Odd News

The people for the ethical treatment of animals have decided that if they get people to start calling fish "sea kittens", people will have trouble telling the difference between their pet cats and the alewives washing up on the beach. Yeah, that will work. They wrote a children's book for this campaign. One of the characters in it, "Tony the Trout", is said to have pursued a double major in neuroscience and environmental studies. Pity he didn't augment the neuroscience with a little psychiatry. Maybe he'd be able to diagnose the problem ailing the person who came up with this campaign.

One of the most expensive varieties of coffee in the world, made by ... you probably don't want to know. But if you've tasted this, you paid $5 per mug for the experience. Maybe a little more than that in the long run, because I'm not sure that you'll want to hold onto the mug after reading this.

Yes, they're writing poems about staplers. Really. WARNING: a link to a store at amazon.com is present at the bottom of the page.

This is not a joke. Electrical stimulation of the animal's brain, in some of these cases, done experimentally for the purposes of mind control. Hmm. In medical research, what often follows animal testing? Thinking that I don't like this idea or the cruelty that has gone into testing it, one bit. One should think of the implications of one's work. WARNING: If you wander elsewhere on the blog this post is on, you will see offensive material used lavishly.

Site promoting the creation of an independent Vermont. No, it's not satire. They're serious.

Men in Black gone wild. Employees of a county department of Homeland Security decide to make their own laws about the viewing of porn.

Maybe we can get them on the ballot, here.

"Twice as crunchy as ordinary Haiku" Yes, people wrote poems about them.

This is the only video Peter A. Greenley ever uploaded to Youtube, and not much more can be found by him on Google. Not that I'm not saying there's a cause and effect on that one, but draw your own conclusions.

Done more simply, this time, breaded and fried in butter..

This time, they're dipped in chocolate, as if that would somehow help.

Homepage of the gentleman who did that deep fried cicada dish you saw in my last bookmark. He's clergy. He performs underwater marriages.

More Midwestern haute cuisine.

How a trick was done

This, regrettably, is no joke. An official barged in as the cyclist was making arrangements for his son's funeral. Somebody needs to be fired, not reprimanded or suspended.

Senator Ford wants to make swearing a felony in South Carolina. Seriously.

A graduate in woman's studies offers to sell her virginity to the highest bidder, using her Myspace page to advertise her efforts. Her myspace remains up, despite the fact that her story has now hit network television, suggesting that Myspace is OK with this. How interesting.

At least not for Pesach. Yes, this has apparently been ruled on: marijuana is hametz - if you're Ashkenazic. Otherwise, I guess you can ... what ... light up in the middle of seder? Kashrut - a far more interesting subject than you know. Note: You might want to view this one in Firefox, as I just had difficulty back arrowing out of this page in Internet Explorer.

Find out what the fuss is about, and then wonder why you bothered. A weak joke that has gone on far too long.

Surrealism in the construction trade. Another find by Anatoly at Stumbleupon.