Jumping the gun, Bloomberg accidentally posts an obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Uh, he ain’t dead yet! Read on…

A giant inflatable dog turd created by the American artist Paul McCarthy was blown from its moorings at the Paul Klee Center, a museum located in Berne, Switzerland. The “art” brought down a power line and broke a window before landing in the grounds of a children’s home.

The exhibit, entitled Complex Shit, is the size of a house. It has a safety system that is supposed to deflate it in bad weather, but it did not work on this occasion.

Next time you guys complain about traffic in Boston or Chicago or Los Angeles, just try driving around India’s major cities.

Globalization and Venture Capital:
Earlier this week, my optimism about the infrastructure situation in India took a severe beating as I struggled to get to a meeting in downtown Mumbai crawling through what seemed like an [...]

Russian Toilets: Take A Crap, But Don’t Take A Pee
Source: CNN:
Nowhere to Go
The international space station’s lone toilet is broken, leaving the crew with almost nowhere to go. So NASA may order an in-orbit plumbing service call when space shuttle Discovery visits next week. Until then, the three-man crew will have to make do with [...]

And now, the Courtney Love news roundup:
Love Was Advised To Abort Frances Bean
Source: Warner Bros Records boss Danny Goldberg
Goldberg, who managed Nirvana at the time, writes:
“‘You’re not telling me to have a [bleep]-ing abortion, are you?’ asked Courtney, her voice rising with her trademark hostile whine. ‘I mean I’m pro-choice, but that doesn’t mean [...]

This Vancouver boy got a butter knife chucked at him by another kid. It lodged in his head.
From Fox 12 Oregon: “The butter knife became lodged in Tyler’s head between his scalp and skull. “It, like, stung like a bee for a while,” Tyler said.”
His dad called an ambulance, and the knife was removed fairly [...]

It’s with a heavy heart that OddCulture reports that Anna Loginova, probably the best known female bodyguard in Russia (if not the most famous - c’mon, name another Russian bodyguard!) has passed away, the apparent victim of a carjacking.

Anna was dragged to death as she clung to her Porsche Cheyenne in some sort of attempt [...]

From The Smoking Gun (much more there):
Kinky Sex, Shocking Death
Pennsylvania man charged with electrocuting wife during nip zip
JANUARY 25–A kinky sex escapade ended this week with the electrocution death of a Pennsylvania woman and the arrest of her husband for manslaughter. According to cops, Toby Taylor, 37, first claimed that his wife Kirsten was shocked [...]

The city of Nokia, Finland (home to cell phone company Nokia) is floundering in filthy drinking water after a municipal employee mistakenly sent thousands of gallons of sewage into the water supply.

Skeida
source: Spiegel Online
Nokia has about 30,000 residents. In November 2007, a municipal employee unwittingly released thousands of gallons of sewage into the water [...]

Not too far from the Odd Culture offices:

3 Killed in I-4 Pileup
Three people were killed and dozens injured early Wednesday in a major pileup on Interstate 4 in north central Florida, as fog and smoke from brush fires combined to make it almost impossible for motorists to see. Local authorities said the smoke was produced [...]