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 [...]

Lady’s Knickers Save Home From Fire
Jenny Marsey’s nephew used her size 18-20 cotton knickers to extinguish a frying pan blaze that threatened to burn down the house. Darren Lines, 23, grabbed the blue pants from a pile of washing, doused them in water and threw them over the pan after attempts to put out the [...]

Another Odd Year Goes By.
Lots of crap went down in 2007. Much of it disturbing - Bhutto’s assassination, the Virginia Tech massacre, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, Microsoft Vista.
Some of it was funny. Or strange. Or both.
Here are the top 10 oddest stories:
10. Bad Newz: Michael Vick gets busted for dogfighting.

In July, Atlanta QB Michael Vick is [...]

“I don’t understand why this hasn’t ended up on ‘CSI: Miami’ yet” - Jim Cramer

New York Times has a story about Seth Tobias, Circle T hedge fund manager, found dead in his pool at his Jupiter, Florida mansion.
Mr. Tobias, a native of Philadelphia, once worked at Cramer’s former money-management firm. He formed Circle T in [...]