] MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Think of the famous police teams. Friday
] and Gannon, Starsky and Hutch - and now there's Franks
] and Beans

A police pairing: Franks and Beans

] SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA -- A single-key research utility that
] can open associated Web sites or files as you need them
] is making its appearance as ActiveWords, one of the
] highlights of the Demo 2003 show here.]
] Trying to explain what ActiveWords is can be a little
] like trying to explain TiVo upon its debut; it's a strong
] product that defies easy categorization. Even its
] developers find it hard to make a quick pitch.
]
]
] "It brings the user's vocabulary directly to the
] interface," says Peter Weldon, chief executive officer of
] ActiveWord Systems.]
] The utility can turn a few characters, a word, or a
] phrase into a shortcut for applications, files, and Web
] sites. It can also operate like Word's AutoText, except
] that you can invoke it in any text application. Announced
] Monday at Demo, each of the two versions can be
] downloaded now for a 60-day trial. The basic version,
] ActiveWords SE, costs $10; a deluxe version, ActiveWords
] Plus, costs $50.

I sounds like my next software try. I really like the idea.

PCWorld.com - ActiveWords Turns Words Into Actions

] Recording companies have asked the Federal Court to allow
] their computer experts to scan all computers at the
] University of Melbourne for sound files and email
] accounts, so they can gather evidence of claimed
] widespread breaches of copyright.

And I thought things were getting scary in the US.

Recording firms ask to scan university computers - smh.com.au

] On May 19, 1995, I received a standard-sized gray
] envelope, stuffed with what looked like, through a small
] cellophane window, a check for $95,093.35.

] The documents I had expected to make me cry actually
] made me laugh out loud. First Interstate Bank of
] California was abbreviated throughout as FICAL. An acronym
] pronounced as fecal, not fical, I thought. This is a fecal
] matter.

I read this a couple years ago and thought it was great.

Bank Error In My Favor: Collect $95,000: Man 1, Bank 0

] NASA engineers are now almost certain that the space
] shuttle Columbia was destroyed when super-hot ionised air
] leaked through a puncture somewhere in the craft.

New Scientist

] ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- Lovers might lose their heads on
] St. Valentine's Day, but Friday part of the saint's skull
] found its way back to a central Italian church.

People will steal anything.

CNN.com - St. Valentine skull fragment returned - Feb. 14, 2003

] I hate to admit it but, as many times as I have dry
] humped, I still don't know when it is coming. The
] situation is always the same: the lights are out, we're
] kissing, I am on top, starting to get into it and then -
] WHAM. Her legs turn into clamps and we're dry humping.
] There are honestly times when I've thought to myself: "It
] is going to take the Jaws of Life to get out of this."
] And then, before I know it, it's over. Most times, it
] isn't just the dry humping that ends; it is the hookup
] altogether. So I am left lying in bed exhausted,
] frustrated and sore - the latter two I wish to talk about
] in more detail.

For all the single guys.

The Michigan Daily - Clamping down on dry humping and blue balls

] BOHN, GERMANY- Face it. Valentine's Day is a sham. If
] you've been married more than a year, the traditional
] idea of romance lost its meaning long ago. So,
] Valentine's Day of Emotional Obligation looms, and years
] of stifled arguments and shattered ambitions have left
] you without the ability to express your emotions, real or
] not. Not to worry.
] As with most things subtle and delicate, we boorish
] Americans needed the assistance the Europeans.
] Ridiculopathy-Dot-Com has partnered with Grußkarte, Inc.,
] a greeting card design and production firm based in Bohn,
] Germany. Together, we have worked for months to create
] the right emotional serrogates to tell that dark lump on
] the couch next to you of your overwhelming angst,
] dispare, and desperation.

Ridiculopathy.com: Achtung, Valentine!

] Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft's MSN portal
] targeted Opera users, by purposely provided them with a
] broken page. As a reply to MSN's treatment of its users,
] Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition
] of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition
] behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing
] the MSN site will see the page transformed into the
] language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show:
] Bork, Bork, Bork!

You have to love this!

Opera Press Release: Opera releases

What happens when you play Counterstrike too much? You end up with a potty mouth. And some enemies:
So, the story goes that co-worker A got sick of co-worker B's constant profanity whilst playing Counter Strike. Co-worker A then hid a microphone next to co-worker B's desk, and captured this stream of rantings. Then, as co-worker A was a member of an electronic music-making concern, he endeavored to edit it all together. The end result was this: The Terrible Mr. G.

The Terrible Mr. G