MILITANTPLATYPUS

Owner Cassia Aparecida de Souza says her moggie Mimi got pregnant after mating with a neighbour’s dog.

Cassia, 18, says Mimi had a litter of six babies — three cat-like and the rest looking like dogs.

There are you subtle signs of the apocolypse and there are your not so subtle signs of the apocolypse.

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Microsoft’s forthcoming digital music player, dubbed Zune, may make some Hebrew speakers gasp. The name for the device — which will take on the Apple iPod when released later this year — sounds like a vulgarity, specifically the “f” word, in Hebrew.

Kinda reminds me of the whole Mexica Chevy Nova debacle..
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LONDON - Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday on its Web site, raising questions about his victory.

The Swiss-based Phonak team said it was notified by the UCI on Wednesday that Landis’ sample showed “an unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone” when he was tested after stage 17 of the race last Thursday.

Landis made a remarkable comeback in that Alpine stage, racing far ahead of the field for a solo win that moved him from 11th to third in the overall standings. He regained the leader’s yellow jersey two days later

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This is frightening. I can’t say it any other way. Ignorance is killing this country, and Senator Ted Stevens is leadin the charge.

• There’s one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.
  
  But this service isn’t going to go through the interent and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.
  
  Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?

• I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
  
  Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.

• So you want to talk about the consumer? Let’s talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren’t using it for commercial purposes.
• We aren’t earning anything by going on that internet. Now I’m not saying you have to or you want to discrimnate against those people
• The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says “No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet”. No, I’m not finished. I want people to understand my position, I’m not going to take a lot of time. [?]
• They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck.
  
  It’s a series of tubes.
  
  And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

• Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?
  
  Do you know why?
  
  Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can’t afford getting delayed by other people.

Ted Stevens MP3 direct link - 10 minutes

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On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a nuclear missile launch facility, and began beating the silo cover with hammers, in an attempt to take the Minuteman III missile off-line. Seriously.

I can’t make this stuff up!
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Microsoft’s UAC (User Account Control) may be your new bestfriend, or your worst enemy.

Beta 2 testers can expect to encounter an obtrusive security feature, called User Account Control (UAC). Designed to prevent intruders from performing harmful tasks, the feature grays out the computer screen, then prods you to confirm that you really want to do certain functions.

In early test versions, the queries crop up so often that they interrupt routine tasks, such as changing the time clock or deleting shortcuts.

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A great article by Michael Righi on Dell’s inclusion of My Way Search Assistant (well know spyware) in the pre-installation of brand new computers.

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For $350 USD, you can take your chances in the real world with this lomo rig.

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A VERY scary story about our Credit Card industry.

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