3 Texas Men Arraigned on Terror Charges (AP, 13.8.06)

Perhaps that should read: “Three men of Middle Eastern appearance arrested for buying 1000 mobile phones.”

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What happens when one of my favourite websites takes the piss out of another of my favourite websites?

Seen listed one after the other in the “World” section of today’s smh.com.au home page:

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• Britons to stage ‘masturbate-a-thon’
• Spiderman’s grip closer

“I made it clear to the Congress that I will not allow our nation to cross this moral line. I felt like crossing this line would be a mistake, and once crossed, we would find it almost impossible to turn back.”

- George W Bush, 19.7.06, speaking out against the innocent killing of human life. Not the people of Lebanon, but embryonic stem cells.

“How you get a ceasefire between one entity, which is a government of a democratically elected state on the one hand, and another entity on the other which is a terrorist gang, no one has yet explained.”

- John Bolton, US Ambassador to the UN, 20.7.06, as clueless about the diplomacy business as ever. And what about when the “terrorist gang” is also part of the government of a democratically elected state?

“That might make people feel good for a few hours”

- Tony Blair, dampening calls for him to support a unilateral ceasefire by Israel, 21.7.06. I would have thought the end of hostilities would have the Lebanese people feeling good for more than just a few hours…

“get Hezbollah to stop doing this Shi’ite…”

- what George W Bush really said to Tony Blair, St Petersburg, 17.7.06

“Yo Blair!”
- George W Bush, G8 summit, St Petersburg, 17.7.06

(Source: Adam Boulton, Sky News UK)

Some essential links you must share with your children:

• Whitehousekids.gov
• Barney.gov (the website of the First Dog)
• CIA for Kids
• FBI for Kids (for Kindergarten-5th grade)
• FEMA for Kids
• TTB Kids (TTB is the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau)
• USDA for Kids Department of Agriculture
• Ready Kids Ready.gov, from the Department of Homeland Security

From today’s edition of The Guardian:

“The list of the actors who have auditioned for the role of James Bond is almost as long as the complete credits of a 007 production. Now an extra name can be set alongside the likes of David Niven, James Mason and Cary Grant - that of Carry On star Sid James.”

Read on… and then check that calendar again.

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Breaking news from The Onion.

The gentlemen in the above photo are:
(a) Turning the first sod at the Shanghai Inflatable Doll Trade Fair;
(b) Gravediggers of the Central Committee of the Communist Party heroically exceeding their quotas at the funeral of the last member of the Gang of Four;
(c) Performing the ground-breaking ceremony at the start of construction of the Beijing Olympic beach volleyball arena.

On this page I am collating an ever-expanding list of “top 10 stories of 2005″ lists that I come across on the web. (And don’t forget that I am running one myself on my cricket blog and podcast.)

• Top 10 New York news stories of 2005: Gotham Gazette (Number 9: Fulton Fish Market Leaves Fulton Street!)
• Top 10 Religious news stories of 2005: Religion Newswriters Association (Religion, it seems, equates with Christianity on this list.)
• Top 10 Radio Frequency Identification news stories of 2005: RFID Journal (And, yep you guessed it, Wal-Mart’s electronic merchandise tagging system made the list twice!)