When Andrew Castle's wife of 18 years asked him for a divorce, his response was to rig up a homemade electric chair in his garage and try to kill her. The puzzling thing about this is how he would have...

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an assassination attempt today when a homemade hand grenade was tossed at his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan. One person was reportedly arrested. Ahmadinejad commented that he was the target of an assassination plot by Israel. "The stupid Zionists have hired mercenaries to assassinate me," he said. Mahmoud old buddy, if th...

OK. So a young lady called Feng Yangyan, who is no better than she ought to be, hires a handsome fellow with whom to lose her virginity and posts a video of the event on the Chinese internet. The story...

Daryl Hewison's lunch: "Homemade stoneground roll, burger sliced lengthways, tomato, cheese, leek and mushroom"

"The science is so settled it’s now perfectly routine for leaders of the developed world to go around sounding like apocalyptic madmen of the kind that used to wander the streets wearing sandwich boards and handing out homemade pamphlets. Governments that are incapable of—to pluck at random—enforcing their southern border, reducing waiting times for routine operations...

Doomed trio were in a WMIK Land Rover when the homemade device one of most powerful seen in the conflict detonated.

Today is Mrs Sane’s birthday so after the presents, crumpets and bacon butties we went to Sheriffhales Village Fair. Now, village fair usually means WI, homemade skittles and dodgy cake stalls but this is in a league of its own.  The entire village of Sheriffhales is closed off to traffic and the locals make scarecrows and

The new USHCN was scheduled to come out a couple of years ago. A paper describing it has finally appeared, discussed by Pielke Sr here. I haven't reviewed the new paper - something that I'll be looking for is whether they rely on "homemade" changepoint methods to supposedly achieve homogeneity - "homemade" in

Reminiscent of the Clinton Administration, when Chinese agents were given access to US nuclear laboratories and carried out the most serious espionage ever committed against the United States, a British comedian recently discovered that with a homemade pass which "could have been produced by a child," he had full access to the State Department. But then, why should it matter if foreign nationals a...

A BNP candidate for Europe elections has been arrested on suspicion of selling illegal firearms. That's only half the story however, turns out he's also been selling homemade gallows to despotic African regimes. No matter how badly the mainstream parties behave, the BNP always manages to trump them in the weird, sinister nutjobs department.