Former US Missile Base Put On eBay For $1.5 Million
A former US intercontinental ballistic missile base - with a network of underground tunnels and silos, but no nuclear warheads - is on sale on eBay for $1.5m (£750,000, 1.06m euros).
Company Pays Surfers Twenty Five Bucks To Come Up With Unusual Domain Names
http://www.pickydomains.com
Did cybersquatters take all the good names? Or perhaps webmasters lost their creativity? Whatever the answer is, it’s all good for PickyDomains.Com. The idea for the service is brainlessly simple to say the least.
Black Market For Chocolate Bars And Soda
WINNIPEG - A "black market" for junk food appears to have developed at a Winnipeg school cracking down on sweet treats and soda.
Kelvin High School has removed pop, chocolate bars and cinnamon buns from its cafeteria and vending machines as part of a new Winnipeg School Division nutrition plan.
The plan is based on provincial guidelines released in 2005.
More than 70 people have joined a Facebook site called "Bring Back Sugar to Kelvin High School."
One teen says students are making money by selling goodies out of their lockers.
World's Most Expensive Dessert ($14,500)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - This dessert may be a little too rich for you, but you're probably not rich enough for it. A Sri Lankan resort is charging $14,500 for what it calls the world's most expensive dessert, a fruit infused confection complete with a chocolate sculpture and a gigantic gemstone.
"The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence" was created to give visitors at The Fortress resort in the coastal city of Galle a one-of-a-kind experience, said the hotel's public relations manager, Shalini Perera.
City Contemplating A Rabbit Limit Law
POWELL, Wyo. — A proposed city ordinance limiting the number of rabbits per household has some City Council members in this northern Wyoming community hopping.
The council gave initial approval last week to an ordinance that limits rabbits to three breeding pairs a household.
"I know that rabbits are very big in Powell, and it's about time we got something like this on the books," Mayor Scott Mangold said.
Councilman Tim Sapp doesn't agree.
The New American Ghost Town
Along the streets of Far Rockaway, many recently built two- and three-family town houses sit waiting for even one family to move in. Some have boarded-up windows, while others have clumps of garbage in driveways that have never seen a car. Desperate developers hoping to cover their bets — and stem their losses — tape up both For Rent and For Sale signs inside windows that face nearly deserted streets.
German Lawmaker Wants To Limit Marriage To Seven Years
The time limit would lead to fewer divorces, according to Gabriele Pauli, a candidate for the leadership of Bavaria's dominant conservative party CSU.
The "seven-year hitch" plan drew sharp criticism from party colleagues in Pope Benedict XVI's home region.
German MP Gabriele Pauli said seven-year marriage contracts would slash divorce rates.
Company Wants To Trademark Letter Q
A CLASSIC Sesame Street animated short instructs that the letter Q “looks like a funny looking thing.”
QVC, the leading home shopping channel, is making a bid to rebrand the often-overlooked letter, betting that it can make the sight of the letter Q elicit not a laugh nor an immediate search for a U, but a feeling of delicious anticipation.
Four Cool Things You Can Get Free From Online Sweepstakes
1. Free Motorola Razr
Here you can get a free purple MOTORAZR phone. What's the significans of purple is beyond me.
2. Free Vegas Trip
Man Commits Five Burglaries After Watching TV Show Called 'It Takes A Thief'
RICHMOND, Ky. -- A man who says he learned how to rob homes by watching a TV show was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a string of burglaries in central Kentucky. Michael W. Hobbs, 36, of Waco, Ky., pleaded guilty to five counts of burglary. He was sentenced Thursday.
