Florida man blames cat for illegal downloads

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:01 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Dogs have been blamed for eating homework - now a Florida man says his cat downloaded child pornography.

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World's Most Expensive MP3 Player

Seeded on Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:21 PM EST (Techpin)

The world's most expensive mp3 player. It's quite random.

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Oscar the Cat Predicts Patients' Deaths

Seeded on Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:35 AM EDT ()

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.

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Schoolchildren to be fingerprinted in Big Brother-style shake-up

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2007 8:23 PM EDT (the Mail online)

More than 3,500 schools already use systems which allow pupils to take out books by scanning their thumbprints instead of using a card. The technique is also being used in dinner queues.

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Abortion may become a tougher choice for women in South Carolina

Seeded on Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:51 PM EDT (ABC News)

South Carolina would be the first state to require a woman to view a sonogram of her fetus before she can get an abortion if a bill in the legislature is passed by both the House and Senate and gets signed by the Governor.

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Michigan man gets $122K for cat bite

Seeded on Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:59 PM EDT (USA Today)

FLUSHING, Mich. (AP) — A nasty bite on the hand that a man got from his sister's Siamese cat is worth $122,400. A jury on Friday awarded Michael Sabo, 57, the money for an injury he got when the cat, Randy, bit his right hand in March 2004.

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A rare treat from nature: Perfect snow doughnuts

Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:38 PM EDT (The Seattle Times)

Stanford found frozen doughnuts of snow on the top of Washington Pass in the North Cascades this week when he was doing avalanche-control work. At first he couldn't believe his eyes: Perfectly shaped doughnuts had rolled down the mountainside and frozen in place.

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Better sonar through dolphin teeth

Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:35 PM EDT (News at Nature)

Dolphin sonar outperforms any man-made system, particularly in shallow water, where reverberation, water turbulence and suspended sediment make sonar particularly challenging.

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A dog's best friend

Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:25 PM EDT (Reuters)

The link takes you to a video. Mar. 9 - A village dog adopts a wild monkey and the two become inseparable.

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Atheism hasn't hurt Fremont Rep. Stark

Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:16 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

[...] Stark's casual admission of disbelief was an important moment for local atheists. Chuck Cannon of Concord compared Stark to civil rights heroine Rosa Parks for his willingness to go against the long-accepted political wisdom and put himself on the side of American atheists.

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Living on Thin Ice

Seeded on Sun Mar 4, 2007 8:09 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Not so long ago polar bears were a symbol of cold, but these days they are a symbol of warmth.

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An open letter to Global Warming

Thu Jan 4, 2007 6:25 PM EST

Dear Global Warming, It was a beautiful day today. The birds were chirping from their trees, the children were frolicking in their backyards and the old man who lives next door was washing his car with a hose, dressed in shorts and a t-shirt and wearing flip-flops.

Continue reading this entry ...

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Christmas Price Index, 2005 - 2006

Seeded on Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:19 PM EST (Infoplease.com)

How much more the twelve days of Christmas will cost you this year as compared to last. Oh my.

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The 2006 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index

Seeded on Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:09 PM EST (Infoplease.com)

A list of 163 out of the 193 countries in the world, ranked in order from least corrupt to most corrupt. ETA: Bah. I switched the link/headline because I am a doofus. Real link here.

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Who is the public transit Santa?

Seeded on Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:08 PM EST (Toronto Star)

"I had a young man in the back of the bus. He looked like he was going to start crying. He said in broken English, 'She don't know how much this will mean to me at Christmas,'" Clemons said. Another nice holiday story -- I really enjoy finding ones like this.

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Man in right-to-die case denied church funeral

Seeded on Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:42 PM EST (Toronto Star)

The case of an Italian man who died after his doctor switched off life support system took a new and controversial twist on Friday when Italy's Roman Catholic Church flatly denied his family's request for a religious funeral.

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Helium Crisis Over, Business Breathes Easier

Seeded on Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:26 PM EST (Toronto Star)

You probably didn't notice unless you recently tried to buy a helium balloon, but the world is just now recovering from a helium shortage, which is more serious than it sounds.

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When Hockey Parents Go Too Far

Seeded on Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:04 PM EST (Toronto Star)

Hockey parents are a breed of their own.

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Green Leader a Campaign Wild Card

Seeded on Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:21 PM EST (Toronto Star)

"Hi, I'm Elizabeth May, leader of the Green party, and I'm asking you to support me," May says whenever anyone answers the door. "I'm asking people who have never voted Green before to help make me the first Green party MP in the House of Commons."

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Hummingbirds always stealing your sugar-water?

Seeded on Tue Sep 5, 2006 11:43 PM EDT (Associated Content)

Hummingbirds have been known to attack children with high sugar content. Their beaks are perfectly capable of piercing the skin and draining a child of their sugary blood.

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Hitler desk, chair up for auction

Seeded on Tue Sep 5, 2006 3:16 PM EDT (Toronto Star)

Oh man. It just seems to be the day for auctioning things that belonged to famous dead people.

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