<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : meter : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>133285</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/133285/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sex by the meter costly]]></title><description><![CDATA[A DRUNK footballer's loudly simulated sex with a parking meter has been recounted in Cairns Magistrates' Court.<br/>He then made racial slur against a passerby - the final straw for police.<br/>*alcohol may have been involved*]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>151</score><crdate>9/19/2009 6:18:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-19T18:18:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37536</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37536/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Look-alike meter]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the people that brought you celebrity look alike, comes the look-alike meter. Do you always argue who your child looks like,you or your wife, well now there is a solution. Browse through your photos find one of you, your wife and your child and wham! the meter finds who the child looks like.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>22</score><crdate>10/6/2007 1:01:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-06T13:01:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>131544</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/131544/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Politifact Truth-O-Meter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Look at what politicians are currently lying about. There's also an Obama Meter and a Flip Meter.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>334</score><crdate>8/24/2009 7:23:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-24T19:23:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>89170</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/89170/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Phony meter used to steal 350,000 gallons of fuel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seattle police say someone installed a phony meter on a fuel-delivery system at the BP distribution center on Harbor Island, resulting in the theft of 350,000 gallons of diesel fuel over nearly a year.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>45</score><crdate>1/13/2009 4:39:58 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-13T16:39:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>110054</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/110054/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Crazy but True Laws from All 50 States]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Florida, if you tie an elephant to a parking meter, you must insert money into the meter as you would with a car. (Write it down so you don't forget.)]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>204</score><crdate>4/27/2009 2:31:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-04-27T14:31:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>23725</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23725/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ultimate BBQ with 40 Meter Grill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mr. Jiang is the King of BBQ in Guangxi, China. Last Sunday, he BBQ&#8217;d 128 whole lambs with a 40 meter long grill all by himself and it only took him 2 hours to cook them.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>24</score><crdate>6/13/2007 5:18:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-13T17:18:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135480</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135480/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scheming Homeless, Parking Mafia, and Pink Tutued Meter Fairy....]]></title><description><![CDATA[....Just Another Day in Miami's Parking Hell.<br/><br/>One thing I like about the &#8216;burbs is not having to fight for cheap parking or pay through the nose for expensive spots. Not so for people in Miami. Apparently, the scarcity of parking there has created much violence, a cottage industry involving the homeless, parking mafia and even a &quot;magical meter fairy.&quot;]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>171</score><crdate>11/7/2009 3:54:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-07T15:54:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37371</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/37371/1/</url><title><![CDATA[God-o-Meter:How Does Your Candidate Measure Up?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The God-o-Meter (pronounced Gah-DOM-meter) scientifically measures factors such as rate of God-talk, effectiveness&#8212;saying God wants a capital gains tax cut doesn't guarantee a high rating&#8212;and other top-secret criteria.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>61</score><crdate>10/4/2007 9:12:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-04T21:12:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>107988</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/107988/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Looking For A Mansion, But Don't Have Any Money?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man found his own silver lining in all the vacant foreclosed homes and moved into an empty mansion for over 8 months, even bringing in living room furniture and two large televisions. But, he wasn't caught trespassing...]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>147</score><crdate>4/18/2009 9:13:27 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-04-18T09:13:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41887</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41887/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Collapsed Man's Car Cited]]></title><description><![CDATA[A diabetic man rushes to the hospital. He manages to pull in and collapses outside his car. Nurses rush to render aid. A meter-maid ignores the frantic life-saving attempt and tries to give the car a ticket for pulling into a ambulance bay, ignoring the nurses and even the ambulance men explanations. Unbelievable]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>322</score><crdate>11/17/2007 1:45:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-17T13:45:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>95211</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/95211/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sausage King of Toowoomba - Kidnapped!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following the Toowoomba butcher shop's <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.amic.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">triple-win</a> at the 2009 Sausage King Championship in Australia the two meter high, fiberglass &quot;Sausage King&quot; statue was painstakingly removed and held hostage by five thieves, possibly with links to rival butchers intent on extorting the prize-winning recipe.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>116</score><crdate>2/18/2009 5:36:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-18T17:36:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>88442</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/88442/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Too-smart parking meters text U the bad news]]></title><description><![CDATA[You are shopping when you receive a text message on your mobile phone. It is from the parking meter telling you that you have been given a fine.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>92</score><crdate>1/8/2009 10:28:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-08T22:28:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>82646</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82646/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Wanderings of the WEEE Man]]></title><description><![CDATA[People around the United Kingdom have been in for a big surprise. A seven meter three tonne metal man has been wandering in their midst. Who (or what) is he and why is he here? Is the Earth about to stand still? Hardly, but like Klaatu he brings a message to which we should really listen!]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>237</score><crdate>11/23/2008 9:04:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-23T21:04:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>131086</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/131086/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Deadly Islands - Conservation By Snake]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ilha de Queimada Grande is an island off the shore of Brazil. It is untouched by developers which you would think can only be a good thing. However it's totally terrifying. In fact the island is so deadly it is against the law to visit it. Why?<br/><br/>Well, the island has between one and five snakes per square meter. Killer snakes at that, the type whose poison melts your flesh. Nice.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>146</score><crdate>8/18/2009 11:17:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-18T23:17:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>102897</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/102897/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Brazil begins to build walls around Rio slums]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazil has begun building over 7 miles of 3 meter high concrete walls around the hillside slums in the south of Rio de Janeiro. The official statements propose the reason is to protect the surrounding rainforest from further encroachment. Critics protest it is a discriminatory division meant to entrap and separate the poor from the rich. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://tinyurl.com/wallsaroundrio" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">video</a>]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>362</score><crdate>3/29/2009 1:20:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-03-29T01:20:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>95724</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/95724/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Greenland glaciers melting into mile deep sinkholes (video)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greenland is losing enough water each year to cover Germany a meter deep. This dramatic footage shows millions of gallons of fresh water pouring down a Moulin, a shaft that allows water to travel from the glacier's surface to its bottom.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>99</score><crdate>2/22/2009 12:13:46 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-22T00:13:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>120169</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/120169/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Peering into the micro world]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of University of Michigan researchers has recently created an attempt to draw attention to what is possible these days with nanotechnology, and imaging at the very small scale. I'll take him up on this invitation and share with you some other images of very tiny things in our world. For visualizing the scale, most measurements below are in microns - one micron is a millionth of a meter - human hair is approximately 100 microns thick. (32 photos total)]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>421</score><crdate>6/4/2009 9:01:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-06-04T09:01:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>30973</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30973/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Greatest Parking Meter Your City Will Never Install]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why? Because it's smart. It's convenient. It's fair. And it's designed to eliminate parking tickets. So basically it runs contradictory to everything city governments were built on.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>137</score><crdate>8/10/2007 12:17:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-10T12:17:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>83344</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/83344/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Neighbors rally to pay off man's $3,000 water bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[84-year-old Norman Beckman was hit with a $3,000 water bill after his pipes burst and allowed a free flow of water to pass through the meter for a 3 month period, when Beckman was away due to health problems. <br/><br/>Neighbor's have raised more than $4,000 to pay off the bill, and Beckman plans to donate the excess.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>561</score><crdate>12/2/2008 10:46:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-12-02T10:46:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>106856</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/106856/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sculptors erect monument to yeti in Russian town]]></title><description><![CDATA[The sculptors, inspirited by locals&#8217; stories about the yeti, have brought a touch of humor to the sculpture. The two and a half meter Bigfoot is holding a snowboard under his arm.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>143</score><crdate>4/13/2009 5:20:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-04-13T17:20:09+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>