Tap Water Comes Third in Water Test

Yeah, but there's not point having lots of money if you don't spend it!

In a blind taste test, tap water came third beating some water brands that costs $100 per litre.

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Olympic Coke Bottle Designs

I'm assuming they will also design smaller bottles.

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Ugly Swan Finds Mate?

If that's all that's wrong with him then I have no chance!

clipped from www.ananova.com A male swan shunned by females for his deformed neck may finally have found a girlfriend after seven years. Crinkly the ugly swan has become well-known at a Gloucester bird sanctuary, after flying in from Russia every winter since 2001. "We were worried about Crinkly because he is such a strange-looking bird," said Jools Mackin, spokesperson for Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. Until now, none the females at the trust was prepared to mate with him but conservation workers say they can see signs of a budding romance. "It is too early to say whether or not they are mates, but we'll be monitoring them over the next few days to see. At the moment they are associating on Swan Lake. Experts at Slimbridge were amazed when Crinkly first arrived as a cygnet with parents Lucius and Coletta, with a strangely deformed neck probably caused by a birth defect.

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Pie Thief Threatens Championship

You would have thought they'd have better security than that - this is a World Championship!

clipped from www.ananova.com The world pie eating championships were thrown into chaos - after one of the organiser's dogs woofed the lot. Dave Williams's pet Charlie ate at least ten pies that had been made for the event, today, in Wigan, reports the Daily Mirror. Mr Williams, 57, who won the event in 1995, was looking after the tournament pies at his Preston home for safe-keeping. He said: "Charlie likes pies, being a Wigan dog, so he probably thought they were for him. I only turned my back for 10 minutes and they'd gone. I was horrified." Piemaster Rob Stewart, of makers Wigan Pies, said: "We'll be working through the night to replace them, of course. This unfortunate incident won't jeopardise the championships."

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Firting with a Computer

Well, some women have said I sound like a machine when I try to chat them up..

clipped from news.yahoo.com MOSCOW (Reuters) - Internet chatroom romantics beware: your next chat may be with a clinical computer, not a passionate person, trying to win your personal data and not your heart, an online security firm says. A Russian website called CyberLover.ru is advertising a software tool that, it says, can simulate flirtatious chatroom exchanges. It boasts that it can chat up as many as 10 women at the same time and persuade them to hand over phone numbers. An Australian anti-virus software firm, PC Tools, has warned that the software could be abused by identity fraudsters trying to harvest people's personal details online. The Russian site denied it was intended for identity fraud. "Not a single girl has yet realised that she was communicating with a programme!" it said, adding that the programme could also simulate virtual sex online.

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First Map Than Mentions America

The guy still didn't need to use it when he was driving of course.

A map, 500 years old, which was the first to mention "America" goes on permanent display in the Library of Congress.

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Glow in the Dark Cats

The mice will see them coming!

clipped from news.yahoo.com SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, officials said Wednesday. In a side-effect, the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams. A team of scientists led by Kong Il-keun, a cloning expert at Gyeongsang National University, produced three cats possessing altered fluorescence protein (RFP) genes, the Ministry of Science and Technology said. "The ability to produce cloned cats with the manipulated genes is significant as it could be used for developing treatments for genetic diseases and for reproducing model (cloned) animals suffering from the same diseases as humans," it added. The cats were born in January and February. One was stillborn while two others grew to become adult Turkish Angoras, weighing 3.0 kilogrammes (6.6 pounds) and 3.5 kilogrammes.

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Prince Charles Goosed

Stealing the geese is one thing, but to light the barn is terrible.

300 geese, due to be sold by a company owned by Prince Charles, were stolen.

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Cockroach Compensation

Did the cockroaches get anything?

clipped from news.yahoo.com JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli judge has ordered the country's prison authority to pay an inmate over $1,000 in compensation after he complained of having to share a cell with cockroaches. Mordechai Yehudai filed a lawsuit complaining of poor hygiene, a lack of fresh air, broken windows and inmates who smoke in a handful of cells, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service said. The spokeswoman said the inmate's cell would be cleaned up. Yehudai has been held in three different prisons and has had complaints about conditions in all of them.

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Aliens Try to Stop Shuttle Launch

After decades of suppressing the existence of extra-terrestrials, the US government mistakenly released video of aliens trying to stop the latest shuttle launch. After they realized their mistake, they tried to cover it up by claiming a spider walked across the lens of the camera, but we know the real truth.

See for yourself!!

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Aussies Hate Fat People (On Planes)

I know it's not very nice when you're squeezed in a seat on a plane, but did they ask if airlines should have wider seats for everyone?

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Bathroom Visit Lasts Four Days

If the cleaner hadn't come for her equipment the poor man may well have been dead by now!

clipped from news.yahoo.com LONDON (Reuters) - A retired Scottish school teacher was recovering on Monday after spending nearly four days trapped inside a men's toilet with no food or mobile phone. David Leggat was locked inside the bathroom at a lawn bowling club near the Scottish city of Aberdeen after the door jammed and the handle on the outside fell off. He was rescued when the cleaner at the club, which is little used in winter, turned up to collect her cleaning equipment. Leggat said a survival course he had once done had helped him endure his captivity. The cleaning lady said he looked shaken and grey when he emerged. Leggat was stoical. "At least there was a toilet to use," he said. "The only thing I regret is not getting trapped behind the bar."

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