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Woman 82 Fends Off Burglars From Her Home With Floor Brush
The Seferm Post | November 15th 2009 by Seferm Post
The two burglars left the house handed. Police said the woman was shaken by her ordeal. read more
What Japan thinks about Manga, Games, Doujinshi and other things?
Cartoon Leap | November 14th 2009 by Toonleap
iShare conducted a survey among their members to see what are their thoughts about different subjects like Anime, Manga and Doujinshi. In the survey, They included two interesting questions related to some of the news We posted in the past. Remembe read more
Former KVBC TV Weatherman John Fredericks Is One Scary Dog Lover!…
NoName247 | November 14th 2009 by Richard Chemel
I find TV personality stories of interest to readers, and this John Fredericks dog story is especially scary. Fredericks, a former TV weathercaster in Vegas for KVBC Channel- was seeking a soul mate on a Afroromance.com. He found someone who had a do read more
How it feels to ban ONE million Xbox users?
Cartoon Leap | November 13th 2009 by Toonleap
How it feels to ban ONE million Xbox users?…Microsoft must feel pretty good. Modern Warfare 2 on launch day sold around 4.7 million copies…You can imagine how many were banned by playing illegal copies of that and many other games… read more
Ventrilocover: “Yesterday”
Studio Manifesto | November 13th 2009 by James
It’s been hailed on Boing Boing as the “weirdest and worst Beatles cover ever.” Technorati Tags: beatles, Boing Boing, ventriloquist, yesterday read more
Come See... What Art-Is-In {Artisan} Chat
k.nice artworks | November 13th 2009
Welcome to our Artisan Chat with Izile! I was lucky enough to run across Izile and her wonderful collection of oddities through my entrecard drops. We are regular visitors of each other's blogs and I find her unique work and constant exploration and read more
330-Foot Sushi Roll New Record!
Cartoon Leap | November 12th 2009 by Toonleap
How much Sushi you can eat? I am sure you cant eat alone this monstrousity… Hundreds of amateur sushi chefs at the University of California, Berkeley got their hands fishy Sunday as they assembled a 330-foot California roll. A university spokes read more
Oddities: Strawberry Shortcake Musical Match-Ups
Gaming After 40 | November 12th 2009
It was 1983, and executives at Parker Brothers and American Greetings likely took note of demographic data indicating that many households contained an Atari 2600 and one or more little girls. Thus was Strawberry Shortcake Musica read more
Japan’s Golf Bra!
Cartoon Leap | November 12th 2009 by Toonleap
We have been covering interesting news about Japan’s Bra…It is time for another one…This time, Triumph International is promoting a new bra for Golf lovers… Triumph have designed the new bra to appeal to Japan’s busy read more
That Gamepad can bite you!
Cartoon Leap | November 12th 2009 by Toonleap
Another of those interesting Gamepads were featured in Gigazine. This time, the gamepad has the shape of a Dragon…and beware…looks it could bite you anytime…or worst…push the wrong buttons and it could spit some fire in your f read more
Tough times, Taiyaki saves the day!
Cartoon Leap | November 11th 2009 by Toonleap
Japan may be suffering because of the recession, but that does not stop the delight for a cheap and delicious snack called Taiyaki… Japan’s economy may be stagnating, but sales of a traditional, fish-shaped sweet snack are going along sw read more
Geographical oddities
Fun Facts Blog | November 11th 2009 by Azi
Indonesia is a country consisting of islands only – more than 17,000 of them! But only about on-third of these are inhabited. Norway has an area of approx. 150,000 sq. miles and a nominal coastline of approx. 1600 miles. But if you study its m read more
A Mountain’s Ghost
Futility Closet | November 11th 2009
Visit the top of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka and you’ll see a striking sight — at sunrise the mountain’s own shadow is caught in the morning mist before you. “The shadow seemed to rise up and stand in front of us in the ai read more
Gonzo contacts Moe Buddhist Temple!
Cartoon Leap | November 10th 2009 by Toonleap
Gonzo is looking for interesting ways to solve their now deteriorated status…and probably, They will get some help…from Heaven? Anime production studio GONZO started a contact management of a Buddhist temple Ryohoji. The temple became fam read more
11:11 Facts & Oddities
Donald Ryles Ph.D Paranormal Page Blog…Since May 2008 | November 10th 2009 by Donald Ryles PhD
The number 11 and also 29 (2+9=11) have played a major role in my life and my book Hidden Secrets…much more than a coincidence. This interview interested me greatly and informed me to a few facts and oddities I didn’t know. Enjoy. Best wi read more
The Beatles Never Broke Up
Studio Manifesto | November 10th 2009 by James
By: Phil N. The Beatles never broke up, or at least that’s James Richards’ claim, when he traveled to an alternate universe, and brought back an album they recorded there. Its likely, and in my opinion, a publicity ploy, to get his word read more
The Latest
Five Healthy Hearts | November 10th 2009
First let me say...I've missed you too! I love hearing from my blogland friends, and thank you for checking in on me. I promise all has been well but with sick children and My Hero traveling every week, there's been a bit of an adjustment period. read more
Metal Monday: Apocalyptica
Studio Manifesto | November 9th 2009 by James
By: Connor In the vein of last weeks Classical Metal, I present to you: Apocalyptica. Instead of classical music with metal instruments, metal music with classical instruments! While they’ve been around for a while and mostly cover metallic read more
A Gramophone that Plays the Earth Instead of Vinyl, and a Sonic i…
Create Digital Music | November 9th 2009
Images courtesy Olle Cornéer. Used by permission. If you think culture has become too disconnected from the Earth, “Harvest” and the Terrafon instrument surely count as a shock to the system. A traditional ensemble picks up an enormous read more
Your Best Dog-Licked-Sores Life Now
Cerulean Sanctum | November 9th 2009 by Dan Edelen
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. M read more
Man Thought Dead Shockingly Appears During Own Funeral
The Seferm Post | November 8th 2009 by Seferm Post
"In my 10 years in this business, I have never witnessed a scene like this," said Natanael Honorato, manager of the funeral home read more
Flying Pantsu for real?…You got it!
Cartoon Leap | November 8th 2009 by Toonleap
Do you really want a flying pantsu?…like the ones featured in Sora no Otoshimono? Well, probably in the near future, fans of the flying pantsu will get one because Nojiri Housuke (The novel author of Rocket Girls) wants to commercialize the ide read more
Thru Dec 31 at Coney Island Library: Artist Takeshi Yamada’s Ca…
Amusing the Zillion | November 7th 2009 by Tricia
For the past three years the glass cabinets at the Coney Island branch of the Brooklyn Public Library have showcased a rotating display of artwork that befits Coney Island’s history as host to oddities and curiosities from around the world. If you read more
“Our wife is a Moe Character”, says the Governor!
Cartoon Leap | November 7th 2009 by Toonleap
Mr. Tasso Takuya, Governor of Iwate Prefecture have a Moe girl in his office…He calls this girl, our wife…But there is a catch…She is just a fictional character, but this wife as He calls her is destined to promote the local railway read more
Japan, You have LOTS of McDonalds!
Cartoon Leap | November 7th 2009 by Toonleap
If you wonder how many McDonalds restaurants there are across the world, here is a good look in this map. Japan have the honor of having more McDonalds than any other country, only surpassed by the U.S.A. Here are some other interesting statistics read more
A Horse Is A HHHorse
A Flamingo In Utrecht | November 7th 2009 by Alison
Yesterday, while going through my Google Reader listings (handy for keeping track of lots of websites without having to remember to visit each and every one) I saw a news story with the title: Horse genome unlocked by science. I know the word genome read more
Anime motivates people to learn Japanese!
Cartoon Leap | November 6th 2009 by Toonleap
It seems there are some interesting reasons why people wants to learn Japanese…Anime can be a driving force for people to learn Japanese. I am not surprised because I learned Japanese because of my favorite anime series. Japanese-language stu read more
Japan’s high-tech Cemeteries!
Cartoon Leap | November 6th 2009 by Toonleap
Even the dead cant escape the high technology in Japan. Apparently people can use cards so They can reach their loved ones instead of wandering around for hours looking for them. Japan, known for cutting-edge technology as well as ancestor worship, read more
Slippery When Wet
Futility Closet | November 6th 2009
While M.V. Tancred was riding out a typhoon in Kobe Bay in early October 1954, E. Gherzi and his companions noted something strange: The waves had steps. [T]here were a number of well-defined steps, carved so to say into the water just like the step read more
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