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`Fear of a ghost who knocks on doors and wafts the scent of aftershave lotion along corridors has forced a prestigious college for statisticians in the Indian capital to close.’

`See examples of extreme coastal change in the photo pairs below. For each pair, the upper photo was taken by the USGS on July 17, 2001 and the lower photo was taken by the USGS on September 17 after Ivan’s landfall.’

`One player from each team became involved in a heated argument as they were heading for the locker room after coming off in the closing minutes. After the final whistle blew, Djerv players went berserk.

The Hetlevik goalkeeper was chased home, and three girls, the youngest aged 11, were subjected to crude sexual insults from some of the Djerv players. Some spectators were threatened with rape.’

`Midwest Airlines canceled a flight ready to take off for San Francisco after a passenger found Arabic-style handwriting in the company’s in-flight magazine and alerted the crew. [..]

The writing was in Farsi, the language used in Iran, said airline spokeswoman Carol Skornycka. She said she didn’t know exactly what the writing said but was similar to a prayer, “something of a contemplative nature.”‘

`Two brothers serving in the military and a third man exploded a small bomb inside a McDonald’s because they were angry over a bad milkshake, officials said. [..]

Investigators say the men mixed toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil in a plastic soda bottle as they sat at a table Friday evening near the restaurant’s restrooms. They then capped the bottle, put it on the table and left before it exploded at 10:45 p.m. Friday. A customer sitting 10 feet away wasn’t hit by the splashing chemicals.’

`It happened around 4pm Monday on West Gray at Shepherd. That’s where a man drove pulled into a parking lot, got out, walked over to some nearby trees and started to urinate.

Police say a female security guard walked up to him and informed him that he could get a ticket for public urination. It didn’t take long for an argument to start and escalate to violence.’

`In a September 17 article in the journal Science, Pennycook and colleagues wrote that they have achieved an image resolution at 0.6 angstrom, breaking the previous record of 0.7 angstrom which the lab set earlier this year.’

`A bug in a Microsoft system compounded by human error was ultimately responsible for a three-hour radio breakdown that left hundreds of aircraft aloft without guidance on Tuesday, [..]

[..] a Microsoft-based replacement for an older Unix system needed to be reset every thirty days ‘to prevent data overload’, as a result of problems found when the system was first rolled out. However, a technician failed to perform the reset at the right time and an internal clock within the system subsequently shut it down.’

Slashdot suggests this bug is the cause.

`Police fear a new horror date rape drug has been used in Swansea for the first time. A woman may have been knocked out after smoking a cigarette which had been dipped in body embalming fluid.’

`Students for an Orwellian Society (SOS) is a nationwide student group. Although SOS has always been a nationwide student group, there is evidence to suggest that it first appeared at Columbia University. The mission of SOS is to promote the vision of a society based upon the principles of Ingsoc, first articulated by George Orwell in his prophetic novel, 1984.’

`Enter your dreadfully boring first and last names, and the Generator will give you your exciting new Smurf Name!!’

Call me Hoochie Smurf.

`Starting bid: US $150,000.00′

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.’