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Saturday, April 12, 2008
A Chinese man says he's had the same snail as a pet for 11 years
Yang Jinsen has now had his pet for twice the normal life span of a snail, reports the Southern Metropolis News. Yang, a migrant worker in Dongwan city, found the snail by the roadside on his way home from school in 1997. Back then, he was 14 and the snail was the size of a small coin. Now, he's a married man and the snail fills the palm of his hand. "I built a small home for it in the yard, and fed it water and soil," he said. "On weekends, I would take it walking in the fields, and in the evenings I would put it on my desk, playing with it while doing my homework." Last year, he married and moved to Dongwan to work: "I got permission from my wife to bring the snail with me to the new city," he added. Experts say it's amazing for a snail to live so long and say it could be because it has been so well looked after. Source: Ananova 
We Met At Starbucks
If you haven't seen this movie I recommend that you rent it, it is like a mockumentary, kind of the style of the office and extras.
Old Days Of Our Lives theme song
reminds me of the days when I would stay over at my grandmas house...
Student flashes Taj Mahal
A Dutch student has provoked an international incident by posting on YouTube a clip of him flashing his penis at the Taj Mahal. The director of his school, the Euro College in Rotterdam, has formally apologised to the Indian Ambassador to Holland. And the school is also considering legal action against the student for damaging their proud reputation, reports GVA. The young man is seen on the clip giggling as he takes his penis out of his trousers. The camera then pans around to show the famous backdrop. The student was suspended immediately when teachers found out about the incident which happened during a school trip to India. Source: Ananova
Real life Garfield
Orazio looks like not only the cat that got the cream but who ate the whole cow too. Just like lasagne loving Garfield, this fat cat grew to such a gargantuan size by guzzling all the food treats that his native Italy can provide. The three-year-old tabby is such a food fanatic that owner Laura Santarelli finds it impossible to get him to slim down. The flabby feline is now so large that it's a struggle for Laura just to pick him up. And, should any of Laura's other five cats get in his way at dinner time at his home in Eupilio, the results can be catastrophic... Source: Ananova 
Space Junk Litter Earth’s Orbit
Between the launch of Sputnik on 4 October 1957 and 1 January 2008, approximately 4600 launches have placed some 6000 satellites into orbit; about 400 are now travelling beyond Earth on interplanetary trajectories, but of the remaining 5600 only about 800 satellites are operational - roughly 45 percent of these are both in LEO and GEO. Space debris comprise the ever-increasing amount of inactive space hardware in orbit around the Earth as well as fragments of spacecraft that have broken up, exploded or otherwise become abandoned. About 50 percent of all trackable objects are due to in-orbit explosion events (about 200) or collision events (less than 10). Officials from the space shuttle program have said the shuttle regularly takes hits from space debris, and over 80 windows had to be replaced over the years. The ISS occasionally has to take evasive maneuvers to avoid collisions with space junk. And of course, this debris is not just sitting sta