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[theweaselking]

Montreal man invents engine modification that greatly reduces emissions and increases fuel efficiency. The weird thing: People testing it independently report that it actually does work as claimed.

Costs about $7500 CDN, fits inside the engine compartment of most engines, promises 10% increase in fuel efficiency and greatly reduced emissions - and works in the (nonscientific) tests so far, and the maker is trying to get scientific tests done.

Don't trust the article's science, however. Either the writer doesn't know what he's talking about and has mangled the inventor's claims, or the inventor really is full of shit.

Also,


Another chance to buy a MiG-21.

"AIRCRAFT IS FREE WITH PURCHASE OF THE RADIOS CURRENTLY INSTALLED IN AIRCRAFT"

Also,
VH-1's "50 most awesomely bad songs ever". Oddly enough, "Achy Breaky Heart" only made it to #2.

Also,
Bob Vila builds home supposedly proof against a Category 5 Hurricane. No word yet on how well it deals with an 18-wheeler being thrown at 230kph by a Category 5 Hurricane.

Also,
The Islamic School of Seattle is a small, private institution for pre-kindergarten to middle-school children - so you might understand why school officials were a little surprised - shocked, actually - to find the school listed on a U.S. Department of Education Web site as "The Islamic School of Sex."

Also,
"Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a 'chaos cloud' that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth!" This comes to us from yahoo.com, and of course we KNOW that anything on Yahoo News must be worth taking seriously, and we'd never DREAM of reading the byline to discover the original news agency responsible.

Comments

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

Man, for the most part, those 50 worst songs ever are SO far off it's not even funny. o_O

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's not the 50 worst songs ever.

It's the 50 *most awesomely bad* songs ever. The criteria is that they must be bad, but also awesome. But mostly bad.

And, really, it's hard to find a better way to describe "I'm too sexy".

[torrain.livejournal.com]

First and last on the list are *so* not bad.

They are awesome. But not bad.

[dscotton.livejournal.com]

That was my reaction to most of the titles I recognized. Awesome, but not bad. "Mmm mmm mmm mmm"? I fail to see how that one's "awesomely bad" from any perspective.

"Barbie Girl", on the other hand, is just plain bad... nothing awesome about it.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

You DID know that Yahoo carries the Weekly World News?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No, I'd never seen it, before today.

It's been great fun watching this one make the rounds today to all the people who see "Yahoo" and miss the rest.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

This phenomenon has been snopesed before. WWN On Yahoo gets them every time.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Right on schedule.

http://www.snopes.com/science/dustcloud.asp

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Safety Dance is missing from that list, and it's an absolutely awesome song, and at the same time, it really is bad. Throw in the video with it's Baroque era setting and dancing midgets, and it just doesn't get any better.