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`The tiny skeletal remains of human “Hobbits” found on an Indonesian island belong to a completely new branch of our family tree, a study has found.

The finds caused a sensation when they were announced to the world in 2004.

But some researchers argued the bones belonged to a modern human with a combination of small stature and a brain disorder called microcephaly.

That claim is rejected by the latest study, which compares the tiny people with modern microcephalics.’

‘Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called the Kyoto accord a “socialist scheme” designed to suck money out of rich countries, according to a letter leaked Tuesday by the Liberals.

The letter, posted on the federal Liberal party website, was apparently written by Harper in 2002, when he was leader of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance party. [..]

“We’re gearing up now for the biggest struggle our party has faced since you entrusted me with the leadership,” Harper’s letter says.

“I’m talking about the ‘battle of Kyoto’ — our campaign to block the job-killing, economy-destroying Kyoto accord.”‘

‘A feuding neighbour was arrested for mowing his lawn in the NUDE, a court heard yesterday.

Yan Price, 30, exposed himself to shocked housewives two weeks after cops reprimanded him for sunbathing naked in his garden, it was claimed.

They saw him in the buff, apart from one glove, while bending to pick up dog muck.

A shocked young mum told York Crown Court: “I felt intimidated. You could see everything.”’

Little bit of a mishap. :)

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‘An ID badge that Taylor wore when he was arrested indicated that he worked for Microsoft. But that was no more accurate than the two-dozen other employee badges he possessed for E-Trade and AT&T Broadband, or the 15 driver’s licenses from various states that featured his congenial face and a dozen aliases. Nor did Thomas’s California driver’s license help authorities identify him. Although it had his picture, the name and address on the ID belonged to a producer for the A&E channel.

With so many fake IDs in play it was unclear to police exactly who they had in custody. Then as they read Thomas his rights, he told them: “Get me some federal agents and I’ll give you a case involving the Russians and millions of dollars.”‘

This is quite long, but it’s fairly interesting.

‘Northern Territory police are on the trail of a serial cat killer after the tenth victim in less than three months was found horribly butchered in Darwin’s satellite city of Palmerston.

Since November, ten cats in the area have been killed and mutilated, with three found dead in the last two weeks. Police believe the same person is responsible for all ten deaths.

The way in which the animals have been killed is chilling. Each cat is skinned, disembowelled and then been put on show for the public to find. Often meat is cut from the bodies and found nearby. Other times it is removed and taken away altogether for an unknown purpose.’

‘”It’s not like a milking cow. They’re huge – those horns – you don’t know if they’re going to attack or what they’re going to do,” said Sharri Matronic, adding that the cattle have destroyed a retaining wall in her yard and eaten her azaleas and ivy. [..]

“I can walk up and pet them,” Echard said.

That doesn’t impress police Officer Rich Michelsen, who recently had to use his patrol car, flashing lights turned on, to herd one of the cattle away from the police station in this town of 3,100 about 25 miles northeast of Seattle.

“People think it’s funny,” Michelsen said. “It’s tiring, is what it is.”‘

‘Jumpers fall from a 110m waterfall and plunge 100m at 120kph into a 160m deep gorge.’

That’s bigger that the one in Blackheath. :)

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`On 27 January, Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) switched itself into a protective “safe mode” after a short in its electronics. NASA engineers believe the fault has killed the camera’s ability to see deep and wide. “It’s really a blow to Hubble science; there’s no way around that fact,” says Holland Ford, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and principal investigator for ACS. He adds that of the roughly 800 current proposals for using Hubble, two-thirds involved the ACS.’

‘An outbreak of a contagious rash called herpes gladiatorum among Minnesota high school wrestlers led the state to suspend matches and halt contact practices, authorities said Wednesday.

The eight-day suspension affecting 7,500 wrestlers on 262 teams was the first time a state’s entire high school program in a sport has been shut down, authorities said.

The Minnesota State High School League acted after 24 wrestlers from 10 schools contracted the rash, which was first noticed and spread at a tournament in December.’

`According to authorities, the suspect entered the store at about 10:30 p.m. dressed in skin-tight black clothing and armed with a samurai-style sword.

The suspect stood in line before he demanded the cashier turn over the money in the register, reportedly waving his sword in the air.

The cashier and other customers inside thought the suspect was pulling a prank. The cashier refused to give the suspect the money and he fled the scene.

Richfield Police were called. They searched the neighborhood for the suspect but he managed to slip away into the night in the manner of a ninja.’

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‘Damage to the frontal lobes has been historically related to changes in personality, with striking effects on a person’s ability to tell jokes and respond to humor. Such individuals often exhibit silly euphoric behavior, inappropriate laughter, and have an addiction to telling jokes that are usually inappropriate in content.’

An addiction to telling inappropriate jokes would be fucken hilarious, I reckon. :)

‘A boy of 12 is believed to have become the world’s youngest sex change patient after convincing doctors that he wanted to live the rest of his life as a female.

The boy – originally called Tim, but now known as Kim – has started to receive hormone treatment, in preparation for the operation that will eventually complete the sex change.

Tim was diagnosed as a transsexual two years ago, when doctors and psychiatrists concluded that his claims to be “in the wrong body” were so deeply felt that he required treatment. The therapy involves artificially arresting male puberty, with a series of potent hormone injections before the administration of female hormones to initiate the development of features such as breasts.’

‘This dude tries to bounce his bike onto a table but it gets caught in the snow pulling him over the handle bars and crushing his face into the table.’

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`It does not violate the Charter of Rights to restrict gay men from donating to sperm banks, says the Ontario Court of Appeal.

The ruling rejected the claim of a Toronto lesbian, known as Susan Doe, who argued that it violated her constitutional rights to exclude the semen of gay men, including that of a gay friend who was willing to help her become pregnant.

The ban, contained in the federal Processing of Semen for Assisted Contraception Regulations, is “rational and health based,” said a three-judge panel.’

‘Bjork
The Grateful Dead (AIDS)
Marilyn Manson (dark gay)
The Doors
Morrissey(?questionable?)
Metallica
George Michael (texan)
Barry Manilow
Ted Nugent (loincloth)
Frank Sinatra
Elton John(really gay)’

etc..

‘We took an industrial robot, strapped a tennis racket and a sword to it, and put it under the control of a WiiMote. We ran very light pattern recognition on the WiiMote, so it would copy our sword swings.’

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‘A Screaming naked woman was found by police beating her husband in the front of a van.Officers were alerted to screams coming from a vehicle in Brynawelon, and discovered Mary Nurse stripped bare hitting her partner.

She then ran starkers into the street when officers tried to arrest her.

The 40-year-old was given a conditional discharge after she admitted causing harassment, alarm and distress when she appeared before Llanelli magistrates.’

`An Australian state plans to introduce recycled sewage to its drinking water as a record drought threatens water supplies around the nation, a state leader said Monday.

Queensland state Premier Peter Beattie said falling dam levels have left his government with no choice but to introduce recycled water next year in the state’s southeast — one of Australia’s fastest growing urban areas.

“We’re not getting rain; we’ve got no choice,” Beattie, who said his government had scrapped a referendum planned for March on the issue, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.’

‘Great. The other thing, I’m a real clotheshound, and I gotta admit, I kind of like the uniforms, but I’m not into green for the most part.

Actually, we’re wearing a digital pattern now, and it’s blue and tan.
Can you spice it up with some yellows or reds?

No, you can’t.
Is your underwear also camouflage?

No, that’s pretty much up to you.
So you can go wild with underwear—and socks, maybe?

Yeah.
Good, ’cause I’ve got a lot of red and yellow stripes, I’m a huge yellow and red freak.’

Hope Sandoval is never happy, but she’s cool.

I wonder if she’d marry me.

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‘Portion control is an important part of staying healthy. This ingenious butter cutter delivers one standard pat with each click of the handle. No more messy butter dish. 5 pats equal 1 tablespoon. Slices, serves, and stores one stick of butter or margarine.’

If I had one I’d cut yo momma’s butter. And she’d love it.

//:=| typical Hitler (with a disdainful expression)

//:=O bombastic Hitler (shouting)

//8=) stoned Hitler (courtesy of his personal physician from 1936-1945, Dr. Theodor “uppers ‘n’ downers” Morell)

`Scores of Sydneysiders who took up Google’s challenge to make a spectacle of themselves in an aerial photo shoot staged over the city on Australia Day are likely to be disappointed.

A plane chartered by Google to take the images never made it over some of the designated areas or arrived hours later than expected by which time, many of those who had been waiting below had moved on. [..]

But the flight plan was hastily changed on Friday morning after Sydney air traffic control denied the twin-engine Aero Commander permission to fly over parks and beaches in inner Sydney and the east due to air safety concerns.’

‘This guy skates up a ramp and drops off onto the concrete, unfortunately his skateboard beats him to the ground and smashes Josh right in the face. That looks painful!’

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`Paris-based satellite company Eutelsat is investigating “unidentified interference” with its satellite broadcast services that temporarily knocked out several television and radio stations. The company declined to say whether it thought the interference was accidental or deliberate.

The problem began Tuesday afternoon, blocking several European, Middle East and northeast African radio and television stations, as well as Agence France-Presse’s news service. All transferred their satellite transmissions to another frequency to resume operations.’

‘The US wants the world’s scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming.

It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere would be “important insurance” against rising emissions, and has lobbied for such a strategy to be recommended by a UN report on climate change, the first part of which is due out on Friday.’

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