I kinda wanted to go in a bit of a different direction with news bits this week. So, here are some weird/stupid/offbeat/funny bits.
Weird
Man who walked on the moon claims gov't is covering up existance of aliens.
Horrific/Scary-Weird: Manitoba teen dies ...
How much do you know about those Valentine's Day chocolates people love to cram in their faces today? Did you know they have a pretty negative effect on the economies where they're grown and on the tropical environments where ...
Activism,
Science 

14 February 2008, 05:12
Yes, you heard right. Since cow farts contain methane, and kangaroo farts do not, scientists in Australia plan to introduce bacteria from kangaroo intestines into cows, so the cows can fart like kangaroos. Apparently 14% of the ...
Science 

4 January 2008, 23:54
In this first portion of the the weekly lesson on stoopidity, Stoopid Saturday, we examine why in the world someone would carry out guerilla coffee-spitting attacks.
OMG TEH TITLE IZ IN SUM WIERD LANGAUGE!
That title reads "Coffee Bukkake Man". If ...
Stoopid Saturday 

15 December 2007, 00:00
Yeah, twelve-headed jellyfish. Mari said it.
Jellyfish with up to a dozen heads have been created in the laboratory by carefully monkeying with a few genes.
The genetic experiments could shed light on how natural colonies of other multi-headed organisms first ...
Interesting Tidbit,
Science 

1 August 2007, 17:15