<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : weird : All Links : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://weird.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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Video in article.<br/>I couldn't find more reputable sources for this, and it's not really about the flu, but the predicament itself is heartwrenching.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>205</score><crdate>11/5/2009 7:35:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-05T07:35:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135377</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135377/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Breathalyzer Man Busted]]></title><description><![CDATA[Miller's costume, which retails for about $30, includes three sobriety levels: Boring, Life of the Party, and Sotally Tober. 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E Coyote was not available for comment after a singer was killed by coyotes while hiking in an east coast national park.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>317</score><crdate>10/29/2009 2:15:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-29T14:15:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135191</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135191/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Jon Gosselin And Octomom Set To Date On Reality Show ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jon Gosselin from Jon and Kate plus Eight and Nadya Suleman, the Octomom?!<br/><br/>Someone tell me this is just a cruel, very unfunny joke!]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>99</score><crdate>10/28/2009 7:18:36 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-28T19:18:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135187</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135187/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dylan Thomas Is Baaaaack!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just in time for Halloween. The Chelsea Hotel bloggers received a desperate cry for answers after a tourist spent three nights at the hotel, only to be menaced on her final evening by the ghost of Dylan Thomas! She was with her boyfriend, but he slept soundly through the sighting.<br/><br/>Dylan Thomas was living in Room 206 of the hotel at the time of his death.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>166</score><crdate>10/28/2009 5:51:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-28T17:51:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135161</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135161/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Library complains of crossed-out curses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Workers at a Tennessee library said someone has been using blue ink to completely scratch out curse words from books in the collection.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>645</score><crdate>10/27/2009 10:58:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-27T22:58:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135146</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135146/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Colonel Sanders Meets the President of the UN]]></title><description><![CDATA[Red-faced United Nations officials on Monday admitted to a major security lapse after a UN guard helped Kentucky Fried Chicken's &quot;Colonel Sanders&quot; gain access to restricted areas.<br/><br/>Apparently they didn't know he was decades dead.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>425</score><crdate>10/27/2009 10:13:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-27T10:13:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135112</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135112/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Whisky on (Antarctic) Ice, Anyone?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservators in Antarctica are toasting to a fascinating discovery: buried under the frozen Antarctic ground , they found two intact cases of Scotch whisky left behind a century ago by Sir Ernest Shackleton from a failed expedition in 1907.<br/><br/>The cases of Charles Mackinlay &amp; Co. whisky won't be retrieved until January, when the Antarctic Summer sun can melt the ice around them. In the meantime, we will all be left to wonder what century-old, Antarctic-iced Scotch tastes like.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>345</score><crdate>10/26/2009 1:57:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-26T13:57:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135095</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135095/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Three Moon Shirt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparently, it is all the rage on the Internets.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>163</score><crdate>10/26/2009 12:58:38 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-26T00:58:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135063</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135063/1/</url><title><![CDATA[7 Lamest Yet Widely Believed Cryptozoological Hoaxes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are alleged species like De Loys&#8217; Ape, suebe, the Hodag and Mer-People bona fide beasties on earth or do they only roam in the minds of fraudsters and their credulous believers?]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>199</score><crdate>10/25/2009 2:25:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-25T02:25:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134994</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134994/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ice Skating Bear Kills Trainer]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another. A visiting Russian troupe was rehearsing for a show in Bishkek when the attack occurred Wednesday.]]></description><comments>13</comments><score>503</score><crdate>10/23/2009 10:09:11 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-23T10:09:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134947</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134947/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Road Kill Toy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toy Teaches Children About Life And Death]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>49</score><crdate>10/22/2009 1:07:00 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-22T01:07:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134839</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134839/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bear Heads Straight for the Beer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shoppers in a Wisconsin grocery store got an unexpected surprise when a 125-pound black bear wandered inside and headed straight for the beer cooler.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>285</score><crdate>10/18/2009 10:24:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-18T10:24:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134810</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134810/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Man tries to euthanize dog -- dog's owner tries to euthanize man]]></title><description><![CDATA[A motorist hit a dog and tried to &quot;put the dog out of its misery&quot; using a hammer and a machete. The dog's owner ran over, grabbed the implements and started attacking the motorist, police say.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>615</score><crdate>10/17/2009 1:34:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-17T13:34:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134809</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134809/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Woman lived with corpse for a week]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Texas woman who lived with a corpse for a week because she 'didn't want to leave' the body of her boyfriend]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>15</score><crdate>10/17/2009 1:28:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-17T13:28:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134805</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134805/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The &quot;XXXXXXX&quot; Man Gets Tagged]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Racer X's&quot; vanity plate just does not compute in city computers - and it's helped him rack up about $19,000 in tickets in Birmingham, Ala.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>219</score><crdate>10/17/2009 12:01:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-17T12:01:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134804</id><url>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134804/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Killer Wears Picture Of Victim On His Shirt During Sentencing]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man convicted of killing his girlfriend apparently decided that the best thing to wear at his sentencing was &quot;a T-shirt with his victim's picture and the words 'R.I.P. Love You Forever.'&quot;]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>539</score><crdate>10/17/2009 11:46:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-17T11:46:30+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>