A Pennsylvania clothes shop has caused outrage in the US by selling Magnetic Jesus Dress Up! novelty toys.

Ha! The potential.

Ananova - Magnetic Jesus attracts complaints

] Holier Than The Holy Grail
]
] THE RESIDENTS THIRD REICH%u2019N%u2019ROLL COLLECTORS
] EDITION
]
] The Story:
]
] What started as just another idea in 1976 finally managed
] to grow into a bona fide nightmare of complexity.
]
] The concept was simple enough. The Residents wanted to
] market a record as a limited edition art project.
]
] First needed were records. Not the kind that just get
] stamped off by those automatic machines. No sireee. The
] Residents were intent on actually pressing the records
] themselves on manual presses using colored vinyl (color
] vinyl was a lot more special in 1976). The job of
] locating a pressing plant which would allow strangers to
] come in after-hours to press their own records%u2026and
] only 50 records at that%u2026was staggering. But the
] plant was found, and the Residents (in full costume) did
] manage to press the record found in this package.
]
] Then a cover was needed. Cardboard was out of question,
] as was mass printing. A wood-working shop was finally
] found that agreed to manufacture the basic wooden box.
] The Residents would then paint the box, glue the hand
] printed silk-screen graphics to the lid, and line the
] inside with red velvet. To make a long long story short,
] nothing worked. The lids on the boxes wouldn%u2019t slide
] with the screened prints glued to them. The glue made the
] prints wrinkle. The paint on the boxes was streaked and
] drippy. The specially printed and made inner-sleeve was
] too big to fit in the box. The red velvet was even the
] wrong shade of red and clashed with the cover. As the
] problems multiplied and other projects demanded time, THE
] THIRD REICH%u2019N%u2019ROLL collectors edition looked
] like it was about to be abandonded.

Hey, anyone want to get this for me?

eBay item 2597664857 (Ends Feb-29-04 12:05:49 PST) - The Residents THIRD REICH'N'ROLL wooden box

] CNSNews.com) - In a vote of 254-163, the House Thursday
] passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, a measure that
] would allow a defendant to be charged with two federal
] crimes when an unborn baby is injured or killed during an
] attack on the pregnant mother.

Sneaky way to decide on when life begins. Not good.

House Passes Unborn Victims of Violence Act -- 02/26/2004

Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004, 6:40 AM ET (1140 GMT)
Astronomers announced Monday the discovery of a large body that is the most distant object in the solar system, an object that could be part of the Oort Cloud. The object, officially known as 2003 VB12 but provisionally known as Sedna, was discovered by Caltech astronomers at Palomar Observatory in November 2003.

spacetoday.net: Large planetoid found in outer solar system

Police and public health officials said they had received "a number of calls" so far from people who felt they might be affected by the recall of meat as well as from horrified members of the public.

mmm...Soylent Green.

Calgary Herald - canada.com network

The US House of Representatives just passed a law ("The Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act", but nicknamed the Cheeseburger law) that would protect companies that sell junk food (McDonalds, Burger King, and so on) from obesity lawsuits. A few of these lawsuits have been much in the news lately, using the much-derided argument that "the company made me eat it" through its marketing campaign and pricing policies. While judges have quickly thrown out the few such lawsuits that have come to them, the food companies and the beneficiaries of their campaign funds in the legislature rammed through the bill, supported by the White House. (It still has to pass the Senate, which is considered unlikely.)

Its odd that now that the smoking war is more or less settled, the fat police have picked up the torch. No one eats junk food because it is healthy. Fat food, cigarettes and drugs are all about a dopamine fix. The damage that occurs is largely the fault of the abuser.

Oligopoly Watch

"It (the auction) was pulled as soon as we were aware of it. Anything illegal is against our policies. There is no room for human trafficking" on Ebay, he said. µ

Well...Somebody had to do it.

Idiot has a crack at white slavery on EBay

"Mr Blair and Mr Bush must do some reflection _ you can't organise a war with lies," he said in his first radio interview after ousting the ruling conservative People's party in a Sunday election dominated by the terror attacks on trains that killed 200 Madrid commuters last week.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Spanish leader accuses Bush and Blair

Decius wrote:
] ] Researchers are reporting new evidence supporting their
] ] earlier discovery of an inexpensive "tabletop" device
] ] that uses sound waves to produce nuclear fusion
] ] reactions.
] ]
] ] The researchers believe the new evidence shows that
] ] "sonofusion" generates nuclear reactions by creating tiny
] ] bubbles that implode with tremendous force. Nuclear
] ] fusion reactors have historically required large,
] ] multibillion-dollar machines, but sonofusion devices
] ] might be built for a fraction of that cost.
]
]
] Freakin cool

Finally... Its about time we made Mr. Fusion.

RE: Evidence bubbles over to support tabletop nuclear fusion device

Neat, but sort of dissapointing. I didn't know nasa might doctor the photos before publishing them without giving notification.

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