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- Susan Watts, BBC2 Newsnight's science editor, returned to the witness box today to continue giving evidence on the third day of the Hutton inquiry into the death of British government scientist David Kelly. |
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- A bomb ripped through a small bus today in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, killing four people and wounding eight others, provincial Deputy Governor Haji Pir Mohammed said. |
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- I've been trying to find out at what rate Canadian Customs begins charging GST for shipments from other countries (as... |
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- il ne faut pas mettre la charrue dans l'oeil de son voisin avant de l'avoir tué. Partant de ce principe, tout possesseur de charrue desirant tuer son voisin d'un coup de charrue dans l'oeil doit au prealable le tuer afin de mieux pouvoir le tuer !?! non il y a un truc qui cloche. Peut etre tout simplement qu'il ne faut pas vendre la peau de son voisin avant l'oeil de son boeuf. Alors je peux ecorcher mon voisin, ca d'accord, mais pour ce qui est de faire commerce de ce que j'ai obtenu de lui, je dois dézieuter son bovidé!?! |
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- na froto po chatavo ilnes troperti goulen vouti... trameno orteg voatiplo? coxinupe oklumisa bugonin!!! ah ah ah! |
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- lao tseu a dit un jour,"où est-ce que j'ai encore mis mes foutues tongs?" eh oui! le brave homme lui aussi avait des petits passages a vide, mais on lui pardonne, vu ce qu'il nous a légué. Des belles phrases comme : |
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- il ne faut pas mettre la charrue dans l'oeil de son voisin avant de l'avoir tué. Partant de ce principe, tout possesseur de charrue desirant tuer son voisin d'un coup de charrue dans l'oeil doit au prealable le tuer afin de mieux pouvoir le tuer !?! non il y a un truc qui cloche. Peut etre tout simplement qu'il ne faut pas vendre la peau de son voisin avant l'oeil de son boeuf. Alors je peux ecorcher mon voisin, ca d'accord, mais pour ce qui est de faire commerce de ce que j'ai obtenu de lui, je dois dézieuter son bovidé!?! |
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- Wow, WMDs *were* used in Iraq. |
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- Today's FindLaw columnists: Mark H. Allenbaugh has an essay entitled "The PROTECT Act's Sentencing Provisions, And the Attorney General's Controversial Memo: An Assault Against the Federal Courts." Sherry F. |
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- Not a lot of controversy over the high tech toilet unless you take offensive to a PR manager for a Japanese toilet maker saying that "American toilet hygiene is very archaic". The experiences recounted in the story might provoke a laugh or two. For example, a Brit said about his encounter with the high tech toilet, "so there I am, sitting on this sleek-looking loo, idly punching the buttons on this little panel next to the toilet, and all of a sudden my bum is right smack in the middle of the perfect storm". |
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- Would you like my guest pass to the Flash Kit Conference, August 21-22, 2003, San Jose, CA? My guest had to cancel on me, at the last minute. Now I've got an unused guest pass to the conference. You must get yourself to the conference and provide your own accomodations. If you're interested, post a comment and I'll contact you... |
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- Dean for America: "Dean blasted Bush for misleading the public about the reasons for going to war with Iraq, but saved his harshest criticism of the administration for what he said was a failed economic policy that provides tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class." The official Dean site. Lisa Rein supports the Dean campaign. |
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- Heute vor 42 Jahren wurde in Berlin der Grundstein für eine weitere Zementierung des Ost-West-Konfliktes gelegt. Der Mauerbau. Der Antifaschistischer Schutzwall, so die offizielle Begründung seitens der DDR-Regierung. In Wirklichkeit sollte so wohl eher die nicht stoppen wollende Auswanderung der... |
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- 11am: Newsnight's Susan Watts has told the Hutton inquiry that David Kelly did not name Alastair Campbell as the man who inserted the 45-minute claim into the Iraq dossier. |
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- British arms dealer arrested in US for trying to sell a surface-to-air missile. |
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- Comment: For one day a year, Mark King and millions like him have the upper hand over right-handed despots. |
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- Business: For the three months to June, unemployment dropped by 42,000 to 1.458 million, official figures show. |
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- UK: Study warns of detrimental effects of high-protein, low-carbohydrate meals advocated by bestseller and favoured by celebrities. |
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- World: Two teenage suicide bombers kill two Israelis in the most serious breach yet of the ceasefire that is seen as crucial to keeping the peace process alive. |
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- Feature: From Bach's Toccata to the Nokia tune: Oliver Burkeman on the irresistible rise of the ringtone. |
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- Money: Britons look set to go on borrowing, ignoring warnings that levels of debt may prove unsustainable, new research shows. |
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- Education: The pass rate at A-level has risen for the 22nd consecutive year to over 95%, results out tomorrow will show, although the rate of improvement has slowed. |
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- Society: Benefit consultants who charge disabled or elderly people for help with welfare applications have been labelled "advice sharks" for targeting the vulnerable. |
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- Film: Peter Jackson will be paid $20m (£12.4m) - the biggest director's fee in cinematic history - to remake King Kong, it was reported yesterday. |
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- Politics: Conservatives attack the timing of the government's release of new figures on the controversial tax credit system. |
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- Travel: A 17-year-old British holidaymaker is killed during a fight with other British tourists at a nightclub in the Greek resort of Faliraki, on Rhodes. |
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- Media: Investors slam the £1.3m golden goodbye for the boss who led the cable firm into bankruptcy. |
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- Arts: Richard Wilson loves to work with a script. So what happened when he directed a group famed for making things up? By Brian Logan. |
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- Farmers worldwide should take a lesson from Danish bacon producers and reduce the use of antibiotics on their livestock to help stem the growth of drug-resistant bacteria in humans, the U.N. health agency said Wednesday. |
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- I gather that club success on ecademy is measured by number of members. Perhaps there are different metrics. It could be number of messages. For example, the club a bit more !Random has only 62 members but 2609 messages. |
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- (US) Meth lab waste dumped on road Cleaning up the hazardous methamphetamine waste will cost taxpayers from $5000 to $10000.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(90%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $gateway(90%), $propaganda_theme4(90%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $stimulant(100%), $amphetamines(100%), $narcotic(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) Phillip James Chiero, 19, of Winton, was booked on suspicion of armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery and cultivation of marijuana. The cultivation of marijuana allegation lodged against Chiero stems from a marijuana plant found growing at his residence, Warnke said. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(90%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $gateway(90%), $propaganda_theme4(90%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%)] |
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- (US) Herrera's attorney has said the home was a crack house.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $cannabis(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $police_related_news(70%)] |
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