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‘Bag of the week’ for November 6, 2007

Welcome to our regular Tuesday feature, and now, our second-ever ‘bag of the week’. The ‘bag of the week’ features interesting, provocative, and irreverent web sites culled from linkbag’s users. Each week we feature a new ‘bag’. This week, we’re featuring “Offbeat News” via stevenl’s linkbag. This is a bag of “weird, odd, strange, funny, offbeat, or crazy, but true news stories in the US and around the world provided by various news sites like Yahoo, Reuters and, [stevenl’s] favorite, Digg!”

This offbeat bag includes —

1. 16 Headstones That Make You Go Hmmmm…
   Benjamin Franklin said: “Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have.” Some must-see stuff here.
2. 8-year-old Ohio twins gain fame for anti-wedgie underwear design using fabric fastener
   Using rigged boxers and fabric fasteners to hold together some seams, Jared and Justin Serovich came up with the Rip Away 1000. “When the person tries to grab you - like the bully or the person tries to give you a wedgie - they just rip away,” Justin explained on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
3. Student finds baroque painting inside old sofa
   Berlin student who bought a second-hand sofa bed at a flea market learned she had been sitting on a small fortune when she found a baroque painting hidden inside the couch.
4. Lawn-watering spat leads to death 
   A 66-year-old man was bashed to death while watering his lawn in an argument over Sydney’s water restrictions, police and media said Thursday.
5. New species of ‘giant wild pig’ discovered hidden in the Amazon jungle
   A new species of wild pig previously unknown to science has been discovered in the Brazilian jungle. The large creature grows to a length of more than four feet and is almost twice as heavy as its nearest relative. Named the ‘giant peccary’, the creature was unknown until the skins and bones of animals were found by a biologist.

Thanks and stay tuned for next week’s ‘bag of the week’. Same blog time, same blog channel!