The Vatican issued revisions to its internal laws on Thursday making it easier to discipline sex-abuser priests, but caused confusion by also stating that ordaining women as priests was as grave an offense as pedophilia.
It’s easy to waltz into a list like this thinking you won’t share the same errors but wow, a massive page of surprises.
A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.
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Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 - 1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway.
These are notes that I post around New York City from a mysterious man named Chris. Chris wants to do tedious things with people. He also has lots of problems.
The Swinger
The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be [sic] taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. It has quite a magical effect.
Sweet Child O’ Mine (Swing Version) by plamere
(via Music Machinery)
Touching Strangers - a project where photographer Richard Renaldi asks strangers to be photographed with the only requirement being that they are physically touching.
The story of Ludger Sylbaris is one that is so outlandish, so astonishing that it is difficult to believe that it is true. So amazing is his story that Barnum & Bailey hired him to travel with the circus, not because he had an act, but because he was a sort of relic. The ‘only’ remaining survivor of a volcano that flattened an entire city, the “Paris of the West Indies,” killing an estimated 30-40,000 people.
His short-term memory vanishes, and he weeps uncontrollably. The last days are marked by hallucinations: bears, wolves and aliens prowl the roadside; asphalt cracks rearrange themselves into coded messages. Occasionally, Robic leaps from his bike to square off with shadowy figures that turn out to be mailboxes.
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| — | This is just insane (no pun intended). Listen here and read here about an athlete that quite literally goes insane during races and is allowed only to make choices for what music he listens to. His crew decides all the rest - when he sleeps, eats, stops and rides. Wowzers. |
