OK, so some scientists decided that they were going to build a robot which could identify tastes. They were going to use it for wine. When it "tasted" human flesh, it had some odd results.
Interesting site, the front page seems slightly tech-focused, but they've got classes on film, mathmatics, crime, graphic design, philosophy, etc. Yay for learning. Yay!
So we've pretty much all heard the myth that people in the middle ages thought the world was flat, right? They didn't. There were just a couple of wacked out uber-christians who thought that. Much like these guys. who, uh, think that now.
All I know is if I were the king of thailand, and the way people celebrated the 60th anniversary of my ascention to the thrown was by making enormous fricken cheeseburgers, I'd be ripshit.
CARAVAN, Calif. -- A gypsy curse has transformed conservative Supreme Court justices into liberals, leaving GOP leaders howling like werewolves.
Proving once again, the weekly world news is the greatest newspaper in the history of mankind.
To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.
A comedian, Borat, decided to test the tolerance and racist attitude at a southern US bar. In the process he also gave us a glimpse of the face of the average racist. - funny as hell.
Operation August Storm, or the Battle of Manchuria began on August 8, 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo; the greater invasion would eventually include neighboring Mengjiang, as well as northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. It marked the initial and only military action of the Soviet Union against the Empire of Japan; at the Yalta Conference, it had agreed to Allied pleas to terminate the neutrality pact with Japan and enter the Second World War's Pacific Theater within three months after the end of the war in Europe.
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