http://www.timw.com timothy wong's blog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:20:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.timw.com/2008/08/28/videos/oddly-racist-commercial/ As I was scrolling through Google News, an article titled "Microsoft vs. Google" added 9 hours ago caught my eye. How could a title like that not? Clicking through, I was taken to this article: Now hang on a second, Google can't even crawl the latest news properly anymore? Surely it's smart ... http://www.timw.com/2008/08/24/technology/whats-the-matter-google-news/ A gorilla at a zoo in the German city of Muenster is refusing to let go of her dead baby's body several days after it died of unknown causes. The gorilla at a German zoo has been carrying around her dead baby since he died last week. The gorilla at a German ... http://www.timw.com/2008/08/22/weird/gorilla-refuses-to-let-go-of-her-dead-baby/ A monkey stopped morning commuters in their tracks at one Tokyo's busiest subway stations this week, as it curiously peered down at them from its perch atop the departures and arrivals board. Monday marked the third time a monkey has been spotted in the capital this month -- surprising, because the ... http://www.timw.com/2008/08/20/weird/monkey-shuts-down-tokyo-subway/ A 27-year-old Egyptian woman gave birth to septuplets early Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria, family members and the hospital director said. Ghazala Khamis was in good condition after having a blood transfusion during her Caesarean section due to bleeding, said Emad Darwish, director of the El-Shatbi Hospital where she ... http://www.timw.com/2008/08/17/weird/egyptian-woman-gives-birth-to-septuplets/ A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York's Coney Island amusement park. The scene using robotic dolls is an installation built by artist Steve Powers to criticize ... http://www.timw.com/2008/08/10/weird/waterboarding-an-attraction-at-amusement-park/ The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today. It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; ... http://www.timw.com/2008/07/31/weird/worlds-oldest-joke-traced-back-to-1900-bc/ A 73-year-old Dutch man was astonished to learn from police that the begonias he had lovingly tended on his doorstep concealed a secret marijuana plantation. "Police officers suddenly noticed marijuana plants sprouting from his begonias," a police spokeswoman in The Hague said on Friday. The Hague pensioner promised to destroy the marijuana ... http://www.timw.com/2008/07/26/weird/unwitting-gardener-man-tends-marijuana-plants/ I currently have a handful of Demonoid invitation codes to give away. Just leave a message with your email and I'll send one to you. Demonoid is a website and BitTorrent tracker. It was the second largest and second most used public tracker for over a year, the 403rd most popularly ... http://www.timw.com/2008/07/23/others/free-demonoid-invites-invitations/ A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday. Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police told the newspaper. The accident occurred as Maceda was ... http://www.timw.com/2008/07/23/others/man-blows-up-apartment-spraying-for-bugs/