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Knife not only stabs a person but injects them with C02 - amazing

This knife has a C02 cylinder in the handle and a small vent near the tip of the blade Stabbing an object triggers the C02 cylinder which then injects it into the victim Great for fighting off sharks, but it would be really handy for cooling your beer! Just stab through the top of the can a

Socrates test of three - how to judge rumors

This is interesting The test of whether to pass on a rumor or not Keep this philosophy in mind the next time you hear or are about to repeat a rumor In ancient Greece 469 - 399 BC, Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance

Incidents of violence against women on TV has increased by 120% in the past five years,

Wonder why the world is so dangerous for women Give me a child and I will give you the man Incidents of violence against women on mainstream US television has increased by 120% in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as victims rising by some 400%, the Parents Television Co

Girl gets flu shot and now can only walk backwards - one in a million side effect

Experts claim serious side effects of flu shots amount to about one in a million - well this is what that one in a million looks like A sad story worth watching A 25 year old woman in Ashburn, Virginia has come down with a severe debilitating neurological disorder days after receiving a seasona

Rambo meets reality? A French survival expert on the run for murder

Now here is a great movie in the making It is a manhunt which has transfixed a nation After an extraordinary sequence of events, monitoring the progress of Jean-Pierre Treiber, an unprepossessing alleged double-murderer who escaped from prison last month hidden in a cardboard box, is becoming

Anonymous people in military fatigues snatch a protester during the G20 protests - video

Although I don't support the protesters this video of people in military fatigues driving up and snatching a protester, bundling him into an unmarked car and then driving off, looks like a new low in democratic freedoms Note the other protester with his hands up and off to the left, a riot po

Fox TV show Lie To Me is as unbelievable as you probably thought

Having tried to watch Fox TV's "Lie To Me" numerous times, only to give up part way through an episode at the unbelievable nature of the show, I am happy to read that my skepticism was well founded The real world just isn't like that This interview with the scientist Paul Ekman upon whom the

MGM is nearly bankrupt may cancel upcoming Hobbit and James Bond movies.

Sad news, MGM is nearly bankrupt which places"James Bond" and "The Hobbit" movies in jeopardy MGM held a very long conference call with bondholders/ lenders that caused lots of people to become "very loud and very upset" It turns out that the studio is on the verge of bankruptcy The

American national debt by political party

Looks like a pattern emerging there, Republicans up Democrats down However both Bush's had to finance a war http://wwwdiggcom/political_opinion/The_Politics_of_American_Debt Note that it ends in 2004, where would it be 3 years later

Airbus Pilot error nearly caused terrible accident in Australia

An Airbus carrying 275 passengers and 18 crew disappeared off radar screens soon after pilots miscalculated its weight by 100 tonnes, just missing disaster by seconds Surely it would still have taken off unless it was officially overweight The Emirates Airlines plane bound for Dubai only just

Norwegians convicted of murder in the Congo - look beaten up in custody

This picture shows that the prisoners seem to have had a hard time of it in custody, just look at their faces Two Norwegian men have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo after being convicted of murder It looks like a set up Joshua French, 27, and Tjostolv Moland, 2

The Chevy Volt - a car for idiots? (Audi President thinks so)

The Chevy Volt is a car that only appeals to preening schmoes and will fall flat on its face Or so says Audi of America president, Johan de Nysschen, who went off on the Chevy Volt and electric cars in general, with Lawrence Ulrich of MSN's Exhaust Notes Nysschen tells Ulrich, [quote]No on

Mafia dumps 5,000 liters of raw sewage into Blue Grotto's crystal waters on the island of Capri

Maybe its now Harpic blue The Blue Grotto, the most famous tourist attraction on the island of Capri, was closed to visitors yesterday due to fears its crystal waters had been contaminated by raw sewage, possibly dumped by the Naples mafia La Grotta Azzurra, as it is known in Italian, is cele

Readers Digest plans to file for bankruptcy

Despite their rottweiler like attitude to getting new members, Readers Digest is about to go belly up and file for bankruptcy This might not be a surprise to anyone who used to read the Digest however Historically it had very good and well researched articles In recent years however it became

A group of New Zealand children played with a dead woman's body for 11 days, thinking it was a crocodile corpse.

A group of kids found what they thought was the body of a crocodile in a creek, so they poked it with sticks and played with it for 11 days The problem was, New Zealand doesn't have any crocodiles, it was a human body, possibly of the mother of kids known to them It is believed an eight-year-
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