<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>sandbox : sandbox : Popular Links : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://sandbox.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Sex, then amnesia...and it's no soap opera]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135455/1/" /><id>135455</id><summary><![CDATA[Sex, then amnesia...and it's no soap opera]]></summary><issued>2009-11-07T01:16:16+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-07T01:16:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One August morning, Alice and her husband, Scott, had sex.<br/>That's when things became confusing. Rather than appearing pleased, Alice, 59, seemed disoriented.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Walking Backwards No more.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/science/l/135447/1/" /><id>135447</id><summary><![CDATA[Walking Backwards No more.]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T19:43:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T19:43:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It seems that the flu shot victim <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/135396/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Desree Jennings</a> has suddenly been cured of walking backwards.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Building with Whole Trees]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135446/1/" /><id>135446</id><summary><![CDATA[Building with Whole Trees]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T19:14:06+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T19:14:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[According to research by the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, run by the USDA, a whole, unmilled tree can support 50 percent more weight than the largest piece of lumber milled from the same tree. So Mr. Gundersen uses small-diameter trees as rafters and framing in his airy structures, and big trees felled by wind, disease or insects as powerful columns and curving beams.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obama says don't jump to conclusions]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/politics/l/135440/1/" /><id>135440</id><summary><![CDATA[Obama says don't jump to conclusions]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T15:37:02+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T15:37:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Obama makes the common sense plea that we do not jump to conclusions on the motives of Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Allow the investigators to do their job first.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fort Hood Hero]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135436/1/" /><id>135436</id><summary><![CDATA[Fort Hood Hero]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T14:12:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T14:12:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Police Sgt Kim Munley saved many more lives at <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/135407/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Fort Hood</a> when she charged into the building where Major Nidal Malik Hasan was carrying out his mass murder gun spree.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Gunman on the loose in Orlando Office Building]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135435/1/" /><id>135435</id><summary><![CDATA[Gunman on the loose in Orlando Office Building]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T13:44:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T13:44:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Officials said at least eight people were hurt in a shooting at a downtown office building Friday and a gunman was on the loose.<br/><br/>People streamed out of the high-rise building around lunchtime and some told local television stations they had barricaded themselves inside their offices<br/><br/>Just what is the world coming to?<br/><br/>Edit: 1 Fatality, 5 injured... The shooter surrendered]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/politics/l/135433/1/" /><id>135433</id><summary><![CDATA[Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T12:57:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T12:57:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was &quot;absolutely&quot; committed to doing so.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fingerprinting is the Mark of the Beast]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135431/1/" /><id>135431</id><summary><![CDATA[Fingerprinting is the Mark of the Beast]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T12:32:18+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T12:32:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[At least that is what one teacher in Texas is claiming and who is actually getting her day in court claiming that fingerprinting her as a requirement for employment is a violation of her religious rights.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider halted by Bird with a Sandwich]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/science/l/135430/1/" /><id>135430</id><summary><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider halted by Bird with a Sandwich]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T11:44:52+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T11:44:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the LHC particle accelerator has  shut down the whole operation. With freak accidents piling up at CERN, the idea of time traveling particles returning from the future to prevent their own discovery seems less like a sci-fi joke today. *Of course it could just be Zaphod Beeblebrox refueling the infinite improbability drive of the Heart of Gold.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Wife discovers she's allergic to her husband's sperm on her honeymoon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135422/1/" /><id>135422</id><summary><![CDATA[Wife discovers she's allergic to her husband's sperm on her honeymoon]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T08:39:13+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T08:39:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Prior to being married they always used protection. After getting married Juie Boyde found that she was severely allergic to her husband, Mike's sperm. Contact with his sperm would cause a burning sensation and even blisters. Women, this is why making your man <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/120272/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">grilled cheese</a> sandwiches early in the relationship is so important.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Most potential recruits for US military too fat, dumb, or drugged out]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/world/l/135418/1/" /><id>135418</id><summary><![CDATA[Most potential recruits for US military too fat, dumb, or drugged out]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T02:08:56+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T02:08:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[About 75% of Americans eligible as military recruits couldn't serve if they wanted to.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Historic Villains You Didn't Know Had Incredible Careers ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135410/1/" /><id>135410</id><summary><![CDATA[ Historic Villains You Didn't Know Had Incredible Careers ]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T18:09:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T18:09:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An old Irish proverb says:<br/><br/>You build a dozen roads, but do they call you Connor the road-builder? No. You sire six wonderful sons, but do they call you Connor the child-rearer? No. But you f**k one sheep...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fresh From World Series Win, Girardi Helps Crash Victim]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/sports/l/135408/1/" /><id>135408</id><summary><![CDATA[Fresh From World Series Win, Girardi Helps Crash Victim]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T17:00:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T17:00:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What can't Yankees manager Joe Girardi do? First, there's manage the Yankees to their 27th World Series win. But after the win, when driving home on the Cross County Parkway, he stopped to help a driver who crashed into a wall!<br/><br/>*This is right near where I live. It's a really dangerous stretch of parkway*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Multiple deaths in Fort Hood, TX]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135407/1/" /><id>135407</id><summary><![CDATA[Multiple deaths in Fort Hood, TX]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T16:04:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T16:04:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Shooter at the Army post, thought to have died actually survived and is in custody.<br/><br/>Ugh<br/><br/><i>edited for information update</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Tea Baggers Swarm Capitol in Last Ditch Effort to Kill HC Bill.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/politics/l/135399/1/" /><id>135399</id><summary><![CDATA[Tea Baggers Swarm Capitol in Last Ditch Effort to Kill HC Bill.]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T11:05:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T11:05:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lets hope the next swarm aren't Dirty Sanchez-ers.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Facebook Shuts Down Pregnant Dancer's Account Over Photo]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/entertainment/l/135397/1/" /><id>135397</id><summary><![CDATA[Facebook Shuts Down Pregnant Dancer's Account Over Photo]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T09:14:50+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T09:14:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Cherry Currin, a member of the The Dazzle Dancers who goes by the stage-name Cherry Dazzle, has had trouble with Facebook in the past over risque photos; she's previously received warnings about a photo of herself backflipping out of the vagina of a giant female statue, and then again for an image of her breasts covered in flame-shaped pasties. But it wasn't until Cherry got pregnant that Facebook went nuclear and canceled her account.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Swine Flu Cheerleader Who Can Only Walk Backwards]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/weird/l/135396/1/" /><id>135396</id><summary><![CDATA[The Swine Flu Cheerleader Who Can Only Walk Backwards]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T07:35:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T07:35:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[DESREE JENNINGS is a woman &#8220;convinced that a flu shot given to her has lead to a rare disorder which means she can only walk backwards&#8221;. Video in article.<br/>I couldn't find more reputable sources for this, and it's not really about the flu, but the predicament itself is heartwrenching.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[14yo Drowned Toddler &quot;To Protect Secret&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135395/1/" /><id>135395</id><summary><![CDATA[14yo Drowned Toddler &quot;To Protect Secret&quot;]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T07:21:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T07:21:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[That secret was that he sodomised him. Then when the toddler cried and threatened to tell his mum he drew a bath of water and drowned him.<br/><br/>Words fail me]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Guy Fawkes Night]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135393/1/" /><id>135393</id><summary><![CDATA[Guy Fawkes Night]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T01:15:19+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T01:15:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Remember remember the 5th of November, the Gun Powder Treason and plot, I can think of no reason, why the Gun Powder Treason, should ever be forgot. Happy Guy Fawkes Night!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Thriftstore online? Now I will never leave home!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135388/1/" /><id>135388</id><summary><![CDATA[Thriftstore online? Now I will never leave home!]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T23:11:37+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T23:11:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's an eBay styled auction site run by Goodwill, a nonprofit organization that uses its proceeds to help people! <br/><br/>DOUBLE EXTRA COOL!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Uh Oh. Cats Can Get Swine Flu]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/science/l/135383/1/" /><id>135383</id><summary><![CDATA[Uh Oh. Cats Can Get Swine Flu]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T19:29:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T19:29:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Health officials in Iowa say a 13-year-old cat tested positive for swine flu - the first feline to come down with the virus.<br/><br/>Two of the three people who live with the cat had the flu before the cat got sick, officials say.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Breathalyzer Man Busted]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/weird/l/135377/1/" /><id>135377</id><summary><![CDATA[Breathalyzer Man Busted]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T18:21:55+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T18:21:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Miller's costume, which retails for about $30, includes three sobriety levels: Boring, Life of the Party, and Sotally Tober. It also includes a well-placed plastic tube with the instructions &quot;Blow Here.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[And You Think Your Co-workers are Creepy?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/sex/l/135375/1/" /><id>135375</id><summary><![CDATA[And You Think Your Co-workers are Creepy?]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T18:12:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T18:12:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A woman asked her associate for help editing a child pornography video at the office.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man Shows Up At His Own Funeral]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/135367/1/" /><id>135367</id><summary><![CDATA[Man Shows Up At His Own Funeral]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T16:14:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T16:14:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Vets baffled by bald bears]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/weird/l/135360/1/" /><id>135360</id><summary><![CDATA[Vets baffled by bald bears]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T12:19:38+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T12:19:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[All the female bespectacled bears at a zoo in Leipzig Germany have lost almost all their hair. The reason for this dilemma is not fully understood yet although various ideas are being floated]]></content></entry></items></xml>