Woman Reportedly Finds Snake in Her Bed (AP)

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Woman Checks Under Hood, Finds Snake
(AP)

Woman Checks Under Hood, Finds Snake
(AP) 09/10/2004 04:54 PM
AP - A northern New York woman taking a used car out for a test drive found a little something extra under the hood: A 3-foot snake.

Woman Reportedly Puts Ice in Maid's Bra
(AP)

Woman Reportedly Puts Ice in Maid's Bra
(AP) 06/30/2004 07:25 PM
AP - A 30-year-old mother of two was jailed for 14 weeks for kicking her maid and putting ice cubes down her underwear in the latest case of maid abuse in Singapore, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.

"Woman reportedly cursed with falling
stones"

"Woman reportedly cursed with falling
stones" 08/05/2004 08:39 AM

Woman Finds Ring 45 Years Later (AP)

Woman Finds Ring 45 Years Later (AP) 06/09/2004 09:10 AM
AP - Ann Cummings got a surprise gift for her 50th wedding anniversary: the engagement ring she lost 45 years ago. But exactly how it resurfaced remained a mystery.

Woman Looking for Cat Finds Fake Grenade
(AP)

Woman Looking for Cat Finds Fake Grenade
(AP) 09/22/2004 06:55 PM
AP - A woman looking for a cat in an abandoned house came across what appeared to be a grenade dangling from the ceiling of a room and apparently rigged to explode if someone came through a window, a State Police sergeant said Wednesday.

Woman Finds Mouse in Soup on Mother's
Day (AP)

Woman Finds Mouse in Soup on Mother's
Day (AP) 05/10/2004 04:23 PM
AP - A woman out for an early Mother's Day lunch at the Cracker Barrel restaurant found a mouse in her vegetable soup. The woman had already eaten some of the soup on Saturday when she scooped up the mouse.

Woman Finds Crocodile on Her Front Porch
(AP)

Woman Finds Crocodile on Her Front Porch
(AP) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
AP - A 3-foot long crocodile was left on a woman's porch with a note saying "please feed me."

Woman finds finger in Wendy's chili

Woman finds finger in Wendy's chili 03/24/2005 12:05 AM
David Pescovitz: No, it's not an urban legend. Yesterday, a woman at a Wendy's in Santa Clara, California put a spoonful of chili in her mouth, paused, and spit out a human fingertip. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Martin Fenstersheib said today the woman was horrified "due to the unpleasant sensation of having this (object) in her mouth...."

The restaurant at 1405 Monterey Highway was temporarily closed Tuesday night to allow health officials to impound the remaining chili, which was prepared on site, using a variety of ingredients. Health officials also seized all of the restaurant's remaining stock of ingredients, which will be inspected, and traced back to their manufacturer.

Since all of the workers at the restaurant were in possession "of all 10 of their fingers," health inspectors assume the finger likely entered the food chain as a result of the manufacturing process, according to county Environmental Resources Director Ben Gale.

Link (Thanks, Dr. Maz!)

Woman finds kidney donor online

Woman finds kidney donor online 06/17/2005 04:30 PM
Greeleytrib.com - Fri Jun 17, 11:20 am GMT

Woman Finds Buckeye Trees Stripped of
Nuts (AP)

Woman Finds Buckeye Trees Stripped of
Nuts (AP) 09/24/2004 04:14 PM
AP - Sarah Young woke one morning to find her buckeye tree stripped bare of nuts. Was it the work of busy squirrels or a buckeye bandit? Young suspects the latter. "It's nuts!" Young said. "I want my buckeyes back."

Woman finds freedom laws mean no free
man (Reuters)

Woman finds freedom laws mean no free
man (Reuters) 03/19/2005 02:20 AM
Reuters - When the government introduced its new freedom of information laws, Angela Wright seized on them as a chance to find an unattached man in uniform.

Woman Photographs Swan, Finds Hand Stuck
in Ice (Reuters)

Woman Photographs Swan, Finds Hand Stuck
in Ice (Reuters) 04/07/2005 09:49 AM
Reuters - A Swedish woman who photographed a swan in the river outside the royal palace in Stockholm made a grim discovery when the film was developed: a hand sticking out of the ice.

Britain Woman Finds Freedom Laws Mean No
Free Man (Reuters)

Britain Woman Finds Freedom Laws Mean No
Free Man (Reuters) 03/19/2005 02:20 AM
Reuters - When Britain introduced its new freedom of information laws, Angela Wright seized on them as a chance to find an unattached man in uniform.

Snake Quest 1.1

Snake Quest 1.1 05/03/2004 03:12 PM
This is an addictive game that follows in the line of classic snake games.

the snake comes out of the dirt

the snake comes out of the dirt 08/16/2004 12:19 PM
AN AMAZING JAPANESE ANIMATION based on the psychologically complicated and beautifully playful work of comic book artist Jim Woodring. (Monday morning cartoons for you, complete with a nod to the Jetsons, courtesy the Japan Media Arts Festival. Other featured work here.)

Snake Handler

Snake Handler 08/17/2004 03:39 PM

Just got back from my first bike ride since havin g surgery a few months back, and it felt great to hit the road again. I'm definitely out of shape compared to before the surgery - in my bike shorts, I probably looked like a can of biscuits exploded - but I did manage to ride the hills without keeling over.

The highlight of the ride was when I saw this little feller in the road:

Yes, that's a rattlesnake, and it's actually the second time I've seen one while biking. The first time was much more memorable. See, I had gone for a longer ride that time, and had to stop for a nature call. No restroom was in sight, so I climbed down an embankment where I would be hidden from passers-by. I had barely started to take care of business when I heard a very loud rattle directly in front of me. Back then I had no idea there were rattlesnakes here in Tennessee, but there was no mistaking that sound. I looked up to see a medium-sized rattler just a couple feet away, coiled up and looking very angry at me for soiling his favorite resting place.

Now, for the sake of my female readers, I should explain that when a guy is exposed like that, he definitely doesn't want to see something with sharp fangs staring at him.

Luckily, I was able to back away - veerrryyy slowly - and avoid an embarrassing bite.

Not long after that ride, I was biking in the very same spot when an owl suddenly swooped down in front in me, grabbed a snake that was hiding in some grass, then flew back in front of me with the snake dangling from its talons. I remember thinking to myself, "I hope that's the same damn snake that surprised me."

Snake in the Grass?

Snake in the Grass? 12/19/2003 02:26 PM
Rally the Real Grassroots? Many Americans look to the Dean Campaign and MoveOn.org as a new kind of grassroots politics, but is there model really that unique? The Chrsitian Coalition has been organizing along similiar lines without the internet for years, and now the Bush Campaign is throwing their hat in the grassroots ring after sending out this e-mail: [text inside]

Snake Oil From China

Snake Oil From China 01/03/2005 05:56 PM
One of the world's premier automotive headline makers hatches a familiar scheme.

Anti-BitTorrent snake-oil

Anti-BitTorrent snake-oil 08/22/2004 07:29 AM
Cory Doctorow: Aconix, a "security firm" has a new product that lets corporations block BitTorrent packets (Q. Er, like a firewall rule? A. Yeah, like that, except more expensive). In order to promote it, they're telling lies about BitTorrent, telling their customers that BitTorrent users can "inadvertently share files containing sensitive information, and the P2P application installer may automatically share files or folders -- including password files -- without the user's knowledge," which is simply untrue. What this "product" does is block access to a file-transfer protocol that is widely used in many different fields, from providing Congressional hearings footage to delivering urgently needed software like the Windows XP Service Pack 2, to shipping entire operating systems like the many Linux distros that circulate via BT.

"In today's corporate environment, there are very few legitimate business uses for consumer P2P file sharing," said Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research. "Unauthorized activity within an enterprise network creates situations in which companies run the risk of security leaks or illegal activity. Products like Akonix Enforcer allow IT departments to block and monitor all P2P activity, removing another security concern from IT managers and freeing up network bandwidth for legitimate business communications."

"BitTorrent is a growing and popular P2P file-sharing network, particularly for movie files. In addition to the risk of music copyright violation, disclosure of corporate data and potential virus infection, BitTorrent users expose their company to potential legal action from organizations like the Motion Picture Association of America," said Francis Costello, chief marketing officer at Akonix Systems. "We are continuously working with more than 250 customers, including three of the largest global media companies, to address the latest security threats from file sharing. Blocking users of the BitTorrent network provides our customers with the most complete solution for managing P2P available."

Companies like this are the reason so many enterprise users treat corporate IT as damage and route around them. Link (via Waxy)

Man Charged With Tossing Snake Into Bar
(AP)

Man Charged With Tossing Snake Into Bar
(AP) 06/16/2004 07:26 PM
AP - A man accused of tossing a rattlesnake into a bar has been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon. Rodger Hunter, 28, was arrested Monday night and charged Tuesday. Witness Jeff Hewit said minutes after a man walked into Chic's Lounge, he pulled a 3-foot-6-inch snake from his pocket, threw it into the crowd and darted from the tavern.

Snake Handler Bitten During
Demonstration (AP)

Snake Handler Bitten During
Demonstration (AP) 05/21/2004 12:55 PM
AP - A snake handler showing a high school biology class how rattlesnakes strike was bitten by a timber rattler during a demonstration.

US lubes passports with RFID snake oil

US lubes passports with RFID snake oil 05/20/2004 08:45 AM
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Snake Causes Transformer Fire, Outage
(AP)

Snake Causes Transformer Fire, Outage
(AP) 06/04/2004 10:04 PM
AP - After avoiding power outages from recent storms, this community was plunged into darkness by a snake searching for a place to nap.

Texas Authorities Try to Corral Big
Snake (AP)

Texas Authorities Try to Corral Big
Snake (AP) 08/05/2004 05:25 PM
AP - A snake estimated to be long enough to stretch from one side of a street to the other is being hunted by Brenham authorities.

Will "Business Agents" Emerge From the
Snake Pit?

Will "Business Agents" Emerge From the
Snake Pit? 12/31/2004 11:04 AM
Microsoft's Don "Indigo" Box has a rather interesting Top 10 Predictions list.

Alice Cooper's Snake Eats Too Much (AP)

Alice Cooper's Snake Eats Too Much (AP) 08/06/2004 03:05 PM
AP - Alice the albino python had a little too much to eat for dinner.

Snake Skin Bean Breaker

Snake Skin Bean Breaker 09/02/2004 01:28 PM
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Snake Triggers Blackout in Honduras (AP)

Snake Triggers Blackout in Honduras (AP) 05/19/2004 07:24 PM
AP - A boa constrictor triggered a 15-minute nationwide blackout when it slithered into a generator at a major hydroelectric plant, officials said Wednesday.

Indonesia Claims to Have Largest Snake
(AP)

Indonesia Claims to Have Largest Snake
(AP) 12/30/2003 02:50 PM
AP - Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49 feet long and weighs nearly 990 pounds, a local official said.

Officials: World's Largest Snake Caught
(AP)

Officials: World's Largest Snake Caught
(AP) 12/29/2003 11:37 PM
AP - Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49.21 feet long and weighs nearly 992.07 pounds, a local official said Monday.

It takes a snake to prove that .NET is
fast for scripting

It takes a snake to prove that .NET is
fast for scripting 12/11/2003 07:18 AM
Some language experts have said publicly that scripting languages based on .NET and Java Bytecodes will always perform poorly due to limitations in bytecode design.

Jim Hugunin, contrarian to the core, has posted an email which suggests that .NET could possibly be faster than C by comparing Python written in C (CPython) with one written in .NET (IronPython). Jim is the original author of the Java implementation of Python (Jython), so he has the skills to back his claim.

If his claims are correct, I think that the push to move scripting languages (eg. PHP) to Parrot or similar bytecode systems which can be Just-In-Time compiled will accelerate.

World's longest snake comes up short
(Reuters)

World's longest snake comes up short
(Reuters) 01/07/2004 03:05 PM
Reuters - It's still a big snake, just not a record-breaker.

Mechanics Free Snake From Car's
Dashboard (AP)

Mechanics Free Snake From Car's
Dashboard (AP) 09/24/2004 06:18 PM
AP - When they train you to be an auto mechanic, they usually don't teach you what to do about the constrictor. Mechanics in a Philadelphia garage had to figure out how to handle one, an eight-foot, 45-pound boa constrictor that was trapped for about 18 hours inside a car dashboard.

Snake Surprises Okla. Newspaper Carrier
(AP)

Snake Surprises Okla. Newspaper Carrier
(AP) 08/30/2004 08:49 PM
AP - James Fletcher was delivering newspapers when he came very close to a large Western Diamondback rattle snake.

Apple Patent: Adjustable Screen Snake
Arm

Apple Patent: Adjustable Screen Snake
Arm 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
MacObserver notes that Apple has been issued a patent for a "display device with moveable assembly." MacObserver reposted photos of the display arm...

World's longest snake goes on show
(Reuters)

World's longest snake goes on show
(Reuters) 12/30/2003 08:32 AM
Reuters - A recreation park in Indonesia is displaying a 15-metre (49 feet) python -- making it the longest ever captured -- that was revered as a tribal ruler and has a huge appetite for dogs.

Men Face Charge for Mailing Poison Snake
(AP)

Men Face Charge for Mailing Poison Snake
(AP) 01/27/2004 11:31 AM
AP - Two men accused of mailing a poisonous snake to a man upset over an allegedly faulty ATV are preparing to plead guilty to reduced charges.

Playful Mac virus a snake in Apple Eden

Playful Mac virus a snake in Apple Eden 04/13/2004 10:06 AM

Itsy-Bitsy Spider Catches ... a Snake
(Reuters)

Itsy-Bitsy Spider Catches ... a Snake
(Reuters) 07/12/2004 07:40 AM
Reuters - A Chinese house spider sitting on its web waiting for lunch got the biggest helping of its life -- it caught a snake.
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Okla. Man Loses, Then Recovers
$11,000 (AP)

Okla. Man Loses, Then Recovers
$11,000 (AP) 05/05/2004 09:12 PM
AP - Tom McAnally lost and found $11,000 in one day. The painter from Tennessee had completed some big jobs and hadn't been home to make a bank deposit.

Okla. City Bomb Ingredients Unrestricted
(AP)

Okla. City Bomb Ingredients Unrestricted
(AP) 06/11/2004 03:54 PM
AP - Despite the Oklahoma City bombing nearly a decade ago and repeated warnings from terrorism experts, the government has yet to follow up on a recommendation that buyers of ammonium nitrate fertilizer be required to show ID.

Ohio St. Tops Okla. St. to Win Alamo
Bowl (AP)

Ohio St. Tops Okla. St. to Win Alamo
Bowl (AP) 12/30/2004 12:55 AM
AP - Ohio State didn't miss starting quarterback Troy Smith a bit. Justin Zwick stepped in for the suspended Smith and threw for 189 yards and a touchdown, and Ted Ginn Jr. and Lydell Ross each scored, leading No. 24 Ohio State to a 33-7 victory over Oklahoma State in the Alamo Bowl on Wednesday night.

Defense Rests in Nichols' Okla. Trial
(AP)

Defense Rests in Nichols' Okla. Trial
(AP) 05/21/2004 07:00 AM
AP - Prosecutors called rebuttal witnesses to attack key elements of the defense put forth for Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols at his state murder trial.

Okla. Police Search for Headstone's Home
(AP)

Okla. Police Search for Headstone's Home
(AP) 08/19/2004 04:10 AM
AP - Capt. Jim Nivison thought he had figured out where the headstone, found outside a local restaurant over the weekend, belonged. The Bureau of Vital Statistics in Oklahoma City had linked the stone bearing the name Merle Porter to a rural cemetery in Alfalfa County. Pellow Monument Co. even agreed to return it there, Nivison said Wednesday.

Tribal Police Raid Okla. Headquarters

Tribal Police Raid Okla. Headquarters 01/03/2004 01:00 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 3 2004 12:37PM ET

Okla. Man Shoves Head Through Fish Tank
(AP)

Okla. Man Shoves Head Through Fish Tank
(AP) 07/13/2004 08:41 PM
AP - When residents of an Edmond neighborhood saw a bloodied man stumbling down the street, they thought he had been hit by a car, police said. Instead, Derrick Simpson had apparently intentionally crashed his head through a fish aquarium, according to police spokeswoman Glynda Chu.

Nichols Trial Witness Recalls Okla.
Blast (AP)

Nichols Trial Witness Recalls Okla.
Blast (AP) 04/16/2004 05:04 AM
AP - Fighting back tears, Richard Nichols testified how his wife and nephew had driven up to the lobby of an apartment building as a bomb went off outside the Oklahoma City federal building.

Judge halts sale of Okla. Indian oil
lands

Judge halts sale of Okla. Indian oil
lands 09/02/2004 12:35 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Thu Sep 2, 03:13 am GMT

Nichols Escapes Death as Okla. Jury
Deadlocks

Nichols Escapes Death as Okla. Jury
Deadlocks 06/12/2004 09:34 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 12 2004 1:38PM GMT

Nichols Escapes Death as Okla Jury
Deadlocks

Nichols Escapes Death as Okla Jury
Deadlocks 06/12/2004 04:37 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 12 2004 7:46AM GMT

Okla. Jury Deadlocks, Nichols to Get
Life Sentence

Okla. Jury Deadlocks, Nichols to Get
Life Sentence 06/11/2004 09:09 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 12 2004 1:39AM GMT

State Can Seek Death for Nichols in
Okla. Bombing (Reuters)

State Can Seek Death for Nichols in
Okla. Bombing (Reuters) 05/24/2004 05:19 PM
Reuters - Prosecutors can seek the death penalty in the state murder trial of Oklahoma City conspirator Terry Nichols for the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people at the U.S. federal building, a judge ruled on Monday.

Okla. Jury Deadlocks, Nichols to Get
Life Sentence (Reuters)

Okla. Jury Deadlocks, Nichols to Get
Life Sentence (Reuters) 06/11/2004 08:42 PM
Reuters - An Oklahoma jury on Friday ended three days of deliberations deadlocked, denying prosecutors their request to execute Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, and leaving it up to a judge to sentence him to life in prison.

Woman Reportedly Finds Snake in Her Bed (AP)

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