What weird news stories make you either laugh out loud, or just say "huh?'

[Archer]

Science ?  Fact ?  Fiction ?  Fear mongering ?  History repeats itself ?  What happens when a planet "flushes" . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOes02aanHE

If so, map projections after a "pole shift" :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5m65EPHLg0

and the projected remainder of this speck ?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-qyLfw1Qs

[Elennare]

i could have done without seeing the mankini and the manties but i thought mirts were kilts

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/mankinis-murses-and-man-bags-a-glossary-of-mens-fashion-terms-2550341#photoViewer=1

I call shenanigans on "manties."  Just because tighty-whities now come in colors does not mean they're new, or need a new name.

Also, guys in heels is not new.  They're just reviving a really OLD style!

[groomporter]

Yeah and it's not like men wearing sandals or jewelry is anything new. and of course Prince wore heels, he's supposedly only 5'-2"!

[redkimba]

Women's 'sex strike' ends fighting in Mindanao villages

Women ended armed clashes in 2 Mindanao villages by not having sex with their husbands unless the men laid down their weapons, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

The success of the "sex strike" allowed families to start rebuilding their communities, the UN's refugee agency said.

video (of the news story) at http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/09/15/11/womens-sex-strike-ends-fighting-mindanao-villages-unchr

**I will remove this post if the opinion here is that it's inappropriate.

[Merlin the Elder]

Certainly not inappropriate, RedKimba. I think it's brilliant. Sex is better than war any way you look at it.

[Lady Rebecca]

I guess Lysistrata must be popular in those Mindanao villages.

[Archer]

Just say "wow" what a find. 

The Archimedes Palimpsest—the oldest surviving copy of works by the greatest mathematical genius of antiquity.  The exhibition Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes will tell the story of The Archimedes Palimpsest's journey and the discovery of new scientific, philosophical and political texts from the ancient world. This medieval manuscript demonstrates that Archimedes discovered the mathematics of infinity, mathematical physics and combinatorics—a branch of mathematics used in modern computing.

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/lost-and-found-secrets-of-archimedes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29


* * * At Scotland's William Wallace Monument, they're doing some digging . . .archaeologists are leading volunteers in a four-day dig to uncover the hidden history beneath one of Scotland's most famous landmarks.

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/archaeologists-probe-abbey-craig.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29

[Rowan MacD]

Made me cringe...


China bans dog-eating "carnival" after online uproar

By Ben Blanchard | Reuters – 3 hrs ago   


BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government has banned a traditional carnival in the east of the country in which dogs are eaten after being chopped up alive in the street following a public uproar that the festival was cruel, state media reported on Wednesday.

The tradition in Qianxi in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang dates back 600 years to celebrate a local military victory and is normally held every October, the official Xinhua news agency said.

"The ancient fair was replaced by a modern commodity fair in the 1980s, but dog-eating has been kept as a tradition," it reported.

"However, vendors began to butcher dogs in public a few years ago to show their dog meat is fresh and safe, as a way to ease buyers' worry that the meat may be refrigerator-preserved or even contaminated."

Pictures which circulated online via popular microblogging sites had such an impact that the government gave into demands the festival be banned, Xinhua said.

"The government's quick response should be encouraged. I hope eating dogs will not be a custom there anymore. It's not a carnival, but a massacre," it quoted one internet user as saying.

Despite once being banned as a bad bourgeois habit, dog ownership has become increasingly popular with China's growing middle class in the past few years, as has online activism.

While the government has encouraged people to take to the internet to expose corruption and abuse of power, it keeps a tight reign on what can be said online, deleting comments it objects to and arresting those who criticise too much.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

[Archer]

That was interesting for me as a dog lover.   Not so much bothered by human dietary selections but, the part about "deleting comments it objects to" can cause a veteran's blood to warm up,  ever so slightly.

Silence the speaker, is an unfortunate solution/choice.  In the good old US of A, we don't need goverment to do it.  We do it to each other or ourselves . . . sometimes.  More preferable that those who are offended by what they view or read to just follow the ancient teachings that if their eye offends them that they just go ahead and . . .  pluck it out.

I like your finds, Rowan.

[arbcoind]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/09/21/moos-tsa-afro-searched.cnn?hpt=hp_c2

TSA and big hair do not get along.

Gina

[Lady Christina de Pond]

uhhh i don't like the TSA

[DonaCatalina]

7000 millionaires paid no personal income tax in 2011

[DonaCatalina]

Is Nicolas Cage a real vampire?

[Elennare]

Wow, that photo is crazy!  It does really look like him.

[Scribe_Wear]

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (NBC News Channel) -- Sheriff's deputies in Oklahoma are looking for a sneaky squirrel that's sabotaging their squad cars.

For the past few weeks some Oklahoma County patrol cars have had the wiring inside the engines chewed through, literally. Now, $700 dollars in repairs later, authorities are looking for a perpetrator videotaped by one of the deputies.

Animal control has been called in to set traps to help catch the furry felon.

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Sneaky-squirrel-sabotages-squad-cars/JoY_PQT2tUSJxtFWZVp1WQ.cspx