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Doctors have grown a new penis on a Russian boy’s arm after he lost his old one in a bizarre accident. The 16-year-old, named only as Malik, lost his penis after receiving an electric shock while urinating on an electric wire.
The article is from Pravda, via Ananova, but you’re gonna have to click through [...]

An elderly resident of a small Florida town
has succeeded in creating a butterfly preserve on a public park in the
Florida panhandle. ”The chamber of commerce thought I was a crazy old
[...]

and leaves them dessicated
to die in the desertfrom
the Boston Globe

Arnold was shocked to learn that he was required to hold
actual [...]

Brothers Matt and Mike Chapman tried to make it big in
indie rock, and failed. So the brothers turned to Flash animation and
created a Web site, www.homestarrunner.com, that is a 180-degree turn
[...]

Is it Invaluable or Worthless? The
problem for whoever stole Da Vinci’s "Yarnwinder",one of the most famous
paintings in the
world, is that it will be [...]

“He lived a life of a criminal and he died as a criminal at the hands of a criminal. How can they put aside for one second what John Geoghan has done?”
Maryetta Dussourd, a Jamaica Plain mother whose three sons and four nephews were allegedly molested by ex-preist Geoghan, upon hearing that his death means [...]

Someone help me out here. I always get confused between First Edition and New Edition. Which one has Bobby Brown and which one has Kenny Rogers?

New York-based display technology company
Magink has taken a major step towards electronic paper.
By creating a paste made of tiny helix-shaped particles
that can be minutely manipulated with electric charges to reflect [...]

Anyone who has even considered the possibility of Earthly
events being influenced by the heavens will take pause this week to consider
that Mars and Earth are closer right [...]

I am still rather new to this blogging business (the
Dowbrigade has yet to celebrate its centennial edition), and so I take
it as a rite of passage that today I got my first "highly offended" comment.
Actually, it warmed the cockles [...]