"A man has been jailed for 50 days for dissecting his daughter's guinea pig believing it was a government spy."
""It's not often you have someone this paranoid from using drugs that they think a guinea pig is spying on them for the government," Deputy District Attorney Tom Connors said. The paranoia was apparently a byproduct of Zavala's methamphetamine use, not mental illness."

Its the government I tell you... They're in it with the hamsters and the mice!!!

Man jailed for killing guinea pig he thought was a spy

Men have eagerly embodied their reputation as the sexually enthusiastic half of the population, and yet this study seems to suggest that women, deep down, are really thirsting for more. But, according to one of the study's coauthors, Northwestern psychology department chairman J. Michael Bailey, the study really just reinforces what we already know: Men are sexually simple, and women are not. "I think it really shows us how much we don't know about women more than it shows us what we do know," he says.

Interesting article about sexuality and the different means of arousal for the various gender roles.

What do women want?

] A malicious worm that exploits last month's RPC
] DCOM vulnerability struck the Internet Monday
] afternoon, targeting unpatched Windows 2000 and
] Windows XP machines.
]
] The worm, dubbed "Blaster" and "LovSan" by security
] and anti-virus companies, attacks vulnerable
] machines over TCP port 135, then spawns a shell
] and initiates a TFTP file transfer to retrieve the
] worm's code.

Well get ready the worm is set to DoS windowsupdate.microsoft.com starting this Saturday, 09/15/2003. For more information Symantec has a good write up on the worm at http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

SecurityFocus HOME News: RPC DCOM Worm Hits the Net

] Like many teenage girls in Minneapolis, 17-year-old
] Stacey liked to hang out after school at the Mall of
] America, Minnesota's vast shopping megaplex. Cute,
] blond and chatty, she flirted with boys and tried on
] the latest Gap fashions. One day last summer, Stacey,
] which isn’t her real name, says she was approached by
] a man who told her how pretty she was, and asked if he
] could buy her some clothes. “He was an older guy,
] dressed really well,” she recalls. “He said he just
] wanted to see me in the clothes.” Stacey agreed, and
] went home that night with a $250 outfit.

Newsweek - This Could Be Your Kid

] WACKY newlyweds Simon and Paula Hand amazed friends and
] family when they held their wedding reception at
] McDonalds.
]
] The crazy couple ditched tradition in favour of the fast
] food restaurant - and celebrated with Big Macs on their
] big day.

Stockport Express - News | A Happy Meal for the happy couple

] But their families aren't the only people college
] freshmen miss. Many female students, especially, suffer
] from "friendsickness," according to a new study.
]
] These students can cope with their changing high school
] friendships by making new friends while remaining loyal
] to the old, said researchers from Pennsylvania State
] University.
]
] "Because a student's peer group is the single most
] powerful influence on personal growth during the
] undergraduate years, colleges and universities have a
] responsibility to help first-year students adjust to
] their new social environment," said Jennifer Crissman
] Ishler, assistant professor of counselor education. "This
] is especially true at large universities where many
] first-year student classes contain hundreds of students."

local6.com - Family - College Freshmen Suffer From 'Friendsickness'

This is the page that announces the winners from last weekend's Def Con "Wi-Fi Shootout", where the competition was to see what's the farthest distance that someone could pick up a wireless signal with a commercial or homemade antenna.

At Def Con closing ceremonies, we heard that the winner (with a homemade antenna) weighed in with an impressive 35.2 mile range. Unfortunately though, they didn't have pics of the antennas to show us. This URL, however, *does* have more details and pics of some of the various contraptions that were assembled in the Nevada desert.

Congrats to the winners!

Defcon Wireless Shootout

Last week, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in New Mexico finished testing the system on human volunteers. The Air Force now wants to use this Active Denial Technology (ADT), which it says is non-lethal, for peacekeeping or riot control at "relatively long range" - possibly from low-flying aircraft.

Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds (New Scientist)

] For all they share economically and culturally, Canada
] and the United States are increasingly at odds on basic
] social policies -- to the point that at least a few
] discontented Americans are planning to move north and try
] their neighbors' way of life.

A few interesting points, but I don't think I will be making the move.

CNN.com - Dismayed Americans contemplate Canada - Jul. 19, 2003

Elonka wrote:
] crankymessiah wrote:
] ] ] LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An armada of small, faded
] ] ] yellow toy ducks is expected to make landfall in Britain
] ] ] within weeks at the end of an epic 11-year voyage from
] ] ] the Pacific Ocean.
] ] ]
] ] ] They are the survivors of a consignment of 29,000 bath
] ] ] toys washed overboard from a container ship in 1992 that
] ] ] have since floated across the ocean, round the United
] ] ] States, through the Arctic and past Greenland.
]
] My first reaction when I saw this was, "hoax?" But I dug into
] it, and it seems to be real. There's a webpage here with
] links to the various stories about the ducks:
] http://www.seabean.com/duckies/
]
] And a "beachcomber" site that even has an executable which
] tracks the locations of the ducks over time (it ran in
] full-screen mode on XP, though your mileage may vary on other
] OSes):
]
] http://www.beachcombers.org/images/images.htm
] (click on North Pacific Toy Spill)
]
] And here's a pic of one of the washed ashore ducks:
] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/31/eveningnews/ma
] in566138.shtml
]
] In my mind's eye, I was picturing a flotilla of rubber ducks
] dotting the waves as far as the eye could see, but it's
] actually probably more like an asteroid field, where you could
] go days without seeing one, even if you're right in the center
] of "duck-density". ;)
]
] Fun story!

The CNN link is now dead but the other info is great! Thanks Elonka

RE: CNN.com - England braces for rubber duck invasion - Jul. 26, 2003