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They're trying, but Apple's agent has run into a little trouble getting in touch with her.

Never a Tornado in a Can when you need one.

Link was messed up... HARDCORE

In Finland, taxi drivers are now ordered to pay royalties if they play music, even if it is on the radio, if they have passengers in the car.

two churchs were also sued on copyright infringement for singing Chistmas hymns....

the story is here.

I would have posted this as a story, but seeing as how my approval rate is 1:50 its not worth the time or effort anymore

Man in trouble for selling tshirts. These t shirts show george w bush having sex with bin laden.

This is real!

I don't think the money matters to people that really want to do this.

The online article is here

A few generations later, this could be interesting with the wireless displays in the pipe. Needs more ram, needs better I/O, probably needs more battery life.

Irony Alert: Gordon Moore just got an ant species named after him, Pheidole mooreorum. How long before Moore's Law enables a watch to be smarter than that ant? Ever? (Not a karma 'Ho. Capped long ago.)

Anybody else hear this? I'm not making it up, either
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A man has been jailed for six months after a trainload of commuters saw him having sex with a goat.

Stephen Hall, 23, of Kensington Road, Hull, pleaded guilty to one charge of buggery with an animal after the assault on the female goat in August last year.

Sentencing HIV-positive Hall, Judge Michael Mettyear, at Hull Crown Court, described the incident as "bizarre and disgusting". Hall had a previous conviction for indecent assault against a six-year-old girl.

The judge expressed frustration at being unable to order that Hall be banned from working with children in the future, adding: "You have pleaded guilty to buggery with an animal, a goat. It was committed in open air with people about, with people who could see.

"You were acting in an indecent manner, indeed, there was an seven-year-old boy in a position to see, although he was protected by his grandfather."

The court was earlier told how Hall had been returning from his sister's home on August 14 when the assault took place at the Argyle Street allotments.

A seven-year-old boy out walking with his grandfather had witnessed the attack together with a train-load of commuters on board a Hull to Bridlington service that had stopped at nearby signals.

Hall was seen holding on to a belt that had been put around the nanny goat's neck with one hand, while masturbating with the other. He was then seen with his trousers around his ankles having "penetrative sexual intercourse" with the animal.

Forensic tests matched semen taken from Hall's clothing to that found at the scene and samples of the goat's hairs were also found in his underwear.

Reading from the pre-sentence report, Mr Mettyear said Hall had shown evidence of being "preoccupied with sex", having "emotional instability" and problems maintaining relationships. It added that he targets "vulnerable" victims - "a child in the first instance and now an animal".

Story filed: 11:43 Friday 15th March 2002

As for John Cleese, he might be busy writing that alternate Superman comic "True Brit". What, you didn't know? Oh, that's right, my submission didn't make it in. I'll take pity, here's the link. :^)

Chris Columbus says he wishes he could have included the Deathday scene in the film version of Chamber Of Secrets.

"It was one of my favourite scenes in the book. But we just felt we would push it in terms of structure".

I'm not going to quote the whole thing. Getting votes by proxy is just kind of embarrassing, and I won't want to be a copyright terrorist.

A retired bishop says Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings have revealed a need for spiritual experience.

The Right Reverend Jim Thompson says the films show how much fantasies about "another dimension" appeal to the general public.

The former Church of England Bishop of Bath and Wells says people are in search of spiritual experience and vision.

"Part of this perhaps is the re-creation of what has been lost to so many modern minds, namely the eternal dimension central to most religions, especially the Christian faith," he said.

The Bishop was speaking at the presentation ceremony for the Sandford St Martin Trust Awards for excellence in religious broadcasting.

He says he believes broadcasting has an increasingly important role as young people shun organised religion, finding the Church unsatisfactory as a way of "exploring the spirit."

Bishop Thompson's remarks about Harry Potter come after the ecumenical body, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, urged churches to use Harry Potter a means of spreading the Christian message.

The children's bestsellers have been attacked by evangelicals in the past as glamorising the occult.

Of course, he is retired, and doesn't have to worry about being banished to Bishop of Lossiemouth for saying what he thinks. As for the Fallwells and Robertsons, they were born (again) bent of shape. The problem is when they try to bend the world to fit...

A US scientist has named an ant after Harrison Ford.

Edward Wilson has called a Central American ant, Peidole harrisonfordi, to honour the actor's conservation work.

Ford is Vice Chairman of the American society Conservation International.

Wilson, a Harvard University scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has also named a shiny brown ant from Mexico, Pheidole mooreorum, after Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty.

The Moores are leading environmental philanthropists.

This must be the kind of weirdo's your Congress is trying to protect your children from:http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_545271.h tml?menu=news.latestheadlines

I wonder was he wearing velcro gloves?

well the mouse has been free for a loooong time...

Hey, great plugs for "Colloidial Silver". It's natural, right? And anything natural must be a Good Thing, right?

Yeah, kinda like Hemlock is natural.

Check out these links before you hit the natural foods store:

Rosemary Jacob's Argyria Pages -- her skin is a fetching shade of blue-grey, somewhat like the robot on Futurama.

Politician turns blue from drinking 'health' solution -- the Libertarian US Senate candidate from Montana would have had the distinction, if elected, of being the only Blue member of Congress. (I'm a Green, myself).

And you'll need something to run the beer from the fridge to your command centre. This Dinosaur home robot might do the trick. But count your small kids and family pets early and often!

There was another young woman who father would make her wear revealing anime costumes for something called cosplay, I wonder if I should have alerted the authorities about possible abuse?

That depends. Was the cosplay sexual in nature? Was she "underage" as defined by your local laws? If the answer to both questions is yes, do you really need it spelled out for you?

I wonder why kids can't stick with good old-fashioned healthy American cartoons like Bugs Bunny or Roadrunner.

Riiight. Have you seen some of the racist ones?. While I feel they're important for older kids to watch and think about, they're not "healthy." Of course, Bugs made up for that later by teaming with Michael Jordan... right?

Please tell me you're just trolling...

If Microsoft makes a serious effort to make Windows easy to use, they could theoretically win the TCO fight, or at least beat the penguins.

The alternative is that Microsoft will try to raise the TCO for open source, by buying laws that criminalize open-source development, by turning the personal computer into a locked box that dispenses pay-per-view content to consumers, and by threatening "intellectual property" lawsuits against companies and individual developers.

Of course, that's just a paranoid theory. I mean, if things like that were happening in real life, people would do more than just whine about it on Slashdot, right?

That is all we do here at ananova with ananova for pda's and orange-today for pda's.
Then there's stuff for spv (icky evil nasty stinker) done in the same way.

That is all we do here at ananova with ananova for pda's and orange-today for pda's.
Then there's stuff for spv (icky evil nasty stinker) done in the same way.

. . .

might already be redundant, but here goes :

A US university is investigating claims a porn film was shot in one of its halls of residence.

. . .

George Bush junior once owned a company (Arbusto Energy) jointly with one of Osama bin Laden's many brothers.

As damning as this may sound, it should be remembered that Osama is the black sheep of the family.

This made me laugh though, I can almost see him beating his head while shouting "Doh!".

Like this one: Man builds gun to fire pumpkin a mile If that isn't a geeky story, what is?

Like this one: Man builds gun to fire pumpkin a mile If that isn't a geeky story, what is?

67% of Korean Internet users are connected to broadband...But there may be downsides.

Yeah, I think this guy figured that out.

It would really suck if you call them and find out it is someone that you know; like its your wife

(yay news.google!)

Southwest Alaskans say bird is the size of a small plane
Seattle Post Intelligencer,WA
A super-sized bird in Alaska-Scripps Howard News Service
Raptor-like bird spotted in Alaska-Ananova
Southwest Alaskans say bird is the size of a small plane-Kenai Peninsula

Or here.

Or a short one here.

They discovered it made one elliptical revolution every 15.2 years, during which it came as close as 17 light hours from the centre.

Can you hear me now? Good!

See the "picture" at Yeah right Besides being (possibly) bogus, that picture is obviously of a Star Trek planet-eater.

Last year someone died after playing too much Counter-Strike.

Here's the article.

Lately it's been in the news that polar bears are showing up hermaphroditic due to being at top top of the food chain at the top of the world. It's also reported that the melting polar ice cap may make polar bears extinct. So there's really no need to worry about the hermaphroditic thing, see? Doubtless Nature has a similar plan to take care of the discarded cell phone "problem."

But the BBC didn't cope.
For large parts of the day news.bbc.co.uk was either completely unavailable or loaded so slowly it was useless.
sky.com/news lasted out fairly well, and apparently www.ananova.com didn't even blink (I didn't {know,think} of ananova at the time, and now I work for them, oh the irony :) )

Being a Brit, the BBC was the first place I turned to for news and basically the whole thing ground to a halt and that was despite the BBC News outfit having upgraded systems substantially to cope with the 2001 UK General Election. Both the UK and US mirror were swamped and basically stopped working. Interestingly the US Mirror site was in New York, not far from the WTC, and despite the fact the power was lost in the entire area, the servers kept going for several days on backup generators until those generators died due to the dust.

It tended to be the second-tier news service like Ananova that could cope, simply because in times of crisis people will always turn to familiar names first.. the BBC, NBC, CBS, CNN etc.

I seem to remember that the low-graphics option came after 9/11, but it's only a partial solution to the problem.. several times since then the BBC have switched to low-graphics but there haven't been any events of the magnitude of 9/11 since then.

Look at it this way.. lets say the US has 50 million office workers with access to the Internet (a pure guesstimate) and they all try to access the same news sites within a window of 30 minutes. On 9/11 people were trying to download videos of the attacks so they could understand what was going on - don't forget that those now familiar images we all know now were completely unthinkable. This combination of huge numbers of users and very high demand for streaming video is almost impossible to keep up with.

In short, on 9/11 the web let us down and the only people who knew what was going on were those with access to televisions. The world has not moved on that much in the past 12 months, so basically the same thing will happen all over again if (God forbid) the same thing happens all over again..

Cheers,
Ian

The SMS company Zed used to have a contest with a space trip as a grand prize. Unfortunately that link doesn't seem to work any more, but the contest is mentioned at least here, here and here.

I don't know if anyone actually won the prize, though.

Another article, with pictures of the pyramid rover, and also some background on the Rudolf Gantenbrink controversy. He's the robotics engineer who (some argued) was left uncredited and uninvolved (not even invited to the opening?). I don't know the whole story.

CNN blurb on this special (with video clip)

The ananova take on the special.

The Times (UK) take. Pretty good.

A little on Zahi Hawass

Anyway, I assume they lifted the ban just until they have had time to develop the system so that it is a bit harder to go around it. We might see the blockings again within a few weeks.

Scientists think a newly-found object orbiting the Earth could be a remnant from the Apollo era.

Experts at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory believe its brightness and distance shows it's a rocket booster.

'J002E3' was discovered on September 3 and listed by scientists as a minor planet or asteroid.

But Nasa's Donald Yeomans believes that designation is erroneous.

He told Space.com: "It's most likely a spacecraft. It's not likely to be a natural object, not in that kind of orbit."

He said minor planets or asteroids tend to be on strange orbits gravitationally-influenced by the Sun. This does not appear to be the case with this object.

Nasa are currently running computer calculations and expect to be able to identify the object conclusively soon.

Story filed: 10:39 Thursday 12th September 2002

You mean like this: Buzz Aldrin accused of punching moon sceptic? I'd punch someone who kept poking me with a Bible too. Pretty good for a 72 year old Buzz!

You mean those talking heads on TV are real people? I thought they were all synthetic actors

It must be this guy, and i can see why he's retiring if his rain dances have gotten that far out of whack :)

No, that would be Ananova.

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circlemakers.org is a handful of guys who go out and make crop circles for fun and profit. They have put on presentations on how to make crop circles and they have been videoed in the process.

But when the spectacular Milk Hill formation, the largest and most complex crop circle ever, occurred on August 13/14, 2001, even they had to say:

"Awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, mind-warping, incomprehensible and bloody huge."

When the hoaxers are impressed, and no one else comes forward to claim responsibility, it kind of makes you think...