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Bouncy Castle Tragedy

07.24.06 ø 5
Two people have been killed and several others injured in Durham County in England when a massive inflatable sculpture tore free from its moorings in a gust of wind. Two women were killed in the incident and a three-year-old girl is in a serious condition in hospital. Eleven other people, including children and adults, were [...]

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Horrible Storm

07.17.06 ø Comments Off
Bah, one of the worst storms this season is going on right now outside. The lightning is cracking louder than I've ever heard it. A few minutes ago I think one struck so near my house that my power kind of freaked out. My internet went out for a little bit (I almost cried, [...]

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Exploding Cell Phones!

11.23.04 ø Comments Off
Ok, this is kind of scary. Curtis Sathre said it was like a bomb going off. His 13-year-old son Michael stood stunned, ears ringing, hand gushing blood after his cell phone exploded. Safety officials have received 83 reports of cell phones exploding or catching fire in the past two years, usually because of bad batteries or [...]

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CSI: Good for Science?

11.18.04 ø Comments Off
Geek news site Slashdot has risen the question of whether CSI, and it's two spin-offs, are actually good models of what forensic science really is. On the one hand, they've caused a boom in the popularity of forensic science college courses, and they glamorize geeks bent over microscopes, rather than smarmy lawyers. On the other hand, they [...]

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Sleep, Speed & Love

11.16.04 ø Comments Off
Ohh, remind me never to eat an entire small cheese pizza again. So, according to Improbable Research, Professor Robert Thornton of LeHigh University has a phenomenal idea for regulating students who sleep during his lectures: If sleep appeared imminent, those who did not wish to be roused could simply hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign [...]

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Ashlee, a Fraud??

10.25.04 ø Comments Off
The most recent SNL starred the hot vocals of young singer Ashlee Simpson. Well...at least it was supposed to...turns out that Ashlee's voice didn't come out so hot during the live TV show. Apparently she was using a backing track "for the first time" and it backfired right in front of millions of TV viewers. If [...]

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