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`A hunter who managed to fight off an attack by a 700-pound bear then almost killed himself when he tripped over his gun.’

`Alasdair Milne, who ran the BBC as director general from 1982 to 1987, told the daily: “It just seems to me that the television service has largely been run by women for the last four to five years and they don’t seem to have done a great job of work.”

“There was no innovation; constant make overs and far too many cookery and gardening programs. Dumb, dumb, dumb,” he said.’

`The Death Ray is an oxygen cannon using a nine thousand volt power supply to ignite the reaction chamber with an ultra hot plasma arc. It can be constucted for around two hundred dollars.

The Death Ray is not a meant for use as a weapon. Never fire objects at people or property. Don’t build a Reath Ray. If science becomes violent for violence sake, all is lost.’

with pictures and build instructions. 🙂

‘The French manufacturer Renault is to go to the courts to protect its reputation after a motorist claimed to have been forced to drive at nearly 200 kilometres per hour (125 mph) because of a fault with his car’s speed regulator, the company said Thursday.’

followup to Runaway Car Races Along French Highways.

`US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace’s office in the US ordering them to provide Indymedia’s hardware located in London to the requesting agency. Rackspace is one of Indymedia’s web hosting providers with offices in the US and London. Rackspace complied, without first notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia’s server in the UK. [..]

It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.’

more here.

`Charles E. Smith, 63, told administrators he didn’t think loading the SETI software on the server was much of a problem because he ran the program only on weekends and on weekdays between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., when the server wasn’t being used, according to a disciplinary report.

Department director Tom Hayes disagreed.

“I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn’t find it in the mirror in the morning,” Hayes said. [..]’

`The Detroit City Council, in defiance of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, likely will move forward with plans to create an “African Town” in the tradition of Chinatowns and Little Italys nationwide, even though the issue has turned into a racially divisive economic-development proposal.’

`A psychiatrist who police say smeared excrement on dollar bills used to pay a parking ticket has been charged with harassment of a public official. [..]

Officers received an envelope in July labeled “Foreign brown substance on bills.” The envelope contained several dollar bills and a parking ticket [..]’

Feedster is an RSS feed search engine.

`Wasting your time…and ours.’

Links to games.

Watch the infection spread..

`The Lab’s new Personality Quiz! As valid as any tabloid horoscope and based on extensive research by the likes of Mendeleyev and Dolly Magazine, we present our Periodic Table Personality Quiz!’

I am helium, the most noble of gases. 🙂

Or, maybe just keep your mouth shut. 🙂

`A henpecked German has chosen to do time in jail rather than pay a parking fine to get away from his nagging wife. [..]

“He said he couldn’t stand the constant bickering at home with his wife and was looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet in jail,” said a police spokesman.’

`You …Could Be Gay!’

`A Croatian teenager has been arrested after taking his dad’s police uniform and stop sign and using it to collect fines from motorists.

The 18-year-old from Bisko near Split stopped drivers and told them they had broken traffic laws and then fined them five pounds each.’

`Black people intimidated at the polling booth. Voting machines that register ballots wrongly. Welcome to the disaster-waiting-to-happen that is the US presidential election of November 2004. [..]

In Detroit, John Pappageorge, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, said: “If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we’re going to have a tough time in this election.” Black people make up 83% of Detroit’s population. [..]

In Louisiana flyers were distributed in black neighbourhoods telling voters that if it was rainy they could vote the day after the election. In Maryland, flyers went up listing the wrong date for the election.’

`A 16-year-old Muskego student accused of giving a “wedgie” to his former girlfriend at school is facing juvenile charges of fourth-degree sexual assault. [..]

After the assault, according to the report, the boy said, “Now I got some action.”‘

`School pupils in Romania are sabotaging lessons by greasing blackboards with processed cheese.

Students at several schools in Iasi discovered that chalk doesn’t work on blackboards after the treatment.’

`Environmentalists have called for the withdrawal of a chemical which is a key ingredient in the manufacture of Teflon because of growing health fears.

Perfluorooctanoic Acid, PFOA for short, is a synthetic chemical used in the manufacture of advanced plastics including Teflon. [..]

Dr Tim Kropp, a toxicologist working for environmental activists in the US says tests carried out by the US firm 3M suggested high doses of PFOA led to various forms of cancer in rats.’

`Porn-users are more than twice as likely to vote Green compared with the general population, according to the preliminary findings of a new Australian study.’

`A nurse’s assistant who admitted to ripping out a patient’s fingernails at a hospital here told the police she also mutilated the fingers or toes of four other patients.

Akemi Sato, 30, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of inflicting bodily injury. She worked at the Jujo Hospital via a temp agency. She told the police she used tweezers to rip out patients’ fingernails and toenails to alleviate stress brought on by not getting along with her co-workers.’

`A mother repeatedly stabbed her 10-year-old son in the arm with a steak knife, allegedly because he and his brother destroyed her favorite stuffed animal, police said. [..]

The boy’s stepfather, Steven Weiner, 48, was arrested and charged with a felony count of criminal liability. He is accused of holding the young boy on the floor during the stabbing, police said.’

`The deliveryman brought a pizza to a Kissimmee address Sunday night, said Dearmas, only to find no one home.

He got back into his car to drive away, when Darth Vader, mask, black outfit and all, suddenly materialized.

In a presumably commanding voice, the evil Sith Lord ordered the deliveryman to give up all his cash.

The pizza man hit the gas and sped off, but not before getting a good zap from what may have been a laser blaster, a light saber or perhaps just a stun gun.’

`The bride’s uncle pulled a pistol on the groom and best man, who were role-playing as pirates during a wedding reception at the Bounty Lounge late Saturday night, police said.’

`”I am not a playboy. I just love seeing beautiful women,” Kamaruddin Mohammed, 72, was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times newspaper. [..]

“I don’t like flings. I also don’t believe in marrying more than one woman at a time,” he told the Times.’

`A guide to defending yourself against Fundamentalist Christians’

`A drug suspect who eluded capture in Maine and Colorado was captured Monday when he hopped into a car, cranked the engine and went nowhere because the wheels were lifted off the ground for repairs.’

`A drive-by shooting suspect has died two days after accidentally shooting himself in the head, police said Monday.’

`Two women have been identified as carrying a mutant gene that is immune to HIV/AIDS, the first such cases uncovered in China, a researcher said.’