Zoo to inseminate "love" birds (Reuters)

Grok Headline matches for Zoo to inseminate "love" birds (Reuters)

Birds and bees inspire micro spy-plane
(Reuters)

Birds and bees inspire micro spy-plane
(Reuters) 02/18/2004 07:40 AM
Reuters - Scientists are studying the mechanics of insect flight in their development of a tiny spy aircraft no bigger than a bee.

Strange China stories strictly for the
birds (Reuters)

Strange China stories strictly for the
birds (Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Reuters - Sick birds are causing a flap in China in more ways than one.

China probes bizarre death of falling
birds (Reuters)

China probes bizarre death of falling
birds (Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Reuters - Chinese authorities have been quietly investigating the mysterious deaths of thousands of tiny birds said to have fallen from the sky over Communist Party chief Hu Jintao's birthplace, sources say.

Pigeon lovers hope nasty taste will save
birds (Reuters)

Pigeon lovers hope nasty taste will save
birds (Reuters) 08/21/2004 04:56 PM
Reuters - Pigeon fanciers, tired of having their prize racing birds snatched away by predators, have a plan to save them -- make them taste too nasty for other birds to eat.

Love is in the office air (Reuters)

Love is in the office air (Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Reuters - Whether it's a frisson by the filing cabinet, a gaze over bar graphs or hot flushes at the water-cooler, romance blossoms in the workplace for nearly two thirds of employees, according to a survey.

Workers Flock to Web to Say 'I Love
You!' (Reuters)

Workers Flock to Web to Say 'I Love
You!' (Reuters) 02/13/2004 04:00 PM
Reuters - U.S. workers this year are rushing to the Internet in droves, looking for the perfect Valentine gift to say "I love you," an online tracking firm said on Friday.

U.S. workers flock to Web to say "I love
you!" (Reuters)

U.S. workers flock to Web to say "I love
you!" (Reuters) 02/13/2004 04:06 PM
Reuters - U.S. workers this year are rushing to the Internet in droves, looking for the perfect Valentine gift to say "I love you," an online tracking firm has said.

China teaches "real love" (Reuters)

China teaches "real love" (Reuters) 08/31/2004 10:23 PM
Reuters - China's eastern financial hub of Shanghai is adding a dash of romance to the school curriculum to teach children about real love, as opposed to the Internet chatroom variety.

Wooing Teens with Lessons on Love
(Reuters)

Wooing Teens with Lessons on Love
(Reuters) 09/01/2004 07:52 AM
Reuters - China's eastern financial hub of Shanghai is adding a dash of romance to the school curriculum to teach children about real love, as opposed to the Internet chatroom variety.

Falling in love bends genders (Reuters)

Falling in love bends genders (Reuters) 05/05/2004 01:57 PM
Reuters - Falling in love -- that crazy, blissful feeling -- causes gender-bender changes in men and women's testosterone levels.

Maradona "in love" with Venezuela's
Chavez (Reuters)

Maradona "in love" with Venezuela's
Chavez (Reuters) 03/31/2005 11:12 PM
Reuters - Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona has said he is "in love" with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whom he admires for his left-wing political policies.

Smoking ban brings health ...and love?
(Reuters)

Smoking ban brings health ...and love?
(Reuters) 05/25/2004 10:22 AM
Reuters - Ireland's pioneering ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants seems to be helping some addicts to kick the habit and may be promoting a new way to meet people, Ireland's health minister has said.

Thief Steals Yacht Out of Love for His
Daughter (Reuters)

Thief Steals Yacht Out of Love for His
Daughter (Reuters) 05/21/2004 11:35 AM
Reuters - A thief living in Ireland missed his young daughter so much that he stole a 84,000 euro ($100,000) yacht and sailed to England to see her.

Judge tosses coin for tug-of-love child
(Reuters)

Judge tosses coin for tug-of-love child
(Reuters) 12/30/2004 11:21 PM
Reuters - When the separated parents of a five-year old Italian boy could not agree whose house he should stay at over Christmas, a judge settled the dispute by tossing a coin, an Italian newspaper has reported.

Love-sick tomtit risks all to fly home
(Reuters)

Love-sick tomtit risks all to fly home
(Reuters) 07/27/2004 12:36 AM
Reuters - Distance proved no obstacle for an intrepid New Zealand tomtit, which apparently dodged predators and braved open seas to fly more than 60 km (37 miles) back to his lady-love.

Love lures French kids to German
(Reuters)

Love lures French kids to German
(Reuters) 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Reuters - a language of love!

Traffic jams green light for love
(Reuters)

Traffic jams green light for love
(Reuters) 09/08/2004 11:32 PM
Reuters - Millions of drivers use traffic lights and jams as the perfect opportunity to pick up a hot date and sometimes even a marriage partner, according to a survey today.

Komodo Dragon dies in zoo love plunge
(Reuters)

Komodo Dragon dies in zoo love plunge
(Reuters) 08/21/2004 07:24 AM
Reuters - Love could not conquer all for a rare, 10-year-old Komodo Dragon who plunged to her death at London Zoo after she scaled a dividing wall to reach her mate.

U.S.-Born Panda Returns to China Looking
for Love (Reuters)

U.S.-Born Panda Returns to China Looking
for Love (Reuters) 02/13/2004 09:19 AM
Reuters - She'll have to give up American cookies and get used to much cooler weather, but life in China could be worse on the eve of Valentine's Day because Hua Mei already has three prospective suitors.

Author turns love of rats into book
(Reuters)

Author turns love of rats into book
(Reuters) 05/06/2004 07:27 AM
Reuters - They push and shove their way through narrow subway entrances, they are creatures of habit and they love going out to eat at night in a big crowd. They are the other New Yorkers -- rats.

Falling in Love -- a Gender-Bending
Experience (Reuters)

Falling in Love -- a Gender-Bending
Experience (Reuters) 05/06/2004 08:39 AM
Reuters - Falling in love -- that crazy, blissful feeling -- causes gender-bender changes in men and women's testosterone levels.

Programs: No Love Lost for 'Love
Detector' Software (Reuters)

Programs: No Love Lost for 'Love
Detector' Software (Reuters) 04/11/2004 08:59 PM
Reuters - (Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any opinions in the column are his alone.)

Lost Sappho love poem published after
2,600 years (Reuters)

Lost Sappho love poem published after
2,600 years (Reuters) 06/24/2005 09:58 PM
Reuters - A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the greatest female poet of ancient Greece, was published on Friday for the first time since it was rediscovered last year.

Rare Komodo Dragon Dies in Zoo Love
Plunge (Reuters)

Rare Komodo Dragon Dies in Zoo Love
Plunge (Reuters) 08/23/2004 10:15 AM
Reuters - Love could not conquer all for a rare, 10-year-old Komodo Dragon who plunged to her death at London Zoo after she scaled a dividing wall to reach her mate.

Love-Sick Bird Risks All to Fly Back to
His Mate (Reuters)

Love-Sick Bird Risks All to Fly Back to
His Mate (Reuters) 07/27/2004 09:06 AM
Reuters - Distance proved no obstacle for an intrepid New Zealand tomtit, which apparently dodged predators and braved open seas to fly more than 37 miles back to his lady-love.

Italian writer's love letters trigger
court battle (Reuters)

Italian writer's love letters trigger
court battle (Reuters) 09/03/2004 11:40 AM
Reuters - The passionate and previously secret love letters of one of Italy's best known novelists have taken centre stage in a court battle as his widow and heirs sue the nation's leading newspaper for publishing extracts.

Italy Judge Tosses Coin for Xmas
Tug-Of-Love Child (Reuters)

Italy Judge Tosses Coin for Xmas
Tug-Of-Love Child (Reuters) 12/30/2004 02:48 PM
Reuters - When the separated parents of a five-year old Italian boy could not agree whose house he should stay at over Christmas, a judge settled the dispute by tossing a coin, an Italian newspaper reported on Thursday.

Are You a Perpetual Bad Relationship
Magnet? Nobody's Unlucky in Love:
Learning Core Causes for Lousy Love
Relationships

Are You a Perpetual Bad Relationship
Magnet? Nobody's Unlucky in Love:
Learning Core Causes for Lousy Love
Relationships 06/18/2004 03:10 AM
Relationship advisor and author Nancy Pina dispenses free relationship advice to adults struggling with individual, couples and marriage issues. She advises teens and young adults in recognizing healthy, loving relationships. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

Chris Abraham: Liberals Find Mad Love at
Act For Love

Chris Abraham: Liberals Find Mad Love at
Act For Love 06/22/2005 02:45 AM
Liberals Find Mad Love at Act For Love .. Permalink

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Boys love games, girls love ringtones

Boys love games, girls love ringtones 06/02/2004 10:08 AM
But neither gives a hoot for 3G

I love women...no, wait, apparently I
love men

I love women...no, wait, apparently I
love men 01/04/2004 04:59 AM
mirror.co.uk

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Love Macs? Then Learn To Love Macsurfer

Love Macs? Then Learn To Love Macsurfer 05/19/2004 08:55 AM
It does a bang up job of providing the Apple community with interesting reads day in day out. By Hadley Stern, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

"Wait... they don't love you like I love
you" [sorry, got stuck in my head]

"Wait... they don't love you like I love
you" [sorry, got stuck in my head] 03/25/2005 04:09 PM
Social Explorer. "Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format, data maps. We serve hundreds of interactive data maps of United States. Here, you can visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S., explore your neighborhood and learn about the people that live around you."

The Irish Have a New Jackass: If You
Like Dumb, Stupid and Funny Stuff, Then
You Will Love This New Site From a Group
of Crazy Mental Irish guys Who Just Love
to Party

The Irish Have a New Jackass: If You
Like Dumb, Stupid and Funny Stuff, Then
You Will Love This New Site From a Group
of Crazy Mental Irish guys Who Just Love
to Party 03/22/2005 04:47 PM
The Americans have Jackass while the Irish have the Crazy mental team. These guys film all their stupid and funny stuff for our enjoyment, from driving a Ferrari 355 at breakneck speeds around the Hollywood hills in Los Angeles to drilling a hole in one of their arms with a hammer drill, these guys are really crazy. [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Against Love: Love Politics Revisited

Against Love: Love Politics Revisited 03/22/2005 04:54 PM

The Idea: Author Laura Kipnis argues that monogamy is unnatural and unhealthy, and possibly complicit in our emotional detachment from political life and our ecosystem as well. Laura Kipnis, despite the title of of her 200-page "polemic", is not Against Love. Rather, she's against the trappings, the rules, the rituals that our culture imposes on love relationships. She goes even further -- she sees marriage, the institution, as every bit as repressive, suffocating and unnatural as our mind-numbing employment in modern hierarchical organizations, and draws strong parallels between the slavery of the workplace and the slavery of the matrimonial home. These two canons of civilization: our need and responsibility to devote our daytime hours to meaningless subordinate labour, and our need and responsibility to devote the rest of our hours to boring, stifling and unsatisfying monogamy, work together diabolically to keep us suppressed, and in our 'place' in society. Small wonder, she says, that one of our most enduring conventional wisdoms is that "a good marriage takes work". If this protestation against the rigours of monogamy, fidelity and marriage-slavery as the complement to wage-slavery sounds familiar, it's because it's very similar to the argument that Glenn Parton made in his essay posted first on these pages last year entitled "Love Politics". Glenn's argument is that we have become so emotionally numbed by our twin bondage to job and marriage that it has made our hearts cold and hard, uncaring of the plight of our planet and of others, and that this is a direct cause of the destruction of our world. "If I'm miserable, why should I care about anyone else?" Dare to love more than one person, he suggests, and the shackles of this self-imposed imprisonment are broken, and the inrush of emotion will shock us into awareness of, and eagerness to heal, the massive emotional and physical illness of our entire planet. Why should we, why do we subject ourselves to this one-love-partner-slavery as easily and as passively as we do to wage-slavery? This is the subject of much of Ms. Kipnis' book. Her prose is so adept and so powerful I won't attempt to paraphrase her arguments. Here are a few teasers: Is it the persistence of the work ethic that ties us to the compassionate couple and its workaday regimes, or is it the ethos of compassionate coupledom that ties us to sould-deadening work regimes...Resenting the boss? Feeling bored or overworked or dissatisfied? Getting complaints about your attitude? Whether it's "on the relationship" or "on the job" get yourself right to the therapist's office, pronto. There are only two possible diagnoses for all such modern ailments: it's going to be either "intimacy issues" or "authority issues". You'll soon discover that the disease doubles as the prescription at this clinic: You're just going to have to "work harder on yourself"... Take the modern consumer. Clearly, routing desire into consumption would be necessary to sustain a consumer society -- a citizenry who fucked in lieu of shopping would soon bring the entire economy grinding to a standstill. Or better still, take the modern depressive. What a boon to both the modern pharmaceutical and the social-harmony industries that such a social type would be. These are merely hypotheticals of course, since it's not as if we live in a society of consumers and depressives, or as if the best strategy for the latter weren't widely held to be strategically indulging in the former -- "retail therapy"...Love's proper denouement, matrimony, is also of course the social form regulated by the state, which refashions itself as a benevolent pharmacist, doling out the addictive substance in licensed doses...What about re-envisioning [marriage] or... insisting that social resources and privileges not be allocated on the basis of marital status? No. let's demand regulation! Not that it's easy to re-envision anything when these intersections of love and acquiescence are the very backbone of the modern self, when every iota of self-worth and identity hinge on them...Domestic coupledom is the boot camp for compliant citizenship, a training ground for gluey resignation and immobility... Ms. Kipnis suggests the same lack of innovation that permeates the workplace in the 21st century also permeates domestic institutions: Different social norms could entail something entirely different: yearly renewable contracts for example. And if we weren't so emotionally yoked to the social forms we've inherited that trying to envision different ways of having a love life seems intellectually impossible and even absurd, who knows what other options might present themselves?...It behooves [our] society to convince its citizenry that wanting change means personal failure, starting over is shameful, and wanting more satisfaction than you have is illegitimate...As love has increasingly become the center of all emotional expression in the modern imagination -- the quantity without which life seems forlorn -- anxiety about obtaining it in sufficient quantities and for sufficient duration has increased to the point that that anxiety suffuses the population, and most of our cultural forms...Uncoupling [then] can only be experienced as ego-crushing crisis and inadequacy...[and] the grief of failed love is exacerbated by inevitable feelings of personal failure... Much of the latter part of the book is focused on the psychological gymnastics of all three (or more) parties in the polygon of adultery, from the rationalization that hiding the affair is to protect the feelings of the cuckold, to the feelings of self-hatred and self-flagellation of the 'sinner(s)'. She also discusses the awkward mechanics of the ultimate break-up of either the marriage or the affair (or both), and the degree to which children of the relationship become hostages, or excuses for deception, or excuses for the boredom that gave rise to the deception. Of course the book also talks about famous infidelities in high political circles, and the twisted hypocrisy of conservatives' opposition to same-sex marriage, as well as the equal-opportunity-for-misery desire of lesbians and gays to gain access to the sad and repressive regulation of 'official' marriage rather than 'settling for' merely the legal and resource rights that come with equivalent-to-married status. And there's also a discussion of the pragmatic phenomenon of "serial monogamy" -- the fall-back that there's nothing wrong with marriage per se, it's just that we were all married to the wrong person. All of this is complicated (even more) by the emergence of the Two-Income Trap, which imposes a financial prison on top of the emotional one in marriage. We have to stay together because we can't afford to live apart. I am convinced that this one factor is overwhelmingly responsible for keeping the rate of divorce from reaching astronomical levels. It is also probably helpful in keeping birth rates in the West below replacement levels -- Not only can we not afford children, we certainly don't want any (or any more) with the spouse we're economically shackled to. And having one with the secret love is just too messy. In my recent article predicting a baby boom, perhaps I underestimated the sheer perverseness of a socioeconomic system that not only makes parenthood financially reckless, it also suppresses fertility rates by its expressed moral repugnance for having a child by someone other than your boring spouse. A lot of people, some of their own free will, and many more who have been pushed, have recently broken free of wage slavery and are now working, mostly for much less income, for themselves. That's probably a good thing in many ways -- it reduces the supply of the remaining wage slaves, which might actually, in time, allow them to bargain from a position of at least a bit of power. It increases self-sufficiency. It reduces excessive consumption. What if there were a similar revolution against marriage slavery? What if a whole generation just refused to define themselves (in more ways than one) as married, or to live with the constraints of monogamy, and instead opted for a polyamory life-style? Paternity 'rights' and responsibilities would both probably suffer, as the new family unit would be a woman (or possibly, and more logically, a group of women, in self-selected community) and their children. They would have the power, and could strike whatever contract they chose with males who wanted the responsibilities and privileges of fatherhood. The nuclear family and the 'single-family dwelling' would disappear. Conjugal relations would not attach to parental responsibility, and could be negotiated between any two people as individuals on a one-shot basis, with no responsibility other than the responsibility to prevent unwanted pregnancy and disease. This would probably be bad for the oldest profession, as the supply/demand ratio for quick couplings would soar. Jealousy and the consequent domestic violence that is the scourge of our nuclear spouse-as-property society would, slowly (old habits die hard), disappear. I think the vast majority of men, driven by million-year-old biological imperatives, once they reached a certain age, would choose to attach themselves to one of the matriarchal communities (if so invited), and would do their share to provide for its well-being, in return for the company and sense of purpose that would bring. We are told it takes a village, a community, to raise a child. Perhaps the community is necessary, and sufficient, for far more: To break us all free from both the emotionally numbing subjugation of wage-slavery and the misery and boredom of marriage-slavery. The community would then become truly self-sufficient in every respect, and we would be happier and freer than we can, or dare, imagine. Cartoon: By Peter Steiner from The New Yorker, in the Cartoon Bank

Ore. Boy Raises 72 Birds (AP)

Ore. Boy Raises 72 Birds (AP) 08/09/2004 06:30 PM
AP - The self-described Bird Boy has everything from chukars and pheasants to exotic ducks in his collection — and he's still hoping to increase his brood.

Why Birds Don't Ask For Directions

Why Birds Don't Ask For Directions 04/16/2004 03:29 AM
CBS News Apr 16 2004 7:52AM GMT

Why Birds Don 't Ask For Directions

Why Birds Don 't Ask For Directions 04/16/2004 02:26 AM
CBS News Apr 16 2004 6:52AM GMT

Two Birds, Many Candles

Two Birds, Many Candles 05/28/2004 02:03 AM
Recently, while digging through old photos of tourist attractions, I ran across a few taken in Chartres. This small town, 96km southwest of Paris (the train is fast and comfy) holds a cathedral that has been, for the last 800 years or so, arguably the most beautiful structure on the planet...
Grok Description matches for Zoo to inseminate "love" birds (Reuters)
GrokA matches for Zoo to inseminate "love" birds (Reuters)

Road Closed So Salamanders Can Mate (AP)

Road Closed So Salamanders Can Mate (AP) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
AP - Q: Why did the salamander cross the road?

iPod mini Ostrich Leather Case

iPod mini Ostrich Leather Case 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

We know it's a plight iPod and iPod mini owners alike suffer from: what exotic or psuedo-exotic animal flesh or furs can we adorn our sacred pods with? Well, we're nothing if not keen to further the awareness of such products as the Piel Frama Ostrich Leather Case for your iPod mini. The "luxurious and unusual ostrich leather case" is $95 but currently out of stock at iPodWorld. Rest assured, when they find another pack (gaggle?) of half-buried birds, they'll be selling in no time. It comes with a removable belt clip and has room for two credit cards, for when you find a more interesting beast to blanket your mini in.

Catalog Page (Out of Stock) [iPodWorld via shinyshiny]

PDA News - Asus A730 pics, Loox 700 with
pics, Faster Bluetooth

PDA News - Asus A730 pics, Loox 700 with
pics, Faster Bluetooth 06/09/2004 07:23 AM
bargainPDA.com Jun 9 2004 11:14AM GMT

CNN.com - Dilemma as rare birds devour
rare fish - Nov. 13, 2003

CNN.com - Dilemma as rare birds devour
rare fish - Nov. 13, 2003 11/15/2003 03:28 PM

Torching the Rainforest

Torching the Rainforest 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites +1

World's last tropical rainforest

World's last tropical rainforest 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

The price of food and reasonable medical care have fallen so much that the world population swells to levels scarcely imaginable 200 years ago.  Whenever you get a bunch of people together in a tropical climate they inevitably seem to say to each other "Let's go out and cut down all of the trees in the jungle so that we can grow crops or graze cattle."

The last tropical rainforest left will very likely be the one right here in central Panama for it supplies one thing that is undeniably critical for the operation of the Canal:  rain.  The heart of the 80 km-long Canal is a big lake, 26 meters above sea level.  Every transit of a ship through the Canal requires that 52 million gallons of fresh water drain out of this lake into the Caribbean and Pacific.  The water is replenished from surrounding rainforest.  One thing that people in this part of the world have learned is that when you cut down all the trees it changes the local climate, generally cutting the amount of rain that falls.

Panama is one of the few places in the world where you don't need a hippie environmentalist to talk up the value of the rainforest.  Here everyone knows what the rainforest is worth... $600 million per year in tolls.

Habitat Chronicles

Habitat Chronicles 04/25/2004 02:50 AM
Habitat Chronicles- weblog by the authors of Lessons of LucasFilm's Habitat

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A Habitat for your iPod

A Habitat for your iPod 03/13/2003 10:20 AM

New iPod stand from Bubble Design called the Habitat that's made out of clear polycarbonate.
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Agency to Designate Habitat for
Dragonfly

Agency to Designate Habitat for
Dragonfly 09/23/2004 12:38 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Wed Sep 22, 11:19 am GMT

still orange and hutch wants to loot ?
hey i m a orange cust

still orange and hutch wants to loot ?
hey i m a orange cust 08/28/2004 02:31 AM
TechTree Aug 28 2004 5:36AM GMT

Pigeon view

Pigeon view 12/22/2004 01:45 AM
Here's an odd idea. The Urban Eyes proposal by by Marcus Kirsch (UK) and Jussi Angesleva (Ireland) would feed pigeons tiny RFID transmitters embedded in bird seed. When a transmitting pigeon passed close enough to one of the CCTV cameras watching the streets, the camera would transmit a video image to the Urban Eyes server. You would then see how the city looked to a particular pigeon in the 12 hours between ingestion and excretion. This won third prize in the Fused Space contest. The winning project proposed setting up light sticks on a small Swedish island; lights would be...

Searchin' the Pigeon

Searchin' the Pigeon 01/25/2004 04:28 AM
Bert would be proud! There's a whole subject index devoted to pigeons at PigeonSearch ( http://www.pigeonsearch.com/ . ) And what could possibly make an entire index about pigeons? There are...

Tribes to Press Utility on Salmon
Habitat in Oregon

Tribes to Press Utility on Salmon
Habitat in Oregon 07/11/2004 02:25 AM
American Indian tribes, commercial fishermen and conservationists are going to Scotland to press the parent company of a utility to give salmon a way over dams on the Klamath River.

Freeze in Pigeon Server 3.02.0143

Freeze in Pigeon Server 3.02.0143 09/17/2004 12:40 PM
Luigi Auriemma (Sep 16 2004)

Bigelow to test privately-funded
inflatable space habitat next year

Bigelow to test privately-funded
inflatable space habitat next year 07/10/2004 09:03 AM
Great story

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BBC NEWS | UK | UK pondered suicide
pigeon attacks

BBC NEWS | UK | UK pondered suicide
pigeon attacks 05/22/2004 05:12 AM
suicide pigeon attacks .. entirely serious .. innovation .. bbc

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Dutch pigeon shot for pecking art
(Reuters)

Dutch pigeon shot for pecking art
(Reuters) 07/22/2004 01:31 PM
Reuters - A bird with a penchant for 17th century Dutch art has paid the ultimate price for flying into a museum gallery and pecking a hole in a masterpiece.

Clay pigeon shooter goes out with a bang
(Reuters)

Clay pigeon shooter goes out with a bang
(Reuters) 04/27/2004 06:07 AM
Reuters - Friends of a champion Irish clay pigeon shooter have fulfilled his dying wish by packing his ashes into shotgun cartridges and blasting his remains over firing ranges around the world.

Deadly pigeon plan failed to take off
(Reuters)

Deadly pigeon plan failed to take off
(Reuters) 05/20/2004 11:23 PM
Reuters - Britain considered training pigeons to deliver biological weapons after World War Two but decided the birds had outlived their usefulness in battle, according to released government files.

New Louisiana hosting company to give to
major charities. St. Jude, Habitat, and
March of Dimes named as a few they will
give to.

New Louisiana hosting company to give to
major charities. St. Jude, Habitat, and
March of Dimes named as a few they will
give to. 07/22/2004 03:01 AM
[PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Pigeon Point Systems™ Announces the
Introduction of the Next Generation of
Its Successful IPM Sentry™ Shelf
Management Mezzanine (ShMM) Product Line

Pigeon Point Systems™ Announces the
Introduction of the Next Generation of
Its Successful IPM Sentry™ Shelf
Management Mezzanine (ShMM) Product Line 03/19/2005 02:39 AM
Pigeon Point Systems™, the leading supplier of shelf and board management solutions for AdvancedTCA®, announces the introduction of the next generation of its successful IPM Sentry™ Shelf Management Mezzanine (ShMM) product line. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

Threatened by al-Zarqawi

Threatened by al-Zarqawi 03/14/2005 05:53 PM

Expatica

Al-Qaeda tells Madrid: 'We will defeat all the infidels'
11 March 2005

DUBAI- Al-Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, vowed to defeat "infidels and apostates" in response to a Madrid conference on terrorism.

"We tell the infidels and apostates, the enemies of God: whatever you do, you will be defeated. God promised us victory," read the statement from the Organization of Al-Qaeda of Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers, in a statement published on the Internet.

The authenticity of the statement could not be verified.

"How many times will the infidels and apostates meet to fight against Islam and combat the Jihad... They have other worries than to fight the Muslims and mistreat them," it said.

On the other hand...

CBS News

Spanish clerics issue fatwa against bin Laden

Last Updated Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:34:46 EST
CBC News

MADRID - Clerics representing the majority of Spain's one million Muslims have issued what they say is the world's first fatwa against Osama bin Laden.

The edict by the Islamic Commission of Spain, which represents about 70 per cent of the approximately 300 mosques in the country, called bin Laden an apostate and asks Muslims to denounce him.

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"English" Not Threatened By Webspeak

"English" Not Threatened By Webspeak 03/24/2005 02:36 PM

US homes threatened by wildfires

US homes threatened by wildfires 07/17/2004 03:01 AM
Firefighters in the western US states of Nevada and California tackle raging wildfires.

U.K. man threatened with BitTorrent
lawsuit

U.K. man threatened with BitTorrent
lawsuit 03/19/2005 02:55 AM
Movie studios serve legal papers to owner of Web site, claiming he allowed people to download copyright films.

Mambo Users Threatened

Mambo Users Threatened 09/18/2004 01:12 PM

Technologies Threatened By INDUCE Act

Technologies Threatened By INDUCE Act 07/09/2004 08:29 PM
Ernest Miller writes "Techdirt has called the INDUCE Act "broad and ridiculously dangerous" and claimed that "it would be disastrous for the tech industry." Both these claims are correct. To prove them, I've started a new feature on The Importance Of... called Hatch's Hit List. Every weekday I will endeavor to provide an example of technologies and devices that are threatened to be killed or crippled by the INDUCE Act. I welcome suggestions for examples from Techdirt readers. "

Longhorn Not Threatened By Mac 'Halo'
Effect

Longhorn Not Threatened By Mac 'Halo'
Effect 04/05/2005 01:27 AM

Not only won't Microsoft feel the halo effect of Apple's iPod, it may only be a matter of time before Apple is feeling the halo effect of Windows Media. By David Berlind, ZDNet

Girl threatened in knife robbery

Girl threatened in knife robbery 09/25/2004 06:01 AM
A robber holds a knife to the throat of a 16-year-old girl before stealing her handbag in west Belfast.

Zoo to inseminate "love" birds (Reuters)

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