<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Island Maker : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>The Island Maker : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[The Island Maker]]></title><description><![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!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/57740/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/57740/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mass Plague Graves Found on Venice Quarantine Island]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33999/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33999/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Yacht crew witnesses the birth of an island]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8192/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8192/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost on Gilligans Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[LOST merges with Gilligans Island.<br/><br/>I'm waiting for the Harlem Globetrotters to drop in on the island, personally.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/52159/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/52159/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Monster carnivorous mice overrun British-owned Gough Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[A British owned island in the South Atlantic has been overrun by hundreds of thousands of monster mice which have evolved into carnivores.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/62590/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/62590/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Island Uses Poop Plug to Fill a Volcano]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16683/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16683/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Mile Island cited for &quot;moderate to severe&quot; security problems]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/55850/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/55850/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiny Scottish Island Going Electric.]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45880/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45880/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitler&#8217;s &#8216;Desert Island Discs&#8217; turn up in a dead Russian soldier&#8217;s attic]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30565/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30565/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your dogs free - on Dog Island.]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/9231/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/9231/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Other Mystery of Easter Island]]></title><description><![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!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/8232/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/8232/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[More man-made designer realty &#8211; Reef Island]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/55604/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/55604/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Headless Corpses of Easter Island]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/13321/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/13321/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Abandoned on a Tiny Shadeless Island for 15 years ]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18278/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18278/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[311 Band Member Trying To Sell His Island For $10 Million]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/257/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/257/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Elephant herds found on isolated south Sudan island]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21673/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21673/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Island rising from the sea]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10615/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10615/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[3 Mile Island reactor shuts down.]]></title><description><![CDATA[3 Mile Island.  Three scary words, huh?  No radiation leaked.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5081/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5081/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Police arrest sunbathing alligator in Long Island ]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17442/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17442/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[An island made by global warming ]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17991/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17991/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Monkey Island found... and it's in South Carolina!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long thought to be an urban legend, 3500 Rhesus monkeys live under Federal protection in the SC low country. Even people that live nearby don't know they're there.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/70994/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/70994/1/</guid><category>weird</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>