China's dealing with the avian flu, but this is ridiculous. 10,000 small birds fall dead from the sky.

The feel good story of the year! Goldfish thrown 15 feet from car accident. Cops search area for 15 minutes. Miracously, the goldfish survives after being found amid broken glass. Oh yeah, the car owners are alright too.

Ceramics bought at government auction turn out to be human skulls.

Centuries old ruins found off the coast of Japan.

Dear God! I want to be a Michigan college student right now!
UPDATE: Man, I was a student in the wrong decade.

I'm under its command.

Dear doctors, using paperclips to close wounds is not the best idea.
Your Patients

Hitler had a Welsh girlfriend, who actually prevailed on him to save Jews (just the ones she worked with, but still.)

This guy argues for more use of the adverb. And yet, I saw very few adverbs in that column that improved sentences. I'm still cutting them out.
(By the way, every day I seem to steal more and more from Cylindrical Primate Storage Unit, so make sure you're checking that site out.)

Do you have Atomic Explosions Phobia? The Phobia Clinic offers a cure.

Super toilet blows up. It had to do with the high voltage cables underneath the toilet, say energy bosses.

Priest says image of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria has been growing. There have been many supernatural stories about the statue over the years.

A new species of jellyfish has been found. The researchers called it "Bumpy." I like this quote: "'It's heartwarming to know that there's still a lot of mystery in the deep ocean. There are still a lot of big things moving around out there that we don't know about.' "
You can see pictures of the jellyfish here.

Go to this page and click on the art work. From there you can download a preview trailer of "Dragon Wars" or D-War as it's called in the trailer. If the movie is 1/2 as good as the trailer, it will be awesome. However, I have a sinking feeling that all the best stuff (and all the money for the movie) went into the trailer.
The movie will be directed by the guy who made the remake of Yongarry, called Reptilian in America. Here's an appropriate quote on the Rotten Tomatoes site about that film: "Passes the so-bad-it's-good threshold and lands square in the realm of bad again." Actually, that might make the movie sound better than it was.
Still, here's hoping this Korean film turns out to be as good as the trailer would lead you to believe.

Joseph Clifford Faust posts about plotting and how there are only so many plots in the world and it's your take on them that makes them something. I found it inspiring. Check it out. And while I'm at it, this Making Light post on rejections is quite good.
UPDATE: And now Neil Gaiman has written something about writing. It's a good day for writing advice.

The American trailer for Beat Takeshi's Zatoichi is up. It's the story of a blind samurai. I just watched the original film recently. It was smart, fun entertainment.
I like Takeshi as an actor. As a director I'm a little leary. His movie "Fireworks" was much praised by the critics. But I don't know. It was certainly good, but it wasn't as powerful as I expected. On the other hand, I really enjoyed his film "Brother," which most critics didn't like.
Apparently, Miramax has picked up Zatoichi for distribution in the States. I'm looking forward to it.

Director of Versus rumored to be making 50th anniversary Godzilla movie. Versus was one sicko action/zombie flick, made with humor and really fast pacing. I loved it. I can't imagine what he would do with a Godzilla film.

Take a tour through the German cannibal's house.

Chupacabras are living in a mine in Chile. On the other hand, this nonsequitir at the end kind of throws me off:
"In a spectacular display of willful ignorance, big media recently announced that Bigfoot doesn't exist. In this fascinating, fun book, Loren Coleman shows that it just isn't true. There's plenty of evidence, and the media should be ashamed of itself. "
What that has to do with chupacabras, I don't know.

Here's an article on how Deja Vu happens. Here's an article on how Deja Vu happens. (I know, lame joke. Sorry.)