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Man Loses License for Reckless Dog-Walking


The Associated Press
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:52 UTC
London - An English dog-owner has been fined after taking his pet for a stroll while driving next to the animal in his car.

Prosecutors said Paul Railton was spotted driving at low speed along a country lane in December, holding his dog's leash through the car window as the animal trotted alongside.

Railton pleaded guilty Monday to not being in proper control of a vehicle.

His attorney, Paul Donoghue, said the 23-year-old Railton acknowledged that "it was a silly thing to do and there was an element of laziness" while he was exercising his lurcher, a type of crossbred sighthound.
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Iran Develops Powerful Super-Binoculars To 'Spy On Israel'


Feedthemoon
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:20 UTC
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Aaanan Gissin, Israel's infamous Media advisor to Benjamin Netan-yahoo, looked the press-pack square in the eye, and jabbed a podgy finger of warning:

'Be in no doubt', he said, 'Tehran has the weapon, they have it! -And as we speak, I am in no doubt, they are watching us with those big binoculars.'

Many assembled press-men, followed his nervous glance toward the window, myself included.

'Oh yes, they watch us all the time,' he continued. 'They watch us as we drive our children to school, they watch our politicians as they draw up defensive plans to strike Iran, they could even, God forbid, watch us in our private moments.'
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During the course of his paranoid diatribe, Gissin seemed to be becoming more and more agitated. Eventually he broke:

'For God's sake, will someone please close those curtains!' he screamed.
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Ohio: Woman Gets Married, Has Baby on Same Day


The Associated Press
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:49 UTC
An Ohio woman taken to a maternity ward in her wedding dress became a newlywed and a new mom on the same day.

Jamie Phillips says she felt contractions while her father walked her down the aisle during her wedding ceremony Saturday in Toledo in northwest Ohio, but she thought it was a false alarm. It wasn't until after her water broke at the reception that she was rushed to a hospital in Sylvania.

The baby boy, named Tova, wasn't due until March 7. His mother and her new husband, Mark Phillips, didn't think the baby would come quite so soon when they planned the wedding two weeks earlier.
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It was only Rick'n'roll but we liked it (updated)

Jack Schofield
The Guardian
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:25 UTC
Rick Astley
© Mauro Carraro/Rex FeaturesRick Astley … still rocking, but no longer rolling?
Rickrolling - duping people into watching a Rick Astley video on YouTube - will no longer work in many cases because YouTube has removed the video [update: and has now restored it]

The rickroll, one of the internet's favourite memes, has been badly hit by the removal of the video on which it was based. Instead of being tricked into watching Rick Astley singing Never Gonna Give You Up, victims who click the link get a YouTube message: "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation".
Update: If you clicked the above link earlier, then you just might have been meta-rickrolled. It turns out that the video was removed by mistake, after YouTube suspended a user account flagged by a member of its spam team. So RickRoll'D is back, and it still has more than 30m views.
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Herhold: A dog's story

Gerry Herhold
MercuryNews.com
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:58 UTC
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© Herhold FamilyGerry, Scott Herhold's dog, will turn one year old on March 12, 2010.
You are, perhaps, surprised that I can write. Let me clear that up. I have a ghost writer: my human.

Unusual? I guarantee you the Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan, has a ghost writer. A guy who spends all his time around dogs needs one. So bury the skepticism, please.

You may know my story: I am a yellow Lab, born on March 12, 2009, in Bakersfield, a good place to be from. In a conspiracy engineered by my human's two sons, I arrived at my new San Jose household last Mother's Day, a surprise to my human's wife, Sarah.

For obvious reasons, her approval has not come easily. I'm a 75-pound Lab: I've dug a hole in the backyard and trashed the lawn. I've eaten a bicycle pedal, chewed the pillars of the house, barked noisily and destroyed two sets of earphones.

Sarah thinks I'm unaware that she sometimes refers to me as the "DD," for "damn dog." When she hands me a treat, she'll sometimes drop it in fear. But the other day, as she arrived home, I heard her say distinctly, "Hi, baby!"

"Hi, baby!" I think I've come a long way. Not as far as I'd like, but still, those two words bespeak an achievement for the canine race.
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Frustrated Ryanair passenger eats €10,000 winning scratchcard

Richard Gray
Irish Independent
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:26 UTC
An angry airline passenger ate a €10,000 winning scratchcard after he was told he could not claim the money immediately.

The unnamed man was flying with Ryanair from Krakow, in Poland, to East Midlands Airport when he won €10,000 with the scratch card.

Cabin crew on the flight confirmed he had a winning card, but told the passenger he would have to collect the jackpot directly from the company that runs the competition as they did not have enough cash on board the plane.

Ryanair said the man then became frustrated and started to eat his winning ticket while on the flight on Thursday.

His rash actions mean he has lost any chance of claiming the prize money, which will now be donated to charity.
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Joke of the day: Psychopath Blair haunted by bloodshed in Iraq


Raw Story
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:34 UTC
Tony Blair was so depressed after the Iraq war that the then British premier told Gordon Brown he would quit the following summer, only to renege on his pledge, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The physical and mental stress on Blair was so profound that he confided to friends he "spaced out" several times during his weekly session of parliamentary questions, according to a new book serialised in The Observer.

The End of the Party, by political journalist Andrew Rawnsley, claims Blair was haunted by the chaos and bloodshed in Iraq, coupled with the constant pressure from Brown, the then finance minister, to step aside.
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Space Impact: Meteor Shield lands on Ovi Store


Mobiletor.com
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:10 UTC
Nokia Game
© Mobiletor.comSpace Impact Game
The sky is set on fire and meteors start to rain down on Earth. Bringing a tour of what's happening in galaxy, Space Impact: Meteor Shield has just landed on planet Ovi Store for Nokia N97 and N97 Mini. Using the Nokia N97's digital compass the virtual world spins with the player.

The concept for the game is a simple arcade affair - players are planet Earth's last hope, and are tasked with taking the controls of a gun turret to protect the world from incoming showers of meteors and alien hordes.
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Bill Hicks: You are free, to do as we tell you!

macthaidhg
YouTube
Fri, 23 Oct 1992 12:19 UTC
"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye." - Bill Hicks 1961 - 1994 R.I.P.

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Best of the Web: The Love Police - Undercover Anti-Terror Squad

JohnNada80
YouTube
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:03 UTC
A compilation of clips by the 'Love Police' (Also known as the 'Everything is OK guys').
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