'Honey, I'm off to see some art...' - Yahoo! News
Now, if only they could sing.
'Honey, I'm off to see some art...' - Yahoo! News: "OSLO (Reuters) - Striptease is art like opera or ballet, an Oslo court has ruled in a victory for nightclub owners over Norway's tax authorities."
Don't ground the teen, confiscate the mobile phone - Yahoo! News
Please ground me but don't take my phone!
Don't ground the teen, confiscate the mobile phone - Yahoo! News: "A study by a top South Korean advertising firm shows that a mobile is one of a Korean teenager's most prized possessions.
Among 13- to 15-year-olds, 77.5 percent said a mobile phone was a 'must-have' item, while for those aged 16 to 18 the figure was 76.7 percent, the Cheil Communications survey showed."
'Virgin Mary' stain defaced, covered - Yahoo! News
Hey, wasn't that the face of Elvis underneath the overpass of I72?
'Virgin Mary' stain defaced, covered - Yahoo! News: "CHICAGO (Reuters) - A stain under a highway bridge that had drawn hundreds of faithful who thought it resembled the Virgin Mary was painted over by a road crew on Friday after a vandal defaced the image.
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Chicago police said they charged a 37-year-old man with damage to state property after he used black shoe polish to paint 'big lie' on the yellow and white stain which had become the site of an impromptu shrine for the past three weeks."
Viagra for the mob? This can't turn out well... - Yahoo! News
You talkin' to me? I said, are you talkin' to me?
Viagra for the mob? This can't turn out well... - Yahoo! News: "Viagra for the mob? This can't turn out well...
By Gail Appleson Fri May 6,12:17 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three New York doctors were charged on Thursday with giving large amounts of Viagra and other anti-impotence drugs to mob members in return for construction and auto repair work done by mafia-controlled businesses."
His Name is Bond. Derek Bond.
The US says, woops, we made a mistake but no compensation for you. Too bad about getting messed up in that South African prison.
BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | US refuses arrest blunder damages: "A Bristol pensioner who was arrested at gunpoint after the FBI put him on their 'most-wanted' list has been told he will not receive any compensation.
Derek Bond, 74, says the FBI admitted its mistake but will now only pay for his legal expenses.
He was held at Durban police station in South Africa for nearly three weeks after being arrested at gunpoint while on holiday in February 2003.
FBI agents had detained Mr Bond believing him to be someone else.
Mr Bond's solicitor, Andrew Gregg, said Mr Bond had been treated absolutely appallingly."
CNN.com - Cafeteria critic develops a following - May 4, 2005
CNN.com - Cafeteria critic develops a following - May 4, 2005: "CARLISLE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Rick Seltzer's interest in journalism and passion for food have thrust him into an unusual role at his high school newspaper: cafeteria critic.
Seltzer has written Rick's Cafe Critique, a regular feature in the monthly Periscope, since about midway through his junior year at Carlisle High School. He has graded everything from chicken patties to cheese steaks using a rating system of up to five 'sporks,' plastic utensils that combine a spoon and a fork.
It seems everyone devours his monthly bites of wisdom except for the cafeteria staff, oddly enough. But the 18-year-old senior says he doesn't want his musings to be mistaken for a high school-style Zagat guide."
CNN.com - Evolution on trial in Kansas - May 2, 2005
CNN.com - Evolution on trial in Kansas - May 2, 2005: "While many call themselves creationists, who believe that God was the ultimate designer of all life, they are stopping short of saying creationism should be taught in schools.
'We're not against evolution,' said Calvert. 'But there is a lot of evidence that suggests that life is the product of intelligence. I think it is inappropriate for the state to prejudge the question whether we are the product of design or just an occurrence.'"
BBC NEWS | Americas | Pressure driving young to steroids
BBC NEWS | Americas | Pressure driving young to steroids: "Pressure to succeed on the sports field or simply to look 'better' is driving a growing number of US children to abuse steroids.
There is concern that young girls are taking steroids to get a toned look.
Latest estimates suggest more than a million high school students in the country have tried the body-altering drugs - nearly six times the number just 10 years ago.
Among the users are an increasing number of girls - some as young as nine - who are taking steroids to emulate the toned looks of movie stars and pop idols.
Experts say the phenomenon is due in part to children being pushed harder and younger than ever before."
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: From 'Gook' to 'Raghead'
He said: "Guys in my unit, particularly the younger guys, would drive by in their Humvee and shatter bottles over the heads of Iraqi civilians passing by. They'd keep a bunch of empty Coke bottles in the Humvee to break over people's heads."
He said he had confronted guys who were his friends about this practice. "I said to them: 'What the hell are you doing? Like, what does this accomplish?' And they responded just completely openly. They said: 'Look, I hate being in Iraq. I hate being stuck here. And I hate being surrounded by hajis.' "
"Haji" is the troops' term of choice for an Iraqi. It's used the way "gook" or "Charlie" was used in Vietnam.
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: From 'Gook' to 'Raghead'
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Day 113 of the President's Silence
Mr. Bush might reflect on a saying of President Kennedy: "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality."
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Day 113 of the President's Silence: "
Finally, finally, finally, President Bush is showing a little muscle on the issue of genocide in Darfur."
U.S. Military's PDF Fiasco Was Avoidable - Yahoo! News
U.S. Military's PDF Fiasco Was Avoidable - Yahoo! News: "Most people don't realize how much information Word (along with
PowerPoint and Excel) stores with your document, including previous
versions and some changes. But the culprit was Adobe Acrobat, not
Microsoft Word. Reporters found they could remove the black from
blacked-out areas of the PDF document and read the text underneath."
Does 'Supernanny' know best? | csmonitor.com
Does 'Supernanny' know best? | csmonitor.com: "All the theories out there today about parenting can lead some moms and
dads to say they feel self-conscious about the job they're doing - not
sure if they're keeping up with the latest techniques and executing
them correctly. Bullard says she and her husband knew about timeouts,
for example, but not how to make them work effectively until Frost
showed them."
Think You Know What Patriotism Is?
America needs some more patriots like this.
Think You Know What Patriotism Is?
BBC NEWS | Europe | Readers 'declassify' US document
What a scope! With few clicks of the mouse at that. Cut and paste.
Does anyone know a link the the full, uncensored document?http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41097000/jpg/_41097433_report_ap_203.jpg
US military report into the killing of Nicola Calipari
When news started circulating in Italy that a heavily censored Pentagon report into the death of secret agent Nicola Calipari had been decrypted, many thought it must be the work of some top-notch hacker. In fact, it turned out that the classified document, containing top-secret details - such as the name of the soldier who fired the deadly rounds of ammunition - could be made readable with two simple clicks of your computer mouse.
A few hours after the Pentagon published the report on its website, a few Italian readers found they could make the blacked-out paragraphs reappear by cutting and pasting them from the site into a Word document.
Salvatore Schifani, a 30-year-old IT worker, spotted the document at about 0300 local time (0100 GMT) on Saturday night.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Readers 'declassify' US document: "A few hours after the Pentagon published the report on its website, a
few Italian readers found they could make the blacked-out paragraphs
reappear by cutting and pasting them from the site into a Word
document."
Do Not Be Fooled
A recent
BBC news post indicated an outbreak of
Zombies in Cambodia. The webpage looks real enough and even sends you to authentic BBC links when clicked on. The story, however, is fake as a recent
Snopes.com article reveals. These internet fakes are another reason why it is so important to check your sources from more than one place. If it looks unbelievable, it often is.
A student recently asked me if I ever heard of human fetus soup eaten in Taiwan. She was certain that it was true. Now I had never heard of this foul dish but I directed her to snopes.com -- a popular urban myth-buster website. Sure enough, after a short search, she came upon
this page and found out that it was false.
Do not be fooled into absurd beliefs. Check out anything that sounds too good to be true. The following sites may help.
More Urban LegendsThe Skeptic SocietyJames Randi's website
