Fantasy Tiger

The fantasy golf games do not let the players -- any of them -- pick Tiger Woods for their team.

Squirrels just pretend to hide nuts

Really, sometimes they do this, and according to newscientist.com, this may be to fool other animals.

Hunting and gathering

Old women in the late 18th century sometimes survived by collecting and selling dog turds. This startling fact is reported by Robert Hughes in his history of Australia. The product collected by poor old women was valued in the book publishing industry as part of the dye for leather book covers. Hughes related this in reference to English social history, but I guess they had books in other places so perhaps this was characteristic of other cultures.

The Sensible Fringe

Okay, last night, that would be Friday morning, Jan 4, 2008, somebody called in and told Art Bell this story on late night radio. A man said (possibly a teenager) "I have been in contact with aliens, spirits, all my life, they talk to me a lot. " {This is almost verbatim] "The only problem is, they are talking in a language I don't understand, I can't tell what they are saying."

Wesley Autrey

On January 2, 2007, Wesley Autrey was waiting for a train at the 137th Street and Broadway station in Manhattan with his two young (ages 4 and 6) daughters. About 12:45 p.m., he noticed a man, Cameron Hollopeter, seizuring. Afterwards, the guy stumbled from the platform, falling onto the tracks. As Hollopeter lay on the tracks, Autrey saw the lights of an incoming
train. A woman bystander held Autrey's daughters back away from the edge of the platform and Autrey dove onto the tracks. After realizing he did not have time to get Hollopeter away from the tracks Wesley Autrey protected Hollopeter by pushing Hollopeter into a drainage area between the tracks, and throwing himself over Hollopeter. The operator of the
train applied the brakes, but two cars still passed over them, with nothing except wardrobe damage.