Welcome to the latest service from Flickr, Flickr Explore, where 500 of the best pictures uploaded to Flickr each day are rotated through a rainbow spewing from the mouth of a Panda.
And no, I’m not making that last part up, and yes, the screenshot above is EXACTLY what you’ll find on the site here.
Mark over at Mashable has no explanation for it, but I’m going to suggest the only obvious one I can think of: drugs. Acid to be precise, and lots of it. WTF doesn’t even begin to describe this.
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Millions of animals are abandoned in America each year, and sadly many of them never find new homes. Chicago cat Bubba was one of the lucky ones, but time on the streets can be traumatic.
Bubba has trust issues. Although he bonded with his new owners, after a leg amputation and being put on a special diet due to food allergies, but he doesn’t trust strangers, hiding or hissing at anyone who came along.
Bubba’s new owners turned to an animal behaviorist, who recommended training and behavioral techniques, but to no avail. Desperate, Bubba’s owners looked for help, and they turned to a pet psychic, and this was the result
Through speaking to Bubba telepathically, the psychic determined that Bubba is so shy because HE is really a SHE. Bubba is transgendered. Bubba suffers from low self-image and has been mentally distraught because she has been forced to live in a male cat body for so long.
Now Bubba’s owners need your help and are looking for donations to raise money to enable Bubba to continue his therapy sessions with the pet psychic, and to raise funds for Bubba’s upcoming gender reassignment surgery.
If you feel inclined to give, the page with all the details, including donation button is here
Welsh police attending a traffic jam used a tazer Wednesday to subdue a sheep.
Traffic on the A55 Motorway in the north of Wales had come to a halt after sheep escaped from a nearby paddock. Police arrived on the scene shortly after, and attempted to heard the sheep off the motorway. One sheep however made a run for it, and a quick thinking officer tazed the sheep before it fully escaped.
According to local reports, the officers than picked up the now immobile sheep, and dumped its twitchy body on the side of the road, all while being watched by motorists, including at least one small child. Police claimed in a later statement that the sheep wasn’t killed by the 50,000 volts they had shot it with.
Animal rights activists were generally not amused by the incident.
What makes an Australian men happy? It’s when they are having sex or surfing the net, the 2008 Australian Happiness Index revealed. Women, on the other hand, prefers having meals with friends and spending time with their pets.
The Index surveyed more than 8,500 Australians with ages ranging from 18-64 to find out what makes them happy.
Australians also said that rest and relaxation (63%) makes the most enjoyable activities but dislikes exercise. Family time only made 45% of the men happy.
Women likes reading a good book, comfort food, or buying gifts but shopping for new clothes and shoes made only 30% of them happy. So, it’s not just about shopping. Even men were not happy when shopping as 14% only chose that option.
The index was compiled by marketing consultants The Leading Edge as a marketing tool to give businesses a picture of their target customers.
As a matter of disclosure, Duncan Riley, the founder and editor of Inquisitr is Australian. He obviously adores his family, loves surfing the net, likes shopping for gizmos, and is very much happy.
Some readers may recall my post September 30 about a whale being euthanized with explosives in Western Australia. I said in that post that Western Australia was Australia’s wild west. The Northern Territory on the other hand is rougher again.
A 7 year old boy has been caught breaking into a wildlife park in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. While small children breaking and entering may not be completely unique, what he did next most certainly is.
After breaking into the park, the boy feed a range of small animals, including species considered rare (as in not many of them) to the parks resident crocodile.
The boy fed a turtle, four western blue tongue lizards, two bearded dragons, two thorny devil lizards and a 1.8 metre Spencers goanna to “Terry,” a 9.8 feet (3m) 441 pound (200kg) saltwater crocodile. According to the SMH, the boy was also caught on camera bludgeoning to death a small blue tongue lizard and two more thorny devils.
As the boy is under the age of criminal liability in the Northern Territory, the wildlife park has said it may sue his parents for the loss of the animals.
Love it or hate it, the porn industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that likes to push more than just moral boundaries. Hollywood movies have long been a favorite target of Porn producers, with the 2005 porn flick Pirates, a take on Pirates of the Caribbean, having a budget of over $1 million going on to be the biggest selling porn title the following year. Nothing is sacred to the porn industry, and that includes space.
Virgin Galactic, the company planning to take tourists to the edge of space in 2009/2010 have turned down a $1 million offer to shoot a “a sex-in-space movie.”
According to reports, Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic disclosed the offer at the International Astronautical Congress Tuesday. Whitehorn said simply that “That was money we had to refuse, I’m afraid.”
Melbourne based discount shopping site RetailMeNot has an offer you can’t refuse: a discount code for the US Bailout here.
25% off when you spend $700 billion or more
Guy King can laugh, but Australian’s haven’t woken up to the fact yet that the RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia) has been pumping tens of billions into the financial system recently without any serious scrutiny…eventually though, some one is bound to notice.
Passport security? What passport security? A group of hackers has released a video showing a forged Elvis Presley passport — the RFID-protected kind that can be scanned by computers — being run through and accepted by a Dutch airport security machine. See for yourself:
The Hacker’s Choice says it used source code intended for the backing up of RFID passports to create the fake credential. “The weakness is in the way the system has been rolled out,” the group writes in a blog posting. “The terminal accepts self-signed data.”
Border control apparently uses different scanners, so the forged passport may or may not work everywhere. Still, it’s a bit jarring to see how easily Elvis could get through at an airport.
The group’s proposed solution? Go back to human-centric security.
“Never let a computer do a job that can be done by a human,” they say. “We know that humans are good at border control. In the end they protected us well for the last 120 years. We also know that humans are good at pattern matching and image recognition. Humans also do an excellent job ‘assessing’ the person and not just the passport. Take the human part away and passport security falls apart.”
The King has spoken — and we suspect there are plenty of suspicious minds listening.
An Ohio manufacturer of hunting bows has released a new custom-designed hunting bow in honor of GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin: the “Sarah-Cuda.”
The pink camouflage bow weighs 3.4 pounds (1.5 kg) and is specially designed for female hunters. The Sarah-Cuda retails for $590.
Lakota Industries CEO Dick Williamson told AP that the bow pays tribute to women who “bear the responsibility of family and work while strengthening the moral fiber of society.”
10% of Sarah-Cuda profits will go to the National Association for Down Syndrome.
An abandoned house in Saginaw, Michigan has sold on eBay for $1.75.
The Saginaw house was picked up by 30 year old Joanne Smith from Chicago, who out bid 7 other bidders to acquire the house. Smith told AP that she had no plans to move into the house, and hoped to sell it for a profit.
Smith isn’t left with a bill for $1.75 alone though, she’s also up for $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs, but either, way, a house would seem like a bargain. There’s no more houses in Saginaw quite as cheap as this one, but recent eBay sales included prices ranging from $600 through to $6000. Before you pack your bags to buy your dream home using nothing more than a credit card, a word of warning: according to Wikipedia, Saginaw is a town in serious decline, with high rates of crime.
A real-world invention may give new meaning to the symbolic idea of a “thinking cap.” Australian researchers say they’ve come up with an actual cap that can improve brain functionality and unlock your mind’s untapped potential.
The cap works by sending magnetic pulses into the left side of the brain. Scientists say that helps increase creativity and artistic ability and also boosts concentration-related skills such as proof-reading.
Early testing has shown some promising results, though the researchers say it’s no magic trick — the effects only last for about an hour, then you go back to the way you were before. Still, the scientists indicate the cap could allow us to find abilities we never even knew we had.
We here at The Inquisitr have already pre-ordered several.
Months after starting a briberypromotion to get people to use its search engine, Microsoft is looking to lure users in with more shiny prizes.
A newly launched program, SearchPerks, gives you frequent flyer-style points for every Live search you perform (up to 25 per day). You download and install a program, which tracks your searches and tallies your total. Then, next spring, you can redeem your points for any number of exciting prizes.
Oh yeah, and you can only do it if you’re using Internet Explorer. (Pure coincidence, we’re sure.)
The move reeks even more of desperation than the company’s CashBack deal back in May. But even that approach — which basically amounted to paying people to use the search engine — didn’t seem to work: Microsoft’s Live Search has lost users since the start of ‘08, dropping about 1.5 percent in its share of the search engine market.
(Google, for what it’s worth, gained users in the latest ComScore analysis. It’s now at about 63 percent of the total search engine market. And it’s not even paying people or giving out prizes. Go figure.)
Microsoft’s already on its knees and begging. So what’s next? There’s only one logical step.
Ah, Western Australia, Australia’s own wild west and a state I called home for nearly 10 years. Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation officers euthanized a chronically ill whale Tuesday that had beached itself near Jurien Bay in Western Australia’s mid-west region. Beached whales stranding themselves and having to be put down isn’t really anything out of the ordinary, at least in Australia, but it’s the method of euthanasia picked that makes this story unique: they blew the whale up.
According to WAToday, the whale was killed by explosives detonated near its brain.
Why waste a perfectly good shot of sedatives and medicine when you have ready access to explosives
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Welsh police attending a traffic jam used a tazer Wednesday to subdue a sheep.
Love it or hate it, the porn industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that likes to push more than just moral boundaries. Hollywood movies have long been a favorite target of Porn producers, with the 2005 porn flick Pirates, a take on Pirates of the Caribbean, having a budget of over $1 million going on to be the biggest selling porn title the following year. Nothing is sacred to the porn industry, and that includes space.
An Ohio manufacturer of hunting bows 
A real-world invention may give new meaning to the symbolic idea of a “thinking cap.” Australian researchers say they’ve 
Months after starting a 
Ah, Western Australia, Australia’s own wild west and a state I called home for nearly 10 years. Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation officers euthanized a chronically ill whale Tuesday that had beached itself near Jurien Bay in Western Australia’s mid-west region. Beached whales stranding themselves and having to be put down isn’t really anything out of the ordinary, at least in Australia, but it’s the method of euthanasia picked that makes this story unique: they blew the whale up.
