Techotic

Nathan Hodge of Wired wrote:

Russia’s top investigator is claiming that the Georgians employed mercenaries during their August war — including female snipers from Ukraine and Latvia. That sounds an awful lot like the mythical “white tights” — the exotic female snipers of Chechen war lore who were said to pick off hapless Russian conscripts. As the story had it, these stone-cold, blue eyed killers were said to be from the Baltics — or Ukraine. They were sometimes described as Olympic biathletes recruited as mercenary sharpshooters by Chechen commanders.

18 year old, Laura Williams, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, has made history by becoming the youngest British woman to give birth to conjoined twins.

She gave birth to girls Faith and Hope this morning by Caesarean section with her husband, Aled, 28, by her side.

A very rare “elbowed squid” was caught on camera in the Gulf of Mexico a mile-and-a-half beneath the sea.

The footage was taken last November at the Perdido drilling site around 200 miles off the coast of Texas and the clip was passed between oil workers until it was picked up last week by National Geographic.

This is a time-lapse video of four Google employees creating an 18,600 cell mosaic in a single Google Docs spreadsheet. Each cell in the 100 row x 186 col spreadsheet was filled using 18 different colors.

Wow Insider has a collection of 11 WOW cakes, ranging from the amazing to the WTF are we suppose to eat this…My favorite is the one above. Hit the jump for more pic of the cakes.

40 year old, Jackie Lucking, of Witham, Essex, England, had nodded off wearing a feather hat after a christening and woke up to find her parrot was having sexy time with the hat.

The naughty bird, Shrek, swallowed nine SlimNSexy diet pills, which drove him bonking mad.

Itasha, according to Wiki is a Japanese term for an otaku fad of individuals decorating the bodies of their cars with fictional characters of anime, manga, or video games.

Age Soft chairman Yoshida-san had his Lamborghini Gallardo and Lancia Stratos decorated with characters from the games created by his company.

A kitten was born in Perth, Australia with two faces. It’s name is Quasi Modo and it can meow out of both mouths at the same time, but can only eat with one.