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Warning- Zombies Ahead!

Posted in Random News, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »

“A sign on Interstate 255 Tuesday warned motorists that the undead were ahead, causing double takes during the morning rush.” -Elisa Crouch, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Oh yes, this story is worth reading. Picture yourself kinda groggy, heading down the interstate to work on a Tuesday morning. You see one of those annoying electronic highway signs, [...]

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Bananas beget baby boys???

Posted in Nature, Random News, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Do bananas beget baby boys? I doubt it…but apparently it’s newsworthy enough to merit a story on NPR.
A British study suggests that what a woman eats while she’s pregnant might affect the gender of the baby. The study, You are what your mother eats, claims it found that women who ate lots of breakfast cereal, [...]

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Tales of Injustice

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

More tales of injustice- enough to make your skin crawl.
Today the Columbia Missourian posted this story about Johnny Briscoe, a St. Louis man who was wrongly convicted of rape and paid for it with 23 years of his life behind bars. DNA evidence finally freed him in 2006, and he’s now suing for damages. By [...]

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Has justice been just to Ryan Ferguson?

Posted in News, tagged , , , on October 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »

This one isn’t random news, it’s mainstream. But it’s the most compelling ongoing story I know of. It should definitely get more attention from the public.
In October 2005, Ryan Ferguson was convicted of murdering Kent Heitholt, an editor at the Columbia Daily Tribune. Heitholt was murdered in 2001, when Ferguson was only 17 years old. [...]

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Watch out for French train toilets

Posted in Random News, tagged , , on October 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »

“The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.” -BBC story lead
Another excellent random news story from BBC. I beseech you, read this!
How’s this for a bad day? You’re on a train in France when nature [...]

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Mass Pandemonium in Melbourne

Posted in Random News, tagged , , on October 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

“It was disgusting, these young lads were urinating in my fish pond, and kicking over my gnomes. I have never seen anything like it, I have lived here for 28 years, and my gnomes have never been attacked like this before.” -Sheila Outrigger, Melbourne
“They beheaded five of my gnomes and knocked over my brand-new bird [...]

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