Cool Links

A collection of cool, weird and funny links from around the Internet.

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It's Knuttz
Cool Stop Motion Filmogrophy

Flaming bag of poo
Stomp on the flaming bag of poo.

8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
When I was in high school I used to be terrified of my girlfriend's father, who I believe suspected me of wanting to place my hands on his daughter's chest.

Cool Halloween Costumes I've seen on the Web
These are unique costume ideas I'd like to try to recreate on my own some day!

Tampon Shooter
Inspired by marshmallow shooters, this air-powered tampon gun turns your feminine hygiene products into high-flying projectiles. Have a shootout between rival tampon brands, or use it as a fun alternative to paintball.

Joke of the Day

Three doctors

Three doctors are waiting in line to get into the Pearly Gates. St. Peter walks out and asks the first one, "What have you done to enter Heaven?"

"I am a pediatrician and have brought thousands of the Lord's babies into the world."

"Good enough to enter the gates," replied St. Peter and in he goes. The same question is asked of the second doctor.

"I am a general practioner and go to Third World countries three times a year to cure the poor." St. Peter is impressed and allows him through the gates. The third doctor steps up in line and knowing the question, blurts out, "I am a director of an HMO."

St. Peter meditates on this for a while and then says, "Fine, you can enter Heaven...but only for 2 days."

437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius

969 - Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria

1061 - Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II

1268 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Catholic church.

1422 - Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France

1467 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege

1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)

1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ?, for integral.

1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

1792 - Mt. Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.

1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward-off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1881 - The Judge (US magazine) first published.

1886 - The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

1901 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

1921 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.

1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or Black Tuesday, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

1942 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.

1944 - Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division

1945 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.

1948 - Safsaf massacre

1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.

1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.

1956 - Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.

1957 - Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.

1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

1964 - A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves including Jack Murphy from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966).

1980 - Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.

1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.

1988 - In Japan, the Sega Megadrive is released for the first time.

1989 - After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.

1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

1992 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.

1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).

1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.

1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.

1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.

1998 - In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

1998 - Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.

2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.

2005 - 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.

2005 - Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.

Weird News

A collection of weird and strange news articles from around the Internet.

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High School Student Gets Head Smashed Into Curb
(KUTV) HERRIMAN - A 17-year-old boy was sent to the hospital after he received a brutal beating, in the form of a new punishment called “curbing.”

Curbing is nothing new. It's been around for a long time. There is an excellent movie out that has an example of curbing in it. American History X

Ban on black cat adoptions questioned
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A black cat won't cross your path this Halloween, not if a northern Idaho animal shelter can help it. Like many shelters around the country, the Kootenai Humane Society in Coeur d'Alene is prohibiting black cat adoptions from now to Nov. 2, fearing the animals could be mistreated in Halloween pranks - or worse, sacrificed in some satanic ritual.

Man Refuses Indictment For Empire State Stunt
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK A former television show host, Jeb Corliss of Stunt Junkies, who is accused of trying to parachute from the Empire State Building refused to enter a plea Friday to an indictment charging him with reckless endangerment.

Denver voters can ride to polls in style
A coalition of advocacy groups has reserved two limos to handle pickup requests. To get as many people to the polls as possible, the limos will be making multiple stops to fit up to eight people on each ride, Hodel said.

Who Made The Sleaziest Ad?
The ad produced by the Republican National Committee against Harold Ford in Tennessee may be the sleaziest of the season. That’s hard to say definitively, because we’ve got more than a week to go and desperate candidates will do desperate things to get elected.
But here’s the thing. Negative, attack ads like that used to be produced by “shadowy outside groups” and took days to track down who actually made the ad and who paid for it.
Well, it ain’t so hard anymore. We know who did that ad…they told us right at the end of it – The Republican National Committee. That’s right. Despite all the brouhaha over campaign reform—and getting rid of those independent groups that finance so many sleazy ads—the sleazy ads are now financed by a new source: THE POLITICAL PARTIES THEMSELVES.

Elderly Man's Bike Stolen After Overhaul
ENGLEWOOD, Fla. Oct 27, 2006 (AP)— Eighty-five-year-old Don Francis spent three years refurbishing a three-wheel bike with shiny paint, chrome handlebars and polished wheel spokes. In one day over the weekend the whole thing disappeared after somebody stole it.

Pa. police station buzzing with snakes
Police Chief John Brown said officers answered a call Wednesday night about a woman threatening to harm herself and found the woman in her basement holding a knife to her throat. She put down the knife but began waving the snakes at the officers, and was herself bitten on the arms and face. She put down the snakes and again grabbed the knife, but Mount Carmel police arrived with a stun weapon and used it to immobilize her, Brown said.

Statue of Dennis the Menace Stolen
MONTEREY, Calif. Oct 28, 2006 (AP)— The mischievous Dennis the Menace has gone missing except this time, he's not hiding because he broke the rules. A statue of the perennial pint-sized troublemaker that stood for almost two decades in a city park was unbolted and stolen sometime between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, police said.