This image provided by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram shows a bottle of vodka with a juvenile rattlesnake inside. Agents said they confiscated 429 bottles of the snake vodka and one bottle of snake tequila from Bayou Bob’s Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch near Santo in Palo Pinto County, Texas. Bob [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/21/torture.slaying.ap/index.html

Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator upstairs, where housemates used her for target practice with BBs, burned her with a glue gun and doused her with scalding liquid that peeled away her skin.
They torched what few clothes she had, so she walked around naked. They often pummeled her with an [...]

Interesting article.

“Ants aren’t smart,” Gordon says. “Ant colonies are.” A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest path to the best food source, allocating workers to different tasks, or defending a territory from neighbors. As individuals, ants might be tiny dummies, but as colonies they respond quickly and effectively [...]

Today we launched Two on Tuesday over at my business website, DailyDia.com. Any feedback you have is appreciated.

 
Innovative scare tactics.

Husband hires hitman to kill wife. Wife kills hitman. Husband sentenced to 10 years. Justice = served.
Link: http://www.katu.com/news/local/9645777.html

70 cars, 4 dead, 1 highway.

That is our exit & entrance to I-4. The same road Julie takes to work, whether she’s headed to Lakeland or Orlando. A few hours later and she would have been in the midst of it. It was so close that ash from the “controlled” fire, fell on my sister’s [...]

“LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP) - A 21-year-old Lincoln Park man faces rape and murder charges in the death of his 8-day-old daughter.
Christopher Ryan Richardson was arraigned in the afternoon on felony murder, first-degree criminal sexual conduct and child abuse charges. A judge entered a not guilty plea on Richardson’s behalf.
Richardson doesn’t yet have an attorney. [...]