Driver tried to hit Osama lookalike
From The Guardian: A French motorist has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence for doing his level best to run over a pedestrian he mistakenly identified as Osama bin Laden. The self-employed man of 35, named only as Pierre, was found guilty in the southern city of Montpellier on Tuesday of pursuing his intended victim through several red lights and then into a pedestrian zone….
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I know someone who’s going to enjoy these three links from MetaFilter very, very much … theyrule.net: “They Rule is a website that allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top 100 companies in the US in 2001. The data is static, so it is fast becoming out of date, as companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards. A second version of They Rule is planned, and has been started. No completion date is set, though it will hopefully appear sometime mid 2004.” Political Friendster: “Political Friendster is a parody of the social network Friendster. It allows a visualization of the connections between players in the political game.” Registering allows you to add new people to the database. ...
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From textually.org: Italian Judge rules “no more cell phones”: A judge in the Italian city of Vicenza has banned two men who abused their ex-girlfriends by telephone and SMS messaging from using mobile phones again, according to evening daily Star of Mysore. “The men, aged between 25 and 30, had both been dropped by their girlfriends but drove them to desperation by bombarding them with phone calls and offensive messages. Judge Paolo Pecori ruled that Italy’s mobile phone companies should prohibit the two men from subscribing to their services”. These are my people. ...
Read Morerequired reading in washington
From Ex-Aide’s Book Corners Market in Capital Buzz: WASHINGTON, March 25 — On the first day, the hottest new book in town sold out in an hour at Politics and Prose and sales clerks turned away dozens of disappointed buyers. On the second day, the store called three national book wholesalers, which announced they did not have a single copy left. That was when Barbara Meade knew that Richard A. Clarke, the author of “Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror,” was the genuine article, an unexpected literary phenomenon whose account of counterterrorism failures within the Bush administration has been flying off the shelves this week. “It’s reached a point now where if you’re going to be in the loop in...
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Please tell me we’re not back here again … well, we are. I’m not shutting down my LiveJournal or anything so drastic. I just missed this format more than I appreciated the sense of community I got over there. So we’ll see. Edit: Yes, the templates are a little screwy right now. Yes, I’m using an old version of Movable Type. Yes, there is a ginormous gap between last July and this March. Be patient for both of us, please!
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