A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer...

[...]

He said: "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there."

Man peed way out of avalanche

] So the other day a UPS driver in New Hampshire was on his
] way to the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene to deliver
] some much-needed parts for a piece of medical equipment
] when he got into a crash. He suffered a head injury and
] was taken by ambulance to the very same hospital he was
] headed to, but they weren't able to do any of the
] tests they needed because the brain scan machine was
] broken -- and the parts needed to fix it were sitting
] in his wrecked truck on the highway. If only there were
] some word to describe situations like these...

[ Wow. -k]

Cruel coincidence befalls UPS driver

Yay for distributed computing! If you aren't already running some distributed computing software, you should be. Your average computer activities like IM, web browsing, and word processing take less than 10% of your processor power on average. The distributed.net client runs at the lowest priority on your system and takes all your idle processor power. Right now they're brute force cracking 72 bit RC5 encryption as part of RSA Security's $10,000 encryption challenge. If you find the winning key, you can win up to $2,000 and all it costs you is a few more watts since your processor is always working at full load.

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Target : Entertainment : Blowjob

] KENT, Washington (AP) -- A man who placed a lava lamp on
] a hot stovetop was killed when it exploded and sent a
] shard of glass into his heart, police said.
]
] Philip Quinn, 24, was found dead in his trailer home
] Sunday night by his parents.
]
] "Why on earth he was heating a lava lamp on the stove, we
] don't know," Kent Police spokesman Paul Petersen said
] Monday.

Darwin Award, anyone?

CNN.com - Lava lamp left on hot stovetop explodes, killing man - Nov 30, 2004

This one builds on last week. I thought some of you might enjoy it.

Compy 386?? Not No More.

] It's an odd idea for a movie, even for Michael Jackson.
] "Jersey Girl" director Kevin Smith says he once got an
] offer to direct the pop singer in a movie about a man
] who turns into a car that gets ridden around by a boy.

Jackson Wanted to Play Car in a Movie

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Little Steven's Underground Garage is a syndicated radio show that features cool new and old rock that you've probably never heard before as well as interesting commentary. The web site uses entirely too much Flash, but it contains some really cool info. Check out the Family of Garage link. It also contains entirely too much flash, but is presents an interesting history of rock. There are lots of videos and sounds, so you'll want to be using a fast internet connection.

Little Steven's Underground Garage

] PARIS -- The dormant Garden Gnome Liberation Front has
] sprung back to life, stealing about 20 gnomes during a
] nighttime raid on a Paris exhibition.
]
] "We demand ... that garden gnomes are no longer ridiculed
] and that they be released into their natural habitat,"
] the Front's Paris wing said in a statement following its
] weekend strike.

Still makes me laugh to think about....

CNN.com - Garden Gnome Liberation Front strikes Paris show - April 12, 2000