] A special investigation by the BBC has revealed that
] British Airways was used without its knowledge to host a
] website advertising Russian mail order brides.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Spam peddlers hijack computers

] DES MOINES, Iowa - A woman bought a bag of potato chips
] at a convenience store but discovered more than munchies
] in the bag.
]
] Lois Campbell, 42, of Des Moines, opened the small sack
] of Uncle Ray's garlic-flavored chips Saturday and found
] another bag inside.
]
] "We were eating a few of the chips, and I was about to
] give some to a 3-year-old child," Campbell said. "I
] thought it was a little bag of seasoning inside. When I
] saw what it was, I called the police."
]
] A police report said the contents of the heat-sealed bag
] smelled like marijuana.

At least she had the munchies covered.

Yahoo! News - Bag of Chips Contains More Than Munchies

] Police are sticking phosphorescent safety strips on the
] camels of the Negev desert to make them more visible to
] drivers, after a growing number of nighttime crashes in
] which people and camels have died.

WTOPNEWS.com | Reflective Strips Used to Protect Camels

] Microsoft Word documents are notorious for containing
] private information in file headers which people would
] sometimes rather not share. The British government of
] Tony Blair just learned this lesson the hard way.

Microsoft Word bytes Tony Blair in the butt

] On February 10 Marion County deputies were called to
] William Frank Reese's home for a domestic disturbance.
] When they got there they found Mr. Reese bleeding from
] the leg and Tommie Lorene Burnette bleeding from the face
] and ears.
]
] Sheriff Bo Burnette, no relation to the woman involved
] with this case, said she was a girlfriend, but Mr. Reese
] told NewsChannel 9 she was a "live-in housekeeper."

Just how exactly does your housekeeper get close enough to bite your nutsack?

News Channel 9: Charges Dropped In Scrotum Biting Case

This link is basically slashdotted right now... I don't think these people really understand exactly how much people do not like telemarketing... Anyway, hopefully it will clear up in a few hours and we can get registered...

National Do Not Call List Online

You can even become a minister online!

Beer Church Ordination

] One of four college students who were accused of trading
] songs online and settled lawsuits in early May with the
] music industry has managed to collect his entire $12,000
] fine on the Internet.
]
] Jesse Jordan, 19, a sophomore this fall at Rensselaer
] Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., saw his cause picked
] up by the popular Web site Slashdot.org (motto: "News for
] Nerds. Stuff that matters"). Money began pouring in,
] "anywhere from 10 cents to $500. I never expected to
] raise the whole thing. People are very generous," says
] Jordan.
]
] "Where the money comes from doesn't matter," says Matt
] Oppenheim of the Recording Industry Association of
] America. "Have we deterred these people and others from
] engaging in this kind of behavior? Clearly we have."

Clearly Matt Oppenheim smokes crack.

Laughing Boy

Fined student gets donations to tune of $12K

] Speaking of Lavigne, she took her chance in the press
] room to lightly make fun of herself as she turned around
] and pulled her pants down an inch to show off the crack
] of her posterior where the letters 'MMVA' had been
] written. This was a joke aiming back at last year's MMVAs
] when Lavigne nearly lost her pants during a performance
] and ended up parading through most of her song with her
] rear exposed.

Well since the news is making a big deal over this I might as well pass it on.

The GATE's News File: Avril Lavigne Bares It Again @ The MMVAs

] SUMMARY: A new study confirms what researchers have
] suspected for some time -- women may prefer to date one
] gender or the other, but they get sexually aroused by
] both.

Yahoo! News - Study: Females get aroused by both sexes