Saturday, January 19, 2013

Couple Glues 39,000 Pennies to Bedroom Floor


Like many young couples, Ryan Lange and Emily Belden were looking for inspiration while deciding how to renovate the bedroom of their Chicago home.

Message in bottle travels North Sea to Australia

An 11-year-old's message in a bottle travelled the North Sea to find its way to Australia - 17 months later.



When 11-year-old Cade Scott threw his message in a bottle into the North Sea he had no idea what kind of 17 month travail his postcard would go on.

Waiter Praised For Refusing To Serve Family Who Insults Child With Down Syndrome


When a story about a waiter refusing to serve customers starts picking up steam online, it usually involves people rushing to insult the server and his employer. But this is story is getting quite the opposite response from the public.

Chinese version of Twitter can see tweets take a week to get past the censors

Army of 1,000 censors delete a staggering 10million messages a day



IT’s the fastest growing website in the world... and Brad Pitt is one of its newest fans.

The Hollywood star recently took to Weibo – China’s version of Twitter – to announce a visit to the country he is reportedly banned from.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Over 100 Children Married In Mock Chinese Wedding



A group of Chinese kindergartners recently got lessons in reading, writing and... romance?

inZpast: The Surgeon Who Operated On Himself


In April, 29th, 1961 a doctor of the 6th Soviet Antarctic expedition Leonid Rogozov aged 27 felt pain in a right lower belly and fever. The next day brought only exasperation. Having no chance to call a plane and being the only doctor at the station “Novolazarevskaya”, at night, in April, 30th the surgeon made an appendix removal operation on himself using local anesthesia. He was assisted by an engineer and the station’s meteorologist.

NASA sends the Mona Lisa to the Moon



NASA has turned the Mona Lisa into the first digital image to be transmitted via laser beam from Earth to a spacecraft in lunar orbit, nearly 240,000 miles away, thanks to a technology that may soon become routine.

The experiment took advantage of the laser-tracking system that's in operation aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon for the past three and a half years. NASA sends regular laser pulses from the Next Generation Satellite Ranging station at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to the space probe's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA, to measure its precise position in lunar orbit.

Russian Fireman hit by huge snow chunk as he attempts to save child



This firefighter had a lucky escape after being knocked off his ladder by a huge mound of snow.

Lucky prospector finds huge gold nugget



An amateur prospector found the nugget weighing 177 ounces, or 5.5 kilograms, with a metal detector just outside Ballarat in a popular area for prospecting.

The owner of The Mining Exchange Gold Shop in Ballarat, Cordell Kent, said the find was one of the most significant in his 20 years in the business.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Lost phones keep being tracked to house in Vegas



You think losing your cell phone is frustrating? How about being the guy everyone thinks has it?

That's the reality for a man in North Las Vegas, all because of one big GPS mix-up.

News 3's Mackenzie Warren has the story on his unique problem.