Strange people, strange places, and even stranger acts of strangeness. What an amazing crop of brilliant photos!

Thieves are robbing long-distance coaches by sneaking dwarves into the
luggage holds in sports bags. Once inside, they slip out from their hiding places to rifle through the
belongings of unsuspecting travelers.

Researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory have designed a
lightweight, foldable solar panel design which they predict will
function at 80% efficiency (the best solar panel prototypes operate at
about 40%). The researchers’ secret is the implementation of
nanoantennas, which have the ability to absorb not only light, but heat
from the sun as well.

Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient’s
upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated
from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.

The new Mega-D Botnet has overtaken the notorious Storm worm botnet as the largest single source of the world’s spam
according to security vendor Marshal. This botnet currently accounts
for 32 percent of all spam, 11 percent more than the Storm botnet which
peaked at 21 percent in September 2007. It started about 4 months ago
but has been […]

On February 8, 2008, about 100 UC Berkeley students will participate in the Mobile Century experiment, using GPS mobile phones as traffic sensors.
During the whole day, these students carrying the GPS-equipped Nokia
N95 will drive along a 10-mile stretch of I-880 between Hayward and
Fremont, California. ‘The phones will store the vehicles’ speed and
position information every 3 […]

Here are a series of some very funny and very clever cartoons about a bunny commiting suicide.  It’s funnier than it sounds.

Strange Wikipedia Entry:  Spurius Carvilius Ruga (possibly 230 BC) was a freedman living in Rome who allegedly invented the letter G. His invention would have been quickly adopted in the Roman Republic because the letter C was, at the time, confusingly used both for the /k/ and /g/ sounds.

Talking on mobile phone before bedtime can deprive you from a good night’s
sleep, say researchers.

It started with the ultra-weird scenario.  Microsoft makes a bid for Yahoo.  Google makes a bid for Microsoft.  And Yahoo makes a bid to buy Google.