Mirror and Cache index - Offbeat: Odd stuff
348 votes | submitted 2008-09-08 06:12:38 by CaptainD | 54 comments
We actually divorced once over the airplane/treadmill argument.
795 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 22:50:34 by D14BL0 | 76 comments
3699 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 01:11:22 by ritubpant | 352 comments
Holy crap....Check it out....I would be furious if that happened to me....WOW!
823 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 02:10:54 by alapoet | 195 comments
The gunman opened fire early Friday morning after being kicked out, Riverside sheriff's officials
say. The incident began after the gunman, along with four friends, was kicked out of Las Copas bar
in Mira Loma for causing a disturbance. On his way out, he threatened a security guard, sheriff's
officials said.
439 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 18:13:25 by netgeek06 | 20 comments
A new crime-fighting technique could make avoiding capture more difficult for even the most fiendish
gunsels.
632 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 20:15:12 by irfanmp | 59 comments
Once, he was never gonna give you up or let you down. Now, Rick Astley just wants to make you laugh.
But how does he feel being the butt of the joke? 'Flattered,' he says.
3877 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 01:40:52 by kianat | 383 comments
665 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 05:08:02 by zaibatsu | 274 comments
Am I missing something, or is this a new world order plot, to add a new secret state to our great
union :)
3131 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 06:35:39 by badwithcomputer | 192 comments
Go tiny or go home. That's the Spore marketing philosophy apparently, as the folks from EA have
installed what is probably the world's daintiest billboard in San Francisco's Union Square. At just
14" by 6", the Spore billboard requires a telescope to see. Fortunately, they've positioned just
such a telescope!
315 votes | submitted 2008-09-05 14:35:42 by kidtechguru | 25 comments
A British woman plans to make a parachute jump over Mount Everest hoping to become the first woman
ever to skydive over the world
883 votes | submitted 2008-09-05 05:44:48 by netgeek06 | 172 comments
An Italian man whose girlfriend left him to become a nun is holding a vigil outside the convent
where she is staying in a bid to get her to reconsider.
373 votes | submitted 2008-09-04 16:31:34 by kidtechguru | 93 comments
Spy satellites could soon be able to identify someone from space by looking at their shadow.They
would use a computer program that searches for the movement of shadows on the ground, and then
identifies their owners from the way they walk.
657 votes | submitted 2008-09-04 03:01:37 by AmyVernon | 109 comments
Iowa City police said a man who was driving drunk tried to bribe a police officer - with a sandwich.
4863 votes | submitted 2008-09-05 02:35:32 by MakiMaki | 226 comments
I didn't create this but damn its pretty close to what I do online sometimes.
1396 votes | submitted 2008-09-04 22:50:59 by MakiMaki | 42 comments
The doctoring of photos, once considered the reserve of tyrants and UFO nuts, is becoming
increasingly widespread. With photo-editing software becoming ever more sophisticated, it has never
been easier to create and spread hoax images. Here we present 20 of the most striking, interesting
and controversial fake photos.
983 votes | submitted 2008-09-03 00:09:03 by ohnoerino | 141 comments
They allowed at least 244 corpses to be carved up without families' permission. Skin, bones, tendons
and other parts, some of them diseased, were then sold around the country for dental implants, knee
and hip replacements, and other procedures. Among the corpses plundered was that of "Masterpiece
Theatre" host Alistair Cooke.
600 votes | submitted 2008-09-03 17:58:24 by miranda622 | 70 comments
For the last decade, Bowe has led her classes of 30 students into morgues, hospice bedrooms, and
penitentiaries for an unusual course called "Death in Perspective."