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Britain is having a heatwave. Britain has been basking in temperatures of up to 35.9C, falling just short of the all-time record.  Gravesend in Kent recorded the highest temperature of 35.9C, just 1.2C short of the national record hit in Cheltenham in 1990.  London reached 35.3C

BBC News article: Net access comes as standard. For the first time, UK internet access is being included in the telephone services that all customers should get as standard.  The new guidelines also demand that BT and Kingston Communications give all customers this net access at a minimum speed.  Users

"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was "Oh no, not again." Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about

Another BBC News story: EverQuest exposes cost of sexism.  Well, duh. EverQuest gives game players, both male and female, the chance to throw off their Earthly restrictions and become a hugely powerful warrior, sorceror, priest or monk in the online world of Norrath.  Some people also use it as an

Interesting piece in the BBC News today, Above the law: US bounty hunters. Multi-millionaire fugitive rapist Andrew Luster is back in police custody, but he was tracked down by an independent bounty hunter, not the authorities.  The bounty hunter in question, Duane "Dog" Chapman, could face charges of

A BBC News article recently talked about how long it would take the British armed forces to gear up for another war, all doom and gloom that we're out of bullets and Mars bars.  What caught me was the distribution of forces: Armed forces total206,930 Iraq45,000

The text of the Lieutenant- Colonel Tim Collins speech is also at the Times Online site.  Seems like a great number of people are searching for it and landing here. So here it is, as much as I can piece it together from the Times and the Telegraph.  Lieutenant Colonel

I heard Bush's speech last night in the car with Larry and Sarah, on the  way to the emergency animal clinic with their new cat, Bentley (who will be  fine after the antibiotics).  We rode in silence as he spoke: My fellow citizens, at this hour American and