Sunday, March 22, 2009

Bush had the same complaint about the windows of the Oval Office

Every morning when the front window of a florist shop in Reigate, England, fogs up, the words “licensed sex shop” appear, remnants of the sign of the previous tenant. George W. Bush used to have the same complaint about the windows of the Oval Office.

Bowing to public demand, Google Maps has removed some street scenes from its mapping service after people in England complained because they showed people being arrested and walking into sex shops. The scenes will now be available at a new service called Google Whoops.

A Spanish transsexual man who was born a woman and still has his female parts has given birth to twins. He wants to keep it a secret from the twins, but eventually he’ll have to explain why he named them Either and Or.

Bryan Fuller, who writes for series “Heroes,” has told “Star Trek” director J.J. Abrams that he has an idea for a new Star Trek TV series. He’ll link it to the original 1960s show by having the Starship Enterprise played by William Shatner.

A wildlife photographer for the BBC took pictures of a pink elephant calf with a herd of about 80 elephants in Botswana. Experts say it’s either an albino with sunburn or the result of the rest of the herd getting into a fermented vineyard.

Scientists at the University of Iowa have created a small wireless device that monitors the use of hand hygiene dispensers by healthcare workers. This will replace the current monitoring technique of watching to see if the health care worker makes a face when he rubs his nose with his hand.

According to a Consumer Product Safety Commission report, more than 870,000 people are injured annually doing spring cleaning. If you hurt yourself doing spring cleaning, maybe you should try doing less winter dirtying.

A busload of activists representing working-class families visited the lavish homes of AIG executives over the weekend. They managed to sneak past the security guard at the gate by replacing the greyhound on the side of the bus with a picture of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

In his appearance on “60 Minutes,” President Obama responded to criticisms from Dick Cheney by saying that the detainee policy of the Bush administration “hasn’t made us any safer.” He may have gone a little too far by comparing the Bush detainee policy to paying keep-away at the Special Olympics.

Legislators in Florida and Alaska are considering bans on humans having sex with animals. Florida wants to put these people in jail, but Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wants to catch them in the act and shoot them from her helicopter.

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