Octopus kaurna - (That's one female at the center of a mass of males).

*insert 70s porno jazz music here*

Aww yeah. Gangbangs: it's not just for bad American porno.

Sauce.

Scientists ecstatic at capturing video and actual sample of a whale shark taking a dump.


Michael Jackson is being sued in court by a Bahraini prince for reneging on a deal to record an album and write his autobiography, after the prince floated him cash to help him through his financial troubles.



A man left paralyzed after a vicious attack by Neo Nazis is planning a trip to Switzerland to commit suicide; while a famous disabled journalist pleads with him to choose life instead.


Supermarket gives back to the community, poisons discarded food to get homeless bums out of its garbage.

Also from Sweden: Man wins right to be legally named Madeline.


Islamic theologian hired for outreach to Muslims declares Mohammed probably never existed. Awkward? Fatwah in 3... 2... 1...

Hundreds of Indonesians protest anti-porn law, declaring it a threat to religious freedom.

Barclays avoids shareholder revolt by axing executive bonuses and revamping their payment plan.

Italian Air Force holding public name contest to come up with a less boring generic name for its new fighter jet. First price is a free ride in it.

Speaking of fighter jets, a Mig 29 could be yours for the low, low price of US $544,734.67 from this Russian military equipment webstore.

The word "meh" enters dictionary.

A gallery of the most extreme conditions ever recorded on the face of the Earth.

A visual guide to the financial crisis for the rest of us.

Five gadgets that were killed by the cellphone.

How to spot a fake Rolex.


As usual, more offbeat news over at fivethreenews and 53news.blogspot.com :D

This cartoon book named "Book of Bunny Suicides: Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Just Don't Want To Live Anymore" is being pulled from the shelves in China after a 12 year old committed suicide and four other kids attempted to kill themselves. The book is filled with cartoons of a cute bunny trying to kill itself in bizarre and often improbable ways, and is more morbid humor than kid's book. "The cartoon bunny's attempts to commit suicide are ridiculous. They're obviously meant to be funny. The pressures those poor children face come from reality, not a comic book," said the book publisher's marketing director.



Drunk guy arrested for humping a Chevy Blazer.



Kevin Smith's movie poster gets censored by the MPAA, replaced with stick figures, becomes more awesome.



Hubble finds "something" in previously empty region in space, and no one has even the faintest clue what the hell it is.



Bird's Nest Architects' Latest Unveiling: A vertigo-inducing Jenga apartment tower in NYC.



And now, high heels for babies.



23 Muslims were killed in a stampede of thousands in Indonesia trying to receive a cash handout for the holy month of Ramadan worth £2.36 each from a rich family.



Activist poledancers demand Olympic recognition.

Epic fail as streaker knocks self unconscious during game.

Vegetarians are six times more likely to have shrinking brains.

Satanists kill and eat four teenagers in Russia.

Babysitter sticks five month old in clothes dryer, turned it on and walked off because she was frustrated with him.

Prosecutors can’t use secret videotapes of a Watertown minister having sex with his comatose wife while she was in a nursing home because of what looks like a legal loophole. His lawyer called the case "tragic," arguing that he had a reasonable expectation of privacy, and that he "visited her daily, reading to her, praying with her."

Teacher gives lecture on photography to high school class using laptop and projector, gives them an assignment to start working on, starts looking at S&M porn on laptop, forgets that the projector is still running with the class of high schoolers watching the same thing he is. Hilarity ensues.

Fourth grader suspended for using a broken pencil sharpener.

Ten years of messages from Osama Bin Laden leaked onto Wikileaks. One message includes bin Laden's denial of having anything to do with the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania.

Star Trek's George Takei marries his partner in a Buddhist ceremony in Los Angeles.

Dog dials 911.

A fantastically horrible 1946 Disney film about menstruation, "The Story of Menstruation."

1,253 babies in China have gotten sick from drinking powered milk that had been intentionally spiked with melamine, a chemical used to make plastic tableware.

Meanwhile authorities in Naples are warning people not to buy bread made by the Mafia, as it is baked with carcinogenic wood.

Iraeli city to use DNA testing on dog poop to punish / reward dog owners.

Peugeot bringing a hybrid to Le Mans.

Christian motorcycle gang held in assault and attempted murder charges after brawl with Hells Angels. wat

Actual headline: Grandma arrested for driving with child on roof. MARATHON, Fla. - Authorities say a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a Marathon grocery store with her 3-year-old child sitting on the roof of the car.


The world's largest flower stinks of rotting meat or rancid cheese, looks very much like a giant penis, takes up to 15 years to bloom and has an indescribably awful smell for about 12 hours when it first opens.

US Border agents confiscate laptop because it has gay porn on it. According to those close to the CBSA, it not an uncommon story. And as the Supreme Court of Canada has pointed out in the Little Sister's bookstore case, porn that would be perfectly legal to make, sell and possess in Canada is often stopped at the border. Academic papers, fictions, letters and correspondence, bootlicking pictures, family photos — it can all get you in trouble.

Hackers get kicked out of hacker conference for hacking.


Awesome solar panel table is awesome.

TIME: Ten things Americans can like about gas costing $4 a gallon. Fascinating.

Bridge closed for electric-shocking bicyclists.

Porn sites credit economic 'stimulus' checks for rise in membership.

The watermelon is apparently natural viagra.

Fireworks store burns down. Good thing this didn't happen at a time of the year when large numbers of fireworks are sold.

Experimental bird flu vaccine tested on homeless people, who died. They were told it was a vaccine for regular flu and were paid about a pound each.

As Sydney prepares for a visit by Pope Benedict XVI and hundreds of thousands of Catholics, the city's brothels are readying themselves for an expected surge in demand for sex.

The average age of people who watch regular old-fashioned broadcast TV is now 50.

The newfangled flash-based solid state hard drives don't improve laptop battery performance, they actually reduce it.

National Geographic is covering the food price crisis worldwide as it unfolds.

Drunk Swede attempts to row home from Denmark.

Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the mysterious, bizarre, inexplicable Tunguska Event.

Mini Me, dwarf star of Austin powers, is suing over the leak of a sex tape.

Animal loving couple in trouble with the law for loving their dogs a little too much.


Man tries to commit suicide by parking his car on the tracks of an oncoming train. Changes mind in the last minute, but can't move the car. 11 dead train passengers later, he's alive but has been convicted of murder and ironically enough, faces the death penalty. As my mom always said: if you're going to do something, do it right.

If you're wondering just when or if that much-hyped worldwide food price crisis will ever show up, consider that grocery products in American supermarkets have been quietly shrinking in size rather than growing in price.

Actual headline: "Giraffe helps camels, zebras escape from circus". No mention of whether they were last seen headed towards Madagascar.

A consignment of scorpions, turtles, lizards, tarantulas, frogs, salamanders and snakes - many from protected species are waiting to be picked up at Mexico City airport.


Hot on the heels of shows like America's Top Model, the BBC is launching "Britain's Missing Top Model."

Expensive, high-tech spy camera disguised as a garbage bag lost in rubbish dump.

French soldiers accidently fire live ammo into crowd of spectators instead of blanks during army show.

Truck full of fire extinguishers and fire safety equipment catches fire.

The awesome wicked_danu has posted breathtaking pics of the new Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

Man dressed as penis disrupts graduation. Via authenticjoy, and I think dark_chrysolite too, but I'm not sure.

ceciliacarnage has a Flickr full of her amazing, beautiful photos.

The excellent scarletdemon writes up a thoroughly riveting and exhaustive film review of the latest cinematic masterpiece starring one Brianna Banks.

a teenager from a faith-healing family died from an illness that could have been easily treated, just a few months after a toddler cousin of his died in a case that has led to criminal charges. Clearly, it wasn't God's will to heal him, etc.

The brother of the President of the United Arab Emirates (where I grew up) has been accused of beating the crap out of an American man in a Geneva hotel when the man rejected the Sheikh's sexual advances.

Man Loses 86 lbs Eating 1,200-1,400 Calories Per Day Of McDonald's Food.

The High Court in South Africa has ruled that Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people.

TIME: The 50 best websites of 2008.

The 25 best computer pranks.

Wired: The ten best vehicles to survive an apocalypse with. Depressingly, no mention of the almighty and awesome bicycle, although it does mention a unicycle :-/

A link has been found between bumper stickers and road rage.

A re-sortable list of the IQs of famous people, from philosophers and scientists to Hollywood actors.

Boy's testicles attacked by pissed off puffer fish. Actual headline reads: Angry puffer fish goes nuts.

Man buys building with intent to turn it into an ATV rental shop; neighbors successfully block him, complaining abuot noise and destruction to property, which man refutes as fabricated; so he is retaliating by turning it into a porn shop instead.

The Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico has grown to the size of Massachusetts.

A drug war in Mexico goes completely over the top.

Family dog bites off one month old baby's testicles.

Sixth human foot washes ashore on B.C. Coast.


Canadian family moves home from WA to Canada. Literally.

Married gays find out that marriage sucks donkeyballs.

The best gallery of senior citizens fencing while on walker frame things that you'll ever see.