Black Helicopters Of Huangyangtan

Brought to you by Google Earth. Those among you who like your skies darkened by black helicopters are invited to mosey on down to the remote Chinese village of Huangyangtan which hosts what must be the strangest military installation ever spotted by the Google Earth Community ... Zooming in for a closer look, we have what appears to ...

This Just In

Women are different than men. All joking aside, the report has some interesting findings; Scrutinizing more than 23,000 genes to measure their expression level in male and female tissue, the researchers found a direct correlation between gender and the amount of gene expressed. In fact, more than half of the inspected genes have shown striking and measurable differences in expression ...

Criminal Urination

Ottawa Sun; There will be a case of criminal urination in the nation's capital if a judge convicts a 23-year-old man in connection with the Canada Day peeing incident at the National War Memorial. Ottawa police made their intentions known yesterday, announcing they will lay charges today against the man caught on camera allegedly relieving himself on the memorial. Two Ottawa ...

Mrs. Mozart

BBC: A print of the only photograph of Mozart's widow, Constanze Weber, has been found in Germany. The photograph was taken in 1840 in the Bavarian town of Altoetting when she was 78. She died two years later. The local authorities say detailed examination has proved the authenticity of the image, which is a copy of the original daguerreotype. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...

Spiderman: We Have The Technology

Fusing spider silk and silica; Silica provides structural support to diatoms (single-celled organisms known for their remarkable nanostructural details) while silk proteins from spiders and silkworms are more flexible, stronger and able to self-assemble into readily defined structures. The Tufts researchers were able to design and clone genetic fusions of the encoding genes for these two proteins, and then generate these ...

CSI: 9/11

"The 9/11 hijacking attacks were very likely facilitated by a rogue group within the US government that created an Islamic terrorist "Pearl Harbor" event as a catalyst for the military invasion of Middle Eastern countries. This weblog will explore the incredibly strange events of 9/11/01, and other issues of US government responsibility using paper airplanes and towers built from popsicle ...

Terror Suspect Wanted to Behead Prime Minister

CBC; Batasar said he was given an eight-page synopsis of the allegations, including storming Parliament, blowing up some of the buildings and taking politicians hostage to demand the withdrawal of Canadian troops in Afghanistan. If the demands were not met, it is alleged, Chand wanted to behead Stephen Harper. He said his client is also accused of being part of a ...

Where Men Are Men And Sheep Don’t Call In The Middle Of The Night

A Guardian reporter ponders "Bushlandia". "It wasn't so long ago," a car-rental employee said, half-jokingly, "that if you voted Democrat round here, you'd get shot." Half-jokingly?

Stealth Men

The line between man and Marvel Comics character blurs; Via Drudge

Terror Cell Apprehended In Ontario

Toronto Sun; In a stunning development yesterday, police made a sweeping terrorist bust within the GTA and expected to make several more arrests throughout the night. "The RCMP, CSIS and the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested individuals throughout the GTA today in relation to terrorist-related offences," confirmed RCMP spokesman Corp. Michele Paradis. As of about 9 p.m. last night, Paradis also ...

An Experiment In Inertia, Velocity And Kneejerk Reaction

Next on the agenda for the politically correct: ensure high school physics teachers avoid the use of water in calculating displacement because, you know, a lot of people have drowned and some of them were schoolchildren. (Or, maybe David Lapp should just use a football for his experiments.) h/t Ken Woods.

Charles Darwin Would Approve

Don't bring a plane to a plane fight. A mid-air collision between jousting Greek and Turkish fighters in disputed airspace over the Aegean Sea yesterday threatened to reignite age old rivalries. The two planes are believed to have rammed each other, in full view of a passing commercial jetliner. The Turkish pilot, Halil Ozdemir, was rescued by a merchant ship after ejecting, ...

Another Bad Day To Be Howard Dean

Drudge is reporting (exclusive) that the Democratic National Committee worked "secretly" to defeat New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, with the blessing of DNC chairman Howard "Yeaaaargh!" Dean; The DNC teams actively worked to defeat Nagin under the auspice of the committee's voting rights program. The party's field efforts also coincided with a national effort by Democrat contributors to support Landrieu. Landrieu had ...

Evidence Of Human-Chimp Hybrids

I know what you're thinking - but no, it wasn't obtained via search warrant *; As we branched off on the evolutionary tree, our ancestors look to have made a messy break from those of chimpanzees. By comparing samples of chimp, gorilla and human DNA, scientists from MIT and Harvard say they see evidence of interspecies sex. [...] The geneticists rely on a ...

“A Hunting Accident In My Living Room”

Imagine the reaction, if, during Watergate testimony, one of the principals testified he believed the "president's men" would murder him if he broke his silence. Now, imagine there were two such witnesses. Montreal Gazette; A former vice-president of Groupaction, told Charles Guité's fraud trial Wednesday that he feared for his life if he were to blow the whistle on what ...