Red rain falling in India might be biological cells that contain no DNA and reproduce in extreme heat. The research leads to speculation that the cells are alien in nature. dun dun dun.
Darius McCollum has been arrested for stealing a bus in New Jersey and driving it to JFK international airport.
The story gets better though, apparently Darius started his love affair with transit crime at the tender age of 15, when he commandeered a subway train and drove it to the World Trade Center. Since then, he has accumulated 26 more arrested, most of which involve impersonating transit officials.
It is believed that McCollum may suffer from autism or Asperger's syndrome.
Choice cuts from the article:
"Elizabeth McCollum said she moved to North Carolina 20 years ago with her only son, who would pick up and leave for New York because he missed the trains.
....His mother said that by the time he was 8 he had memorized the city subway system, by far the biggest in the country, and could direct a person to any point on it without consulting a map or guide."
Criminal acts, mental disorders, and public safety aside, I do applaud this guy for following his dreams.
OKCupid data has determined that iphone users have more sex. The methodology is suspect but the results don't surprise me. The study more likely reveals that people who are susceptible to suggestions that something has more value than it actually does have sex more often. It might also be a self confidence thing. Maybe girls that are more likely to feel better about themselves because they have the iPhone are the same girls who feel better about themselves if they get as many dicks in them as possible.
Canadian Lisa Murphy has authored a book of pornographic images for the blind, using raised images to stimulate the imagination (among other things) of the seeing impaired.
A few examples: A naked woman in a disco pose, a woman with perfect breasts, and, of course, a male "love robot".
If anyone wants to take a guess at what the braille says below the image, I'd be happy to hear it.
Males' nipples are regarded as a sign that till a certain age, inside the mother's womb, we are not assigned to a specific sex. So the embryo prepares to produce either a girl or a boy; when the genetic information says boy, the nipple bud stops its development.
But in certain conditions, men can lactate. "Up until a certain age, boys and girls, as fetuses, are indistinguishable, really, so we retain-women retain some remnants of the vas deferens, which is the canal that sperm follows. If you have no Y chromosome, then certain hormones are released that say, 'Okay, we'll set up this child's breast tissue to develop at puberty so that she will be able to produce milk.' Men didn't [secrete those hormones], so we don't usually have breast tissue", said Jack Newman, a Toronto-based doctor and breast-feeding expert. "Actually a significant number of boys around the age of puberty do develop breasts, so the tissue is there, but it regresses."
The FAA has blown a fuse over a child clearing two aircraft for take off. The kids father brought him to work to JFK's air traffic control tower and with an obvious supervision allowed the boy to use the radio to direct the planes to take off.
MS 4-0-3, contact departure, adios," the boy said.
"Adios, amigo," the boy said.
"Adios, amigo," the pilot responded. "Over to departure, Jet Blue 195."
The boys father and his supervisor were forced to take leave pending an investigation.
The FAA is blowing a good thing out of proportion. Its not like it was Jenny Mccarthy's or Sarah Palin's kid...or Sarah Palin for that matter.
Roboticists in search of a challenge, take note. The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to replace the weather-forecasting Punxsutawney Phil of Groundhog Day fame with an animatronic version. Robot followers that we are here at Crave, we're all for an electronic rodent, but we're also pretty sure groundhog bots have a long way to go before they can charm crowds the way little Phil can.
PETA maintains that the animal whose annual February 2 antics portend the duration of winter is mistreated--put on display year-round at the local Pennsylvania library; denied the ability to prepare for and enter yearly hibernation; and forced to endure screaming throngs of thousands, media attention, and human handling.
According to legend, if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, six more weeks of winter weather will follow. If he doesn't, expect an early spring. But PETA has had enough of the tradition that dates back to 1886, and believes robotic technology could be the solution.
"If Punxsutawney frees Phil, then the bitter winter that's made him into an unwilling media attraction will end, making way for a sunny spring that everyone can enjoy," PETA writes in a post on its PETA Files blog.
In a letter (PDF) written to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club and posted on PETA's Web site, animal specialist Gemma Vaughan notes that groundhogs are normally shy animals that "become stressed" when exposed to too much hubbub.
She also notes that "other popular exhibitions have featured robotic penguins and dolphins who swim and communicate just like real animals do, and we think that an animatronic groundhog would similarly mesmerize a crowd full of curious spectators in Punxsutawney.
"Tradition is no excuse for cruelty, and this opportunity would allow Punxsutawney to engage in a futuristic, interactive, versatile, and humane annual event," she writes.
So having seen time and time again that any robot that can be imagined can be created, we'll wait for the engineers of the world to come up with a cute machine version of the sleepy marmot. In the meantime, those who aren't offended by the real-life furry prognosticator can get notified by text message the minute Punxsutawney Phil pops out of his burrow Tuesday. Text "Groundhog" to 247365, the Pennsylvania Tourism Bureau instructs. And yes, standard text messaging rates do apply.
Well, in my mind PETA is going too far. I think they're just bored and looking for things to make a fuss about. I was listening to a local radio show about this topic and and a quote from president of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club said the animal is [b]"being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania" because the groundhog is kept in a climate-controlled environment and is inspected annually by the state Department of Agriculture. Lmao
Binary Space has created a Zombie Outbreak Simulator which allows you to witness the viral spread of the great zombie outbreak in Google Maps as it sweeps across Washington DC, in an area close to the Catholic University of America, north of the Pentagon.
Users can modify various settings in the “sandbox” such as zombie numbers, speed, infection times and so on, and then watch the results unfold.
During his wedding ceremony, Dana Hanna whipped out his mobile device and not only changed his relationship status to married on Facebook, but also sent out a tweet announcing that the couple had become man and wife.
im sure he was doing this just for shits and giggles (and probably to be in a viral video) but this is still indicative about how sad people have become. pretty much everything anyone does anymore is just so they can tell other people. does anyone do anything for themself anymore? nihilo sanctum estne?
More than 300 teams have signed up for this weekend's DARPA Network Challenge, a $40,000 balloon hunt organized by the Pentagon's think tank to study how social networking works. And one of the things that has come out of the experiment is that you could earn some of the prize money yourself, just by being in the right place at the right time.
The teens have said they were imitating a rap from a popular YouTube video, which begins: "I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce." Spenser Dauwalder, 18, has said employees at the fast-food restaurant told him and his friends they were holding up the line and needed to order or leave. But Dauwalder said no one else was in line. He and his three 17-year-old friends left without buying anything. A manager wrote down the car's license plate number and called authorities, police Sgt. Gregg Ludlow has said. Officers later cited the teens in a high school parking lot outside a volleyball match.
Halloween article by Laura Fitzpatrick at Time Magazine discusses the facts (or lack thereof) related to trick-or-treating.
My fav part:
Only two children are known to have been killed by poisoned Halloween loot. In both cases, the perpetrators were actually family members, who tried to exploit the trick-or-treating urban legend to throw police off their trail.
Creating a ball was easy. He got a few hair bands together. Then some larger bands. The rubber band ball grew to the size of a boulder, and his family took notice.
"When it started getting bigger, they knew I was pretty serious," he said.
The ball eventually got its own Web site. It got too big -- and smelly -- to keep in the house, so he rolled it outside.
There have been a few casualties: at 400 pounds, it rolled over his hand and sprained it. It busted his big toe. Rubber bands breaking ripped two pairs of cargo pants and broke three pairs of sunglasses.
A former cashier for The Home Depot who has been wearing a "One nation under God" button on his work apron for more than a year has been fired, he says because of the religious reference. The company claims that expressing such personal beliefs is simply not allowed.
Meghan McCain says she's ready to quit Twitter all together after generating a wave of criticism from users of the popular social networking site Wednesday night for posting a picture of herself in a tank top that left little to the twitterverse's imagination.
The controversy began quietly enough when McCain, the vocal daughter of the former Republican presidential candidate, tweeted that her self described "spontaneous" night in included reading a biography of the iconic artist Andy Warhol and ordering takeout.
It was there the 24-year old McCain posted the photo of herself wearing a tank top that generated the subsequent controversy .
The photograph apparently generated a string of negative responses, leading McCain to weigh in 15 minutes later: "so I took a fun picture not thinking anything about what I was wearing but apparently anything other than a pantsuit and I am a slut."
"This is why I have been considering deleting my twitter account," McCain, with close to 60,000 followers, continued in another tweet, "what once was fun now just seems like a vessel for harassment."
Fifteen minutes later, McCain weighed in again, tweeting, "When I am alone in my apartment, I wear tank tops and sweat pants, I had no idea this makes me a slut", I can't even tell you how hurt I am."
An hour later, the prolific tweeter said her decision was nearly made: "ok I am getting the f**k off twitter, promise not to delete my account until I sleep on it, thank you for the nice words supporters."
But McCain did make one final tweet before the evening came to a close, posting a link to her latest column for the Web site The Daily Beast.
Known as the Barefoot Burglar, 18 year old Colton Harris-Moore is terrorizing Washington state stealing pretty much everything. Apparently he is now the primary suspect in the thefts of small Cessna type planes of which on 3 occasions it seems he has stolen them flown them and crashed them.
It looks like he is teaching himself to fly.
He left a picture of himself in a stolen car and flaunts his successes on his facebook as he continues to elude police.
A five-year-old boy has shot dead a 12ft, 800-pound alligator in Texas.
Simon Hughes was on a hunting trip with his father when they came across the massive reptile.
The boy grabbed his junior-sized .410-gauge shotgun and fired at the creature which was 20 times his size and is one of the biggest ever seen in Texas.
Afterwards Simon said: "I wasn't afraid for a second. Next year I'm going to kill me a bigger alligator."
He described how he shouted “holy moly” when he saw the size of the alligator and intends to bring the mounted head in to school for show-and-tell.
Red rain falling in India might be biological cells that contain no DNA and reproduce in extreme heat. The research leads to speculation that the cells are alien in nature. dun dun dun.
Darius McCollum has been arrested for stealing a bus in New Jersey and driving it to JFK international airport. 
Mark Zable has entered his version of deep fried beer in a state fair in Texas. 
OKCupid data has determined that iphone users have more sex. The methodology is suspect but the results don't surprise me. The study more likely reveals that people who are susceptible to suggestions that something has more value than it actually does have sex more often. It might also be a self confidence thing. Maybe girls that are more likely to feel better about themselves because they have the iPhone are the same girls who feel better about themselves if they get as many dicks in them as possible.
They never thought they'd see the day.
Males' nipples are regarded as a sign that till a certain age, inside the mother's womb, we are not assigned to a specific sex. So the embryo prepares to produce either a girl or a boy; when the genetic information says boy, the nipple bud stops its development. 
The FAA has blown a fuse over a child clearing two aircraft for take off. The kids father brought him to work to JFK's air traffic control tower and with an obvious supervision allowed the boy to use the radio to direct the planes to take off.
Roboticists in search of a challenge, take note. The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to replace the weather-forecasting Punxsutawney Phil of Groundhog Day fame with an animatronic version. Robot followers that we are here at Crave, we're all for an electronic rodent, but we're also pretty sure groundhog bots have a long way to go before they can charm crowds the way little Phil can.
Binary Space has created a Zombie Outbreak Simulator which allows you to witness the viral spread of the great zombie outbreak in Google Maps as it sweeps across Washington DC, in an area close to the Catholic University of America, north of the Pentagon. 
Creating a ball was easy. He got a few hair bands together. Then some larger bands. The rubber band ball grew to the size of a boulder, and his family took notice.
