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A weird twist has just come up regarding the grisly and mysterious Benoit double murder-suicide case. And this concerns edit-friendly Wikipedia:

News of Nancy Benoit’s death was inexplicably posted on Wikipedia 14 hours before the police discovered the bodies. This was initially reported on Wikinews and later on FOXNews.com. The original posting read: “Chris Benoit was replaced by [...]

“And so Watson discovers that paying $400 for some nice airline seat gives him the enviable privilege of being the sole audience to the sounds and smells of the aircraft lavatory.”

These two blokes in Shanghai take professionalism to a new, hitherto-unheard-of level that they will completely resist non-statue-like behavior no matter what happens. You don’t believe us? Try to pee on them and see!

We love this kid — he’s so profound hungry crows are pecking at our bread crumbs-encrusted genitals and we don’t even notice it.

Three words: enlightenment.

In some countries, marriage is punishment for playing “Stairway to heaven.”

This is what happens when a very drunk horse and a zebra find themselves in the car’s backseat.

If there’s anything good coming out of the war, it’s the ready availability of “lady business.”
Celebrating National Family Week has just made a morbid turn.
Metro Sweden gives you big bags of cash for blogging.
Armada of plastic ducks returns to the UK.
Don’t ever touch Bill Barnes’ very sensitive wallet.
Oh, and Liz Claiborne is dead.
Serbian farmer Zivomir [...]

Why do these actual customer letters to a sex toy shop look like the same cute stuff a recently freed heiress would scribble?

Fruits and vegetables live a very violent, inexplicably sad life – like poor people! Those battery chickens are just so lucky.

Somebody stumbles on renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking in a strippers joint in Paris, where he was reportedly enjoying the charms and company of about half a dozen females. Presumably, he was regaling the ladies how in a parallel universe where Stephen would be David Hasselhoff-ish, he could have taken them all from behind at [...]

An endless procession of working and eating people – welcome to modern China. Sure, we’ve all loved the cheap plastic toys, dressed chicken, and sometimes toxic toothpaste, but isn’t it great to see the people who produce those wonderful things? The photo shows lunch time in the cafeteria of Youngor Textiles, the largest suit maker [...]

The Rabid Wolverine Chris Benoit (21 May 1967 — 25 June 2007) has had enough. And whatever his problems were, he tagged along his poor, defenseless family. Tsk.
He’s been in trouble all along. These past few months, whatever it was that disturbed him unmistakably reflected on his face every time he entered the ring: his countenance was haggard, scraggly, [...]

If the weekly Sunday ration of holy wafer doesn’t feel so filling despite all those grueling confessions, the Baby Jesus authentic pure pork dry sausage will meet the demand of your discerning palate. The holy infant is so tender and mild, it’s delicious.
via BOINGBOING

The Hawk-10, created by Global Resource Corporation (GRC), is a device that fires finely tuned microwave at plastic and turns it back to oil and combustible gas.
Key to GRC’s process is a machine that uses 1200 different frequencies within the microwave range, which act on specific hydrocarbon materials. As the material is zapped at the [...]

Kyoto-based robot and factory automation manufacturer Squse has developed an air pressure-controlled artificial hand that’s efficient enough to pick up a raw egg.
“So far, robots have an image of helping people do heavy lifting, but we aim at delicate work as a human hand can do,” company president Mikio Shimizu said.
During a demonstration, the prototype [...]

Before Paris Hilton’s release from jail, she was thoughtful enough to send her lawyer Rich Hutton to give TMZ’s Harvey Levin a very endearing self-portrait of the heiress braving her time in a situation what normal folks consider simply as “life.” The sketch is a stunning masterpiece in the exclusivist art self-effacing heiresses are known [...]