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] Authorities say a teenager told them a video game about
] stealing cars inspired an auto theft spree involving
] about 100 vehicles.
]
] Nineteen-year-old Micah Zoerner of Somers, Wisconsin is
] charged with numerous counts of theft, burglary and auto
] theft. He's being held in lieu of a 15-thousand dollar
] cash bond.
]
] Detectives say he told them he'd been inspired by the
] video game "Grand Theft Auto."

I love GTA4.

CNN: Teen says game inspired crime spree

] ACCORDING TO REUTERS, an eight-foot tall condom wafted
] towards Bill Gates this morning as the Vole's chief
] software engineer contined his visit to in India with a
] visit to Hyderabad.
]
] The newswire says the world's richest man managed a smile
] as the oversized rubber obscured his view of the new
] Microsoft software development centre he was visiting.
]
] The comdom is apparently a "tribute" to mark his $100
] million donation to help fight AIDS in the
] sub-continent.

At the time I posted this meme, Google News was pulling up at least 10 articles referring to Gates and this 8ft condom.. Yet not a single one of them had a picture. Please, give me a picture. Its probably not funny, or even amusing.. But you never know.

Bill Gates comes face-to-face with eight-foot condom

Hijexx: Use the farce... See if you can beat my score, I hit 66 :O)

Rattle: I made it to 229. [Update] My high score is now 638. After awhile, it just gets damn boring.

Realistic Internet Simulator - B3ta.com

Finally, worried New Yorkers will be able to do all of their emergency-preparedness shopping at one store, when Safer America opens Thursday in Manhattan.

One-stop shopping for terror attack protection

Under the American Driver's License Identification Information Act (ADLIIA - enacted on July 9, 2000), every state in the union is required to make available to the public a digitized copy of each and every valid driver's license, in their respective state. The National Driver's License Records Bureau has been established to create the country's only centralized database of driver's licenses, on the more than 220 million licensed drivers, in the United States.

Welcome to the National Drivers License Database

.. take my red stapler .. burn down building .. they will learn..

Swingline Red Stapler

Decius:

This is an off shore site that is using a form of steganography to hide itself from record industry web spiders. Looks like they've had the domain since 1999. This is real crime. I definately don't recommend that you use this site. However, its existence and method of operation is interesting nonetheless. Islands in the net....

Rattle:

Tell all your friends! Download like mad!

simplemp3s.com

The Xtender, a "mod chip" intended to be added to the main circuit board of the Xbox, went on sale last weekend through retailers such as Hong Kong-based Lik Sang. Three other Xbox mod chips are also in development.

Xbox mod-chips now available

Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism.

Well, here is a nice can of fuel for your conspiracy theories... This would make for one hell of a movie...

From The Globe and Mail; Microbiologists dropping like flies...