Quirky stories from the week gone by.
A 77-year old man in Japan has taken up a new hobby, painting . . . with Microsoft Excel.
A researcher at Yale has figured out the secret to turn conservatives into liberals.
A 5-pound avocado grown in Hawaii has broken the world record, “We just cut giant slices out of it like avocado steaks and served them around” says Pamela Wang, the proud owner.
For the first time ever, the Olympic torch will be passed to a South Korean robot.
The last Blockbusters in the world is about to close.
Trying something new. A weekly wrap-up of sorts.
The Austin headquarters for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission was overrun by “several hundred” rats.
A Russian rocket launch went awry when the wrong directions were loaded into it’s flight plan and sent it to the bottom of the ocean.
Meanwhile, the Voyager team dusted off the thruster controls to spacecraft now 21 billion kilometers away. After waiting 20 hours for the instructions to get there and waiting another 20 hours for the response, the damn thing worked!
Finally, Mike Hughes’ rocket launch into the “atmosflat” where he planned to take photographs to prove the earth is flat and “expose the conspiracy” has been delayed until next week.
Los Angeles’ free street paper, the LA Weekly, has a post asking if anyone can tell them who owns them. The next day, the paper answered it’s own question.
And for another year, Kate Dries has still not made it into Hendrik Pöhler’s Erotic Carp Fishing Calendar. The Amazon reviewers are not pleased.