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Berlin police told the BBC they had discovered that a 40-year-old woman was “planning via an internet forum to commit suicide, kill or injure other people abroad”.
“She herself is a convert to Islam and was thus hoping to get into paradise,” the police said. “It could not be ruled out that, in doing so, she [...]

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One thing to keep in mind, if you’re worried that depriving your cat of kitty litter will do irreparable psychological damage, is that cats’ well-known “covering” instinct isn’t really about covering the object itself — it’s about eliminating the smell. You may have seen your cat occasionally trying to scrape linoleum over his food — [...]

It’s funny. Now that I exclusively use the Google Bookmarks(web based) and the Google Bookmarks extension(an ext.) to organize the reams of crap I collect on the internet, I have begun to use the old bookmarks(the one built in to FF) as a kind of dump for all the links I want to keep but [...]

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This weeks episode is extra on target. Makes you want to cry:
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Venezuelan politicians have complained about a forthcoming “shoot-em-up” computer game that simulates an invasion of the South American nation.
In production by Los Angeles-based Pandemic Studios, Mercenaries 2: World In Flames is based around the overthrow of an imaginary Venezuelan “tyrant”.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has long accused the US of planning to invade, something Washington denies.
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Pretty rockin’ song… kinda popular in an indy sort of way, too:
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“He’s been logging onto America’s Army under the name dead-in-iraq, and choosing not to fight. Instead, he just types in the names of American military casualties.”
“One of the reasons DeLappe has specifically targeted America’s Army is because he has some personal issues with the game itself. During our interview, he calls it “a tax-payer funded [...]

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Although I’ve never watched this TV show, I guess it’s probably not a stretch to say that “LOST” is an extremely implausible story. People can be expected to suspend their disbelief up to a certain point, but really, c’mon, could a stressed out person(they’re obviously being tormented there) stranded on an island really be [...]

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Already, I’m banging my head against the kitchen table, and I’ve barely started the column.
Now, in the third ‘graf, Brooks does reluctantly acknowledge the obvious:

Nonetheless, certain conclusions are unavoidable. First, the gap between rich and poor is widening. It’s like global warming; you can resist the evidence for a while, but eventually [...]

I’m getting hit with another SPAM wave. I don’t really understand the financial scam objective of this one, though. Someone or some program has entered my email address into every 3rd parties guest book on the planet. I don’t understand why it fools Gmails SPAM filters - just because someone puts my email address in [...]

Centuries of torment
Another thing to consider is the effect longer lifetimes will have on some of our cherished values, ethicists say. For example, in the United States, the right to life is considered something that every person is entitled to, and both suicide and euthanasia are considered culturally and socially unacceptable.
But in a world where [...]

“The ultimate search engine would understand everything in the world. It would understand everything that you asked it and give you back the exact right thing instantly,” Mr Page told an audience of the digerati representing firms from Warner Music and AOL to BSkyB and the BBC. “You could ask ‘what should I ask Larry?’ [...]

A high-pitched alarm which cannot be heard by adults has been hijacked by schoolchildren to create ringtones so they can get away with using phones in class.
Techno-savvy pupils have adapted the Mosquito alarm, used to drive teenage gangs away from shopping centres.
Well that’s hilarious. They treat kids like cockroaches or mice to keep them away [...]