http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071220/ap_on_fe_st/odd_too_many_dogs
Animal control officers removed 237 dogs from the home of a 70-year-old woman who said she had been breeding the animals, officials said.
Kelli Copeland, manager of the city’s Animal Care Services department, said it took about six hours Tuesday to gather up all the dogs, which were taken to a city kennel.
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/strangedeaths/912/kiss_of_death.html
Xia (or Xin) Xinfeng, from Maolou in the central Chinese province of Henan, has been sentenced to death for killing Mao Ansheng, her childhood sweetheart, with a kiss. They had sworn an oath that if either were unfaithful, they would have to die. Xia took action when she saw her man talking to a woman in a way that made her suspicious. They had arranged to meet the next day at a public bathhouse. She filled a plastic pellet with rat poison, hid it under her tongue, and while they were kissing, nudged it into his mouth. Failing to notice, Mao swallowed it and died shortly afterwards.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=503419&in_page_id=1770
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/a-better-way-of-tracking-feed-subcribes
Tracking feed “subscribes” not just the current subscribers.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10213?src=rss
I would. Well, perhaps not the Lambic… yeah, the gut rotting Lambic too.
“25 of the Most Awesome Monopoly Boards Ever”
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/536182?sc=dwtr
Old-fashioned “word of mouth” might be more useful in advertising than previously thought, especially in digital media, according to collaborative research by a Miami University faculty member and his colleagues.
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/12/must-read-nanot.html
From the page: “Batelle Memorial Institute recently completed a report called “Productive Nanosystems: A Technology Roadmap.” It’s a complete analysis of this world-changing technology.”
(Links to 198 page PDF)
There has been a great victory for the 140,000 workers whose pension schemes went bust between 1997 and 2005. After a ten-year scandal, where they have been deceived and left with no or little money, they are finally getting some help. But how much help?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/7151240.stm
Officials blamed rising pollution levels for thousands of dead fish that were washed ashore in Assam.