]

Yo, I’m innit! LotD: Condensed History: The Race to the South Pole by ScaryDuck And who says I don’t do brilliant translations? We just got settled in in a two bedroom apartment in Dublin. Yeah ‘we’ – Koew‘s here too. And the mysterious mr. S. He’s got nothing better to do these days anyway. Might […]

At least that’s what they call him, in awe, in South Africa. That’s right! Our favourite member of the Mandela family turned 90 years old today. Hooray! As a birthday gift and to take part in the world-wide celebration without having to face the moral judgment of history, the United States of the American Empire […]

Fire exits in Bodø airport..This architect clearly saw Star Wars as a kid, don’t you think? This is where we slept, in an old storehouseAlmost felt like living in a dollhouse The bedroom viewSheltered from the world we had a small veranda, couple of chairs and coffee:) Oslomøy at dock in Røsvik The brilliant midnight […]

Been a while since I posted some pics, and since I’m too stressed to write anything… Oh, and if you have a flickr or a yahoo account, you can login on flickr and add comments, notes and whatnot to the pictures yourself:) My mother had a visit by her godson this weekend and while she […]

June 17th the long-awaited browser Firefox 3 will be released and downloads are expected en masse. In that event, go to the site below and pledge your participation to download your copy of the world’s best web browser (that just got a whole lot better) on that very day. The Guinness World Record attempt aims […]