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Leading online matchmaker sued for bogus dating scam
Sat Nov 19, 6:24 PM ET
NEW YORK (AFP) – Match.com, one of the top Internet dating websites, has been accused of hiring people as “date bait” to date some of their one million customers to encourage them to keep paying for the service.
Sorry, no attribution on this news story that I can repeat. I’m glad I met Marie back when the internet was still mostly college students and geeks.
Breast implants may soon carry MP3 players!
Breast implants may soon carry MP3 players!
Asian News International
London, October 14, 2005Music may one day be very close to a woman’s chest, with BT futurology which manufactures computer chips that store music, creating a MP3 player that can be implanted into a woman’s breasts.
It hasn’t hit me like this in a while. Stupid blogmeme follows after the break…
Continue reading “I hate insomnia”
The Simpsons’ Exported to Arabs — Minus Bacon, Beer
Key Aspects of New Middle East Version Get Lost in Translation
By JAKE TAPPER and AVERY MILLER, ABCNews.com
AP
‘The Simpsons’ has been exported overseas to the Arab world as ‘Al Shamshoon.’(Oct. 18) — After 17 seasons of entertaining U.S. audiences, “The Simpsons” can now be seen on Arab television. While U.S. foreign policy is not always a hit overseas, there is a huge audience for American popular culture.
So the Arab satellite network MBC is bringing the cartoon saga of Springfield to the heart of the Arab world. “The Simpsons” has been exported overseas and is now called “Al Shamshoon.”
Via DBA.
Also on DBA tonight, a link to Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared For Full-Scale Zombie Attack
Oh, and I can’t sleep 🙁
FBI agents take over fraternity house
Agents displaced by Hurricane Katrina
Wednesday, September 28, 2005; Posted: 10:11 a.m. EDT (14:11 GMT)
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) — A new fraternity of sorts has moved in on the Greek row at Louisiana State University: the FBI.
About 50 New Orleans agents displaced by Hurricane Katrina will be living in the red-brick home once occupied by a fraternity exiled for hazing violations.
“They’ve been jokingly referred to as Phi Beta Iota,” Special Agent in Charge Jim Bernazzani said Monday. “We even had T-shirts made up.”
The home has been empty since the Sigma Nu fraternity lost its charter in 2004 after an investigation into allegations of hazing. The fraternity has been barred from campus until the fall of 2006.
I was a Sigma Nu at Dartmouth. Via DBA (which is our house alumni mailing list, BTW)… disturbingly, the house has a blog, too.
Guy In Philosophy Class Needs To Shut The Fuck Up
September 28, 2005 | Issue 41•39
HANOVER, NH—According to students enrolled in professor Michael Rosenthal’s Philosophy 101 course at Dartmouth University, that guy, Darrin Floen, the one who sits at the back of the class and acts like he’s Aristotle, seriously needs to shut the fuck up.
From the Onion. Emphasis is mine. Hello?????
via some ’05 I don’t know on DBA.
Jack Russell registers to vote in N.Z. election
Dog’s enrollment angers local electoral official
Updated: 12:20 p.m. ET Sept. 23, 2005WELLINGTON, New Zealand – It was almost inevitable New Zealand’s election would turn into a dog fight when you look at one of the country’s 2.83 million voters — Toby the Jack Russell terrier.
Penguins stay snug and secure in minefields
Tuesday, September 27, 2005; Posted: 11:46 a.m. EDT (15:46 GMT)
KIDNEY COVE, Falkland Islands (Reuters) — There’s a mating ritual going on in the minefield.
Fortunately the would-be lovers are penguins, too light to detonate the deadly mines laid more than two decades ago during a war on the far-flung Falkland Islands.
Thousands of penguins and other feathered and amphibious friends choose to nest and rest in no-go zones. The British estimate that some 25,000 land mines, mostly sown by Argentine forces in the 1982 war with Britain, remain.
via Sherm on DBA
> Your Friends and little known facts about them
Yes, it’s one of those stupid “fill in the blanks” forwards… so, of course, I am turning it into a wannabe blog meme.
To spare the rest of you, it’s after the break.
Continue reading “One of those forwarded questionaires… becoming a blog-meme, perhaps?”
Mice Infected With Bubonic Plague Missing
NEWARK, N.J. — Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and authorities launched a search though health experts said there was scant public risk.
Truly, It Was a Whopper, but Are There Bigger Fish?
By SETH MYDANS
HAT KHRAI, Thailand – The monster fish announced itself with four huge whacks of its tail, thrashing against the net that had trapped it in the pale brown water of the Mekong River.
It was a rare giant catfish the size of a grizzly bear, and it took five boatmen an hour to pull it in and 10 men to lift it when they reached the shore in this remote village in northern Thailand.
Only after their catch had been chopped into pieces and sold did they learn how special it was. At nine feet in length and weighing 646 pounds, it may be the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded.
But in one of the world’s more surprising mysteries, nobody really knows which is the biggest species of fish lurking under the waters of the Mekong or the Amazon or the Yangtze or the Congo or the Colorado or Lake Baikal.
When the giant catfish was caught in May, a biologist named Zeb S. Hogan rushed here to take a look. It was his first trophy in a project to identify and study the world’s largest freshwater fish in the hope of slowing their extinction.
Sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the World Wildlife Fund, Mr. Hogan has embarked on an 18-month expedition that will take him to five continents and more than a dozen rivers.
“I guess it’s like looking for Bigfoot,” he said. Some species may already be too rare to study.
Plenty more in the article, check it out before it hits the times archives.
One of the greatest hours in radio history
The Jounal of MultiMedia History has put on its website one of the best and most important dramas ever presented on radio, the 1954 Canadian play “The Investigator” by comedy writer Reuben Ship. It’s a laugh-out-loud parody of Joseph McCarthy and his hearings, where Joe goes to Heaven and takes over the committee that decides who stays and who goes “down there.” He replaces the original officials with Torquemada, Cotton Mather and The Hanging Judge, and they then proceed to “deport” people like Socrates and Thomas Jefferson.
The Realaudio is at the Jounal of MultiMedia History… I heard an audiotape recording of this radioplay as a kid (my mom probably still has it somewhere) and it is incredibly funny. And given the present political climate climate, it deserves a listen as well.