I really don't know how to describe this. It's just really strange. Strange flash entertainment.

Warning: very psychedelic!

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] APRIL 16--While all news organizations prepare obituaries
] in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks
] at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a
] chance to preview how the network's web site would note
] the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan,
] and a few other prominent figures. Until earlier this
] afternoon, a CNN server housed mock-ups of web pages
] announcing the yet-to-happen deaths. The CNN pages, which
] were discovered by the intrepid folks at fark.com, were
] yanked about 20 minutes after being exposed (though TSG
] was able to grab a few of the pages for posterity's
] sake). The premature obituaries, which were housed in a
] publicly accessible area of the CNN server, were
] apparently the work of Peter Rentz, a senior multimedia
] designer at CNN. The mock-ups are virtually identical to
] the obituary design currently used by CNN when a notable
] person dies (click here to see how CNN covered the Queen
] Mother's death). In fact, elements of the Queen Mum's
] obit template can be seen in the below Cheney mockup. In
] addition to Cheney and Reagan, CNN has also prepped
] online farewells to Fidel Castro, Bob Hope, and Nelson
] Mandela. (4 pages)

The Smoking Gun: Advance Obituaries

] The very technology that revolutionized retail checkout -
] the bar code - is now being subverted by anti-capitalist
] protesters who fancy themselves cyberpranksters.
]
] The activists drew the ire of Wal-Mart Inc., the world's
] largest retailer, with a Web site that encouraged people
] to "name their own prices" by offering hundreds of
] substitute bar codes.
]
] Wal-Mart considered the ploy an incitement to theft and
] sent a cease-and-desist letter dated April 2 to one of
] the companies that was hosting the Web site, Re-code.com.
]
] Re-code.com's operators responded by disabling the link
] on their Web site that allowed users to print sheets with
] a selection of bar code labels that could be slapped on
] store items.

Prankster Web Site Draws Wal-Mart Ire

] People are curious about being embedded in the Marines.
] This is my effort to set the record straight. Some
] readers suspect I was subjected to propaganda while
] living with these men and women. There was no propaganda
] campaign. If there had been, there would have been no
] embeds. Journalists wrote their own stories, and made
] their own interview requests and interviews. The
] Marines%u2019 %u201CPAOs%u201D (public affairs officers)
] would set up the meetings, but not oversee them.
]
] What happened to the majority of journalists living the
] Marine life is that we experienced it from the inside. I
] can honestly say that seven weeks as an embed has changed
] me forever. And I have often found many similarities
] between Marines and Arabs.

ArabNews: An Account of Marines' Incredible Gestures

] Portable electronic devices such as mobile phones,
] handheld computers and personal music players have become
] an integral part of consumers' lives bringing with them
] the inconvenience of multiple chargers and tangles of
] wires.
]
] Splashpower's revolutionary wireless power technology
] delivers a truly intuitive and convenient way of keeping
] devices charged up and ready to go without wires or
] plugs. Consumers simply drop their devices on a Splashpad
] and charge up! No wires, no plugs, no hassle - any
] number, anywhere.

Seems like a great idea and a cool product. I just want to know how much it costs and where I can get one.

Welcome to Splashpower - powering the future

] MORIOKA, Iwate Pref. (Kyodo) Iwate Gov. Hiroya Masuda
] voiced displeasure Monday that a professional wrestler
] who was elected to the prefectural assembly plans to wear
] his mask during assembly proceedings.
]
]
] The Great Sasuke
]
] The Great Sasuke, a 33-year-old wrestler whose real name
] is Masanori Murakawa, topped the vote count in the
] Morioka district in Sunday's prefectural assembly
] election.
]
] He vowed to continue wearing his mask while fulfilling
] his duties as a member of the assembly.
]
] "This is my face," he declared. "I have no intention of
] taking the mask off."

Follow up to the Japenese wrestler/politician story.

The Japan Times Online - Governor looks to unmask wrestler

] Welcome to The Covers Project. We're building a database
] of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than
] the original performer) with the intention of creating
] cover "chains." A cover chain is a set of songs in which
] each song is a cover of a song by the band who covered
] the preceding song. For instance:
]
] The Wild Staressong "Babies Falling" was covered by
] Magnetic Fields
]
] The Magnetic Fieldssong "Falling In Love With The
] Wolfboy" was covered by Dead Dog
]
] The Dead Dogsong "The Optimist" was covered by Love,
] Execution Style
]
]
] So far, we have 42,694 songs (20,680 unique) and 16,065
] artists catalogued. The longest "chain" we know about
] contains 157 songs. If you know of any cover songs,
] please help us out by adding them to our database
] (remixes need not apply). The add page also has links to
] every band we know something about, so feel free to
] browse that as well.

The Covers Project

] His personal zoo has lions, cheetahs and a bear. His
] storehouse has $1 million in fine wines, liquor and
] heroin. His house has Cuban cigars, cases of champagne
] and downloaded pictures of prostitutes.

Don't you know the soldiers going through this place are loving it.

Palace of Saddam's son reveals love of fast life

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] The doors of the town house opened to reveal a playboy's
] fantasy straight from the 1960s: mirrored bedroom, lamps
] shaped like women, air-brushed paintings of a topless
] blonde woman and a mustached hero battling a crocodile.
]
] On the wall and in the bedroom were photos of Saddam
] Hussein and one of his mistresses. Military officials
] suspect they found one of the paranoid Iraqi leader's
] many safe houses.
]
] "This must have been Saddam's love shack," said Sgt.
] Spencer Willardson of Logan, Utah.

Safe house or bachelor pad? Troops discover home of one of Saddam's hideaways