According to a recent paper, almost half of African Americans believe that HIV is man-made. One in eight think it is being spread by the CIA.
Source: Guardian Unlimited - Black Americans suspect HIV plot
This guy may have gone a little too far in support of the old Nintendo game system. He got a tattoo of the controller with the cord coming out of his chest.
A San Antonio pizza delivery man is fired after sending half a dozen letters to customers who failed to give him a tip. Steven Gordon, a substitute teacher delivering pizza for extra money, decided that he needed to take a step to call out the cheap customers.
An athiest couple in Bellevue, Washington, is asking the city council to remove a Christmas tree from their lobby stating that it represents Christmas. The city already has taken to calling the tree a ‘giving tree’ to remove the Christian tone from it. But, that is not good enough for Sidney and Jennifer [...]
Are you having a hard time finding the perfect land for your new house? Looking for some nice vacation property? Forget about Montana, Cayman, Hawaii, or Fiji; buy your own virtual island. An Australian game player known only as Deathifier has spent $26,500 on an island that only exists in the game [...]
17-year-old Ben Cook set a Guiness record for text messaging on his mobile phone. He entered the phrase “The razor-toothed prianhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human” in 57.75 seconds.
A man from Oslo, Norway, is charged with an illegal collection of exotic animals after being taken to the hospital twice in one day for snake bites.
Warburtons, a baker in Britain, recently posed “What are your top three cheesiest moments in film?” as part of campaign for their launch of cheese flavored crumpets. Leonardo DiCaprio won (?) for “I’m king of the world” from Titanic.
The group Global Language Monitor has decided that the computer term “Master / Slave” is the most politically incorrect term of 2004.
Barry Bonds is claming that he did not know that the two substances he was using were steroids. The personal trainer that gave Bonds the two “medications” was indicted in a steriod-distribution ring.