This story broke a few days ago and upon reading the initial reports in the early hours of the morning, I secretly hoped that fourchan or some other online vigilante group would get involved. For those of you that came in late, so the story goes that Stephanie and Darryl Mann found their cat Lola [...]
Aside from the detrimental health effects of being overweight, one of the other main changes one experiences when they pack on the kilos is the obvious change of appearance. Infact most people raise more then eyebrow when they see someone they haven’t seen in a while who has undergone a sizeable weight change. In the [...]
With a depressing estimate of nine billion people set to inhabit Earth by 2050, it’s no secret that we as a global civilization are going to have to ramp up our food production methods to keep up with demand. The days of livestock grazing on open rolling plains is fast becoming extinct and more then [...]
With the discharging of Oscar, the world’s first full face transplant patient, the progress made in the facial transplant field is nothing short of impressive. To actually be able to take somebody else’s face and reattach it to a new host requires some high level medical and technological precision. It’s a sign of the times [...]
‘Hi there.’ ‘Uh hi. Welcome to England’ ‘Yo yo yo so I was thinking you guys could set me up with a two story somewhere trendy. Maybe a plasma telly and at minimum two bedrooms.’ ‘Um, hang on a sec. You just landed, we haven’t even began to process your claim yet.’ ‘Doesn’t matter yo.’ [...]
Over in England the establishment of a sharia court system to deal with civil cases involving the local muslim population occurred in late 2008. This in itself is a tribute to the success of Islamic groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir. Hizb ut-Tahrir are a global Islamic organisation full of hardline religious nutters hell bent on [...]
My first taste of a Krispy Kreme donut was on a sponsored promotional run for a local car club. So luring was the promise of Krispy Kreme donuts (this was before a store had opened) that two of my housemates had come along seeing as the promotion promised us a box for each person that [...]
I noticed a few weeks ago ads on news.com.au appearing that looked a bit on the suss side. They appeared to feature some guy I wasn’t familiar with and something about ‘Anderson Cooper: A History of Lies’ and a ‘Freedom Special Report’. Not particularly enticed I ignored the ad but it began to pop up [...]
The mixing of unrelated men and women in Saudi Arabia has been a giant no-no for quite a long time. This of course in turn creates social problems. Unless chaperoned it’s generally frowned upon for a female to be in the company of any unrelated male friends or acquaintances. This particular example as you can [...]
If I travel to another country and engage in an activity that is illegal there’s a good change I’m going to face some sort of penalty if I’m caught. Here in Australia, commit the illegal act of female genital mutilation (also known as female circumcision), and we’ll not only excuse you – we’ll discuss modifying [...]
