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Friday, January 18, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Brighton professor bans Google
The professor of media studies at the University of Brighton has had enough of students turning in "banal and mediocre work" and decided that Google and Wikipedia must go.Tara Brabazon provides her students with a reading list, of books, and expects their work to reference those works, rather than a rehash of a Wikipedia entry or the top five results from Google. To achieve this she has, reportedly, banned her students using search engines and Wikipedia.While we applaud her call for students to...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
REVENGE OF THE SPAM HATERS
Background: Ralsky had become a multimillionaire through marketing spam on the Internet. How much spam? His company sent up to 250 million e-mails a day. The story told readers about Ralsky’s new 8,000-square-foot, $740,000 home. The spammer bragged that one entire wing of the house was paid for by a single weight-loss e-mail.Revenge Gone Wild! A group of spam haters decided to give Ralsky a dose of his own medicine. They posted his home address on hundreds of websites, and Ralsky started getting...
Monday, January 14, 2008
Man reels Hummer Limo out of Lake Texoma
One local man planned to spend the day at Lake Texoma with his family, and hoped he might get a big catch. He never expected what he found fishing at Juniper West.Boating on Lake Texoma seemed like just another day for Bob Faulkner, until he reeled in what he calls the biggest catch of his life. He never expected that his big catch would turn out to be a stretch Hummer limousine.Witnesses were just as shocked as Faulkner to see the vehicle."We was out fishing and we started to come up and we seen...
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Bremerton Wine-for-Sex Arrangement Turns Sour
BREMERTON The 27-year-old Poulsbo woman told police officers she promised sexual favors to a man if he bought her alcohol early Wednesday morning. But after getting two bottles of inexpensive fortified wine, she used one to hit him in the forehead. Bremerton police were called to the 7-Eleven convenience store at 802 Sixth Street at about 12:58 a.m. after receiving word of an assault, reports said. There they found the 48-year-old Seattle man with two large gashes on his forehead from a bottle of Thunderbird wine. The woman told officers after...
Friday, January 11, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
'Meanest mom on the planet' places ad explaining son's goof
Jane Hambleton has dubbed herself the ``meanest mom on the planet.'' After finding alcohol in her son's car, the mother decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old's goof with everyone — by placing an ad in the local newspaper. The ad reads: ``OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don't love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat. $3,700/offer. Call meanest mom on the planet.'' Hambleton has heard from more than interested buyers...
