Due to a general slackness on my part, weird news weekly has a bumper issue this week, to make up for the lack of action this past month. Sorry!

Sam Raimi is going to direct World of Warcraft: The movie. READ MORE

If it couldn’t get any weirder, Michael Jackson’s hair will be turned into 10 limited edition diamonds. READ MORE

To start with, a woman eats baby’s brains. READ MORE

Google guilty of stinking out pyrmont… remember, whoever snuffed it, fluffed it. READ MORE

Is Harry Potter encouraging drinking? I’ll answer that just after I’ve had my golden, mellow butterbeer. READ MORE

Robotic firefighting team. Robots can do anything. READ MORE

The geek atlas. For your next family roadtrip. READ MORE

Abandoned gnomes in foster homes. Says it all, really. READ MORE

Stephen Conroy named Internet Villain of the Year

Stephen Conroy and the Australian Government have been named Internet Villains of the year. He does have that Blowfeld look about him… READ MORE

Cats manipulate their owners by purring. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work that out. Next they’ll tell us cats are trying to take over the world (with Stephen Conroy). READ MORE

Speeding nuns have used ‘praying for the pope’ as excuse. That’s as bad as the dog ate my homework. READ MORE

Spongebob turns 10! Yay for Bikini Bottom! READ MORE

NZ Taekwondo hopeful opens  a brothel to support his olympic funding. READ MORE

A comic history of Charles Babbage’s calculating machine. READ MORE

While Julie may have won Masterchef, this Disasterchef cook has blown off his hands in an attempt at molecular gastronomy. READ MORE

It’s not exactly news, but it’s interesting. The history of computer viruses and worms on Wikipedia. READ MORE

And finally the toilet has flooded on the space station. Who ya gonna call? READ MORE