February 2011
2 posts
The 53rd Annual Grammy’s Award Show
1. Although the singing performance was well done, Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Hudson seemed almost out of place performing with much older singers. Also, that Christina was in the middle of them, to appear as the lead, seemed questionable as well. She has had a huge image change from her past performances, where she was once an innocent teenage star, to a ‘Dirty’ rebel, to a 1950’s queen, to...
Grammy Awards (Analyzation)
A) Cee-Lo Green
Image An over-weight African-American guy, who has an outrageous fashion sense and says exactly what is on his mind.
Authentic Since he is new and we have not seen any other guys really like him, we cannot be sure. Maybe he is trying to start a trend, or he really is as weird as he appears.
Album The picture of him on his album has him in a suit, different then how he...
December 2010
5 posts
A woman dialed 911 to report the theft of a...
Police said she thought it demanded their involvement because she had used pound coins for the eyes and teaspoons for the arms.
New diplomatic cables contain UFO details
New leaked diplomatic cables set to be published by Wikileaks will contain fresh details on UFOs, according to the website’s founder Julian Assange.
The 39 year-old Australian, who is wanted by Interpol over a charge of rape and sexual assault in Sweden, said there were some references to extraterrestrial life in yet-to-be-published confidential files obtained from the American...
“We must strive to be like the moon.”
– - Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone
September 2010
13 posts
“Whatever you do in life will be insignificant. But it’s very important...”
– Gandhi
Car thief runs in terror as naked owner jumps in...
Russell Stuart, 51, was asleep in his home in Dymchurch, Kent, when he heard his Peugeot 405 being started up in his driveway in the early hours of the morning.
He leapt out of bed and raced out of his front door before opening the passenger door and getting in alongside the would-be thief and said: “Where we going then?”
The Real Life Super Hero Project
These costumed heroes may look like they have jumped out of a comic book or Hollywood blockbuster, but they are all ordinary people who don’t have one special ability between them - just a super human need to help fix our broken society. These normal, but anonymous, people make up the ambitious Real Life Super Hero Project.
Man blows himself up trying to kill a spider
The 28 year-old suffered severe burns after attacking the arachnid with an aerosol can at his home in Clacton in Essex.
The man was summoned by his wife to deal with a spider she had seen scuttling behind the lavatory on Bank Holiday Monday. Not being able to reach it, the man decided to kill it by spraying it with the can.
However he was unable to see whether it was dead because the...
Golfer sparks 12-acre fire with shot in the rough
A golfer managed to set fire to a course when he accidentally struck a rock with his iron, sending sparks into the Californian rough.
The fire, at the exclusive Shady Canyon Golf Club in Irvine, California, USA, attracted 150 firefighters.
August 2010
152 posts
Chefs compete at World Testicle Cooking...
The message being delivered is that eating and cooking testicles is a humorous matter.
The Telegraph is the online newspaper delivering this message.
The values and ideologies being espoused in this article is that British people aren’t as commonly confronted regarding the cooking and eating of animal testicles. Although, the author of this article gives a gentle approach to the idea and...
18 people die in 10 days picking mushrooms
The victims have died after falling into rocky crevasses and gorges or from similar physical mishaps, rather than from inadvertently eating poisonous fungi.
Authorities said an early and bountiful mushroom harvest in the Alpine valleys of northern Italy had attracted more people than usual to scour the woods and forests in search of succulent funghi to bring to the dinner table. Many of them...
Drunk baboons plague Cape Town's exclusive suburbs
Each day, dozens of Cape Baboons gather to strip the ancient vines.
Romans wore socks with sandals
New evidence from an archaeological dig has found that legionnaires wore socks with sandals.
One in four lap dancers has a degree
An study of the industry showed that the majority of dancers were attracted into the profession by the money, with all the women interviewed having finished school and gained some qualifications.
Upcoming sequels
2011
May 20 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
May 26 The Hangover 2 Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom
June 3 X-Men: First Class
July 1 Transformers 3
August 9 Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World
November 18 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
December 16 Mission: Impossible IV Sherlock Holmes 2
2012
January 20 Underworld 4
May 18 Madagascar 3
May 25 Men In Black...
Space burial
The Orion Nebula (Hubble 2006 mosaic 18000)
Space burial is a burial procedure in which a small sample of the cremated ashes of the deceased are placed in a capsule the size of a tube of lipstick and are launched into space using a rocket. As of 2004, samples of about 150 people have been “buried” in space. The concept of shooting human remains into space using existing rockets was...
I never made it through a day of school; the only...
A multifunctional Harry Potter-style wand
The wand can be customised to control a variety of household electronic appliances such as laptops, light switches, televisions, hi-fis, DVD players and even remote-controlled curtains using different gestures.
It’s called the Kymera wand.
I’m so getting this.
Titan: Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that...
Researchers at the space agency believe they have discovered vital clues that appeared to indicate that primitive aliens could be living on the moon.
Data from NASA’s Cassini probe has analyzed the complex chemistry on the surface of Titan, which experts say is the only moon around the planet to have a dense atmosphere.
They suggest that life forms may have been breathing in the...