] GRAYLING, Mich. (AP) -- A former middle school math
] teacher who phoned in a bomb threat because she wanted
] the day off has pleaded guilty to a felony charge

Ex-teacher pleads guilty in bomb threat case

] Vatican City - The Vatican has announced today that all
] Catholic computer programmers must abstain from using
] cloning methods in Object Oriented programming if they
] are to go to Heaven, stating that the Church considers
] cloning an act against God. They have recently discovered
] that in most Object Oriented languages it is common for
] objects to be cloneable and possess a "clone()" method,
] which creates an exact copy of the object.

BBspot - The Vatican Against Cloning In Programming Languages

] LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Embattled pop star
] Michael Jackson wears a prosthetic nose and once paid
] $150,000 for a "voodoo curse" to kill director Steven
] Spielberg despite being deep in debt, Vanity Fair
] magazine reported on Monday.

Next time he wants to spend $150k on a voodoo curse, he should call me.

CNN.com - Report: Jackson put 'curse' on Spielberg - Mar. 4, 2003

] Two North Korean MiG29 fighters and two other aircraft
] that Davis said appeared to be MiG23 fighters intercepted
] the Air Force RC-135S reconnaissance plane, which Davis
] said was conducting a routine intelligence mission over
] the Sea of Japan about 150 miles off North Korea's coast.
]
] The closest the fighters came was about 50 feet, Davis
] said.

This wasn't going after a high-altitude spyplane on an overflight of Korean airspace. This was going 150 miles into international waters, sending fighters to buzz a wing's length away from a 707....

N. Korea Jets Intercept U.S. Spy Plane

] A teenager's in trouble after writing her entire English
] essay in text messages.
]
] The 13-year-old's teacher said she couldn't understand a
] word of what the girl had written.
]
] Her essay started:
]
] "My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his
] GF & thr 3 :- kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc."

CBBC Newsround | WORLD | Girl writes essay in text message talk

cyantist wrote:
] ] BLOOMINGTON, Illinois (AP) -- State Farm Insurance Co.,
] ] the nation's largest auto insurer, is mailing notices to
] ] its 40 million policyholders informing them they are not
] ] covered against nuclear blasts and radiation damage.
]
] WE BRING YOU THE TERROR!!!!

[sing]
and like a good neighbor...
State Farm is scared!

RE: CNN.com - Insurer excludes nuclear damage from coverage - Feb. 26, 2003

] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian man plans to complain to
] consumer authorities about the poor quality of a rope he
] used in a failed attempt to hang himself, Romanian papers
] reported Thursday.

Yahoo! News - Man Complains Bad Rope Spoiled His Suicide

] As France's political leaders feign high-mindedness in
] their opposition to waging war in Iraq, could it be that
] a little-publicized threat of blackmail - issued by none
] other than Saddam Hussein a year after France sided with
] the United States in the first Gulf War - weighs ever so
] slightly in the back of their minds?

TCS: Defense - 'If the Trickery Continues...'

] DUBLIN (Reuters) - Michael O'Leary, head of Irish-based
] budget airline Ryanair, has come up with a novel way to
] beat Dublin's notorious traffic jams -- his own taxi
] licence.

Yahoo! News - Ryanair boss flies through jams

] Under threat of severe penalties, the vast majority of
] North Korea's 22 million people are not allowed any
] contact with the outside world -- letters, telephone
] calls, travel, radio or television programs.
]
] All citizens are required to register their radios with
] the local police. On registration, foreign-made radios
] are tuned to the state radio frequency, soldered into
] place, and sealed.

Some Korean-American activist groups are advocating the smuggling in of thousands of tiny radios, capable of receiving foreign broadcasts.

I *like* this idea.

(Note: This link is for a NY Times article, so registration may be required)

Infiltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios