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Mystery of the vanishing sheep... 2007-10-31 00:24:00 WTF? Cue spooky mystery music... This is crazy... and the fact that it is the SECOND time! Swiss police are investigating after a flock of 90 sheep vanished from a remote Alpine pasture - for the second time. It is the second time in a year that the flock has vanished, leaving no traces of their whereabouts. After the first time, farmer Silvano Bacciarini, from the Magadino plain in Tessin, ...

Sleeping halloween zombie mistaken for corpse on train... 2007-10-31 00:21:00 Wow! You have to be in an amazingly deep sleep to sleep through all of that. That would be like a nightmare if they didn't actually medically check if he was dead. Bad Segeberg, Germany (AHN) - A corpse reported to the authorities Tuesday in Bad Segeberg, Germany was later found out as a drunken man in a Halloween costume, police said. The man fell into a drunken sleep while on a train ride ...

Massive black hole smashes records... 2007-10-30 23:52:00 Increadible... 33 times our sun's mass? The heaviest "small" black hole ever has been discovered, and its mass of 24 to 33 times that of our sun defies current theories to explain its formation, scientists say. After this video however, it isnt that amazing... ...

The Mega-Bunker of Baghdad 2007-10-30 23:48:00 Ive heard lots about this -- but this article is great. The new American Embassy in Baghdad will be the largest, least welcoming, and most lavish embassy in the world: a $600 million massively fortified compound with 619 blast-resistant apartments and a food court fit for a shopping mall. Unfortunately, like other similarly constructed U.S. Embassies, it may already be obsolete. ...

Tuesday Night: Bay Area Earthquake 2007-10-30 23:14:00 Thankfully so far it seems it wasn't bad... It was a 5.6 on the scale. ALUM ROCK, Calif. (AP) - The San Francisco Bay area has been rattled by a moderate earthquake. ...It said the quake caused minor damage and residents poured out of apartments in downtown San Jose to survey the damage. San Jose in the 10th most populous U.S. city. ...The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred on ...

LOL! Pic - The doctor is in... 2007-10-30 23:01:00 I thought this was adorable... would you let him operate? [Click to enlarge] ...

15 Lateral touchdown... 2007-10-30 21:58:00 Did you catch this? ...

USA TODAY article on YouTube stars... 2007-10-30 21:47:00 It really isn't that good of an article -- it only documents facts about them really... but I guess it is still interesting... They turn the camera on, aim, edit and post. When they're lucky, their videos catch fire and transform them from students, salesmen and waiters into online franchises. Most never reach the fame (or infamy) of Chris Crocker, the 19-year-old who cried to the world to "Leave ... Youtube

Close call at an Ohio Nuclear plant... 2007-10-30 21:01:00 Ive driven by this at least -- it was the first one I had ever seen at that point and it always freaked me out. TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A federal jury convicted a former nuclear plant worker Tuesday of concealing the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor. A second defendant was acquitted. ...

Plug-in Prius doubles the gas mileage... 2007-10-30 19:35:00 WOW! That is some serious advancement... but your still using energy from the plug. It isnt like it is creating that much more energy itself. Toyota showed a "concept" plug-in Prius made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic that's about a third of the weight of the current Prius and doubles mileage. ...

The history before history... Great reads... 2007-10-30 19:22:00 The Epoch Times has been running a series of very interesting articles... called the History before history... I am not sure how many more they will publish but I will stay tuned... For instance... Check out this segment from the second article... Just how old is the human race? While figures vary slightly, modern anthropological and genetic studies confirm a similar length of time. Yet the ... History

"Shock Troops" lingers on... 2007-10-30 18:57:00 Wow - this is a crazy situation, I missed it because it started earlier this summer... but I am getting caught up... and if you want to as well I will include all the links... essentially it is a controversy started by a soldier documenting his time in Iraq... and some of the travesties which have happened... A DIARY OF IRAQ: ONE SOLDIERS VIEW: In a bizarre exchange, Gen. Petraeus’ spokesman Col ...

The gayborhood is changing nation-wide... 2007-10-30 18:24:00 Once again, this is happening in Portland too... locations shifting... not so much a neighborhood but the gay locations as I just posted about... SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 — This Halloween, the Glindas, gladiators and harem boys of the Castro — along with untold numbers who plan to dress up as Senator Larry E. Craig, this year’s camp celebrity — will be celebrating behind closed doors. The city’s ...

There goes the neighborhood! The evolution of Portland's gay scene... 2007-10-30 16:48:00 Well, I think in the end it will be for the best. Everything goes through growing pains and in the end this too is evolutionary. The Silverado move will not have AS big of an impact as the owner implies but no doubt it will stay popular - people will just keep going there as normal. I would say that CC Slaughters is pretty lucky with the prime location... One after another gay club and bar ...

Using rust to find brain tumors? 2007-10-30 15:09:00 Wow... something I could never have imagined. PSU on the cover of the Tribune... For seven years, Dr. Ed Neuwelt of Oregon Health & Science University has used tiny particles of rust to help locate tumors in people’s brains. In a clinical trial that has involved an estimated 150 patients to date, Neuwelt has injected iron oxide into people’s bodies intravenously, then watched via brain scans as ...