What used to be a popular domain will now just be digital dust. picked by choco 1 month ago

*Or flip-flops as they are sometimes known.

Police in Torbay are handing out the lightweight footwear to drunken women staggering in heels or walking barefoot.

This story comes in a week when the Heelarious high heeled shoes for infants went on sale in the UK.

Perhaps when these children grow up, the extra training will mean they will be able to walk in heels, no matter how drunk picked by pocksucket 12 months ago

New evidence suggests chimpanzees learned to make and use stone tools on their own, rather than copying humans. They didn't learn to throw their poo until much later. picked by Browntrout 3 years ago

Anita Rachel Thomas, 20, was able to wriggle out of leg irons because she was wearing six pairs of socks, authorities said. She used cocoa butter as a lubricant to slide the leg irons and handcuffs from around her ankles and wrists, officials said. picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

Tourism officials on the Caribbean island of Grenada say they are concerned about dog owners snatching starfish out of the sea and throwing them like flying discs for their dogs to catch. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

I have been thinking a lot about the word SPAM and how often it gets used. It seems like everything today is tagged with the word strategy. picked by drcmoe 2 years ago

Until recently, Sibel Edmonds was under gag orders issued by Bush not to disclose information she had. Now the former translator is free to speak up. She has disclosed a number of bombshells regarding bribery, blackmail, sale of secrets and more - many perpetrated by members of congress. Yet, this has largely been ignored. picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

The Caller BOT will call any number in the USA and read the message you want.

This is definitely going to be used in future prank calls on my behalf. ;) picked by 86Apex 2 years ago

...but it's OK, they used fake credit cards to make the purchase. picked by tigertony 1 year ago

“He’s not used to getting scraps, so he just ate it whole. He just fell over and started gasping,” Tori recalled.

The family is still struck by how fast it happened, how instantly Gizmo was affected and unable to breathe. But luckily, Tori moved quickly, too. picked by henkspaan 2 years ago

Last fall, she petitioned the national auto racing federation in this male-dominated society for permission to compete against men. When it was granted, she became not only the first woman in Iran to race cars against the opposite sex, but also the first woman since the Islamic Revolution here to compete against men in any sport. What's more, she beat them. picked by bornbad 5 months ago

Polish and Swedish scientists used DNA testing on two strands of hair and a tooth to identify the remains of the man who theorised that the sun, rather than the Earth, is at the centre of the universe. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Would you buy a bag of air? picked by tlovesd 3 years ago

These are concept images that were used before the movie (The Dark Knight) started shooting. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Skit featuring the most evil, two-faced boss you'll ever see... (really) picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

Execs flee and hide evidence as dozens of babies are killed by the tainted batch of My Pikin, ("My Child"), which was found to contain diethylene glycol, a toxin used in antifreeze and brake fluid. The company thought it was buying propylene glycol, when it bought the chemicals from the slums of Lagos to save costs. Nigerian news source picked by equinox 10 months ago

Lard is pig fat in both its rendered and unrendered forms. Lard was commonly used in many cuisines as a cooking fat or shortening, or as a spread similar to butter. (really?)

*Lard Sculptures?* picked by bingo 5 months ago

If you give me $1,626 I will go to the small Okinawan island called Iriomote and send you an envelope filled with star-sand (don't worry, I've been there before, I know where to go). I will send it from there. picked by MissWinkle 2 years ago

ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part of the missing matter in the universe. 10 years ago, scientists predicted that about half of the missing ‘ordinary’ or normal matter made of atoms exists in the form of low-density gas, filling vast spaces between galaxies. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The kits will include a mouthpiece for crack pipes and a push stick, used to pack and position the filter or screen inside the crack pipe and recover crack that has hardened on the inside wall of the pipe. It's hoped the harm-reduction kits, which cost less than $2 each, will help curb the spread of HIV and hepatitis C. picked by kakana 5 months ago