Thursday, June 30, 2011

Olympus Pen EP-3: a micro four thirds camera everyone will want?








I have always been a big fan of the Olympus Pen digital... from the very first retro EP-1 camera to the EP-2.

It's a great travel camera and has given me good service, producing some punchy pictures without adding weight to the suitcase when travelling light. And it feels like a proper camera (almost, dare I say, like a film camera).

Now Olympus is to launch the EP-3 (pictured). And first reports suggest that it will be better than ever.

Wired.com is certainly raving about it: CLICK HERE FOR REPORT


OLYMPUS PEN WEBSITE


CLICK HERE FOR MY ORIGINAL THOUGHTS ON THE FIRST PEN: the EP-1 and how to fit numerous lenses, including Leica M, Olympus OM1 and four thirds glass.

Finally, here are recent pictures I took in Snowdonia, Wales, and Rome, Italy, using a Pen EP-2 - they are now on Alamy.




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Monster lizards in Palm Beach - RUN if you see a Nile monitor lizard, say experts

Residents of Palm Beach, Florida, are being advised to run if they spot one of the 7ft giant lizards that have invaded parts of America.

The Nile monitor lizards "have long tails that they can use like whips, sharp teeth and claws and typically prey on birds and small pets", says the Mail.

These monsters can be very aggressive and people are advised not to try to capture them.

MAIL STORY


NILE MONITOR: WIKIPEDIA


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Snake owner dies of cobra bite - BBC video


The owner of a King Cobra has died at his snake sanctuary after being bitten by one of his snakes, according to the BBC.

Luke Yeomans, aged 47, was due to open his sanctuary at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, to the public at the weekend.


BBC VIDEO STORY

KING COBRA WIKIPEDIA

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

"Sex" operations by nurse using DIY sealant gun

A nurse is offering silicone "sex" operations to enhance men's privates - using a DIY sealant gun, according to the Sun.

The website reports that the £120 surgery by Jeremy Luke Castle is performed in a "dingy flat where his three cats run about" and is not illegal.

Brings tears to your eyes!

SUN STORY

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RAF Spitfire emerges from Irish bog - American pilot Roland "Bud" L Wolfe's plane

An RAF Spitfire, which crashed into a bog in Ireland during the Second World War, is being excavated by archaeologists in Donegal. It is said to be in "amazing condition".

The fighter, which crashed into the bog in November 1941, was piloted by Roland "Bud" Wolf, an American, according to the Telegraph.

Bud Wolf, or "Wolfe" as some records have him, parachuted to safety when the engine overheated 13 miles from his base in Northern Ireland. The Republic was a neutral country during the war and he was interned in a detention camp for two years.

Bud later joined the US Army Air Force and also survived tours in Korea and Vietnam. He died in 1994.

There is an interesting discussion about the pilot, and Spitfire P8074 of 133 Squadron, here: Roland 'Bud' L Wolfe

He also features in a book "Grounded in Eire: the story of two RAF fliers interned in Ireland" by Ralph Keefer.

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LATER UPDATE (23.00):

The story of Roland 'Bud' L Wolfe is even more fascinating than I had at first thought.

He walked out of the internment camp after only a few days, had a meal in a hotel and moved on to Dublin, from where he caught a train to Belfast in the North. He returned to the RAF base from which he had taken off after only two weeks.

But, bizarrely, the British government did not want to upset a neutral country and sent him back!

And what an odd camp it was in Ireland: guards had blank rounds in their rifles, visitors were allowed (one officer sent for his wife), and internees could come and go as they pleased. There were fishing trips, fox hunting, golf and trips to the pub in the town of Naas.

Plus, German prisoners were nearby. They beat the British 8-3 in one football match (sigh, nothing changes much!).

THE BRILLIANT STORY OF BUD L WOLFE IS TOLD IN THE BBC MAGAZINE

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Babies banned from first class flights - Malaysia Airlines

Malaysia Airlines has banned babies from the first class accommodation of long-haul flights to give passengers peace and quiet.

The company says it has received complaints from passengers whose sleep had been disturbed by screaming children.

Babies will have to fly economy or business class.

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Space station crew take to 'lifeboats' - space junk near miss

A piece of space junk came so close to the International Space Station (ISS) that the crew was forced to prepare for an emergency evacuation to Earth.

The six-man crew were told to get in their escape capsule "lifeboats" as the debris was heading their way. The space junk eventually passed within 1,100ft of the ISS.

NASA experts say that even a small object could do huge damage to the space station.

BBC

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Google takes on Facebook - social network war

Google is to launch a social networking site to take on Facebook. Called Google+ , the new site will allow users to share photos, messages and comments but will also include Google maps and video chat.

The site is being tested by a small number of people but will soon be available to millions.

Google would love to get its hands on some of the 500 million users claimed by Facebook. But will that happen with a site that some experts say is just Facebook with video chat?

BBC STORY

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Brilliant pictures of tame polar bear - man with head in its mouth - Canada












Great pictures of a tame polar bear on the Sun website featuring a monster bear and 60-year-old tamer Mark Dumas, of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, with his head in its mouth.

Don't try this at home, folks!

SUN PICTURE STORY

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Asteroid came closer than the Moon video - a very close shave

Earth's encounter with a space rock the size of a bus was pretty close on Monday - it came closer than the moon. The asteroid, 2011 MD, could have made a huge crater if it had hit the planet.

"Sooner or later," an expert told National Geographic, "a bigger one is going to hit us."

Thanks for that!

You'll have to concentrate to spot 2011 MD in the video.



ORIGINAL ASTEROID STORY - Asteroid heading for Earth - don't panic

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STORY - Asteroid Just Buzzed Earth

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Vampire killer eats flesh, drinks blood while victims still alive

A German murderer, dubbed the "Vampire Killer", drank the blood of two teenagers and ate their flesh before he killed them.

Identified only as Jan O, the 26-year-old has been sentence to life imprisonment after admitting the murders of Nina, 14, and Tobias, 13, at Bodenfeld, Germany.


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Smoker decapitated trying to have cigarette on Tube train

A passenger is said to have been decapitated when he tried to sneak a cigarette on the London Underground.

According to the Sun, he is thought to have opened an emergency door and tried to light up in a gap between carriages but fell onto the Metropolitan line at 50mph and was dragged along by the train.

SUN STORY

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'Parents pay to turn girls into boys' - sex change scandal in India

Indian parents are paying doctors to perform sex change operations on young girls to turn them into boys, according to the Telegraph.

Investigators in India claim that 300 girls were surgically turned into boys in one city as parents want to improve family income prospects.

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Monday, June 27, 2011

Amazing video: kitten rescued from 3 inch pipe by California fire department











Must-see video on the Telegraph site of a four-week-old kitten being rescued from a three-inch metal pipe by firefighters in Redding, California, when someone took the tube into the fire department after hearing the animal's cries.

How on earth did it get in there?

The kitten, now called Piper, has been adopted by a TV station worker.

SEE THE VIDEO AT THE TELEGRAPH SITE

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'Chinese lantern causes huge fire'

A Chinese lantern is said to have caused a large fire on an industrial estate in Somerset, England.

The lanterns are popular at parties and weddings but there is a lot of concern about their use.

Farmers say they have hurt livestock, lifeboat men report more call-outs because they are mistaken for distress flares and airports have warned about lanterns beneath flight paths.

The Civil Aviation Authority says the lanterns are potentially dangerous as they could be sucked into engines, although no planes have been brought down.

Austria and Germany have banned them.

BBC STORY


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Batman on a mobility scooter - grandad turns scooter into Batmobile - pictures




















Nice Sun picture story about a grandfather who has transformed his mobility scooter into a Batmobile.

Brian Vann, 74, of Evesham, even dresses up as the superhero and "Robin", his friend Alan Holden, follows on another scooter.

Brian is now working on another project - a Thunderbirds scooter.

SUN STORY

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Michael Jackson 'Thriller' jacket sells for $1.8m


The jacket worn by Michael Jackson in his "Thriller" video has sold at auction for $1.8 million. It was snapped up by gold trader Milton Verret at Julien's Auctions Gallery in Beverly Hills, California.

Mr Verret says he will use the black and leather jacket to help raise money for children's hospitals.

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'UFOs over London' - YouTube video. Judge for yourself



A video said to be of UFOs over London has been posted on YouTube and is attracting a lot of attention.

The footage was taken near the BBC in Great Portland Street. It shows specks of white light flying over the capital in daylight and a larger disc-shaped object.

But, and it is a big BUT, the same user has another video of a visual effects company called The Mill. Sounds like publicity to me.

TELEGRAPH STORY

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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Asteroid heading for Earth on Monday - don't panic!

An asteroid is heading for Earth, says NASA, for a close encounter on Monday.

But, as CBS reports, there's no need to panic. It's close in astronomical terms, but not that close - about 7,500 miles above the planet's surface over the Atlantic Ocean at 13.30 GMT.

The space rock, about 33ft long and called "2011 MD", won't hold this year's record for coming near us. Another one flew by within 3,400 miles (5,500 kilometers) - that's less than the distance between London to New York (3,471 miles)!

According to the report from Pasadena, California, more than "8,000 near-Earth objects" have been discovered, with around 1,236 designated as "potentially hazardous".

CBS REPORT


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Peter Falk, Columbo, RIP - career highlights video

Nice video on the BBC about Peter Falk, Columbo, who has died aged 83.

The actor, who had been suffered from dementia, died peacefully at his home in Beverly Hills on Thursday night.

BBC VIDEO

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Shark jumps surfer video - amazing shots from Florida beach by Jacob Langston

 

Award-winning photographer Jacob Langston captured video of a spinner shark jumping over a surfer off New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA.

He was filming the foreground so didn't know what had happened until a surfer said: "Dude! Did you see that? A four-foot spinner shark jumped over a surfer."

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Friday, June 24, 2011

Olympics website crashes again as second-chance tickets go on sale

The London Oympics 2012 website crashed again within minutes of people trying to book second-chance tickets.

It's not the first time - the website crashed on deadline day during the first round of this ticketing farce.

TELEGRAPH STORY

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Pilot's swearing rant about crew picked up by air traffic control

An airline pilot's homophobic tirade about his flight attendants, punctuated by swearing, was accidentally broadcast over an air traffic control channel.

The Southwest Airlines pilot out of Houston called his crew: "Eleven (expletive) over-the-top (expletive) (expletive) (expletive) homosexuals and a granny."


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Winklevoss twins end battle with Facebook

The Winklevoss brothers, who went to Harvard with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, have ended their legal battle with the social network.

The legal row featured in the film "The Social Network".

BBC

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Woman wakes up at own funeral and dies again of heart attack

This must be everyone's worst nightmare - waking up at your own funeral having been declared dead.

It was too much for Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, a 49-year-old Russian, who woke up in her coffin surrounded by grieving relatives. She started screaming and then died again of another suspected heart attack, according to The Sun.

Her husband, Fagili, 51, said: "She only lived another 12 minutes before she died again, this time for good."

The hospital, in Kazan, Russia, says it is investigating the incident.

What a gruesome story!

THE SUN STORY

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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Fantastic hats for women - pictures RT @sdesic


I was alerted to a website showing 28 weird hats for women by a tweet from Sinisa Desic (sdesic).

From a black swan and world cup hat to a race course and iPad hat, they are well worth a look.

Sinisa Desic (@sdesic) tweet: 28 Weirdest Hat Designs for Women http://u.bb/Eii


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Back from the dead - to find family has taken locks of hair

A woman came back from the dead after a massive heart attack to find that her family had snipped off locks of her hair to keep.

Mrs McDonald, 64, of Chapel Hill, Braintree, Essex, stopped breathing for 25 minutes. Medical staff fought for two hours to try to save her.

Now she has made an amazing recovery.

TELEGRAPH STORY

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Boy, 7, in US police chase - Michigan lad in pyjamas drove Pontiac Sunfire - video

A seven-year-old boy, barefoot and in pyjamas, was involved in a police chase in Michigan, USA.

It's believed he took the Pontiac Sunfire for a drive from his mother's house because he wanted to visit his father.

TELEGRAPH VIDEO STORY

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55ft 'sea monster' found washed up in China

A 55ft 'sea monster' that weighed about 4.5 tons has been found washed up on a Chinese beach.

But don't get too excited, it's unlikely to be some Loch Ness-type monster from the deep.

At the bottom of some reports is expert opinion that it is probably a dead whale. The carcass is so badly decomposed that it is difficult to tell.

SUN STORY

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Tackle check: footballer sent off because private parts were pierced - Australia video

A footballer in Australia was sent off because he refused to remove the piercing from his penis, according to the website Anorak, which has a video of the incident.

Now a fierce debate is raging about how the referee knew about the piercing - and, indeed, if you can be sent off for refusing to remove such jewellery.

Aaron Ecclestone, who emigrated to Australia from Macclesfield in England, plays soccer for Melbourne's Old Hill Wanderers reserves.

The referee stopped the match against Swinburne reserves and marched Aaron to the dressing room to check his tackle. When they came out again, the ref showed him a red card.

Despite the ruling, Old Hill won the match 3-0.

ANORAK STORY AND VIDEO

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Charles Darwin book returned 122 years overdue - and no need to pay £22,800 fine

A first edition copy of a Charles Darwin book has been returned to a library in Sydney, Australia, 122 years overdue - and there's no fine to pay because of an amnesty.

The stamp in Insectivorous Plants shows that it was borrowed on January 30, 1889, according to the Telegraph.

Late fees for the book are estimated at $35,000 (£22,800), but it's "fine amnesty month", when borrowers only make a donation to charity.

The book is too valuable to be lent out again.

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Leica M9-P in Venice - Leica video of Magnum photographer's journey

Great promo video by Leica of Magnum photographer Alex Majoli with the Leica M9-P in Venice.

LEICA VIDEO

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World's oldest person, 114, dies in Brazil

The world's oldest person, a 114-year-old woman, has died in Brazil.

Born in 1896, Maria Gomes Valentim, of Carangola, was just 18 days away from her 115th birthday.

She was declared the oldest living person by the Guinness World Records only last month, beating Besse Cooper of Georgia, in the United States.

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Spider-Man must die - Marvel Comics kills off Peter Parker and the superhero

Peter Parker, the student who became the superhero Spider-Man, is going to be killed off by Marvel Comics. And the victor who gets the better of our superhero? The horrible, pointy-eared Green Goblin.

Perhaps the Green Goblin has been practising for the encounter in Argentina, where an elf has been "terrorising" a town (VIOLENT ELF STORY)

TELEGRAPH SPIDER-MAN STORY

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Mystery dog with amazing Scooby-Doo grin - smile picture is internet sensation





















This picture of a dog's amazing Scooby-Doo, cartoon smile has become an internet sensation, with thousands of people sharing it across Facebook and Twitter.

But the name of the owner and the pet are a mystery. Surely, someone on the net can tell the world who they are.

MAIL STORY

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

New York paved with gold - man makes $500 a week from gems dropped in streets

A man who combs the sidewalks of New York with a pair of tweezers makes up to $500 a week from gems and gold dropped in the street.

Unemployed diamond setter Raffi Stepanian, 43, from Queens, crawls around the city's "Diamond District" and extracts precious metals from between the slabs.

"I'm surviving on it," he told the Telegraph. "The soil in the sidewalks of 47th street are saturated with the stuff."

Watch out for a new gold rush.

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Amy Winehouse 'retired by her manager' after being booed off stage

Amy Winehouse won't be appearing on stage "for years" after her manager retired her, according to the Sun. She was booed off the stage in Serbia after apparently forgetting the words to her songs.

Manager Ray Cosbert said Go Go Go: "She's going away and this time it could be for years."

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Spam Japan or send a virus and you could end up in jail

Japan has outlawed sending spam and viruses. The country has been plagued by cyber attacks and is trying the fight the menace.

If you distribute a computer virus, you could be jailed for three years.

Don't know how they are going to deal with attacks from abroad - although governments worldwide are waiting to see if the new laws work and could impose their own.

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US city flushes 8m gallons of treated water down drain after man pees in reservoir

Eight million gallons of treated drinking water were flushed away in Portland, Oregon's biggest city, because a 21-year-old man was caught by a security camera urinating into the city's reservoir.

City officials said they didn't want to send residents water laced with urine. But health officials said the pee was so diluted it did not pose a risk.

Not to mention all the unspeakable things done in the water by the wildlife! That's why the water is treated in the first place.

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Dog condemned to death by stoning? Not by us, says court

Reports that a rabbinical court in Jerusalem had condemned a stray dog to death by stoning have been denied, according to the BBC. Israel's Maariv newspaper, the source of the story, has apologised for its headline and for any offence caused.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Lonely heart offers half his salary if you find him a wife - last bride escaped out of window

Paul Gutierrez, 38, is offering half his annual salary to anyone who can find him a wife. The lonely heart's last attempt to find a bride didn't go too well: she jumped out of a window to escape.

The former soldier from Illinois, USA, makes the offer on his blog, called Can Anyone Find Me a Wife. The website is a collection of hilarious tales of Paul's failed attempts to find someone to love.

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The 75mph fish - amazing pictures captured in Mexico

Photographs taken by Reinhard Dirscherl, 47, from Germany, show amazing Atlantic Sailfish, which can hunt at 75 mph, speeding after sardines, their favourite food.

The fastest fish on the planet was snapped in Isla Mujeres, Mexico.

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Australian man drinks 6 bottles of hand sanitiser liquid to get drunk in hospital

A patient being treated for alcoholism in an Australian hospital drank six bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitiser to get drunk.

His blood/alcohol level was five times higher than the Australian legal limit for driving after drinking the gel, which has an ethanol content of 66 per cent.

Dr. Michael Oldmeadow, of The Alfred hospital in Melbourne city, said that although the incident was not the first of its kind, it was the most serious case. "It's horrendous. You'd think it would taste pretty bad."

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Woman 'commits suicide by black mamba snake bite' in New York

Police believe a woman may have committed suicide by letting a deadly black mamba snake bite her. The snake's venom can kill in 20 minutes.

Aleta Stacey, 56, was at first thought to have been bitten while she cleaned cages at her home - she had 75 snakes.

But police say she did not call for help and friends believe she was unhappy.

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Marilyn Monroe dress sells for $4.6 million

The dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in the 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch" has sold at auction in California for $4.6 million (£2.84 million).
















Other items at the auction included:

Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp" bowler hat: $110,000.

Young Elizabeth Taylor's riding outfit in "National Velvet": $60,000.

Gary Cooper's uniform for "Sergeant York": $55,000.

Ingrid Bergman suit of armour as "Joan of Arc": $50,000.

CBS STORY

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Sega hacked - 1.3 million user details stolen in cyber attack

Japanese video game company Sega says that information belonging to 1.3 million customers has been stolen from its database in a cyber attack.

Names, birthdays, email addresses and encrypted passwords have all been compromised and Sega Pass had been shut down.

Lulz Security, a group of hackers that has launched its own cyber attacks against companies including Nintendo and the US Senate, has offered to track down the Sega hackers.

REUTERS STORY

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Court condemns dog to death by stoning - Jerusalem

Rabbis in Jerusalem condemned a stray dog to death by stoning because they feared it was the reincarnation of a lawyer who insulted judges, according to reports.

The dog went into a court and would not leave and it reminded the judges of a 20-year-old curse passed on a lawyer who is now dead.

The stray apparently escaped before the sentence could be carried out.

BBC REPORT

THE REPORTS WERE LATER DENIED BY THE COURT

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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Pictures of extraordinary 9/11 relics - to go around world for 10th anniversary memorials

Pictures have been released of some amazing relics pulled from the devastation of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks.

The relics will be shipped across the world for towns and cities to build memorials in time for the 10th anniversary of the atrocity.

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Lion tries to eat baby at zoo in America - amazing YouTube video

A video of a lioness who would dearly love to get her teeth into a tasty baby has now received so much attention worldwide that more than two million people have seen it on YouTube.

One-year-old Trent didn't flinch when the lion made advances from behind the reinforced glass. The video was filmed by the toddler's parents at a zoo in Cheyenne, Colorado, US.





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Violent elf terrorises town - 'Elf unsafety' of tiny attacker in a pointy hat, says The Sun

Now ears a great headline in The Sun - 'Elf unsafety' - but a suspect story about a violent elf that is said to be terrorising a town in Argentina.

According to the newspaper, 'the creature is said to have big ears and always wears a pointy hat'.

Police in Suncho Corral have apparently received so many complaints that they have declared a state of alarm.

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

IBM is 100 years old tomorrow - and it's still big 'Big Blue'

IBM (International Business Machines), the company that brought us the PC, celebrates its 100th birthday on June 17.

The firm dominated computing technology for many years, but blundered in 1981 when it introduced its personal computer but didn't want to buy the rights to the software that ran it, which was made by an upstart company - Microsoft!

A mistake with hindsight, yes, but today, IBM still holds more patents than any other US-based tech company, is bigger than Google and Apple and employs more than 425,000 people in over 200 countries.

EXCELLENT STORY ON IBM HISTORY: MAIL

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Al Capone's gun for sale - auction in London - great video

A gun used by the American gangster Al Capone, who ruled Chicago in the 1920s, is to be auctioned in London.

GREAT BBC VIDEO STORY

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Sexy nurses showing too much cleavage in hospitals - 'patients complain'

Nurses and other hospital workers have been told to cover up because patients have complained about them showing too much cleavage.

Bare midriffs, miniskirts and tight-fitting leggings have also been banned by a National Health Service Trust in Hertfordshire and staff will be disciplined if caught flouting the dress code.

But one nurse at an NHS hospital in Welwyn Garden City says the guidelines to staff are an insult: "I’ve seen staff undoing an extra button on a hot day occasionally but it’s hardly Carry On Nurse. That sort of image is really outdated and actually quite insulting."

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Man blasts painful wart with shotgun - shoots off finger as well and lands in court

A man blasted off his finger with a 12-bore Beretta because he was so desperate to get rid of a painful wart.

The 38-year-old security guard then landed up in court for possession of an illegal firearm, according to The Sun. The court in Doncaster took pity on Sean Murphy and gave him a 16-week suspended sentence.

He said the wart was "hurting a lot and causing my finger to bend. It was as big as my thumbnail. I'd been to the doctors with it and tried all sorts of things but it wouldn't go.

"I didn't expect to lose my finger as well when I shot it but the gun recoiled and that was it. The wart was gone and so was most of my finger. There was nothing left of it, so no chance of re-attaching it."

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Oldest light bulb in the world - still burning after 110 years in a US town

Imagine if all your light bulbs lasted a life time. Well, one bulb in the United States has been glowing for 110 years and has baffled scientists.

The light bulb in the fire station at Livermore, California, USA, is now officially the oldest working bulb in the world - according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It has been burning almost continuously since 1901.

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Anglers banned from using white bread as bait - 'it makes the fish fat'

Crumbs, it's not April Fool's Day is it? According to a report on the Telegraph website, anglers at a fishery in England have been banned from using white bread as bait.

The Hampshire fishery says it makes fish fat and fishermen are being told to use wholemeal and granary bread instead.

But isn't the whole idea of angling to catch a big fat fish? Anyway, according to some experts, fish use their loaf (ouch!) when looking for bait and it is unlikely that white bread is doing them any harm.

Malcolm Coller, of the Carp Society, said: "In my experience bait bans are the last refuge of the uninformed."

So it's now 'elf and safety for fish. Whatever next?

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Portmeirion pictures - more shots of an amazing village in Wales




Have uploaded some more pictures to my website of Portmeirion, that amazing village in north Wales. All of them were taken with the Olympus Pen 2.

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Pictures of Snowdonia, Wales



Finally, some pictures of my trip to Snowdonia last week.

These were taken on a walk to the south west of Snowdon, the highest mountain in England and Wales.

Below is the mountain itself (in the distance on the left). It took me a while waiting around before the peak finally cleared of clouds.

Both were shot with an Olympus Pen 2, a great camera to take walking, being light and compact. And the quality isn't bad, either.

Hope to have some of these pix on Alamy within the next few days.




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Joss Stone 'murder plot'

Two people have been arrested in an alleged plot to murder the singer Joss Stone, according to Sky News.

The Telegraph has details too: "Detectives found the two men outside her isolated country home in an east Devon village with a cache of weapons inside their car including swords, rope and a body bag."

STORY SKY NEWS

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Mahatma Gandhi's 'face' found on Mars

A Martian feature that looks like a picture of Mahatma Gandhi in profile has been found on Mars, according to CBS news.

But don't get too excited. People have been "finding" suggestive objects on Mars, and indeed the Moon, for centuries.

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A double tall Pee-quod? Er, no thanks - what Starbucks was very nearly called

It was a lucky escape, unlike the doomed ship in Moby-Dick. Yes, Starbucks, the massive coffee house, was almost called after the whaleship Pequod in the novel, also known as The Whale, by American author Herman Melville, according to a report in the Daily Mail.

When Gordon Bowke, who co-founded the company in 1971, suggested the name, his creative partner Terry Heckler said: "No one's going to drink a cup of Pee-quod!" Indeed.

The company was then named after Captain Ahab's first mate, Starbuck, and the rest is history.

Wonder what happened to the apostrophe.

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Austrian Alps for sale - update

The sale of two mountain peaks in the Austrian Alps has been suspended after fierce criticism.

BBC UPDATE

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Man saved by grill as he falls from 10th floor apartment - amazing video

Amazing video of a man who fell two floors from his 10th floor apartment in Beijing, China, when he was trying to clean the windows. He was saved when his leg got caught in a grill. Rescuers managed to pull him to safety.

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Portmeirion, Wales - an amazing village - panoramic picture using Olympus Pen images

Here is a panoramic shot of Portmeirion, North Wales, I took using the Olympus Pen. With four pictures stitched together, it became a massive picture (more than 50mb) of an amazing village.

Click on the image to get a better view (more Snowdonia pictures coming soon to my website)


Stitching a few images together is a great way, if you are careful, of increasing the megapixel count of your camera. If I had taken the pictures with my Canon 7D, I could have plastered the walls with this image.


From Wikipedia: "Portmeirion is a popular tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village and is now owned by a charitable trust. Portmeirion has served as the location for numerous films and television shows, most famously serving as The Village in the 1960s television show The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan."


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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Lake Gwynant, Snowdonia, North Wales - Canon EOS 7D image




















Llyn (Lake) Gwynant in Snowdonia, North Wales.

Picture using a Canon EOS 7D and EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM lens at 24mm. This was set at f20 to get the foreground as sharp as possible (1/50 sec).

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Portrait of a Seagull - Canon EOS D7

















Living in Brighton, you'd think I would have enough pictures of seagulls to last a lifetime.

Funny, though, I managed to get my best portrait of the seabird yet when I spent a week in North Wales!

Once again, it's all about being in the right place at the right time... and this specimen obliged when I was photographing mountain lakes in Snowdonia.

His eye and beak are both pin sharp - I wouldn't want to be a fish near that lethal point.

Taken with the brilliant Canon EOS D7 and the 100-400mm L image-stabilized zoom lens.

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780-year-old relic of patron saint of missing objects stolen from LA church in US

An ancient religious relic of St Anthony - the patron saint of lost causes and missing objects - was stolen from a Roman Catholic church in Long Beach, near Los Angeles.

The relic is brought out on special occasions, this time to mark the 780th anniversary of the saint's death, and had only been on display for a few hours.

A priest turned towards the relic at 9am mass, only to hear his parishioners gasp as they realised it had disappeared. The church had opened at 6am.

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Laugh-out-loud Lulz hackers break into US Senate website - security review ordered

Officials in America have ordered a security review after hackers broke into the Senate website at the weekend.

Lulz Security, a group of hackers, said it had carried out the attack for fun and posted files online. Lulz is a reference to internet-speak for "laugh out loud".

BBC STORY


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Stolen racing car spotted speeding down motorway - video

A video shot by an amateur shows a stolen Subara Impreza racing car speeding down the M25 motorway west of London.

The £80,000 custom-built Team Japspeed 1JZ Subaru Impreza can reach speeds of 200 mph.

It was taken from a performance car show at Santa Pod Raceway, near Wellingborough on Sunday, despite being disabled.

Police say four people were arrested after the car was found abandoned in a garage near Maidenhead, Berkshire.

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Pirates star Naomie Harris could be next Bond girl

Naomie Harris, the Pirates of the Caribbean star, could be the next Bond girl.

The 34-year-old actress is said to be in talks with film-makers to appear in the 23rd James Bond 007 movie.

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Dead mother left to rot in bedroom so daughter could keep her benefits, court told

An actress left her dead mother to rot in a bedroom for up to six months so she could keep her £200 benefits.

Hazel Maddock, 61, and daughter Jasmine were told they could go to prison after they admitted failing to report the death of Olive, 95.

Police found Olive's remains behind a bedroom door in a foul-smelling, rat-infested house in Wallasey, Merseyside.

Hazel also pleaded guilty to fraudulently claiming state pension and top-up credits for Olive.

Judge Gerald Clifton bailed both women at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday. They will be sentenced later. He warned them to expect jail.

Experts believe Olive died of natural causes between two and six months before her body was found.

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Monday, June 13, 2011

Too sexy for my bike - New York cops pull over Dutch tourist for showing too much skin


DUTCH tourist Jasmijn Rijcken was pulled over by New York police for being too sexy on her bicycle.

Yeah, pull the other one! Perhaps the cops just wanted to chat. But no, according to Miss Rijcken: "I thought he was joking around but he got angry and asked me for ID."

One NYPD officer said her skirt was too short and could cause an accident. "He said it's very disturbing, and it's distracting the cars and it's dangerous." Another said she was showing too much skin.

She was wearing a short frilly skirt and, seeing her picture, I think they might have had a point.

A friend of mine once crashed his car into the back of another (both drivers unhurt) while distracted by "too much skin" on the pavement (sidewalk).

And when in Rome recently, I watched a huge jam build up as a cop who was supposed to be directing traffic watched a stunning lady go by - temperatures were rising inside the cars, especially when the male drivers spotted the cause of the build up!

DAILY MAIL STORY

Picture: Jasmijn - too sexy for her bike in New York (from her Facebook page)
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Amazing image of night sky captured in Australian outback

Have a look at this image on the Telegraph website of the night sky captured in the outback of Australia. It is a great example of time lapse and patience.

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'Gay Girl' of Syria is an American man - hoax blog written by US man in Scotland

Ah, the dangers of believing everything on the internet.

The blog 'written' by a gay woman in Syria, which was supposed to have described life in Damascus during the current political unrest, is a hoax.

Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old American Middle East activist studying at Edinburgh University, Scotland, has now come forward as the author of a Gay Girl in Damascus.

It's too easy to string people along while remaining anonymous... they believe what they want to believe.

PS: I'm real!

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Christchurch, New Zealand, hit by more earthquakes

Christchurch, New Zealand, has been hit by yet more earthquakes following the 6.3 magnitude quake in February in which 181 people died and hundreds of buildings were destroyed.

A 5.2 quake struck today at Taylors Mistake beach, 9.6km (six miles) from the city centre, and a second, 6.0 magnitude, hit about 80 minutes later. Boulders have been reported to be falling down hillsides.

BBC NEWS

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Florida teenager 'hacked father to death with pickaxe' for his social security benefits

Unemployed teenager Guenevere Hudnall is said to have hacked her father to death with a pickaxe so she could get hold of his social security.

With help from her mother, the 19-year-old is accused of killing William Hudnall at a trailer home in Hawthorne, Florida.

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End of world preacher suffers stroke - Harold Camping rushed to hospital

Harold Camping, the preacher who predicted the world would end on May 21 and then October 21, has suffered a stroke.

The 89-year-old pastor was rushed to hospital from his Alameda, California home.

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Girl, 10, impaled on railings - took 2 hours to cut her free

A 10-year-old girl fell from a tree and was impaled on railings near her home in Gainsborough Square, Sunderland.

One of the railings pierced her stomach and shoulder and it took rescuers more than two hours to cut her free.

Caitlin Brown was said to be responding well to emergency treatment.

BBC STORY

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Wacky penalty - ball spins into goal off bar as keeper runs out to celebrate 'miss'

What a wacky penalty! You don't see many like this. And, sadly, the person taking the video didn't keep their eye on the ball either.

The penalty was taken during a tense shootout between Termeno and Dro for promotion in Italy. As it smashes against the bar, the goalkeeper runs forward to celebrate... but look what happens next.

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World's shortest man - under 2 feet tall - official record on his 18th birthday

Teenager Junrey Balawing, of the Philippines, has been officially declared the world's shortest man - at under two feet tall.

Junrey, who is 23.6 inches tall (59.93cm), was given a certificate on his 18th birthday by Guinness World Records. His father said he stopped growing when he was two-years-old.

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Saturday, June 11, 2011

I want to find Bin Laden's body, says California treasure hunter

A treasure-hunter from California says he wants to launch an underwater search for the body of Osama bin Laden.

According to the US Government, the Al-Qaeda leader was buried at sea from the USS Carl Vinson warship in the North Arabian Sea.

But veteran explorer Bill Warren does not believe President Obama gave enough proof of the terrorist’s death.

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For sale: two mountain peaks in the Alps - stunning views

Two mountain peaks in Austria are for sale at 121,000 euros (£107,000; $170,000). The buyers will have stunning views from the Alpine peaks, each of them 6,500 feet, and there are already 20 people interested.

BBC STORY

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Friday, June 03, 2011

Licence to cook - forget James Bond, 007 - MI6 beats terror website with cake recipes

When would-be terrorists logged on to an Al-Qaeda website to learn how to make a homemade bomb, they were given instructions on how to make fairy cakes instead, thanks to MI6.

Cyber warfare experts from British intelligence had hacked into the site and garbled the text with recipes.

Eat your heart out 007. What James Bond really needs is a licence to cook.

Those new films in full:

GoldenPie
On Her Majesty's Silver Service
Fairy Cakes Are Forever
Quantum of Molasses
A View to a Filling

And many, many more, no doubt

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Are you heading for 'blogger's butt'?

Sitting at a computer? You probably are if you're reading this... But how long have you been there? Watch out, you could be heading for blogger's butt.

I'm sure I don't really have to explain what it is... but there is a way to combat this scourge of all bloggers, big and small.

HOW TO COMBAT BLOGGER'S BUTT by Lori McNee

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Vietnam: train and bike tour

Nice story about travelling by train and bicycle in Vietnam on the Bald Hiker (Paul Steele) blog. Worth a read.

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Pork-coated bullet killed Bin Laden?

The makers of a gun oil say a bullet that killed Osama bin Laden was coated in pig oil, according to a Daily Mail report. This apparently denied him entry to paradise.

Whatever next?

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Mum is a rubber glove - penguin chick fooled into thinking puppet is its mother

An abandoned penguin chick has been fooled into thinking a rubber glove is its mother by zoo keepers at Living Coasts in Torquay, Devon.

They wanted to hand raise the chick but didn't want it to get used to humans - hence a black rubber-glove puppet with red eyes and yellow plume to make the chick think it's being fed by a macaroni penguin adult.

Hasta la pasta, baby!

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Students strip off in library - Oxford University wants to ban ritual

Oxford University students keep stripping off on Wednesday afternoons in a college library, according to a Mail report. Now, officials are trying to ban the "half-naked half-hour" ritual at Worcester College.

Can't remember having fun like that when I went to uni!

'The Breakfast Club', a group of 40 male and female students, started the tradition in 2009 to brighten up boring revision days, says the newspaper.

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Triplets with stripes - three tiger cubs born in China - video

Tiger triplets have been born at The Tiger Habitat, Anhui province, China.

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Family must ask killer's permission to change gravestone of the wife he murdered

The family of a woman murdered by her husband want to change the wording on her gravestone to her maiden name and remove his reference to "my dear wife".

But, unbelievably, the local council says they could be prosecuted if they alter the wording without his permission.

Malcolm Webster drugged Claire Morris, crashed their car and set it alight. He thought it was the perfect murder, but Webster was convicted of murder last month, 17 years after the crime. He had tried to kill his second wife in the same way.

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Teenager sells his kidney online to buy an iPad2

A teenager in China was so desperate to own an iPad2 that he sold one of his kidneys online - for only £2,000.

The 17-year-old from Guangdong, said: "I wanted to buy an iPad 2, but I didn't have the money."

Trading organs online is apparently very common in China, says the Sun newspaper, although the government has tried to stamp in out.

The incident has outraged thousands of people across China

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£750 for a kebab - most expensive in the world

A chef has created the world's most expensive kebab - at £750.

The 'King of Kebabs' includes edible gold and platinum, Krug Champagne and even milk-fed lamb from the Pyrenees.

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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Penguins keep warm using 'Mexican wave' - great video

The secrets of how penguins keep warm has been revealed by scientists in a time-lapse video.

Emperor penguins survive Antarctic winters in tightly packed groups and the video shows the birds move in waves through the group.

BBC VIDEO

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Rats, Oz flight grounded - rodents found in cabin

A Qantas jet due to fly from Sydney to Brisbane was grounded when five baby rats were found in the cabin. Air crew found the rats minutes before passengers boarded the Boeing 767.

"We don't know how they got there," said a spokesman. "It is a rare occurrence. We have no record of it ever happening before."

BBC

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