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with pictures.

`Microwave weapons that cause pain without lasting injury are to be issued to American troops in Iraq for the first time as concern mounts over the growing number of civilians killed in fighting.’

`Seven people were killed and more than 100 injured in Pakistan during the annual kite flying festival marking the arrival of spring, officials said today.

An 18-month-old girl’s throat was cut by a stray kite string while she was travelling with her parents on a motorbike, witnesses said, adding that she died on the spot.’

“What seems to be the problem?” asks the doc.

“It’s… um… well… I have five penises.” replies the man.

“Blimey!” says the doctor, “How do your trousers fit?”

“Like a glove.”

Various flash puzzle games.

`State investigators want to know how inmates on work crews built an underground fort outside the perimeter fence of a medium-security prison in Spartanburg County.

[..] the inmates used the structure during “downtimes” to lift weights and socialize. Investigators think it was built about two weeks ago.’

`More than a thousand pounds of pork processed at a Sioux Center meatpacking plant was recalled Saturday because a microchip could be embedded in the meat. [..]

The animals, processed September 10, were part of a research herd that had been sent to slaughter without the proper notification that they had the chips implanted, [..]’

`Hungry sheep on the Yorkshire moors have taught themselves to roll 8ft (3m) across hoof-proof metal cattle grids – and raid villagers’ valley gardens.’

`A school principal in central Quebec says he worries the marijuana harvest is keeping his students out of the classroom.

Claude Bernier says the teenagers he’s talking about are not smoking pot—they’re being hired by drug dealers to cut it down.’

`Two separate studies show that multiple-drug-resistant TB, which can only be cured with a carefully monitored cocktail of drugs taken for months on end, could easily start spreading more commonly. [..]

They developed separate mathematical models that show it would be easy for multi-drug-resistant TB to out-compete other strains and spread.

“We should not be reassured by studies that suggest mutated TB is less transmissible,” said Murray.’

`[Mental-health counselor] Ryan C. Moore, 54, [..] reportedly released his dogs with a command of “Go get them” while he and other employees were holed up [during a hurricane]..

[Some woman] said Saturday that she and others were terrified for about an hour while the dogs roamed and said she held a hammer in defense [..]

Another person stabbed one of the pit bulls with a knife, and police eventually caught up with the fleeing Moore after his car stalled.’

`Britain’s ambassador to Italy has called President Bush “the best recruiting sergeant” for al Qaeda, Italian media reported Monday. [..]

Roberts was quoted as telling an annual Anglo-Italian gathering in Tuscany: “If anyone is ready to celebrate the eventual re-election of Bush, it’s al Qaeda.”

Corriere della Sera newspaper said Roberts also told the meeting of British and Italian policy-makers: “Bush is al Qaeda’s best recruiting sergeant.”‘

`Organic Green Spirit Digital By Larry Carlson’

Trippy..

‘Look at each image. Click the circles to select female or shemale.’

A collection of amusing pictures.

`Official home of the Richardland BritneyClone (the best Britney Spears look-alike on the planet…who just happens to be a man)’

`Saving Energy Without Derision (5 mb PDF) is a new (and free) e-book by former Sandia National Laboratories senior scientist Dr. Alan P. Zelicoff. This book is intended to be a real-world, no-nonsense, thoroughly documented collection of easy-to-implement recommendations to help the average thoughtful person to pick the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of conservation and renewable energy.’

This looks interesting but it’s offline at the moment.

`Organic arsenic compounds have been detected in rice harvested at farms in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, where the Imperial Japanese Army dumped chemical weapons, the Environment Ministry said Thursday.

Diphenylarsine, found in the rice, is contained in sneezing gas, which was apparently abandoned by the Imperial army during World War II.’

`CMU Police reported a 20-year-old male CMU student attempted suicide Wednesday [..]

The student stabbed himself in the head several times with a fork, police say. [..]

“Nothing ever captured the attention of the cafeteria like this before,” [a student] said.’

`Sri Lanka is trying to solve the mysterious disappearance of its “national handball team” while on tour in Germany, but it is no easy task — the Indian Ocean island doesn’t have one.

The 23-strong “team” managed to dupe the German Embassy in Colombo into issuing visas for a month-long tour beginning on September 8, acting German Ambassador Heidi Jung said on Thursday.

The group vanished soon after arrival and German and Sri Lankan officials have been unable to trace them.’

`Mask, 74, was killed with a concrete block inside a motor home on property that he owned [..]

Mask’s body, nude but for a pair of socks, was found Thursday on a bed in the motor home, [policeman] Jordan said. He died sometime Sept. 7 after he was struck twice on the head with the concrete block, which was found on the bed under a pillow, Jordan noted.

Robbery is believed to be a possible motive for the killing, Jordan said. But that’s not the only possibility, Jordan added cryptically.

[..] Mask would use the motor home to “meet people,” Jordan said, declining to get into further details.

[..] sheriff’s department records indicate that Mask was twice accused of sexual crimes involving men who rented rooms from him.

[..] “I have suspected for some time that this may happen one day,” Jordan said. “Is it bizarre? Yes. Is it a surprise to me? No.”’

`Researchers said on Friday they have invented an antenna that captures visible light in much the same way that radio antennas capture radio waves.

They say the device, using tiny carbon nanotubes, might serve as the basis for an optical television or for converting solar energy into electricity once properly developed.’

`Officials may be in the market for a new garage to go with the fire truck they approved purchasing because the $557,600 aerial truck is too tall and heavy for the garage.’

`Peruvian five-year-old Lina Medina, accompanied by her 11-month-old-son Gerardo, and Doctor Lozada who attended her son’s birth, are shown in this 1940 file photo taken in Lima’s hospital.’

Video games acted out in real life.

Pink Floyd videos.

`Former Wham! star George Michael discovered a crazed fan living under his floorboards, he’s revealed.

The woman stalker had been hiding under the floor of his house for an incredible four days. George, 41, only found out she was there when she yelled out his name.’

‘Convinced he needed discipline, David’s father, Ken, felt the solution lay in a goal that he didn’t himself achieve, Eagle Scout, which requires 21 merit badges. David earned a merit badge in Atomic Energy in May 1991, five months shy of his 15th birthday. By now, though, he had grander ambitions.

He was determined to irradiate anything he could, and decided to build a neutron “gun.” To obtain radioactive materials, David used a number of cover stories and concocted a new identity.’

`A Norfolk man spent four hours holding a rusty piece of metal he feared was an unexploded World War Two bomb that would detonate if he let go — only to be told he had been cradling part of an old car. [..]

Page, a father of five, sobbed to the woman operator:

“I told her to tell my parents and the children that I loved them if anything went wrong.”

The drama ended when army bomb disposal experts turned up and told him the “bomb” was actually part of the hydraulic suspension system from a Citroen.’