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Some places just have no sense of fun.

As a disclaimer, the main bureaucrat behind this email scandal was David Blunkett, who is arguably the Ashcroft of the UK.

What? Didn't you hear that picking your nose and eating the boogers is healthy?

Freighter damager 1200ftX200ft swath of Florida reef

60% of great barrier reef hit by bleaching

Great barrier reef 50 years from death

Sewage killing Tobaggo's reef

Bottom trawling fishing destroys large portions of deep water coral reefs never explored

Or worse, some crappy drunk guy who gets parked with his car, and does serious damage to your car by throwing up on it.

'Help - my hamster's stuck in my printer' Just what we need: Hamsters with laser printers on their frikken heads.

You'd better watch out for the side-effects. This might hurt your chances of increasing your IQ.

your penis may be blown off in the process.

FEAR NOT!

A year to Russia can cure the problem.

linky news article
-Grump

Since they IR network and transfer data objects, I'm working on an infectious Tamagotchi plague. It's for the children's sake.

Makes sense...

So instead, I'll point you to my favorite tiger attack story from Annanova's animal attack files.

I'll never to to the bathroom without a revolver ever again!

So instead, I'll point you to my favorite tiger attack story from Annanova's animal attack files.

I'll never to to the bathroom without a revolver ever again!

The French government took the extra step of forbidden the use of the english word email in government documents to try to increase the use of the new word.

Got to love the French.

Or you might be a tourist attraction.

If only we could stuff spammers with that 6' SPAM display. (Either end would do.)

Remote controlled orgasms to cost 9,500

Ahem... :)

And here. (Loads of places actually.)

Darn. I was going to submit Nazi raccoons conquer Europe but I haven't been able to figure out where the Gates connection is. Maybe if I had a fast way of searching large DBs...?

Yes it can.

Penthouse has had many financial troubles over the past few years actually.

That has already been done.

Dang, messed up the link, sorry.

And I submitted a Banryu story 11/06/2002. (There may have been an accepted article about it as well.) Here's a link to Dino-robot promises mobile assistance from 13th November 2002. "They plan to begin selling it in Japan by the end of next year." Hmm.

It was a fanflic basically.
borrowed scenes from the LOTR trilogy and some dragon movie that I didn't recognize. (Dragonslayer on further investigation.)
Very well done, as it obvious sucked you into believing it. But it was definitely faked.
See here for instance.

"This animal has no natural predators and it's an alien species" and good eatin'!

For the metrically challenged "39-centimetre-tall" is roughly 16 inches high. Woohoo. That'll scare burglars, especially with those blue balls on the end of its arms. For that price, I think I'll stick to the low-tech version that comes with an environmently friendly wind-up key.

They're keeping busy with comets comets (with Europe) and the most distant galaxy in universe (with Swiss).

They're keeping busy with comets comets (with Europe) and the most distant galaxy in universe (with Swiss).

How about "Keith Richards"?

You could do better than normal skydiving with these things.

There's a few (very short) enlish news blurbs:

Ananova
Akiba live, which ananova mentions and links to.

Pooing burglar sentenced to toilet cleaning

A US burglar has been sentenced to clean 100 prison toilets after raiding a house and defecating on the floor.

A Saginaw County judge has ordered Rob Malda to carry out the sanitation duties at Saginaw County Prison after he admitted stealing a gun from a home in Richland Township, Michigan. Malda is best known as the creator and primary editor of the popular technology website Slashdot.

The 23-year-old Washtenaw county native was also sentenced to two years' probation and has been ordered to pay about 350 to clean the property, reports MLive.com.

Story filed: 12:14 Monday 23rd February 2004

think of touchscreen ticket machines, for example (ooh er, perhaps there aren't any in the US since there's precious little public transport)

There's plenty of them in movie theaters in the US.

Virtual keyboards are so 2002...

Disney makes Muppet move The deal culminates a decades-long pursuit by Disney, which came close to acquiring the characters in 1990. The deal fell apart shortly after the death of company founder Jim Henson.

The company then was bought by German media company EM.TV, which sold it back to the Henson family last year.

The deal includes a four-year consulting arrangement with the Jim Henson Co. to provide strategic advice on the use of the characters and a three-year production deal to develop movies, television shows and other projects using the characters.

(The other planet being Earth.) 'Torn fabric' puzzle on Mars

Excellent, now we have the physical training and experimental super-heroes coming up on the horizon. There's already been reports of the first mutant to publicly reveal herself. X-Ray Girl will live in history. Oh sure it's not much of a power really, but it's a start.

I just know if I now concentrate hard enough mine will emerge.... my luck it'd just give me Super-Aneurysm-Causing powers.

Isn't he coming out with a sequel Run-Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ?

Will Slashdot cover oxygen discovered on extra-solar planet Osiris next week? Stay tuned!

Free vibrator advertised with every mobile phone. also MIT accidentally invents cellular sex toy, and there's a vibrator slip cover which I could not find because google has been poisoned badly which I believe it meant for those ubiquitous nokia phones (the basic nokia phone is the honda civic of the cellular world.)

Australia is having some problems in adapting to globalization, specifically with technology development.

Granted, Australia is a faily isolated island, but many industrialized countries are using Internet and telephone as though they are commodities. Last time I looked at pricing for such services in Australia the costs were astronomous.

With the possible adoption of this DMCA type legislation - which has slowed some technology research in the US - I don't see this helping Australia to modernize its economy. Unless of course, the free trade is really beneficial. While Canada and Mexico might have benefitted from NAFTA, it was only because the US knew it was to its advantage to use it. Now, Australia will be used too.

Once again it is the unions that are killing our tech industry.

Not too long ago Ericsson set up a research plant in Australia. 450 good R&D jobs as well. But our unions did everything they could to stop it, and with the recently elected Bracks Government (Labor, Victoria), they had the power to make business for them unbareable. The plant lasted 18 months.

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Most of these mechandise 'tags' only have a read range of less than 20 feet. The RFID that is used to track spouses, or outspoken members of a democracy, immobolized cars is already out - it's just not mass produced like 1mmx1mm tags will be and I think this is what is worrysome to us -- The ubiquity of tags in our 'stuff'. Lastly, there is now the human immobiliser with is far more troubling to me and should be to you as well -- diaper changes! -Andy

Although those fractal folks got Google-dotted (or whatever you want to call it), Janet Jackson's boob was the most searched event in internet history, beating out Sept. 11th.

There's an argument that as people listen to downloaded (stolen) MP3's, they'll be tempted to go to the shops and buy them, thus not depriving the shops of their cash or devaluing the commodity. I wonder how books will pan out.

If you could somehow get free diamonds, I doubt many of us would throw them away or buy them instead, (unless you're Dutch)
but with digital "objects" it's a bit more difficult to quantify. Copying is easy, delivery is easy. The sole advantage for the pay-for dead-tree-version is that you can cart it around with you - but with the advent of ever-more-clever phones, PDA's etc., will this advantage disappear, and with it, the open-source book ?

Interesting to see how it pans out...

Simon

According to a recent study, of people in Norway changed their underwear only once a week. More than a third said they wore the same underwear for two days or more!

Now take that into perspective and you can only wonder the type of folks that will be at this 'computarparty'... we can only assume that the fetid stench will linger in that arena for weeks.

Hmm, seems to have ticked off a member of the Perpetually P-O'ed Class "A true traveller" Bleh, what an idiot.

'Angry' Ark Royal crew switch off BBC
The BBC has been axed from the nation's flagship naval vessel following claims of pro-Iraqi bias. The Navy says it has switched off News 24 aboard HMS Ark Royal after complaints by the crew.
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One senior rating said: "The BBC always takes the Iraqis' side. It reports what they say as gospel but when it comes to us it questions and doubts everything the British and Americans are reporting. A lot of people on board are very unhappy."

but the clowns the Dems are producing this year don't leave much choice

Dude, you don't know what a clown is. Everybody has a t-shirt.

Bill may be a knight, but he would have to work at it to becomes an offical samurai like Karl Beattie: "Now he has his own Samurai armour and sword and has sworn to protect his emperor with his life."

According to this Mars may be chocolate. The poor bugger is probably just sleeping off a sugar-binge. But that's okay because 'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky Problems