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Warning: Refomatting a hard drive could cost billions

I just happened upon a news story that I apparently overlooked. It's now 3 months old, but it's still fascinating.

Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing information for an account worth $38 billion (€29 billion). That is what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents' biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well....

[the full story]

The Year Without Toilet Paper

To reduce their impact on the environment, two New Yorkers give up what most take for granted. Oddly, the article doesn’t explain what they use in place of toilet paper…..

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“Yahoo! Betrayed ‘My Husband’!”

FAIRFAX, Virginia (Wired News) — Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling’s Beijing duplex. She’s cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online e-journals to a group of Yahoo users. He’s been having problems with his Yahoo service recently. He thinks it’s a technical issue. This is the day he learns he’s wrong…….

read more | digg story

Middle School Girls Gone Wild!!!

Whoa...

Now I really know why school sucked.  It was bad enough that we didn't have computers back then, but we also didn't have.....

Middle School Girls Gone Wild!!!
[clicky clicky for more]

It's just not fair, dammit.

Naughty Nurses, Bypass Burgers & Flatliner Fries?

Arizona waitresses dress as naughty nurses

By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec  8,  4:15 PM ET

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - The Heart Attack Grill — a theme restaurant whose specialties include the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries, cooked in pure lard — is making health-care professionals' blood pressure rise, and not because of the menu..

It is because of the waitresses' naughty nurse uniforms......

[the story continues]

I dunno, personally, I'm most interested in being pushed out to my car in a wheelchair after finishing my meal.  This "service" is offered to their "best patients".  These "patients"  are those who order and finish off a Triple or Quadruple Bypass Burger.To me the triple bypass burger looks obscenely big,. The Quadruple is simply unthinkable.  I'm not sure if I'd be up to the challenge of the Triple, let alone the Quadruiple..

So I guess I'll have to forgo the wheelchair and just get a double bypass.

Fortunately that will be easy. The Heart Attack Grill's one and only Location is just under 19 miles from me.  I'll have to check it out soon. It had somehow escaped my newshound mom's radar as well as mine (till now that is).

The burgers and fries sound awwesome. I've never found the food at Hooters to be anything special. And the "nurse" theme at The Heart Attack Grill is much more clever than the Hooters Girls.

A dis-member to remember?

I'm probably the last person on the Internets™ to discover the following news story, but what can I say?

In case you're part of my group, I thought I'd share.   This has to be the "Odd News Story of the Month" for sure.

 

Man severs own penis, throws it at officers

March 17, 2006

BY ERIC HERMAN Staff Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times

Before cops threw the book at him, Jakub Fik threw something unusual at them -- his penis.

[Click here for the rest of the story on suntimes.com]

Hostage Situation in Arizona

This is (was?) going on about 2 miles from where I'm calling "home" these days.

It took 6 hours for any media outside of Phoenix to even mention it.  I find that most odd.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0223hostage-ON.html (with live Video link)

CNN (AP)
Yahoo! News (AP)

Bravo Google!

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. on Friday formally rejected the U.S. Justice Department's subpoena of data from the Web search leader, arguing the demand violated the privacy of users' Web searches and its own trade secrets. [Click for more]

News of the absurd

A Louisiana man [looking to score some cash for himself and his lawyer] has filed a [frivolous] class action suit against Apple Computer, saying the computer maker has failed to take adequate steps to prevent hearing loss among iPod users. [Click here for details]

So tell me, then you dumb fuck...

• What steps did Sony (of CD Walkman fame) and other companies take to prevent hearing loss among users of their portable personal CD players?
• What steps did Sony (of [Cassette] Walkman fame) and other companies take to prevent hearing loss among users of their portable personal cassette players before that?
• What steps did (or have) companies like Kenwood, Pioneer, Sony, JVC, Phillips, Technics, Panasonic and others take(n) to prevent hearling loss among users of their stereo receivers and amplifiers for the home?   That equipment has been sold for decades. It's still being sold. High Volume on a 150+ watt per channel Amplifier or Reciever (for a few hours each day) will do more damage than an iPod.
• Why is Apple unique when it comes to hearing loss caused by idiots who turn the volume up too loud?
• Why stop at Apple? Sue Apple's competitors!  Sue the makers of home audio equipment too!  After all, one can go deaf using any of this stuff, especially if they're a dumb fuck like you are.
• Guess what? You can turn the volume down. dumbass!

These folks should ride for free.

    A really, really no-frills ride...
    Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:59 am PST
            Reuters - Migrant workers in south China are wearing adult diapers on packed trains heading home for the Lunar New Year holiday because they have no access to a toilet, state media said Tuesday. Full Story

Coming in November!

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Female+Africa often = hell.

As if Genital Mutilation weren't enough, now I read...

"KATSINA, Nigeria - Dr. Kees Waaldijk began surgery shortly before 10 a.m. one recent Saturday in a cement-walled operating room in this city near Nigeria's northern border. More than five hours later, orderlies carried the last of four girls to the recovery ward. In the near-90 degree heat, Dr. Waaldijk's light blue surgical garb had turned dark with sweat.

"We are finished for the day," he barked.

It was the last thing the dozen girls who squatted in the open-air corridor outside wanted to hear....."  (Click here for the whole story).

This is so sad.

Outstanding!

The crew and especially the Captain of this flight, deserve medals.