Weird news weekly: Sunday 21st June 2009

The cute vampire from twilight, Robert Pattinson, has been hit by a cab in New York while trying to escape fans. Don’t worry, he wasn’t hurt. He’s a vampire, remember? (And to answer the question why he could survive in sunlight – Ray Bans) Read More

Yes this robot cooks food! And not only that, the Japanese are so cool that they design them just like an Osamu Tezuka cartoon.

This robot cooks food! And not only that, the Japanese are so cool that they design them just like an Osamu Tezuka cartoon.

Forget Masterchef, bring on Robochef… if there’s one thing you do today watch this video. It’s like Bladerunner and Osamu Tezuka rolled into one. Watch out for the guy who says ‘Every family has a car, in the future every family will have a robot.’ I LOVE THE JAPANESE… they make our dreams come true! Just watch the video. View here

A single mother was fined $2.4 million for illegally downloading 24 songs through file sharing software. Ouch! Read More

The Russian black widow… sounds like a cocktail. Well it kinda was… read the story, you’ll get the idea. Read More

I know its late, but David Carradine, star of Kill Bill and Kung Fu, died last week in bizarre circumstances. He was found in a closet with a rope tied around his neck and certain parts of his male anatomy. While most people are putting it down to a weird sex act, his family are claiming he was murdered by a… Wait for it… ‘secret kung fu sect’. This has to be up there for weird news of the year. Read More

Yet another celebrity scandal. This one involves a crossbow and a show called Night of the Iguana. Read More

The Pirate Party has been elected to the EU in Sweden. Yarrrr! Read More

A UK man has been accused of hacking NASA computers in the search for evidence of UFOs. It seems similar to the three part X-Files episodes Anasasi, where a man hacked into the FBI database and found encrypted files, handed them to Mulder and then was assassinated… Can you tell I’ve been going through season three? Read More

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