] An elderly man recently diagnosed with a brain tumor
] leaped to his death from a vintage airplane he rented to
] celebrate his 88th birthday, officials said Tuesday.
]
] Joseph Harold Frost took off his safety belt at 300 to
] 400 feet, stood up in the open cockpit of the two-seat
] biplane and went over the side Monday.
]
] "I think that was Dad's idea, to go out in a flash of
] glory," said Robert Frost, who had helped his father
] arrange the chartered flight on a biplane similar to the
] ones the elder Frost flew in World War II.
]
] The man landed on an apartment patio, horrifying those
] who witnessed it.
]
] "I saw him hit the power lines, heard trees breaking. I
] really thought it wasn't real," Cynthia Lankford said.

Im not sure that is a flash of glory.

Ill senior dies in jump from birthday biplane flight

] CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Drinking in moderation appears
] to reduce heart-related deaths in men with high blood
] pressure, new research suggests, challenging the belief
] among many doctors that alcohol should be off-limits to
] such patients.
]
] In the study, men with high blood pressure who reported
] having about one or two drinks a day were 44 percent less
] likely to die of cardiovascular causes such as heart
] attacks than men with hypertension who rarely or never
] drank.

Ill drink to that! :)

CNN.com - Study: Drinking may cut hypertensives' heart risk

] Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has accused Osama
] bin Laden's top deputy of taunting him and vowed to press
] on with an offensive against al Qaeda, saying, "I want to
] eliminate all of them."

Do not taunt happy fun ball.

CNN.com - Musharraf: Al Qaeda is taunting me

] GAZA CITY (CNN) -- New Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi
] delivered a fiery speech at a memorial service Sunday for
] his slain predecessor, blasting Israel for its
] Palestinian policies and calling U.S. President Bush "an
] enemy of Muslims."
]
] "Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam, an enemy
] of Muslims," Rantisi said at Gaza's Islamic University,
] where thousands had gathered to remember Hamas founder
] Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who -- along with seven others --
] was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on Monday.
]
] "America declared war against God. Sharon declared war
] against God and God declared war against America, Bush
] and Sharon," Rantisi said. "The war of God continues
] against them and I can see the victory coming up from the
] land of Palestine by the hand of Hamas."

I think Bush is an enemy of Hamas Mr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi.

CNN.com - New Hamas leader: Bush is 'enemy of Muslims'

] BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An influential Shiite cleric in
] Iraq called Israel's targeted killing of the spiritual
] leader of Hamas a "dirty crime against Islam" and the
] terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, "a miracle from
] God."

I think this guys head is screwed on backwards.

CNN.com - Iraqi cleric calls 9/11 'miracle from God' - Mar 26, 2004

] But the PlayStation 6 should really rock.
]
] Some of the biggest changes, they assert, will center on
] the way players control and interact with games. Forget
] mashing the "X" button; future games will use cameras to
] read your body movements and facial expressions, plus
] microphones backed by advance speech recognition
] technology to recognize vocal commands. And perhaps
] they'll all be crammed into your personal entertainment
] robot, so the game sensors follow you wherever you go.

Sony plays up future of video games - News - ZDNet

] REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft plans to introduce a news
] aggregation service for Web logs and to develop a social
] networking product, a company executive said on Friday.
]
] Speaking at the company's annual online advertising
] conference, Yusuf Medhi, MSN's corporate vice president
] of information and merchant services, spoke about the
] company's "big investment" in search. He highlighted
] MSN's recent release of a search toolbar for the browser
] and its new News Search, which aims to deliver more
] relevant results using personalization.
]
] In addition, he flagged planned Web log and
] social-networking products, and said the Microsoft
] division plans to develop natural language-processing
] algorithms. This technology would permit visitors to ask
] questions such as "What's the highest mountain?" instead
] of using simple keywords.

Microsoft's aggressive search plans revealed - News - ZDNet

] ITHACA, NY—Michael Pelske changes his bed sheets after
] every breakup, the 24-year-old bicycle messenger
] announced Monday. "I'd never bring some woman I just met
] home to a set of filthy sheets," said Pelske, who changed
] his sheets Saturday before hitting the bars following his
] break-up with Linda Keely, his girlfriend of four months.
] "But then, a few weeks into the relationship, you start
] to let things like that slide." Pelske's cotton-twill,
] 180-thread-count, light-blue sheets have been washed 13
] times since his mother bought them for him in May 2001.

Sheets changed after every breakup

] BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Boonreung Buachan, holder
] of the Guinness Book of World Records title for spending
] the most time penned up with snakes, was killed by a
] cobra that bit him during his daily show, a hospital
] doctor said on Monday.
]
] Boonreung, 34 and dubbed Snake Man, was rushed
] unconscious to Prai Bung Hospital near his home town, 350
] miles northeast of Bangkok, Dr Wipa Praituan told
] Reuters.

This weeks Darwin award winner.

World Champion 'Snake Man' Killed by Cobra

] DETROIT (Reuters) - What day is it? Don't ask the driver
] of General Motors Corp.'s Pontiac Grand Prix.
]
] Due to a software glitch, the computer display in the
] 2004 model year Grand Prix shows the wrong day of the
] week, Pontiac spokesman Jim Hopson said on Monday.
] Engineers overlooked the fact that 2004 is a leap year,
] with an extra day,
]
] "Somehow or other, the fact that this was a leap year got
] missed," Hopson said. "We are working on a solution."

I wonder if they fixed the glitch on the software engineers paycheck.

Yahoo! News - GM to Fix 'Leap Year' Software Glitch in Pontiac