CNN.com - Text messaging�boom leads to digit damage - Feb 22, 2006

Last March Scottish factory worker Craig Crosbie was crowned the world's fastest texter after he took just 48 seconds to type out the 160-character message: 'The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.'
-CNN.com

Wow. I love Texting but I hate Texting.

Bodies burned in open after Nigeria riots kill 138

Christian youths burned the corpses of Muslims on Thursday on the streets of Onitsha in southeastern Nigeria, the city worst hit by religious riots that have killed at least 138 people across the country in five days.
Christian mobs, seeking revenge for the killings of Christians in the north, attacked Muslims with cutlasses, destroyed their houses and torched mosques in two days of violence in Onitsha, where at least 85 people have died.
'We are very happy that this thing is happening so that the north will learn their lesson,' said Anthony Umai, a motorcycle taxi rider, standing close to where Christian youths had piled up the corpses of 10 Muslims and were burning them.
-Reuters.com

Something Something what is the world coming to.... Something Something else Christians don't live the true principles given to them just as much as Moslems don't live those true principles given to them.

Historian Pleads Guilty in Holocaust Trial

Irving, 67, has been in custody since his November arrest on charges stemming from two speeches he gave in Austria in 1989 in which he was accused of denying the Nazis' extermination of 6 million Jews. He has contended that most of those who died at concentration camps such as Auschwitz succumbed to diseases such as typhus rather than execution.
A verdict was expected later Monday, with a conviction almost certain because of Irving's guilty plea. He faces up to 10 years in prison under the 1992 law, which applies to 'whoever denies, grossly plays down, approves or tries to excuse the National Socialist genocide or other National Socialist crimes against humanity in a print publication, in broadcast or other media.'

Associated Press

I don't really know what to make of this. I mean- I think the guy's an idiot who got caught being an idiot but at the same time- that law is a blatant abridgement of freedom of speech. However, it being a blatant abridgement, its existence flies in the face of those who are defending the publication of the blasphemous cartoons(which I haven't seen). I don't know. Does anyone have some insight for my troubled mind?

Rice Is Seeking Millions to Prod Changes in Iran

The scope of the administration's effort goes beyond the numbers. Until now, the United States has been cautious about supporting dissident groups, fearful that Iranians may view these efforts as an echo of past American meddling in Iran's affairs. Though no one uses the words "regime change" to describe the ultimate American goal, that term has been used by conservatives in Congress who have in the last few years pressed for aid to Iranian dissidents.
-New York Times

Well yeah- we're dumping 85 Million dollars into dissident groups and then we expect them to forget our overthrowing their government? How does that one work?

Salt Lake

Here's a magazine article that I've been meaning to scan since....August? Yeah. So here it is. By the way- on the day I bought said magazine, I was mountainbiking the trail in the picture. Because I'm just that cool.

CNN.com - Kiss of life makes Boo Boo the chicken better - Feb 8, 2006

"Marian Morris said she hadn't had any practice with CPR in years, but she was interested to see if she 'still had it.'
'I breathed into its beak, and its dadgum eyes popped open,' Morris said. 'I breathed into its beak again, and its eyes popped open again. I said, 'I think this chicken's alive now. Keep it warm.'

CNN.com

Wow. An almost lifeless chicken and the word 'dadgum' all in one article.

CNN.com - Kiss of life makes Boo Boo the chicken better - Feb 8, 2006

"Marian Morris said she hadn't had any practice with CPR in years, but she was interested to see if she 'still had it.'
'I breathed into its beak, and its dadgum eyes popped open,' Morris said. 'I breathed into its beak again, and its eyes popped open again. I said, 'I think this chicken's alive now. Keep it warm.'
CNN.com

Wow. An almost lifeless chicken and the word 'dadgum' all in one article.

CNN.com - Mine deaths spur call for 'stand-down' - Feb 1, 2006

Two miners died at two Boone County, West Virginia, mines Wednesday, including one man who was driving a bulldozer that struck a gas line and burst into flames, a federal spokesman said.
The bulldozer fatality occurred about 2:30 p.m. south of Charleston at the Elk Run's Black Castle strip mine in Drawdy, said Dirk Fillpot of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.
CNN.com

In the Tipping Point- by Malcolm Gladwell, the author discusses the tendency of suicides to come in packs- epidemic style. You see the same tendencies in auto accidents. Single car accidents come in packs. Interesting- and wierd.