Weird News

[Chaos]

Didn't read the article but.....how do you wash it?

With acid... duh!

[jewishcarpenter]

Drops of water stay as spherical balls on top of the fabric and a sheet of the material need only be tilted by 2 degrees from horizontal for them to roll off like marbles.

Awesome!

Didn't read the article but.....how do you wash it?

dry clean it?

[Chaos]

Actually, dry cleaning isn't dry. It's also a liquid, but it's a chemical bath instead of water with detergent.

[Chaos]

Today's topic for discussion: Ethical Killing Machines.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/11/25/1920224.shtml

I, for one, would like to welcome our new robotic overlords with open arms. Please don't kill me.

[SmilinJackRoss]

Student in dorm finds his stolen xbox using the controller the thief left behind.

[Chaos]

hahah, that's kind of awesome.

(btw - only 30 feet of range? what a gyp! if you can't play your console from so far away you can't make out the characters on screen, where's the fun? )

[stansimpson]

New Jersey supermarket denies Adolf Hitler a birthday cake.

It's one batshit crazy thing to name your kid Adolf Hitler (and Aryan Nation), but it's a whole other level when the father is "surprised by all the controversy the dispute had generated."

[Action Batch]

Will you make a cake for my son? His name is &%*$ your Mother in the &#@ O'Reily. WHAT? YOU WON'T?? WHY NOT???

[RobtheBarbarian]

BLALSRGHHBHGHBAHBGBHAHHBHABHBABABBAFREESPEECH!!!1

I hope this kid grows up to murder his parents for the torment this name will put him through.

[darkchashy]

Kid took a foot to the head... in the womb
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/18297954/detail.html#-
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[Variety of Cells]

This isn't so much "weird news" as it is "really stupid news"

I just saw a report on an airport television about a study claiming that heavy metal may be detrimental to your health. Banging your head, according to the study, causes the loss of brain cells and could even lead to a concussion.

I imagine this report played during a concert. As it begins, the music stops, people stop moving, their chains stop swinging in the air and hang limp by their sides, a large sweaty man removes his leg from the smaller man beneath him and helps him stand up, and the singer spits out the head of the dove he had been chewing on.  There is a collective gasp as brain damage is mentioned. The lead singer gurgles "dear god" as blood bubbles and rolls down his chin.  The report ends, instruments fall to the ground with a crash, and every one orderly starts to file out the door.     

[gammer]

Did Early Global Warming Divert A New Glacial Age?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217190433.htm

[RobtheBarbarian]

Pennsylvania man shot for talking during a movie:

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20081228/Movie.Noise.Shooting/

Had this man been using a taser or something, I think I'd be on his side.

[TeamRAD]

A 38-kilogramme beaver's loose in the land of basehart...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081231/ts_afp/britainanimalsoffbeat_081231065506

[mrbasehart]

Ah, Devon's a hundred miles away.  Makes me wonder what exactly you were searching for on the internet to come up with this story though, RAD.