Posted on Thursday, 25th February 2010 by Interloper
Bollywood filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has issued a challenge for anyone brave enough to endure his horror sequel, Phoonk 2, claiming that he will award a 500,000 rupee prize (that’d buy a lot of soup) to anyone who manages to watch the entire film while remaining alone in a theatre.
The brave (or foolhardy) contender will [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 16th February 2010 by Interloper
Pope Benedict XVI has been nominated for a Brit Award in the classical music category, for his vocals on the album Alma Mater – Music From the Vatican.
Once it was considered a big deal for actors to “cross over” and launch musical careers, but in recent years even the U.S. President, Barack Obama, has managed [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd February 2010 by Interloper
NASA’s hopes to return astronauts the moon by the year 2020 (a plan originally set in motion by ex-President George W. Bush) have been dashed with the release of Obama’s latest budget on Monday.
The budget also ends development of the Ares 1 rocket, which was set to replace the ageing space shuttles currently in deployment. [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 13th January 2010 by Interloper
Apparently some company have revealed the latest in a line of sugar-powered mobile phones. When Wheezle linked to this in chat, I initially thought that it was about a phone that was powered by cocaine, which would definitely have been more exciting (as well as creating jobs for thousands of South Americans).
Turns out they meant [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th December 2009 by Interloper
Two scientists from the Melbourne Museum have reported the first evidence that invertebrates are capable of using tools, when they witnessed the attractively named “veined octopus” gather coconut shells in order to later employ them as body armour.
The uncanny denziens of the deep not only selected coconut shells that would protect its soft body, but [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th December 2009 by Interloper
A group of atheists in New Zealand have are requesting donations to help fund a plan to put stickers on the sides of buses that say: “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
The plan is reminiscent of similar atheist campaigns that have been carried out in the past year, including one [...]
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Posted on Friday, 11th December 2009 by Interloper
Experimental missiles, portals to another world, and even “tiny sapphires” have all been given as possible explanations for the mysterious rotating spiral that appeared above Norway earlier this week.
Phone switchboards lit up with calls and the internet was flooded with pictures and video of the bizarre light show as it unfolded during the early [...]
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Posted on Friday, 11th December 2009 by Interloper
Hundreds of villagers have been flocking to the Indian coastal district of Kendrapara in order to visit a rare sea turtle that they believe is an incarnation of Lord Jagannath.
Jagannath (the “Lord of the World”) is but one avatar of the god Vishnu, who is also revered in the forms of Krishna and Rama; two [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 29th October 2009 by Interloper
As reported by ABC Science, Astronomers have uncovered the most distant object ever observed in our universe and are set to document their findings in the latest issue of the science journal, Nature.
Appearing as little more than a red pin-prick of light, the object is believed to be the remnant light from a long-dead star, [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 27th October 2009 by Interloper
DNA samples taken from a dead leech have helped to solve an eight-year-old crime here in Australia.
Eight years ago, a 71-year-old woman living in a rural Tasmania was attacked by two assailants. The men tied her to a chair and hit her repeatedly with sticks before making off with a grand total of AUD $550 [...]
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