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Victim of false rape claim must pay £12,500 for bed and board in jail
Seeded on Thu Jan 3, 2008 5:52 PM EST (the Mail online)
A man wrongly jailed when a woman cried rape has failed to prevent being charged £12,500 for his "board and lodging" while in prison. Warren Blackwell, 38, spent three years in jail as a convicted sex attacker until his 'victim' was unmasked as a fantasist.
White House press secretary admits she didn't know what Cuban Missile Crisis was
Seeded on Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:27 AM EST (Raw Story)
Turns out she doesn't know quite so much about nuclear weapons as she supposes.
Is Europe a country? At least they speak French there
Seeded on Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:51 AM EST (YouTube)
At the American TV show "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" the "smart" contestant was asked "Budapest is the capital of what European country?" while thinking she said thigns such as:
Doctors of the world: Number of inhabitants per doctor
Seeded on Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:34 AM EDT ()
Poster that shows the number of inhabitants per doctor in the world. It comes from a Dutch advertisement hanging at doctors rooms. Perhaps you would be surprised to know how many doctors per inhabitant Cuba has and how many USA or England has.
McLaren are expelled for two years from F1
Seeded on Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:16 PM EDT (PLANET-F1)
Breaking news from Paris: McLaren have reportedly been excluded from the 2007 and 2008 championships.
Crazy Questions at Google Job Interview
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 7:31 PM EDT ([Blog] Make Money Online with Tihomir Nakov)
If you want to work for Google Inc. prepeare yourself for questions like: How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? or:
Civil war monument to British volunteers stolen
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 10:12 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
A monument to the British dead at one of the bloodiest encounters of the Spanish civil war has been torn down and carried away by rightwing extremists.
Images That Changed The World?!
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 10:08 AM EDT ([Blog] WEIRD WORLD)
Some interesting images that could change people's mind at that time, and also can do it now.
Euromyths from the UK
Seeded on Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:57 AM EDT (European Commision)
The European Commission's Press Office in London monitors the British press's highly distorted coverage of the European Union.
Restored Viking ship to sail North Sea
Seeded on Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:55 PM EDT (Breitbart)
An 11th-century Viking longship that has been reconstructed to its original condition will soon depart on a seven-week voyage from Denmark across the North Sea to her home port of Dublin, powered only by her sails.
Only one in six of UK's richest men is paying any income tax
Seeded on Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:58 PM EDT (This is London)
The super-rich are using loopholes to avoid paying £2billion a year in income tax, official figures have revealed. Only one in six of those earning more than £10million a year is paying tax on their earnings - with the rest using loopholes to dodge the burden.
Iron Age «Mickey Mouse» Found
Seeded on Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:00 PM EDT (Discovery.com)
One thousand years before the cartoon character Mickey Mouse was even a glint in Walt Disney's eye, a French artist created a bronze brooch that looks remarkably like the famous rodent, according to archaeologists at Sweden's Lund Historical Museum, which houses the recent find …
New BBC advertising campaing in US
Seeded on Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:29 AM EDT (AdvertBox)
Spectacular new advertising campaing from BBC World.
Germany's "Robin Hood" banker sent to prison Germany's "Robin Hood" banker sent to prison
Seeded on Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:09 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
A German banker who stole money from rich clients to help poor ones has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison, a court said on Thursday.
101 Really Useful Websites
Seeded on Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:46 AM EDT (The Independent)
The net's not just about eBay and MySpace. The ingenious sites here can transform your life in the real world. Want to be first in line for gig tickets, find free parking or get paid to shop? It's all just a click away.
Read a women's face as an open book
Seeded on Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:17 AM EDT ([Blog] Dark Roasted Blend)
A guide to understand women's facial expressions and how to provoke each one. Some of the examples are "uncontrolled anger", "sheer excitement", "love is in the air", "ecstasy from shopping" etc.
The Peruvian Church of Cthulhu
Seeded on Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:11 AM EDT (Wired News)
A Catholic splinter group in Peru has named itself the "Peruvian Church of Cthulhu" and vows to adhere only to the law of "who will be eaten first." Its members say they started the group to protest the intense Catholicism in Peru.
State Department's Got Mail, and Hackers thru MS Word
Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:58 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S. government's network.
[Video] What is Linex and what represents for Extremadura
Seeded on Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:29 AM EDT (YouTube)
Linex, the GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian, developed by one of the poorest regions of Spain (and Europe) gave it the leadership of IT in Europe, developing local business and introducing Internet and computers to the whole population, elders and youngsters.
Blogger posts Windows Vista SP1 fixes on Web site
Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2007 7:00 PM EDT (NetworkWorld)
Ethan Allen, owner of the blog The Hotfix blog, dedicated to software patches, has posted online more than 100 fixes he said are expected to be included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft's first major update to its latest Windows client OS.
What people think about your country
Tue Apr 3, 2007 5:12 PM EDT
When we heard about the movie Hostel I was in Denmark for my Erasmus grant, and the grils from Slovakia wanted to see what an american director showed from their country.
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Korean Sex Theme Park
Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:35 AM EDT (Knuttz.net)
Pictures of a park located in South Korea where sex is the main topic.
The Last Photo I Took
Seeded on Tue Mar 6, 2007 1:43 PM EST (Moronland)
Heres a classic gallery of what the "last" photo a person takes would be.
Windows Vista brute force crack is a hoax
Seeded on Sun Mar 4, 2007 4:37 PM EST (CNET News.com)
The author of the Windows Vista keygen has admitted that the program does not actually work. fact is the brute force keygen is a joke, i never intended for it to work. I have never gotten it to work, everyone should stop using it!
Man Questioned About Bush Yard Artwork
Seeded on Fri Mar 2, 2007 6:00 PM EST (Associated Press)
Secret Service agents have questioned an Alameda man about a display in his front yard featuring a cardboard cutout of President Bush with a knife through his head.
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