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Lemming sheep

450 sheep jump to their death in Turkey. ISTANBUL, Turkey - First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported. In

London

Someone bombed my favourite city. Three bombs in the London Underground system, one on a double decker bus. A series of bomb attacks on London's transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others. Three explosions on the Underground left 35 dead, two died

Insecure passwords rampant

Computer passwords 'up for grabs'. Half of IT managers employed by large-sized companies believe it would be relatively easy to gain the core passwords for their computer systems. That is the warning of a survey by IT security firm Cyber-Ark. It said that 10% of firms never changed

Vanishing lake and talcum-tracking dogs

Vanishing lake baffles Russians Residents of a village in central Russia are trying to solve the mystery of a lake that disappeared overnight. Russia's NTV channel showed a huge, muddy basin where the lake once was, in the village of Bolotnikovo. "It looks like somebody has pulled

Blog content ownership

Hubby brought home this Information Week article for me to read: The Weblog Question. When Mark Jen started working for Google Inc. earlier this month, one of the first things he did was create a Weblog where he discussed, among other things, his impressions of a Google sales meeting. It

Saturday random

Start off with thick snow. An hour later it's all melted but the wind is up. Then it tries to rain for a bit, but goes back to icy wind. A little more snow, which melts (somehow, it's below freezing again), an abortive attempt at tiny

UK Blogs to read

Found two nifty blogs linked from a BBC article about blogging. The article starts with Queen of the Sky, a blogger fired when her employer spotted a picture it didn't like on her blog. Random Acts of Reality is a blog written by "an E.M.T

National smoking ban

Bhutan to stub out tobacco sales. Excellent news! The remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has decided to ban all tobacco products from Wednesday, a government notification says. Shops, hotels, restaurants and bars selling tobacco products have been ordered to dispose of existing stocks before 17 December. The tobacco ban will

Chocolate Wars

Unrest blocks Ivory Coast cocoa. We are in serious trouble. Shipments of cocoa from Ivory Coast, the world's biggest producer, remain blocked following three days of unrest. The country's two ports were shut down on Monday, after a ceasefire broke down and French bombing of the

Required ranting

Song for the day: Tears for Fears "Everybody wants to rule the world." Watching the BBC interactive election map thing last night was addictive. Frequent downloads of new information, states flashing red, blue, or grey, predictions and assumptions flying. Kerry has officially conceded so Bush wins, also winning

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