Blog-heap o' links from 2004-Aug

TUE 2004-AUG-31

Digital Consequencesmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 23:46:09“They do know the difference between mono and Bono,” Jenna Bush said of her parents.suntimes.com/ ... 23:36:36Every week, 200,000 to 400,000 pounds of discarded computers, docking stations, TVs, telecom equipment and other detritus of this electronic age are trucked into Intercon Solutions, a recycling company on Chicago's West Side.theregister.co.uk/ ... 22:36:24Hackers have discovered that implementation quirks in Voice over IP make it easy to spoof Caller ID, and to unmask blocked numbers. They can make their phone calls appear to be from any number they want, and even pierce the veil of Caller ID blocking to unmask an anonymous phoner's unlisted number.zdnet.com.com/ ... 22:36:01This week, a company is launching technology that will make it possible for someone to choose what appears on phones that have Caller ID

Preternatural Patternsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 22:35:30 Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad complained to a judge Tuesday that his jailers refuse to let him wear underwear and have restricted his access to his legal files.local6.com/ ... 14:14:30A Minnesota woman has honored her late husband by turning his cremated remains into a yellow diamond so she could always keep a part of him with her.indystar.com/ ... 14:14:11An 11-year-old Indianapolis girl faces legal trouble after witnesses told Indianapolis police she intentionally mistreated a kitten Saturday night by swinging it in the air with a cord tied around its neck.... animal had to be euthanized because of injuries to its neck and its poor health.

Future is Nowmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 23:49:41Star Trek’s Scotty gets Hollywood star - Actor James Doohan makes final public appearance ... 84 years old ... recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and also suffers from Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and lung fibrosis...thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 02:33:54 some of the world’s leading engineers are trying to advance the technology of travel further by developing cars that can fly.

Only Naturalananova.com/ ... 02:36:16A Cambodian man claims his pet dog has given birth to a kitten.ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:18:42A humpback whale trapped for more than a week behind a hydroelectric dam refused the latest attempt Monday to lure him back to the ocean. ... recorded sounds of feeding humpbacks to try to coax the 16 1/2 ton animal through the sluice gates that separate the Annapolis River from the Atlantic Ocean....

US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 19:34:23The Republican Party nominated President Bush for a second four-year term in the White House on Tuesday with a ringing call for his re-election and a torrent of praise for his strength and "compassionate" leadership.apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:32:55A 21-year-old Yale student, posing as a volunteer at the Republican National Convention, got within 10 feet of Vice President Dick Cheney and shouted anti-war statements before being dragged away mfile.akamai.com/ ... 14:42:56President Bush interviewed by Rush Limbaugh (audio - Windows Media Player required)worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:29:53Vanessa Kerry... says ... "I was scared out of my mind... I mean, I grabbed my sister, and I thought, what is happening?..."editorandpublisher.com/ ... 02:10:00The biggest commotion at the Republican National Convention Monday night occurred just before 10 p.m. with the entrance of filmmaker Michael Moore, who was repeatedly halted by security attempting to reach his reserved press seat...

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 14:18:32JOHANNESBURG - Around 80 men were caught with their pants down at a men-only nightclub when detectives burst in on a late-night drug raid.reuters.com/ ... 14:17:49Iran: Morals police have banned shopkeepers from showing unveiled dummies and lingerie in their windows.... men were now forbidden to sell women's underwear....reuters.com/ ... 14:17:20Noisy Sex Session Awakens Entire Street ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:15:31A man who spent 17 years in prison for the 1986 rape, kidnapping and robbery of a hospital worker was freed Tuesday after DNA evidence cleared him.swissinfo.org/ ... 02:34:35Turkey's government wants to make adultery a crime lubbockonline.com/ ... 02:22:39An Espanola [NM] third-grader was handcuffed and arrested by police after hitting another student with a basketball

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 14:26:02

Air Force Airman 1st Class Carl L. Anderson Jr., 21, of Georgetown, S.C., died Aug. 29 as result of enemy action near Mosul, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 02:19:15

Army Spc. Omead H. Razani, 19, of Los Angeles, Calif., died Aug. 27 in Habbaniyah, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:03:53

Army Pfc. Luis A. Perez, 19, of Theresa, N.Y., died Aug. 27 in Fallujah, Iraq, when his convoy vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.

Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 14:26:24A video purporting to show the methodical, grisly killings of 12 Nepalese construction workers kidnapped in Iraq was posted Tuesday on a Web site linked to a militant group operating in Iraq.sg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:11:39A blast outside a subway station in central Moscow that killed eight people was caused by a female suicide bomber hindustantimes.com/ ... 14:01:14Two buses blew up in a southern Israeli city on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 44... first Palestinian suicide bombings inside Israel in six months....voanews.com/ ... 14:00:39 eight people have been killed in a car explosion near a Moscow subway station.

Threatssuntimes.com/ ... 23:36:20A National Guardsman betrayed his country and fellow soldiers when he tried to pass military information to undercover agents he believed were al-Qaida terrorists suntimes.com/ ... 23:34:54An Iraqi "sleeper" who was planted in the United States by Saddam Hussein's spy service and who once worked security at O'Hare International Airport lied about his intelligence ties, prosecutors said Monday, slapping the Des Plaines man with federal charges.suntimes.com/ ... 23:34:21An American Airlines flight from Chicago to New York City was diverted to Pittsburgh on Tuesday night because of a security concern mariettatimes.com/ ... 02:36:06 9-year-old student who had been asked to leave the Open Door Baptist Church... returned to the church Sunday afternoon with a five-gallon can of gasoline.washingtontimes.com/ ... 02:35:26Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz: "We have foiled many planned operations that we will reveal later," adding the attacks would have been "much worse" than those that were carried out.

MON 2004-AUG-30

9/11 - still with uswftv.com/ ... 15:35:40 a second toy that looks like Osama Bin Laden suspended between the two buildings.

Future is Nowreuters.com/ ... 15:58:31Belgium and the Netherlands are set to follow Finland and round bills to the nearest five cents....one and two cent pieces will remain legal tender throughout the euro zone, but those countries rounding bills want to reduce the sheer volume of coins in circulation....straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/ ... 00:30:44a jacket with built-in electric fans

Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 17:17:40WOODSTOCK, N.Y. ... All of it, from the vegan cakes to vegan burgers, is served raw... "No ovens," said owner Barbara Banfield. "Just dehydration. No flames."... organic vegetarian deli and juice bar in this artsy tourist town... Healthy food is "living food," they say, organic, unprocessed and uncooked.ap.tbo.com/ ... 17:10:48Less than four weeks after they were surgically separated, 2-year-old twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre left the hospital on Monday in a double stroller pushed by their beaming mother, who exclaimed, "I have two boys!"... yearlong process ...included four major operations... fused at the top of their head. Surgeons had to cut through a portion of brain they had been sharing.reuters.com/ ... 17:09:04His bill payments and pension deposits were handled automatically. "It was a very well-kept second floor condominium, neat and clean, with everything in its place, and there was a body of a man on the bed, covered in a sheet, like he was sleeping, except that the body was mummified,"mold-help.org/ ... 15:22:51Molds can produce other secondary metabolites... such as antibiotics and mycotoxins.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:22:40...organic supporters are hopeful that the development of several disease-resistant peanut varieties will lead to more interest in growing the chemical-free nuts in [Georgia]... 4,800 peanut farmers grow about 40 percent of the total U.S. crop, ...only one organic peanut farm in the state...news.com.au/ ... 00:31:07A giant catfish is suspected of having eaten a dog in a German lake near the Polish border.canada.com/ ... 00:29:25Emergency workers made a perilous, last-second rescue of a man "breathing mud" as he sank into a massive landslide news.com.au/ ... 00:27:19maverick American scientist Dr Panos Zavos will announce that he has taken DNA from two corpses and used it to create embryonic clones of the dead people.

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 17:06:08An Andean spectacled bear escaped from its enclosure in Berlin zoo and roamed around a children's playground... "I was alarmed at how some fathers were too busy filming the bear to check where their children were...." "Spectacled bears eat both vegetables and meat but children tend not to be on their menu... I'd have been a lot more worried if one of our polar bears had escaped."..reuters.com/ ... 17:04:00Man Drives Home with Headless Friend... "Alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor...."mdn.mainichi.co.jp/ ... 00:29:51 A despondent man who threw himself onto train tracks in the hope that slamming into a train would end his life ended up unharmed when the train ran over the top of him and left him miraculously untouched sfgate.com/ ... 00:10:08A California man who once tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS has learned the diagnosis made eight years ago was mistaken and he was never infected. Jim Malone spent years battling depression and losing weight, expecting to die at any time. He attended support group meetings and accepted free meals from an AIDS charity.

US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 15:56:34 If elected U.S. president, Sen. John Kerry would offer Iran a deal allowing it to keep its nuclear power plants if it gave up the right to retain bomb-making nuclear fuel, Kerry's vice presidential running mate said in an interview published on Monday.apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:32:13Bush: "You cannot show weakness in this world today because the enemy will exploit that weakness... It will embolden them and make the world a more dangerous place... I don't think you can win [the war on terror], but I think you can create conditions so that ...those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world."drudgereport.com/ ... 15:30:43A paid TV advertisement from Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, President Bush's top congressional foe, features the South Dakotan hugging and embracing President Bush!drudgereport.com/ ... 00:08:02...Sunday night ...John Kerry's daughters were announced to speak at the annual MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS... were met with a resounding wall of boos... reaction turned worse when the daughters asked the VIACOM youth to vote for their father. So shocked by the reaction, the taller of the two daughters tried to 'shhhhhh' her peers to no avail....

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 15:58:51Thousands of young women bared their breasts and danced in Swaziland Monday in the hope of trading a life of poverty for one of royal comfort as one of King Mswati's many wives.helenair.com/ ... 00:26:47About 20 bras recently were cut off a fence between Frank Cooper and Shirley Cleary's property and the Stickney Creek fishing access on the Missouri River, after Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees decided the "bra fence" posed an "attractive nuisance."

Aftermathapnews.myway.com/ ... 15:38:07 A soldier already convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal testified Monday that fellow Army reservist Pfc. Lynndie England was a willing participant in creating the "human pyramid" of naked Iraqi detainees... said a sergeant who was in charge yelled at England and another soldier for "stomping on the fingers and toes" of a detainee.

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 13:22:52Two explosions went off in the Iraqi capital early Monday

Peace 3000news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:14:53war itself is in decline, peace researchers report... the number killed in battle has fallen to its lowest point in the post-World War II period... "International engagement is blossoming... There's been an enormous amount of activity to try to end these conflicts."

Threatschannelnewsasia.com/ ... 15:30:16Moqtada Sadr ordered a nationwide ceasefire and announced his militant movement would join the political mainstream voanews.com/ ... 00:05:54India's Defense Ministry says it has conducted the third successful test of a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

SUN 2004-AUG-29

Whoopsap.tbo.com/ ... 14:37:36Chechens voted Sunday .... A man was killed when he attempted to blow up a polling station.

World Zookeepingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:32:02Tiny endangered tiger cubs... all under six months old... from Siberia have been kitted out with radio collars so that scientists can track them... 50% ...dying in their first year

US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:11:14HOW STUPID ARE THESE "THREATS" IN THE DIGITAL AGE?.. COULDN'T THESE FOLKS PHONE THEIR VOTES IN? A convention source, part of the security detail in charge of convention transportation, said he was briefed yesterday by the Secret Service about a specific plot concerning a group of protesters trying to block delegate transportation by storming buses and protesting along their route in hopes of delaying delegates so they can't show up in time to enter their official nomination of Bush.drudgereport.com/ ... 14:24:56Bush: "We’re dealing in a part of the world where our policy was, O.K., we’ll kind of tolerate the lack of liberty for other reasons and just hope it gets better. And sure enough, it didn’t.”

Olympicssport.scotsman.com/ ... 20:14:55Irishman Cornelius Horan was tonight named by Greek police as the man who attacked Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima during the men’s marathon race in Athens.voanews.com/ ... 14:15:38Brazil's Vanderlei Lima was leading the race six kilometers from the finish when an unidentified man ran onto the race course and pushed Lima into the roadside crowd. Lima recovered but was passed a few minutes later by Italy's Stefano Baldini... and U.S. runner Mebrahtom Keflezighi. The Brazilian held on to finish third.

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 14:38:40Mosul, Iraq - Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque at U.S. troops in northern Iraq on Sunday, prompting fighting that left two attackers dead and 34 civilians wounded...reuters.com/ ... 14:17:36At least 17 people including children died in two explosions within 24 hours in Kabul on Sunday and overnight at a religious school in a southeastern province of Afghanistan... Taliban militia claimed the Kabul bombing which ...killed two U.S. nationals, two Afghans and three Nepalis in front of the offices of an international security company.

Threatsnewsobserver.com/ ... 23:57:44Micah Garen, the American journalist freed by Shiite militants in Iraq after nine days in captivity, said Saturday that it feels "really good to be back home"ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:37:57An online statement posted Sunday in the name of an al-Qaida-linked group pledged that the Vatican would be spared, but repeated threats to "turn Rome into hell."startribune.com/ ... 14:16:47Muslim leaders in France today condemned the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq and said the government should not capitulate to militant demands to revoke a law that bans the wearing of Islamic head scarves in schools.

SAT 2004-AUG-28

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 23:23:12"I was missing concerts that were being broadcasted when I was asleep or out," he said. So the 35-year-old computer programmer from Ottawa, Ontario, wrote a piece of software that let him record the show directly onto his PC hard drive while he snoozed. The software, TimeTrax, also neatly arranged the individual songs from the concert, complete with artist name and song title information, into MP3 files. Then MacLean started selling the software, putting him in the thick of a potential legal battle pitting technically savvy fans against a company protecting its alliance -- and licensing agreements -- with the music industry.

Mechanical Disasternews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:21:20At least 13 people have died and 20 were injured in a motorway accident between Bayonne and Bordeaux in southern France. The pile-up involved a Spanish coach and 10 cars

Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 23:24:30Flood waters rushed through rural northeast Ohio on Saturday, ripping houses from their foundations and tearing a 65-foot deep crater into a road news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:21:48An American couple in their eighties have marked their 60th wedding anniversary by making their first-ever parachute jump.... The McDaniels ...were worried that "we don't do anything exciting anymore".tampabays10.com/ ... 00:44:56Gainesville, Florida - A man stabbed a six-foot alligator with a pocketknife after the reptile grabbed his dog by the head.... gator then let the dog go

US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 23:22:07President Bush on Saturday described John Kerry's tour of duty in Vietnam as more heroic than his own service in the Air National Guard, saying his Democratic rival had been "in harm's way."suntimes.com/ ... 12:21:34Former Navy Secretary John Lehman has no idea where a Silver Star citation displayed on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's campaign Web site came from, he said Friday. The citation appears over Lehman's signature. "It is a total mystery to me. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me," he said.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:47:31new television documentary that features devastating testimony by former POWs of the demoralizing impact of John Kerry's war-crimes accusations more than 30 years ago.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:29:31....recently declassified documents that indicate Sen. John Kerry accepted laundered contributions from the communist Chinese government for his 1996 re-election campaign.... might have arranged meetings between Chinese aerospace executives and U.S. government officials.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:27:58

Marine Cpl. Barton R. Humlhanz, 23, of Hellertown, Pa., died Aug. 26 from injuries received due to enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:27:40

Army Spc. Marco D. Ross, 20, of Memphis, Tenn., died Aug. 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, when enemy mortars attacked his camp.

Human Rightkwtx.com/ ... 00:46:31Fifty-eight-year-old Cuban Refugee Magali Arojo told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday that she's feeling stronger and doing much better after spending two months adrift with five other Cubans.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 23:23:48Before the fall of Saddam Hussein, Red Crescent paramedics in Baghdad were used to responding to heart attacks and car accidents, house fires and falls. Now they drive to the aftermath of car bombs and mortar attacks, gathering up body parts and risking their own lives.washingtonpost.com/ ... 23:20:16Hundreds of Sadr's supporters recently returned from fighting in Najaf, where a calm prevailed Saturday after a three-week battle ended between the militia and U.S. and Iraqi forces. But as they arrived in Baghdad, a new round of clashes broke out in their Sadr City neighborhood between insurgents and U.S. soldiers.news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:27:12Russian officials... have discovered the remains of two Chechen women thought to be "Black Widows" - suicide bombers given that name because many have lost husbands in the war with Russia.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:20:16U.S. warplanes and tanks bombarded targets in the volatile city of Fallujah on Saturday, and U.S. forces exchanged gunfire with insurgents on the city's eastern outskirts and the main highway that runs to neighboring Jordan....ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:19:53 Iraqi police on Saturday mistakenly opened fire on U.S. troops, who returned fire, wounding two policemen....ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:16:57U.S. and Afghan soldiers conducting a sweep in southern Zabul province arrested 10 suspected Taliban after a firefight in a forbidding mountain area

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 12:16:38Military Installations in Colorado Are the Heart of U.S. Military's Post-Sept. 11 Anti-Terrorism Network ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:16:18Two men have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to bomb a subway station in midtown Manhattan, sources said early Saturday.

FRI 2004-AUG-27

9/11 - still with uswftv.com/ ... 16:18:25Until Thursday afternoon, the little toys were on sale to kids around Central Florida -- two towers with a jetliner in between that appears to be crashing into one of the buildings. They come in packages along with candy... product number on every single toy: 9011.... A company called Lisy Corporation distributes the candy bags. They said they are also offended by the toy and have pulled 17,000 of the toys... bought the toys, sight unseen, from L and M Import/Export of Miami. We talked to L and M and they say they have no problem at all with the toy and don't consider it offensive at all.

Digital Consequencesiht.com/ ... 01:07:14Husqvarna Viking Designer II, a Swedish-made computerized sewing machine that could be linked to her Dell PC.

History - still with uslasvegassun.com/ ... 01:04:33PULASKI COUNTY, Ill.... relics of one of the biggest Army camps in the earliest days of the republic that went unnoticed for two centuries... housed as many as 1,500 soldiers in 1801-1802, about a third of the standing U.S. Army at the time....

Transportnews.com.au/ ... 01:01:17AN Australian inventor claims to have made the world's first commercially-viable motor vehicle powered by compressed air.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 01:00:58Cars could one day run on flower power, according to a team that has found a way to extract hydrogen from sunflower oil.

US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:38:25White House will continue to run a President Bush re-election commercial which uses the Olympiad as a backdrop.... "In 1972, there were 40 democracies in the world. Today, 120. Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise. And this Olympics there will be two more free nations. And two fewer terrorist regimes. With strength, resolve and courage, democracy will triumph over terror. And hope will defeat hatred."suntimes.com/ ... 16:13:18 official records on Kerry's Web site ...includes a "Silver Star with combat V." But according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, "Kerry's record is incorrect. The Navy has never issued a 'combat V' to anyone for a Silver Star."suntimes.com/ ... 16:10:13Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first on-the-record interview about the swift boat veterans dispute that "I was absolutely in the skimmer" in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968, when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident that led to his first Purple Heart. "Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade launcher],"worldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:00:09Speaking at a Martin Luther King Day celebration last year, presidential candidate John F. Kerry told a Virginia audience that he remembered hearing the tragic news of the assassination [of Dr. King] while serving in Vietnam – though he did not begin his four-month tour of duty for at least seven months after the shooting.

Why people go veganabclocal.go.com/ ... 00:35:13Katelyn Miller shoved her head into a toilet bowl full of chicken gizzards, chicken necks, water, Worcestershire sauce and corn, removing 16 pieces of meat with her mouth. "It was good," the 14-year-old said afterward. "I kept taking bites of it. It kept falling out of my mouth."

Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 16:23:42"They can't sell it anywhere in Canada without giving away the immediate fact that it's been stolen... So we have crooks stuck with 50,000 plus cans of beer that basically they can't fence."abclocal.go.com/ ... 00:34:00 Plenty of people lose their luggage on airline flights -- but Walter Neubrand lost the Stanley Cup. It's his job to protect the fabled hockey trophy.

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 16:24:14Six scrap metal dealers have been arrested for stealing an Austro-Hungarian-era 13-meter-long iron bridge reuters.com/ ... 16:21:59A South African man who shot his pregnant fiance dead before killing himself will be posthumously married to her at the weekend.abclocal.go.com/ ... 00:33:30 ...central Ohio woman was watching TV when the phone rang Monday night. She got up to answer it, but there was no one at the other end. Moments later, a pickup truck crashed into her living room....abclocal.go.com/ ... 00:32:28 ...drunken rage when a man stepped on and killed his pet six-foot-long black snake.... picked up the dead snake and used it as a whip....

New New Newabclocal.go.com/ ... 00:30:22new aluminum beer bottle... will keep the beer cold for nearly an hour longer than a glass bottle.

Don't Give Them Ideasabclocal.go.com/ ... 00:27:38Cuban woman shipped herself from the Bahamas to Miami in a crate about the size of a small filing cabinet. ...being allowed to stay in the U.S. ... lucky to be alive.

Olympicsabclocal.go.com/ ... 00:26:23Greek taxi driver Ioannis Zavos found ,,,in the back seat of his cab ...Olympic silver medal... won by Dutch rower Simon Diederik.

Only Naturallasvegassun.com/ ... 01:03:26Researchers have found concentrations ...up to three times higher... of platinum in women who got silicone breast implants and in the children they bore and breast-fed afterward... a highly reactive platinum, used to help turn silicon oil into the honey-like gel that lends a more natural feel to a breast implant.... Women who had implants the longest recorded the highest platinum concentrations. The heavy metal was also found in bone marrow...abc.net.au/ ... 00:19:00A German man, whose jaw was removed because of cancer, has been able to eat his first solid meal in nine years thanks to a replacement jawbone which was incubated in a muscle on his back... the first in which doctors have used a patient's own body to incubate and synthesise a substitute for lost bone tissue... Seven weeks

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:38:55

Army Spc. Charles L. Neeley, 19, of Mattoon, Ill., died Aug. 25 in Tikrit, Iraq, when his tractor-trailer rolled over as he attempted to access a pontoon bridge.

Human Rightlocal6.com/ ... 16:26:03A judicial panel has charged an Orange County judge with chastising a deputy sheriff who had a child out of wedlock, saying she was a "disgrace to society," "had no morals," and her child was "a bastard."... Todd told her "it is acceptable for a male to have sex before marriage, but if a female does so, she is not respected and considered a tramp...."reuters.com/ ... 16:24:01Wearing underwear and nothing else in public does not constitute indecency, a Massachusetts court declared on Thursday msnbc.msn.com/ ... 01:00:32BOSTON - A woman who agreed to have a child with her lesbian partner but split up with the mother before the baby’s birth cannot be forced to pay child support, the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday.abclocal.go.com/ ... 00:24:03Vivian Martinez... claimed her constitutional rights were violated when she was rejected for a job as an officer-dispatcher [for the] ...Tucumcari police department... attorney for the department and city argued the ex-stripper wasn't qualified for the job.... Jurors have awarded ...$80,000....

Aftermathapnews.myway.com/ ... 16:18:45President Bush said for the first time on Thursday he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be" after U.S. troops went to Iraq

Violencedailytimes.com.pk/ ... 19:37:53Russia said on Friday terrorists were behind one of the passenger-jet crashes as an Islamic group, which previously claimed an attack on prime minister-designate Shaukat Aziz, claimed responsibility for the twin plane crashes to avenge the killing of Muslims in Chechnya. “The Islambouli Brigades..."ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:21:15Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:20:54Armed with knives, Eritrean deportees hijacked a plane that left Libya carrying about 80 fellow Eritreans and forced it to land Friday in the Sudanese capital before surrendering to security forces reuters.com/ ... 16:19:00An explosion that blew out a number of windows at a Boston-area laboratory specializing in stem-cell research was caused by a pipe bomb canada.com/ ... 16:16:14A captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash of an American Airlines flight in New York three years ago... [that] Farouk the Tunisian, had downed the plane with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001... dailystar.com.lb/ ... 16:02:38Shiite fighters left... Najaf on Friday and began turning in their weapons... charred and bloated bodies [of]... at least 15 Iraqis... were discovered Friday in the basement of a religious court set up by rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr....

Threatsmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 19:38:39...With Iraq's national elections just a few months away in January, al-Sistani has positioned himself as a kingmaker, who acts independently of the new Iraqi government and the U.S. military. Al-Sistani, who commands the loyalty of millions of Shiites and supports a democratic Iraq, is considered a moderate. Nonetheless, his unchecked influence is troublesome....local10.com/ ... 16:14:30Al-Qaida may attempt to attack Veterans Affairs hospitals as an alternative to more heavily guarded U.S. military installations, the FBI and Homeland Security Department warn tampabays10.com/ ... 16:14:03Joseph Chiejina Mazagwu, a 35-year-old resident of Tampa, Florida, has been indicted for making a threat against the President and making a false statement to a federal agent.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:58:58Iraqi sheik claims Allah sent giant spiders to the town of Fallujah to help its residents fend off attacks by U.S. military forces. "...each spider larger than this chair, or about the size of this chair. The American soldiers left, holding the legs of this spider...." ...there also are stories circulating of phantom white-robed knights on white horses sent by Allah that killed U.S. Marines in battle....

THU 2004-AUG-26

Only Naturalcnn.usnews.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 14:56:11OKLAHOMA CITY - A swarm of bees that attacked a work crew earlier this month may be of the Africanized variety, which would mark the furthest north the so-called "killer" bees have traveled in the United States

Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:53:47NO ONE AS IGNORANT AS THOSE ASSIGNED TO TEACH IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: a student in Gwinnett County's Grayson High School... was weeded out of a classroom by a school administrator because he wore a shirt that read: "Hempstead, NY 516," a reference to the Long Island town and its telephone area code.... the school thought the shirt referred to marijuana. ...wasn't allowed to return to class until he persuaded school officials to search the Internet for the town name.

Mysteryreuters.com/ ... 14:50:49 Investigators examined flight recorders Thursday from Russia's mystery double air crash... "The tapes... did not show anything. Practically speaking they switched themselves off immediately. And so we failed to get any information...."

US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 14:55:29"If you are listening to a rock star in order to get your voting information on who to vote for, you are a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons." - Alice Cooper thepittsburghchannel.com/ ... 14:48:50Cooper said he had clearly said in the interview rock stars doing concerts for presidential candidates were guilty of "treason against rock and roll." He said he didn't mean treason against the president, the government or the U.S.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 14:46:44Twice in 33 years, John O'Neill looked up from a hospital bed and saw John Kerry on television. Each time, he was stirred to action.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:07:09

Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, 20, of Randolph, Mass., died Aug. 25 as result of enemy action in An Najaf, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:06:46

Marine Lance Cpl. Jacob R. Lugo, 21, of Flower Mound, Texas, died Aug. 24 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 14:56:48

Army Staff Sgt. Donald N. Davis, 42, of Saginaw, Mich., died August 24 in Fallujah, Iraq, when an M915A tractor and an M106A2 tanker trailer rolled over an embankment.

Violencenews4colorado.com/ ... 21:56:51 the recorders "turned off immediately" — an indication "that something happened very fast."themoscowtimes.com/ ... 21:56:34Moscow Times editorial: The Public Has a Right to Know [My, how the world has changed!]abcnews.go.com/ ... 21:55:20A top Russian official acknowledged Thursday what many citizens already suspected that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart voanews.com/ ... 21:55:02The al-Jazeera television channel reports that militants in Iraq have killed their Italian hostage.sacbee.com/ ... 14:49:30A man angry about on-air comments made by radio talk show host Tom Leykis spotted him outside a Seattle nightspot and kicked him in the head sfgate.com/ ... 14:47:40Gauhati, India - Bombs ripped through two buses and a grenade was hurled into a crowded market in attacks Thursday that killed four people and wounded 46

Threatsreuters.com/ ... 14:45:34Iraq's most revered Shi'ite leader persuaded ...Moqtada al-Sadr... Thursday to accept a deal ending a three-week uprising in Najaf

WED 2004-AUG-25

Whoops!suntimes.com/ ... 13:57:46A civil complaint by Illinois ...says... the driver of the Dave Matthews Band bus ...flicked a switch behind his seat and unleashed up to 800 pounds of human waste as he drove one of the band's buses over the Kinzie Street bridge.... someone aboard the boat recognized the buses... detectives obtained videotape footage from businesses nearby that show the bus on the bridge at the time of the incident....

Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 13:51:19New Volkswagen Gol subcompacts ...They run on gasoline, alcohol or any combination of the two and now represent nearly 20 percent of the new cars sold in Brazil.

Don't Give Them Ideasreuters.com/ ... 13:49:33Protests from seven safety groups prompted General Motors Corp. to pull a television ad that shows a young boy driving a Corvette sports car so recklessly that it goes airborne... featuring the Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash," ...aired repeatedly during the Olympics. The groups... complained that it was "the most dangerous" spot they have seen in recent years.

US Election 2004news.yahoo.com/ ... 21:40:45The chief critic of John Kerry's military record told President Nixon in 1971 that he had been in Cambodia in a swift boat during the Vietnam War — a claim at odds with his recent statements that he was not.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:59:04the American Party, America First Party and the Independent American Party [and]... the Constitution Party... are discussing the possibility of merging...reuters.com/ ... 14:10:18"It's the most bizarre part of this entire campaign." -- White House hopeful John Kerry to "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart on the number of people who want to introduce themselves while in the men's room.reason.com/ ... 14:04:29Columnist Ted Rall calls George W. Bush "a right-wing extremist whose agenda makes Barry Goldwater look tame by comparison." If only it were so.reason.com/ ... 13:41:44In the latest issue of Harper's, Lewis Lapham has a long, tiresome essay on the "Republican propaganda mill"--which, to judge by one of the accompanying graphs, includes the foundation that publishes Reason.,,, The main thrust of the piece is that all conservatives are stupid and closed-minded.... Perhaps the most revealing part of the article is the paragraph where Lapham pretends to have heard the speeches at the Republican National Convention that does not open until a week from today.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:32:26Benjamin Ginsberg... An election lawyer for President Bush who also has been advising a veterans group running TV ads against Democrat John Kerry resigned Wednesday from Bush's campaign.

Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:09:15The Pacific island nation of Samoa is looking to the internet as a way of developing its economy.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:06:19The Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) has... alleged that the two DVD chip firms supplied makers of equipment ...whose DVD players did not have what it said were "appropriate security features."...courttv.com/ ... 13:22:28A man was acquitted Tuesday of charges he caused a fatal crash by taking his eyes off the road while watching a movie on a DVD player mounted on his truck dashboard. ... Petterson testified he was not watching a movie and that his truck strayed into oncoming traffic when he reached for a soda. The Weisers died at the scene....

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:42:45Professor Schellnhuber said twelve "hotspots" had been identified so far, areas which acted like massive regulators of the Earth's environment. If these critical regions were subjected to stress, they could trigger large-scale, rapid changes across the entire planet.local6.com/ ... 21:39:10 Frog

A 9-year-old Minnesota girl found a five-legged frog with 23 toes near Stewartville, Minn theherald.co.uk/ ... 21:38:24Cleaning the house could give young children asthma, doctors warned yesterday. They said exposure to indoor pollutants from domestic solvents and cleaning products in early life may trigger the condition.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:08:14European scientists have discovered what they describe as the smallest Earth-like planet orbiting a star outside our Solar System. ... 14 times the size of Earth... "super-Earth-like"....guardian.co.uk/ ... 01:00:56Cans and bottles of sugar-sweetened colas, lemonade and fruit drinks... are today implicated as a major cause of obesity and linked to a rise in diabetes.....

US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 17:01:29This week, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force had a decrease and the Coast Guard total remains unchanged. ...1,944 more reservists mobilized than last week.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:00:38

Army Staff Sgt. Robert C. Thornton Jr., 35, of Rainbow City, Ala., died Aug. 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol came under rocket-propelled grenade attack.

Human Rightcourttv.com/ ... 13:22:57Lee Kandu never wanted to be a crusader for same-sex marriage. The Castle Rock, Wash., woman just wanted to file for bankruptcy protection so she could keep her house after her spouse — a woman she married in Canada — was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 21:49:43An American citizen captured on an Afghanistan battlefield nearly three years ago says in court papers that he never took up arms against the United States and that he had been trying to get out of the country at the time.

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 21:47:15The oldest daughter of a man described as a high-ranking Hamas operative said Wednesday that police used racial profiling when officers stopped her family's sport utility vehicle while her mother made a home video of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.abcnews.go.com/ ... 21:41:45Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation's first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will take months to brew a vaccine, say government preparations for the next pandemic.memri.org/ ... 17:02:18 London Arabic daily Progressive Columnist: Iran's Nuclear Build-Up Endangers its Neighbors More than it Endangers Israel worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:59:51Insisting again its nuclear program is peaceful, Iran repeated a warning yesterday that it would retaliate if Israel attacks any of its nuclear facilities.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:42:27Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, 73, now back in Iraq after heart surgery in the UK, will soon go to Najaf news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:42:08Aviation experts say the circumstances of Russia's double air disaster look suspicious, as the odds on two airliners crashing almost simultaneously by accident after leaving the same airport are extremely slim.mosnews.com/ ... 13:34:15Terrorists will paralyze the Internet on August 26, a Russian expert in antivirus programs said on Tuesday.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:33:17Flight recorders from both planes were found and taken to Moscow for investigation... Russia's main intelligence agency, however, said it had found no evidence of terrorism...

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 21:47:51 A distraught father who had just been told his Marine son was killed in combat in Iraq climbed into a Marine Corps van and set it ablaze Wednesday. He suffered severe burns.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:43:31a security guard, was convicted for the 1990 rape and murder of a school girl who lived in the building where he worked. ,,, His execution in the eastern city of Calcutta on 14 August whipped up a media frenzy with some news outlets covering it in great detail.... At least three children have died while acting out the recent hanging....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:02:35CINCINNATI - A man opened fire at a department store Tuesday evening, killing an employee and injuring a customer before fatally shooting himself reuters.com/ ... 01:02:14 Rescuers have found the flight recorder from one of two Russian planes news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 00:53:20an alarm went off aboard the Tu-154 airliner just before it went missing in southern Russia, indicating the plane underwent an attack or hijacking.

TUE 2004-AUG-24

US Election 2004nypost.com/ ... 23:16:39A number of extremists with ties to the 1970s radical Weather Underground have recently been released from prison and are in New York preparing to wreak havoc during the Republican National Convention...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:16:23Paul Galanti, captured in 1966 after ejecting from his fighter jet about 100 miles south of Hanoi, said on the Sean Hannity radio show yesterday he first heard Kerry's testimony in late 1971 when it was broadcast by his Vietnamese captors over the public address system in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:15:51 John Kerry's ...presidential campaign has backed off on claims that he was wounded from enemy fire.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:15:24a war veteran is about to release a television documentary with devastating testimony by former POWs of the demoralizing impact of [Kerry's] war-crimes accusations more than 30 years ago.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:14:53Shock-rock legend Alice Cooper calls rock stars campaigning for Democrat John Kerry treasonous morons.

WW2 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 22:06:42Frank Sanache, the last of the "code talkers" from the Meskwaki Indian tribe, died Saturday. He was 86.

Digital Consequencesnytimes.com/ ... 21:50:31Federal and state law enforcement agencies have quietly arrested or charged dozens of people with crimes related to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams in recent weeks

Whoops!cbs2chicago.com/ ... 21:54:59The Illinois Attorney General's office says.... Rock star Dave Matthews and his tour bus driver are... responsible for dumping up to 100 gallons of raw human waste from a tour bus onto the Kinzie Street Bridge earlier this month.... The nasty mess rained down on passengers aboard a sightseeing boat two weeks ago....reuters.com/ ... 21:42:02Three grave robbers were killed when a 1,000-year-old Chinese tomb collapsed on them.reuters.com/ ... 21:38:47A Tanzanian who went to a witch doctor in search of the power to resist bullets and knife attacks died when ritual cuts made on his body proved fatal.

Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 21:38:11A plane carrying 62 people crashed in Russia's Tula region south of Moscow on Tuesday... 54 passengers and 8 crew....

Only Naturalgulf-daily-news.com/ ... 23:20:48Bahrain - A man who was shot by police after kidnapping two children and then shipped off to be cremated was found to be alive by funeral workers who heard him groan.reuters.com/ ... 21:39:50An Indian man charged over the train torching that triggered Gujarat's Hindu-Muslim bloodshed two years ago... says he and his wife are suffering mental trauma because their physical needs have not been met for such a long time.... He wants to be allowed out of jail for 30 days....news.yahoo.com/ ... 21:36:53An earthquake rattled Olympic venues Tuesday in and around Athens.

Preternatural Patternsapnews.myway.com/ ... 23:19:59 Comedian Ellen DeGeneres is getting a promotion - to supreme being. DeGeneres will star as God in a remake of the 1977 comedy "Oh, God!"boston.com/ ... 23:19:11"If you see a whole paper of red, it looks pretty frightening," said Sharon Carlson, a health and physical education teacher at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Northampton. "Purple stands out, but it doesn't look as scary as red."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:18:22A previously unknown Islamic militant group, Jamaat Ansar Al-Jihad al-Islamiya, said yesterday it set fire to a Paris-based Jewish-run soup kitchen.wowt.com/ ... 23:18:04The FBI has concluded there's no evidence the Manhattan, Kansas man who ingested a chemical following a minor traffic accident in Omaha Monday planned to use it against the public or that he has any terrorist ties.... remains hospitalized in stable condition. For reasons still unknown, he swallowed the chemical cyanuric chloride after the accident at 40th and Leavenworth. It caused a lot of concern as a police officer, firefighter, and the other driver involved all had to be decontaminated....reuters.com/ ... 21:59:03check out "The Hippie Dictionary" by John McCleary news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:58:21MARTHA STEWART IN A BURQUA: Radical Islamists have launched a new magazine publication on the internet especially for women. The aim of the magazine is to show women how to reconcile the apparent contradiction of fighting jihad while maintaining family life.reuters.com/ ... 21:41:47Dozens of stray cats and their fleas put Cyprus state radio off the air Tuesday as fumigation experts were called in.... Cats have been roaming the CyBC grounds for decades and now number more than 100.reuters.com/ ... 21:40:09South African authorities will bury a 77-year-old man who has been dead seven weeks despite his family saying a "prophet" had promised them he would be resurrected reuters.com/ ... 21:38:28The family of a 17-year-old Vietnamese boy who died 36 years ago kept his body in their home after a fortune teller told relatives they had buried the teenager alive by mistake.elitestv.com/ ... 21:36:02AL DVORIN HAS LEFT THE MORTAL SPHERE: Al Dvorin, who coined the phrase 'Elvis has left the building' was killed in a car crash Sunday morning on the way home from an Elvis convention in California.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:26:37

Marine Sgt. Richard M. Lord, 24, of Jacksonville, Fla., died Aug. 18 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:26:10

Marine Gunnery Sgt. Edward T. Reeder, 32, of Camp Verde, Ariz., died Aug. 21 in a non-combat related vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:25:51

Army 2nd Lt. Matthew R. Stovall, 25, of Horn Lake, Miss., died Aug. 22 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device exploded near his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:25:16

Marine Cpl. Christopher Belchik, 30, of Brighton, Ill., died Aug. 22, due to enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:23:36

Marine Cpl. Nicanor Alvarez, 22, of San Bernardino, Calif., died Aug. 21 from injuries received from to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Sgt. Jason Cook, 25, of Okanogan, Wash., died Aug. 21 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Lance Cpl. Seth Huston, 19, Perryton, Texas, died Aug. 21 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Pfc. Nachez Washalanta, 21, of Bryan, Okla., died Aug. 21 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:22:04

Army Pfc. Kevin A. Cuming, 22, of North White Plains, N.Y., died August 21 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol came under rocket-propelled grenade attack. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:21:47

Marine Cpl. Brad P. McCormick, 23, of Overton, Tenn., died Aug. 19 from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Human Rightworldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:16:55An employee of the California Department of Social Services filed suit yesterday after state officials removed items from his cubicle they consider "political, religious or social" in nature.abcnews.go.com/ ... 21:37:17The practice of "hot saucing" a child's tongue as a method of discipline may seem cruel to some parents, but those who regularly use the punishment say it teaches their charges valuable and long-lasting lessons.drudgereport.com/ ... 21:36:24 my general view is freedom means freedom for everyone... People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.cnn.com/ ... 21:35:19 Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday he believes the question of same-sex marriage is best handled by the states -- a position that puts him at odds with President Bush who proposed amending the Constitution to ban such unions.

Reasons for Repealnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:28:31A man claimed to be responsible for smuggling half the cocaine that reaches the US from Mexico has been arrested.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 21:49:29 Iraqi security forces tightened their grip around a key shrine in Najaf on Tuesday after the government warned Shi'ite rebels inside they must surrender or die.

Threatsnews.com.au/ ... 23:20:16FRENCH anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean-Louis Bruguiere claims a mystery man in Australia was connected to the "millennium bombing plot" to blow up Los Angeles airport in 2000.ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:01:29 A man described as a high-ranking Hamas operative was arrested after he drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge while his wife videotaped close-up shots of the structure news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:57:30First plane: Witnesses say the aircraft exploded in the air before it crashed... 2nd plane: Rescue workers have reportedly spotted flames and smoke in the area....quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 21:49:12A Russian passenger airplane crashed and another is missing on flights from Moscow... 44 people on board... the aircraft left Moscow's Demodedovo airport within three minutes of each other.thesun.co.uk/ ... 21:37:31AN undercover Sun reporter has exposed chilling security blunders — by smuggling a fake bomb on to a jet carrying more than 220 British holidaymakers.news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:29:24British transport officials launched an urgent investigation after an undercover reporter smuggled fake bomb-making equipment on board a holiday jet at a central England airport.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:27:19Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf have met in Islamabad to discuss terrorism and economic issues. A statement said that the leaders "reiterated their common commitment to fight terrorism".

MON 2004-AUG-23

Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 14:36:21A South African skydiver survived a 11,500-foot plunge after her parachute failed to open and lines broke on her reserve chute... hurtling toward the ground at more than 120 miles per hour... parachute failed to deploy... reserve parachute... not fully open... Powerlines broke her fall... hairline fracture to her pelvis....reuters.com/ ... 14:34:14British rescuers had an uncomfortable sense of deja vu when they saved a man and his eight-year-old son after they drifted out to sea in an inflatable dinghy. Just 24 hours earlier the same hapless duo were plucked to safety off a beach in Somerset, southwest England, after getting stuck in treacherous mud flats while struggling with a punctured dinghy.

Only Naturalguardian.co.uk/ ... 21:09:48Eating blueberries might help protect people against clogged arteries....sacbee.com/ ... 21:07:06BARSTOW, Calif. - A swarm of honey bees living inside a playhouse attacked 11 people, leaving six hospitalized over the weekend.nynewsday.com/ ... 21:06:30Increasing the activity of a single gene turns a mere rodent into Mighty Mouse, according to a new study.reuters.com/ ... 14:37:28...a rare, 10-year-old Komodo Dragon ...plunged to her death at London Zoo after she scaled a dividing wall to reach her mate....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:30:43Scientists think they may at last know why the world's largest leatherback turtle was washed up on a Welsh beach.... a new study that suggests leatherbacks should be viewed as a UK/Irish species which simply visits the Caribbean to breed....

Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:29:46For men without a partner, help may be at hand - in the form of a virtual girlfriend.

US Election 2004iht.com/ ... 21:09:14North Korea called President George W. Bush an imbecile and a tyrant who puts Hitler in the shade... "The North Koreans made it very clear, politely, that they want Mr. Kerry to win the election...."apnews.myway.com/ ... 14:39:20Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole suggested Sunday that John Kerry apologize for past testimony before Congress about alleged atrocities during the Vietnam War and joined critics of the Democratic presidential candidate who say he received an early exit from combat for "superficial wounds."apnews.myway.com/ ... 14:27:42 President Bush on Monday denounced campaign commercials aired by outside groups, including an ad that accuses John Kerry of lying about his combat record in Vietnam.

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 14:36:41Surfing could come to Switzerland after a sports group said Monday it plans to build a wave machine on a river in Zurich reuters.com/ ... 14:31:43Scorpions will be the bedfellows of a 24-year-old Malaysian woman for more than a month, as she tries to set a new world record for living with the venomous animals.foxnews.com/ ... 01:05:58 Police in eastern Latvia were trying to determine Wednesday what charges to bring against a drunken horse-and-buggy driver who caused a drunken motorist to crash into a ditch, flipping his car.

Human Rightseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 21:10:08LANSING, Mich. -- A state board voted along party lines Monday to keep a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage off the ballot - even though supporters apparently collected many more signatures than required.zdnet.com.com/ ... 21:06:10Advocates of technologies like radio frequency identification tags say their potentially life-saving benefits far outweigh any Orwellian concerns about privacy.... Critics, however, say such technologies would make it easier for government agencies to track a person's every movement and allow widespread invasion of privacy.

WW1 - still with usreuters.com/ ... 14:33:56The bodies of three Austrian soldiers killed in World War One have been found frozen and almost perfectly preserved in an Italian Alpine glacier.... Historians ...believe the men died during a battle on Sept. 3, 1918 ...in what has been called "the great battle."

Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:29:32Events are being held worldwide to mark the abolition of the slave trade and to highlight the fact that millions still live as slaves in all but name.wral.com/ ... 14:29:04Fourteen search and rescue dogs who dug through the rubble of the World Trade Center have since died... Eight ...from cancer.... Researchers ...said they don't believe there is a connection... some dog owners blame the mix of chemicals their dogs were exposed to....reuters.com/ ... 01:18:47Film Review: 'Uncovered: the War on Iraq'

SUN 2004-AUG-22

Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 20:07:08...a Texas hydrologist says low concentrations of explosives and perchlorate suspected to be from the lab have reached the Rio Grande....ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:05:46Two toddlers fell out the window of a third-story apartment but suffered only cuts and bruises,ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:05:35"It's normal for the patriarch or matriarch who has created the business to look at it as another child, and they don't want that child to leave the nest.... It's the only child left that they have control over."

Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:09:24McDonald's has taken out newspaper ads in the UK to say a documentary [Super Size Me] about its food is "slick" and "well-made" - but unrealistic. Scream

news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:03:18Armed robbers have stolen the iconic Edvard Munch painting, The Scream, from the Munch Museum in Norway. Two masked thieves pulled the work and another painting, Madonna, off the wall as stunned visitors watched on Sunday.

Human Rightnews.scotsman.com/ ... 18:08:46Rape victim marries jailed attacker to avoid Muslim shun... "I took advantage of her weakness and assaulted her while she was alone. What I did was wrong," the apparently repentant Shaikh said at the end of the ceremony... "Now I am happy to get a chance to make amends for the crime I have committed." [Rape victim] Khatoon, who looked very happy after the marriage, said: "For that act [of rape] I hated him. Sometimes I felt like I wanted to tear him to pieces. But I have a different feeling for him now. I have forgiven him because he has chosen me as his wife. I have to love him now."

Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 20:04:06A Washington state soldier... Robert Hall, 23, says he knew within a month that he would marry Vivian Mansour, 21, of Baghdad, even though at first neither spoke a word of each other's language.... The two were married here Saturday... Mansour is a Kurdish Christian....

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:07:25U.S. journalist Micah Garen, who was kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago, was released Sunday in the southern city of Nasiriyah.jpost.com/ ... 18:05:17A psychology professor accused of pulling a hate crime hoax by vandalizing her own car with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti has been convicted.abc.net.au/ ... 18:04:54[ONCE A UN MEMBER, BUT BETRAYED TO THE GODLESS COMMIES BY TWO-FACED LYING CROOK AND QUITTER RICHARD NIXON...] Taiwan will kick off an advertising campaign in the United States and Europe next week as the island launches its 12th annual bid to [RE-]join the United Nations....

Violencesuntimes.com/ ... 03:37:14Chicago's 46th annual Air and Water Show takes off today and Sunday on the city's lakefront.... Mixed in this year will be about 100 peace activists, energized by the war in Iraq, who plan to press their view that the show glorifies war.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:29:56A US warplane has attacked suspected rebel positions in the Iraqi city of Najaf where talks with religious officials have been delayed again.reuters.co.uk/ ... 03:29:09Extra armed police are patrolling the streets of the Bangladeshi capital as shocked Bangladeshis wake up to the aftermath of grenade blasts that killed at least 17 people.

SAT 2004-AUG-21

US Election 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:34:41 A man who heckled President Bush at a political rally was fired from his job at an advertising and design company for offending a client who provided tickets to the event.... ushered out of Hedgesville High School on Tuesday after shouting his disagreement with Bush's comments about the war in Iraq war and the search for weapons of mass destruction. The crowd had easily drowned out Hiller with its chant: "Four more years."... "It's just bizarre that you disagree with them and it all turns evil"...reuters.com/ ... 13:37:07An American journalist who commanded a boat alongside John Kerry in Vietnam broke a 35-year silence on Saturday and defended the Democratic presidential candidate against Republican critics of his military service.

Digital Consequencesinfoworld.com/ ... 13:32:25Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will implement the strained silicon manufacturing technique on its upcoming 90-nanometer processors as well as 130-nanometer processors released this quarter... a layer of silicon germanium is applied to a silicon wafer, and the reaction between the two substances stretches the gap between the atoms of the substances, allowing electrons to move more quickly through the chip....zdnet.com.com/ ... 13:28:55An independent researcher warned that an Internet Explorer vulnerability could turn drag-and-drop into drag-and-infect, even on computers updated with Microsoft's latest security patch... Security information company Secunia believes the program that takes advantage of the issue could be simplified to only require a single click from the user.... Microsoft said the issue did not pose a serious risk to users because it requires an attacker to trick people into visiting a Web site and taking some action at the site.news.com.com/ ... 00:46:20A Web page misconfiguration left dozens of [moveon.org]'s subscriber pages easily searchable through simple Google queries. Each page included a subscriber's name, e-mail address and the mailing lists to which he or she is subscribed.

Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 16:36:47HILLSBORO, Ore. - A couple face at least three years in prison for disciplining their... 8-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son by allowing their dog... a mix of pit bull terrier, Doberman pinscher, German shepherd and Labrador retriever - to attack them.... "There was a kid crying and a dog ripping her to pieces... It was bloodcurdling."...ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:39:31Two people believed to be a mother and her child died Friday in a collision with a car carrying five robbery suspects who were being chased by police.reuters.com/ ... 13:38:04A newly opened Cincinnati museum portraying the horrors of American slavery has generated criticism and stoked friction that persists three years after race riots tore through the Ohio city.... While the Rev. Damon Lynch Jr. will be deeply involved as co-chairman of Monday's dedication, featuring such luminaries as first lady Laura Bush and television personality Oprah Winfrey, his son, the Rev. Damon Lynch III, will be leading a demonstration outside seeking to upstage the event....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:45:04A judge on Friday sentenced a father whose 12-year-old daughter was burned in his home methamphetamine lab to more than 10 years in prison....received acid-like burns on her foot when she knocked over jars containing a liquid... parents would not take her to the doctor but instead had her "stand in the Ocoee River to cool off," and her burns became badly infected... wife also forced the girl to shoplift pills used to make methamphetamine...

Only Naturalhome-weather-stations.com/ ... 16:41:46You always hear the T.V. weather forecaster talking about barometric pressure. But what is it, and what does it do? If you are just getting started with your own weather station, you'll want to know how barometric pressure affects you and your forecasting.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:42:52KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - An inmate passed through three county jails and a state prison before officials diagnosed him with tuberculosis, possibly infecting nearly 50 other people

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:53:29

Marine Cpl. Brad P. McCormick, 23, of Overton, Tenn., died Aug. 19 from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 00:45:39NEW YORK (AP) - A machine that lets drinkers inhale shots of alcohol went on display Friday night, even as one local lawmaker warned the device was "a disaster waiting to happen." The Alcohol Without Liquid vaporizer mixes the alcohol with pressurized oxygen. Makers say it takes about 20 minutes to breathe in one shot, giving drinkers the effect of alcohol without the drunkenness, or hangover.

Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 16:37:51PHILADELPHIA - A house blaze that killed two firefighters started in a tangle of wires and lamps that were installed to grow marijuana in a basement closet... The man who police say was responsible for the drug operation was charged with third-degree murder....reuters.com/ ... 16:33:25The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to patrol its porous northern border with Canada by using helicopters, airplanes and boats to monitor illegal immigration and drug traffic...ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:43:48 Police arrested 52 people Friday in a drug bust in which cocaine was transported aboard Carnival cruise ships from Jamaica to New Orleans and then driven to Tampa... An investigation that began with a $10 crack cocaine deal turned into this city's largest drug bust

Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 16:39:13Iraq's new air force took to the skies this week for the first time since the U.S. invaded last year and disbanded the country's armed forces

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:32:28[For] farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer... a new product... added to tanks of anhydrous ammonia... will not only besmirch the hands of those who touch the fertilizer, but leaves its mark on anyone who snorts or shoots the end product.... visible stain, even if washed off, was still detectable by ultraviolet light 24 to 72 hours later.newscientist.com/ ... 16:52:54For 60 years the people of Sheerness in Kent have been living next door to a 1400-tonne time bomb. A lethal mixture of unstable second world war bombs is in the rusting wreck of the Richard Montgomery, a US cargo ship that lies half-submerged on a sandbank in the Thames, only two kilometres from the Kentish town. If the wreck explodes it will be one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:40:51Kidnappers have lifted their threat to kill a U.S. journalist abducted in the southern city of Nasiriyah along with his Iraqi translator, an aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:37:06Pakistan has arrested at least five al-Qaida-linked terrorists who were plotting suicide attacks on government leaders and the U.S. Embassy apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:33:52Governments throughout Mexico and Central America are on alert as evidence grows that al-Qaida members are traveling in the region and looking for recruits to carry out attacks in Latin America - the potential last frontier for international terrorism.

Violencenews.independent.co.uk/ ... 20:33:51Animal rights extremists have developed a sinister new tactic, targeting an entire village that is home to a family of farmers who breed guinea pigs for medical research.ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:33:21Gunmen attacked a police station and polling sites in the Chechen capital Saturday night, killing several people eight days before a special election to replace the region's assassinated president channels.netscape.com/ ... 20:30:38Police are investigating whether a serial hammer killer is targeting women in London after a French woman was bludgeoned to death in circumstances similar to other attacks.reuters.com/ ... 20:30:18A young couple shot in their heads as they slept on a remote California beach may have been killed because of their evangelical Christian religious beliefs nytimes.com/ ... 20:29:09Small explosions rattled two towns in northwestern Spain on Saturday, wounding four people, after a telephone warning from a caller claiming to be from the Basque separatist group ETA ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:40:13Suspected communist rebels fatally shot a police officer Saturday as they tightened their grip on Katmandu, blockading the capital for a fourth day to press demands for the release of government-held insurgents.apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:32:13An American on trial for allegedly torturing Afghan terror suspects in a private jail claimed Saturday in his first interview from custody that he was hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders when he was arrested on July 5.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:34:52The United Nations should withdraw all its personnel from Afghanistan as the country has become too dangerous to work in, the UN staff union has said.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:34:35Supporters of the Iraqi Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, remain in control of the shrine in the holy city of Najaf reuters.com/ ... 13:26:53At least 12 people were killed and 100 wounded in a bomb attack on Saturday on an opposition rally in Bangladesh's capital

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Digital Consequenceszdnet.com.com/ ... 19:31:39When coloring in 800,000 pixels on a map of India, Microsoft colored eight of them a different shade of green to represent the disputed Kashmiri territory. The difference in greens meant Kashmir was shown as non-Indian, and the product was promptly banned in India. Microsoft was left to recall all 200,000 copies of the offending Windows 95 operating system software to try and heal the diplomatic wounds. "It cost millions,"

US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:29:08Responding to a Washington Post article questioning his veracity, an eyewitness critic of John Kerry's war record insists military records cited in the story are based on a fraudulent after-action report by Kerry himself.michellemalkin.com/ ... 15:09:16I am used to playing hardball. I expect it. I am used to ad hominem attacks. I get more in a day than most of these wussies have received in their lifetimes. But what happened last night was pure slimeball ...unfair, unbalanced, and unhinged ... MSNBC, should be ashamed.... the Democrat Party waterboys in the media are in full desperation mode. I have now witnessed firsthand and up close (Matthews' spittle nearly hit me in the face) how the pressure from alternative media sources--the blogosphere, conservative Internet forums, talk radio, Regnery Publishing, FOX News, etc. --is driving these people absolutely batty.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 14:58:55 “Kerry gets a bye on this anyway—he was there and Bush wasn’t,” says John Zogby, an independent pollster who is not aligned with either campaign. He sees the battle over who’s telling whose truth in Vietnam as another symptom of the great divide in the country. “We are two warring nations and neither nation is listening to the other,” he says. “This is essentially a net zero politically. It’s great kindling wood for the Republicans. It’s the kind of stuff they need to hear just as Dems need to hear from Michael Moore.”

Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 14:42:30A new explosion rocked an underground natural gas storage site early Friday, sending a fireball into the sky and prompting the evacuation of homes near the blaze, which has raged since early Thursday... rural Liberty County, about 40 miles northeast of Houston...

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 14:35:26..."The vet gave the dog an injection and after 20 minutes six of the 50 euro notes reappeared... The dog spat out the rest of the money in shreds along with the bank statements... It should be noted that the damaged bank notes can be changed at the state central bank, so that there was no material loss in this case...."

Preternatural Patternsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:29:55Astoria, Ore. - Al Gore nailed for speeding... Ex-presidential candidate snagged going 75 in 55 zone news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:47:05Kenya - Archbishop Deya... says he can create "miracle babies" for childless couples by exorcising demons to make them fertile.... But some charities say his actions are a front for trafficking babies from Kenya to the UK. ... 10 children, aged between five weeks and 11 years, were found locked in the house of Archbishop Deya on Friday morning in the capital Nairobi.... 21 children are now being held by Kenyan police....ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:40:03...seven children who were found ill in a Nigerian orphanage ...were abandoned by the [adoptive mother's] brother-in-law while she was in Iraq. "She trusted the wrong person... She feels badly for her kids."...reuters.com/ ... 14:33:55"We respect the right to freedom of artistic expression. But where the law may have been broken we have to investigate," Hamburg police spokesman Ralf Kunz said. "We will decide whether the play should be banned." The piece by Catalan group "La Fura dels Baus" is billed as a modern theatrical response to the porn industry, and based on a 1795 text by infamous French playwright the Marquis de Sade.