ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. - July 29th, 2004
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11:52 am
[Link] | Geeks with too much time, making T-shirts :
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05:10 pm
[Link] | It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Batman movie that, for the first time, might not suck!
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05:24 pm
[Link] | Winged Cat "From Hell" Put to Death in Central Russia
A winged cat has been killed by villagers near the Central Russian city of Kursk. The locals drowned the deformed puss after believing it was a messenger of Satan, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports.
On entering her yard, Nadezhda Medvedeva saw how a stray cat stood up and, just like a chicken, stretched out two wings. She said that at that moment her hair stood on end. The locals had no doubt the unlucky cat was a messenger of the devil, the Vlasti.net website writes.
Where the cat came from and why it appeared in the village of Bukreyevk nobody knows. Nadezhda Medvedeva, whose home is located on the edge of the village, said she initially heard a soft meowing.
"We poured some milk into a bowl," Medvedeva recounted. "A tom cat came out - ginger, huge, twice as big as normal. He drank greedily and started meowing again - asking for more. We started feeding him. After a couple of days my daughter came running in all scared and whispered: ’Mom, come and look at the cat! He’s got wings!’"
Nadezhda Medvedeva went out and saw how the cat slowly moved its wings exactly as a chicken would. The woman immediately came to the conclusion that the cat was sinister, "just like a sort of devil".
The daughter, having already named the cat Vaska, claimed he was affectionate and had obviously been a pet.
The rumor of the winged cat soon reached Kursk, but by the time a correspondent got wind of it the cat had already been killed by a local drunk, who drowned the unique feline. A sack with the animal’s body was recovered later from a pond near the Medvedev’s home. Despite the fact decomposition had already set in, the correspondent form the local Komsomol newspaper confirmed the cat did actually have wings.
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09:14 pm
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Yahoo makes me scared of doctors.
A Romanian surgeon who underwent a fit of madness while operating on a man's testicles proceeded to amputate his penis and cut it into three pieces.
The surgeon, Naum Ciomu, was said to be a senior member of the hospital staff and a professor of anatomy.
He had been operating on a 34-year-old man for a testicular malformation when he committed the act, hospital officials said Friday.
"We are shocked by what has happened. It is the first time we have had such a case," said Sorin Oprescu, head of the Bucharest emergency hospital where the operation took place.
Doctor Ciomu had been banned from entering an operating theatre for two months pending the results of an investigation by the medical council, Oprescu said.
Meanwhile the wife of the unfortunate patient said she was suing Dr. Ciomu.
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And the story has PICTURES!
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09:16 pm
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09:20 pm
[Link] | Francis Crick has died aged 88.
Professor Crick died at Thornton Hospital in San Diego, US, where he had been battling colon cancer.
The British-born scientist won the Nobel Prize for his work on DNA's structure, which he helped model in 1953 at the University of Cambridge.
"Francis Crick will be remembered as one of the most brilliant and influential scientists of all time," said Richard Murphy, the Salk Institute's president and chief executive officer.
Dr Matt Ridley, author of Genome and Nature Vs Nurture said: "Francis Crick made not one but many great scientific discoveries.
"He found that genes are digital codes written on DNA molecules, he found that the code is written in three-letter words and he was instrumental in cracking the code.
"Any one of those things would have got him into the scientific pantheon. Discovering all three places him alongside Newton, Darwin and Einstein."
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