Emoticon Happily Celebrates 25th Birthday
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.
:-)
Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes -- a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis -- as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
A janitor from Massachusetts says he's keeping his job even though he just won $1 million in the lottery.
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Wis. Police Pull Over Batgirl, Find Marijuana
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
It wasn't the Batmobile, but police in Wisconsin say they found "Batgirl" at the wheel during a traffic stop last week.
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Arranged Marriage Website A Hoax
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
A Web site that purported to set up arranged marriages between older men and underage girls for a price is a hoax according to a CBS Denver.
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Slithering Snakes Found In Burning Warehouse
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
Firefighters who responded to a Florida Beach warehouse found more than a blaze. There were more than 100 snakes in the building.
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Nebraska State Senator Sues The Almighty
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
Saying that God has caused "fearsome floods ... horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes," Nebraska's longest-serving state senator says he is suing the Almighty to make a legal point.
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Today In History - Sept. 18, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
Today is Tuesday, September 18, the 261st day of 2007. There are 104 days left in the year.
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Cat In Tree Rescued With Hose Blast
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
A fearful feline that was stuck in a tree for a week, clinging to branches several stories high, was finally blasted to safety with a high-pressure fire hose.
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Nebraska State Senator Sues God
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
The defendant in a state senator's lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He's everywhere.
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Sniff Squad Seeks Objectionable Odors
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
The city bought a $1,475 olfactometer to sniff out odor violations following complaints at a dog-food factory. Three citizens volunteered to join a city sniff squad and will be trained to used the device, Ogden Chief Administrative Officer John Patterson said.
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Okla. Woman Sees Zebra Trotting Down Driveway
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
Sharon McConough says a zebra has been visiting her home and she has the photograph to prove it. McConough, who lives in the Ranger Creek area east of Fort Gibson Dam, said her dog starting barking and she went outside to see what was causing the disturbance. A zebra was trotting down her driveway. It was wearing a halter.
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Lightning Hits Church Steeple - Twice
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,18
Two lightning strikes on the same day didn't topple the steeple of the 117-year-old Newman United Methodist Church but they exposed something that might have. They blew out the siding and exposed dry rot that might have brought the steeple down.
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Girl Hurt By Runaway Gorilla Takes Case To Trial
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,17
It's been nearly four years since the gorilla named Little Joe escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo and injured a 2-year-old girl. Now, a lawsuit brought by the family of Nia Simone Scott is going to trial. Jury selection began Monday in the case, with the family accusing the zoo of failing to protect the public from the 350-pound gorilla.
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Man Dies From Excessive Online Gaming
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,17
A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.
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Craig Arrest Makes Airport Bathroom Tourist Stop
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,17
Since word leaked of Sen. Larry Craig's arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, tourists have been flocking to see the bathroom in which the Idaho lawmaker was arrested during a sex sting.
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Google Pays NASA $1.3M To Land 767 At Fed Airfield
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,17
Moffett Federal Airfield is usually off-limits to private planes, but Google Inc co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin got around that restriction by agreeing to pay NASA $1.3 million annually and making a commitment to fly the space agency's equipment on research missions.
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Black Bear Bites Boy Scout's Bum
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,17
A Boy Scout was attacked by a black bear while camping in a Pennsylvania state park over the weekend. The bear bit the boy, 12, leaving three puncture wounds on his buttocks. The boy was taken to a local hospital for treatment. The state game commission is investigating the incident.
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Louisiana Cops Charged With Stealing Snacks
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,17
This village's only convenience store decided to do something nice for its police officers: give them a free fountain drink or coffee at closing time. But somewhere along the way, investigators say, it got out of control. Now, all three of the village's officers are accused of stealing snacks.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,17
Today is Monday, September 17, the 260th day of 2007. There are 105 days left in the year.
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Burglar Says TV Taught Him His Craft
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,17
A man who says he learned how to rob homes by watching a TV show was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a string of burglaries in central Kentucky.
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Cities Cracking Down On Saggy Pants
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,17
It's a fashion that started in prison, and now the saggy pants craze has come full circle -- low-slung street strutting in some cities may soon mean run-ins with the law, including a stint in jail.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Sep,16
Today is Sunday, September 16th, the 259th day of 2007. There are 106 days left in the year.
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Bonds' 756th Homer Ball Fetches $752,467
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Sep,16
Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run ball was auctioned Saturday for $752,467, well more than the estimates by memorabilia experts.
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Man: Manure Makes Home Impossible To Sell
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Sep,14
An Connecticut man has filed a lawsuit against his neighbor, claiming he can't sell his house because of the smell of horse manure from next door.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Sep,14
Ten Denver middle school students were stung by wasps when they got on their bus Thursday morning. Apparently the wasps boarded the bus with them.
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SoCal College Offers YouTube Class
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Sep,14
Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.
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Phony Obituary Trips Up Sentencing
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Sep,14
Prosecutors are investigating whether a phony obituary was placed in a newspaper in an attempt to keep a convicted forger out of prison.
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Campus Flasher Strikes N.J. College Town
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Sep,14
Dina Tanzman and Keri Blumenfeld say their neighborhood along Madison Avenue is the last place they'd expect a pervert to target women. But New Jersey police say a man exposed himself to two women here within one week.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
A western New York man faces grand larceny charges after being pulled over in a car that he said he stole so he could turn himself in on another charge.
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Police Decide Titus The Dog Is Too Wimpy
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
The Sequim Police Department has decided to get rid of Titus the drug dog because he's simply not aggressive enough. Police said that Titus is fine for sniffing out drugs, but they need a patrol dog that can track and bite criminals.
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Inmates Go On Sausage 'Temper Tantrum'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
Some Lea County inmates set fires and broke toilets and windows after being told they would be allowed only one sausage at dinner. Jail officials said the inmates began yelling and banging on their doors in what they described in a news release as a "temper tantrum."
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Teen Shoots Himself In Leg At McDonald's
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
A 17-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the leg while standing in line at a McDonald's restaurant and now he faces an illegal weapons charge.
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Woman Gored By Deer At Hunting Preserve
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
A woman studying wetlands for an engineering firm was gored by a deer at a hunting preserve. Jamie Detweiler, 35, of Ligonier, was gored in the leg when the buck charged her at 6 Springs Hunts near Shanksville on Wednesday.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
Consumer groups held nationwide protests Thursday to draw attention to the burden placed on families by the rising cost of food especially Italians' beloved staple, pasta.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
A 28-pound rock that is out of this world -- literally -- could fetch a stratospheric sum when it goes on the auction block in New York City next month.
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Grandma Turns Tables On Would-Be Purse Snatcher
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
A South Florida grandmother turned the tables on a would-be purse snatcher when she began to pursue the suspect on the foot, and ran him right into the long arms of the law.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
Facebook is following other networking sites and opening its user listings to Google, Yahoo and other search engines starting in October. It's an effort to get people who don't use the site to find friends and become Facebook members.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Sep,13
A man who got stuck in a chimney while trying to burglarize a Los Angeles County home was sentenced to two years in prison.
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Experts: Gorillas 'Critically Endangered'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Sep,12
Great apes have rich emotional lives and share strong family bonds. They laugh when they are tickled, cry when they grieve. They can make and use tools. They think about their past and plan for their future. But many won't have a future to plan for, conservationists say.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Sep,12
A woman found a 14 inch torpedo in her Colorado home that her husband, a former sailor on an aircraft carrier, apparently brought home 40 years ago.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Sep,12
Founded by a former private eye, Web-based Ibila can cook up invites to phony weekend seminars, fake emergency phone calls from work, invitations to nonexistent weddings - anything to justify cheating spouses' absence.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Sep,12
Stomping on garlic with your shoes on is apparently not the correct way to prepare food. The Rockland County health department hit the Great China Buffet restaurant with two violations after someone took pictures of an employee stomping on a bowl of garlic with his boots in an alley. The man alerted health inspectors.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,11
A Minneapolis man has been charged with robbery after police say he robbed a woman of her keys and cell phone then took off her shoes and licked her toes.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,11
Alex, a parrot who could count to six, identify colors and even express frustration with repetitive scientific trials, has died after 30 years of helping researchers better understand the avian brain.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,11
A woman is admitted to the Sacramento mental hospital, after trying to drive off with a fire engine, half-naked.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,11
An California judge says an Oakland carpenter caught hammering nails and sawing wood in the nude can
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Sep,11
The 100-pound woman who holds the world lobster-eating title will be trying her hand at burritos in a contest far from the land of TexMex. The diminutive Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va., is coming to Maine for the Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship on Sept. 22 at the Mexican restaurant.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,10
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Sep,10
A solar-powered aircraft has broken the world record for longest unmanned flight, sailing for 54 hours more than 50,000 feet above the New Mexico desert, said defense research company QinetiQ.
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