Every Day, the Same, Again
Man wakes from 19-Year coma.
The suspect recently moved to Brooklyn and was caught in part because he directed the cabbies to his neighborhood, police sources said. “He was asking to be dropped off at the subway stop nearest to his home,” a police source said. “So we were looking in that area.” His plastic handgun is the most realistic fake gun the NYPD has seen in years, officials say.
Slavinsky wrote in to suggest I get either a large group of people in blue polo shirts and khakis to enter a Best Buy or a group in red polo shirts and khakis to enter a Target. There aren’t any Targets in Manhattan, so I decided to go with the two-story Best Buy on 23rd Street.
The diamond engagement ring tradition could be the greatest PR scam ever invented.
A plateau 40 feet high, 300 feet wide and nearly 1,000 feet long, composed almost entirely of human excrement. Google Maps view.
A 43-year-old German man was taken to hospital in critical condition after he fell off a second story balcony during a spitting contest with his 12-year-old son.
Warming will bring more rain. Global warming is three times faster than worst predictions.
How energy service companies work.
500,000 snake charmers, who rove the country like gypsies or live in riverboats.
Los Angeles-based company is selling a mini-leopard cat that costs $22,000.
Four Chinese mitten crabs have been discovered over the past week in the Delaware Bay, a sign that they could be reproducing in the region.
Pregnant robot to practice.
Tea Sucking: an Australian method for drinking tea through biscuits.
10 Signs you’re in a tech bubble.
Google Street: Guy doing break-in, thong, etc.
Google zooms in too close for some.
The new seven wonders of the world.
Who was Typhoid Mary?
Who is Fukudome?
Buying a sandwich and soda at work costs you $2000 a year.
Skin-baring cocktail waitresses, $3,000-a-night specialty suite with king-size bunk beds, a group shower and, ahem, a fireman’s pole… “We wanted something a little voyeuristic.”
Tips to get a good night’s sleep.
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