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Bad Astronomy has taken the trouble to list its Top 10 Astronomy Images for 2006, which also includes our own favorites like the face and water on Mars, and that Saturnian perspective of Earth. What you’re seeing here is not an egg yolk on a big black fat plate of nothing, but the Sun, and […]

Male experts have conducted this very vigorous study whose findings basically indicate that women who do more housework can reduce breast cancer risk.
The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing sport.
Dusting, mopping and vacuuming was also better than having a physical […]

Some hours ago, at dawn in Iraq, Saddam Hussein solemnly climbed the gallows and met his end. But our “Iraqi spy” (who happens to email in flawless, unaccented English) has just zapped us a note saying that as the former Iraqi bad-ass was just about to get it, he quipped this soon-to-be-famous parting shot in […]

Vegetable-loving thieves pulled off a grand heist involving a trailer full of £25,000 worth of broccoli.
The 48ft container disappeared from its parking space in a suburb of Chicago prompting questions over whether this is the largest ever single heist of vegetable matter.
Local detective Ed Zorich was left bemused, saying: ‘What is someone going to do […]

Cracked has just settled one of the most important, thought-provoking questions of our time: “Which make better household companions, toddlers or monkeys?”
The experiment was cleanly scientific, quadruple-blinded, placebo-controlled, and completely objective from an American consumer’s viewpoint. It isn’t surprising that monkeys emerge as runaway winners. Because toddlers are just so…like…me.
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Some Russians’ clever way to sell vodka to geeks is packaging it in sleek, serious-looking silver boxes that say “triple-core revolutionary performance processor kit.” The idea is when you drink it, everything in the world will seem three times faster, especially the way your life spirals down the existential drain.

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Filipino Manuel Viterbo tried to stop a bunch of robbers from fleeing a noodle factory, and so he probably thought his penis was “hard” enough to deflect bullets. But robber Cesar de Torres showed him his dick was probably hard enough for those P200-peso sluts on Doroteo Jose, but not “harder than the speeding bullet” […]

This 400-mm Leica camera is designed to give you a hell of a time with the police convincing them that when you say you’re going to “shoot celebrities,” you don’t actually mean killing them. But it has its uses; in a world crawling with paparazzis, this camera will surely earn you some respect; just hope […]