Belgariad author David Eddings passes away

The author that introduced me to an ongoing love of fantasy books, David Eddings, passed away on Tuesday 2 June 2009, at the age of 77. Eddings’ two most popular series, the Belgariad and the Malloreon, are still two of the most popular bildungsroman series written, and haven’t been out of print since they were [...]

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Inadvertent inappropriate headline

“Family torn apart after bus blast” I don’t think I can add much more to that. Mind you, I’m finding that more and more, IOL needs an online copy editor, because their headlines and articles are getting worse by the day. [Link: IOL - Family torn apart after bus blast]

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WTF??? It’s illegal to use emoticons!!

Ok, this is just wrong…. I feel violated, you must read this and let me know what you think! A Russian businessman has trademarked the emoticon – or combination of punctuation marks – used to convey a wink in text messages and e-mail. And now Oleg Teterin claims other similar emoticons – like – could [...]

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Newsworthy news

So, I was on Al Jazeera reading some news, and they have a column on the right of the page listing important news stories from around the world. What is wrong, or rather funny, with this list? Clue: how can this be listed as news?

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Blizzard says “No” to Uwe Boll World of Warcraft movie

Blizzard Entertainment, the guys who made World of Warcraft, possibly one of the largest multiplayer online games in existence, were approached by Uwe Boll for movie rights. In Mr Boll’s own words: “I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, ‘We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not [...]

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Breaking news; slightly nauseating

Do you remember when Calvin creates his own newspaper, and he walks around the house looking for stories? Or the time when he entered the traffic sign competition, using cranium red and spaghetti sauce for effects? Do you remember how Bill Waterson phrased the news headlines? For example: “Calvin drives fire engine; few injured” and [...]

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Fowl-mouth bird teaches other birds to swear

A foul-mouthed macaw in London has been teaching other birds to swear. Says the owner, Geoff Grewcock (that’s seriously his name?): “They just sit there swearing at each other now, all kinds of foul language – it’s unbelievable.” It’s similar to having very young, impressionable children around the house, don’t you think? And like little [...]

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Today’s insanity: girls beat up and kidnap another girl for YouTube video

A group of eight teenagers, six of them girls, were arrested for beating up another girl, 16-year old Victoria Lindsay, purely for the sake of filming the attack and uploading the video to YouTube. One of the girls struck the 16-year-old victim on the head several times and then slammed her head into a wall, [...]

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Today’s insanity: body parts left in bag on porch

Ok, so maybe the image is a little tasteless. Chalk it up to my tasteless gene. Anyhow: Two sisters in Greenville, South Carolina, USA, were each greeted with a bag on their porch that contained human hands and feet. One of the sisters currently lives at an apartment at the Andover Park complex on Cleveland [...]

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Some real insanity for once: 9-year old kids plot to kill teacher

In a horrifyingly strange example of some real, utter, insanity, a group of 9-year old kids plotted to kill their third-grade teacher. “The plan was to handcuff the teacher, put tape over her mouth and hit her over the head with the paperweight and possibly cut her,” said Lieutenant Duane Caswell of Waycross police. Now [...]

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