<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>The Island Maker : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/"/><tagline>The Island Maker : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-08-20T21:09:06+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[The Island Maker]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/57740/1/" /><id>57740</id><summary><![CDATA[The Island Maker]]></summary><issued>2008-04-10T08:09:40+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-10T08:09:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Ever fancied your own Desert island? Well this Guy offers to <i>make</i> you your very own! Get this, you can even move it when you want as well.<br/><br/>Oh yeh, he's blind too!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mass Plague Graves Found on Venice Quarantine Island]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33999/1/" /><id>33999</id><summary><![CDATA[Mass Plague Graves Found on Venice Quarantine Island]]></summary><issued>2007-09-01T01:01:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-01T01:01:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Got the plague?  Onto the island.  Vomiting?  Onto the island.  Fever?  Island.  Sniffles with a mild cough?  You get the idea.  You stayed there until you got well or died.  Judging from the mass graves, not many got well.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Yacht crew witnesses the birth of an island]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8192/1/" /><id>8192</id><summary><![CDATA[Yacht crew witnesses the birth of an island]]></summary><issued>2006-12-26T12:16:10+01:00</issued><modified>2006-12-26T12:16:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In August 2006, the crew of the yacht Maiken, sailing out of the Vava'u island group, encountered a remarkable &quot;stone sea.&quot;  The phenomena they spotted were a series of pumice rafts resulting from a nearby eruption, one that was forming a new volcanic island in Tonga.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lost on Gilligans Island]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/52159/1/" /><id>52159</id><summary><![CDATA[Lost on Gilligans Island]]></summary><issued>2008-02-26T17:40:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-26T17:40:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[LOST merges with Gilligans Island.<br/><br/>I'm waiting for the Harlem Globetrotters to drop in on the island, personally.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Monster carnivorous mice overrun British-owned Gough Island]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/62590/1/" /><id>62590</id><summary><![CDATA[Monster carnivorous mice overrun British-owned Gough Island]]></summary><issued>2008-05-21T01:14:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-21T01:14:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A British owned island in the South Atlantic has been overrun by hundreds of thousands of monster mice which have evolved into carnivores.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Island Uses Poop Plug to Fill a Volcano]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16683/1/" /><id>16683</id><summary><![CDATA[Island Uses Poop Plug to Fill a Volcano]]></summary><issued>2007-04-16T22:28:40+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-16T22:28:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The waste would be dumped on a side of the volcanic island that had been extensively quarried in the past 50 years. The island's original volcanic cone formation could also be rebuilt using the biosolids.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Three Mile Island cited for &quot;moderate to severe&quot; security problems]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55850/1/" /><id>55850</id><summary><![CDATA[Three Mile Island cited for &quot;moderate to severe&quot; security problems]]></summary><issued>2008-03-26T14:35:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-26T14:35:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Of all the place I would not expect this...to those of you too young to recall, Three Mile Island is home to what almost became the American version of Chernobyl*.  <br/><br/>*If you are too young too know what Chernobyl was, freaking google it, I am too lazy to provide a link.  But it was a million laughs for sure.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Tiny Scottish Island Going Electric.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45880/1/" /><id>45880</id><summary><![CDATA[Tiny Scottish Island Going Electric.]]></summary><issued>2008-01-03T02:44:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-03T02:44:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Residents of a tiny Scottish island have another special reason to celebrate the New Year, they will be connected to mains electricity for the first time.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hitler&#8217;s &#8216;Desert Island Discs&#8217; turn up in a dead Russian soldier&#8217;s attic]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30565/1/" /><id>30565</id><summary><![CDATA[Hitler&#8217;s &#8216;Desert Island Discs&#8217; turn up in a dead Russian soldier&#8217;s attic]]></summary><issued>2007-08-07T16:37:20+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-07T16:37:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler, the most notorious champion of Richard Wagner and &#8220;racially pure&#8221; German music, banished Jewish and Russian musicians from the concert halls of the Third Reich &#8212; but apparently listened secretly to their work.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Set your dogs free - on Dog Island.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/9231/1/" /><id>9231</id><summary><![CDATA[Set your dogs free - on Dog Island.]]></summary><issued>2007-01-18T20:59:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-18T20:59:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Over 2,500 dogs are already enjoying a better life at Dog Island. Separated from the anxieties of urban life, dogs on Dog Island are healthy dogs who live a natural, healthy and happy life, free from the stress and hardship associated with daily live among humans.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Other Mystery of Easter Island]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/8232/1/" /><id>8232</id><summary><![CDATA[The Other Mystery of Easter Island]]></summary><issued>2006-12-27T18:37:16+01:00</issued><modified>2006-12-27T18:37:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><i>Should anyone find a workable translation for Rongorongo, the knowledge stored on the remaining tablets might explain the mysterious statues of Easter Island, the sudden appearance of the written language, and the island's history and customs as whole.</i></div>It doesn't take much to destroy a culture!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[More man-made designer realty &#8211; Reef Island]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/55604/1/" /><id>55604</id><summary><![CDATA[More man-made designer realty &#8211; Reef Island]]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T06:24:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T06:24:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[...previously known as Lulu Island, is being re-launched with a brand new marketing push targeting high income investors and residents from across the Gulf.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Headless Corpses of Easter Island]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/13321/1/" /><id>13321</id><summary><![CDATA[Headless Corpses of Easter Island]]></summary><issued>2007-03-16T08:06:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-16T08:06:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Easter Island is known for the hundreds of huge stone heads strewn across the countryside, it may soon be know for something else - the native cemetaries are filled with headless bodies.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Abandoned on a Tiny Shadeless Island for 15 years ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18278/1/" /><id>18278</id><summary><![CDATA[Abandoned on a Tiny Shadeless Island for 15 years ]]></summary><issued>2007-04-28T06:31:26+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-28T06:31:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[On July 31, 1761, the French ship L&#8217;Utile is shipwrecked on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Only a handful of survivors remain when they are found 15 years later, in 1776.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[311 Band Member Trying To Sell His Island For $10 Million]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/257/1/" /><id>257</id><summary><![CDATA[311 Band Member Trying To Sell His Island For $10 Million]]></summary><issued>2006-09-12T12:36:39+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-12T12:36:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[He purchased the island for $2.8 million and wants to sell it for $10 million due to all the assets he tied into it.  It is located in the Florida Keys.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Elephant herds found on isolated south Sudan island]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21673/1/" /><id>21673</id><summary><![CDATA[Elephant herds found on isolated south Sudan island]]></summary><issued>2007-05-28T10:51:55+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-28T10:51:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[International wildlife experts have located hundreds of wild elephants on a treeless island in the swamps of south Sudan, where they apparently avoided unchecked hunting during more than 20 years of war.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Desert Obelisk]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/57160/1/" /><id>57160</id><summary><![CDATA[The Desert Obelisk]]></summary><issued>2008-04-06T06:16:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-06T06:16:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In Desert Obelisk a robotic rabbit and a floating goldfish take turns to place objects in an obelisk in a desert. Which makes a for a grow-esque point'n'click game and a description from me that sounds like I have gone insane <br/><br/><b>Cannot</b> figure this out so far.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Island rising from the sea]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10615/1/" /><id>10615</id><summary><![CDATA[Island rising from the sea]]></summary><issued>2007-02-12T08:40:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-12T08:40:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A crew encounters a remarkable &quot;stone sea&quot; and sees plumes of ash rising up from the middle of the ocean. They are seeing a rare volcanic eruption that results in an island, Maiken, created right before their eyes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[3 Mile Island reactor shuts down.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5081/1/" /><id>5081</id><summary><![CDATA[3 Mile Island reactor shuts down.]]></summary><issued>2006-11-03T08:41:26+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-03T08:41:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[3 Mile Island.  Three scary words, huh?  No radiation leaked.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Police arrest sunbathing alligator in Long Island ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17442/1/" /><id>17442</id><summary><![CDATA[Police arrest sunbathing alligator in Long Island ]]></summary><issued>2007-04-22T13:32:34+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-22T13:32:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An alligator was spotted Saturday sunbathing by a small pond in Long Island - a startling sight for a community just 35 miles from Manhattan.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[An island made by global warming ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17991/1/" /><id>17991</id><summary><![CDATA[An island made by global warming ]]></summary><issued>2007-04-26T11:30:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-26T11:30:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland's enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming.]]></content></entry></feed>