Mass. town approves plan to shame property owners WEBSTER, Mass. — The health board in a Massachusetts town has approved a plan to shame owners of rundown buildings into fixing and securing their properties. The plan approved Monday by the Webster board allows the town to place 4-by-8-foot signs on the sides of dilapidated buildings [...]
Weird News of the Week Feb. 28-March 6
March 8th, 2011 by Marie CorhernThere’s spammers among us
March 3rd, 2011 by Marie CorhernIf you have have a blog for any amount of time, you know that your inbox will be slammed with spam comments. I, alone, have already collected over 500 of these things, and haven’t been up for a full year yet. My favorites are the spammers that get pissy with you for deleting their comments. [...]
Weird News of the Week Feb. 21-27
March 1st, 2011 by Marie CorhernCowboys save horse stuck in drain hole on Beale MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A group of cowboys in Memphis for a roping competition helped save a horse on Beale Street. Philip Murrah told WREG-TV that he and four buddies were eating at the Rum Boogie Cafe on Saturday when they noticed the problem. A horse had [...]
Weird News of the Week Feb. 14-20/ Feb. 7-13
February 21st, 2011 by Marie CorhernSorry to readers for the missing news last week (I’ve added them to this week’s briefs), but I was suffering from the flu. All is well now, and hopefully I will be back on schedule this week. Tenn. woman IDs bank robbery suspect as ex-husband MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Shelby County man has been charged [...]
Weird News of the Week Jan. 31-Feb. 6
February 7th, 2011 by Marie CorhernSouth Africa’s ANC deplores … sushi on models? JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s governing party has pronounced: eating sushi off the body of a model in a bikini is politically incorrect. A Monday statement from African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe is unequivocal: “This act is anti-ANC and anti-revolutionary. This act is defamatory, insensitive and [...]
What can you learn on YouTube?
February 5th, 2011 by Marie CorhernEveryone knows that YouTube is the home for music videos, TV shows and people doing random things, but did you know that YouTube can be educational? I learned how to do movie style zombie makeup on one visit to YouTube. So the question is: What can you learn from You Tube in an hour? 1. [...]
Weird News of the Week Jan. 24-30
January 31st, 2011 by Marie Corhern‘Crop circle’ in Indonesian rice paddy JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of curious onlookers are flocking to central Indonesia to look at a “crop circle” in a rice field following rumors it was formed by a UFO. Though clearly sculptured by humans – it looks like an intricately designed flower – the 70-yard-wide (70-meter-wide) circle has [...]
And I didn’t know bears could type
January 26th, 2011 by Marie CorhernWhile the public service announcement is funny, the message is dead on. Parents really do need to know who their children are talking to on the internet.
Weird News of the Week Jan. 17-23
January 24th, 2011 by Marie CorhernBoston lacrosse team sorry for racy halftime show BOSTON — Boston’s professional indoor lacrosse team is apologizing for a racy halftime show featuring scantily-dressed women giving lap dances to the team’s mascot. An online video shows dancers taking turns gyrating in front of and on the seated mascot, Scorch, while an announcer bellows, “What do [...]
Lost Camera
January 22nd, 2011 by Marie CorhernEver lost your camera? Or maybe you are just afraid that you might lose it. No worries, this blogger gives you a pictorial to safeguard your camera. via And if you did lose your camera, you could always check here.
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