Elmo makes death threats to toddler
February 22, 2008
Sure, it seemed like after the years of hard drinking, petty crime, and run-ins with the law, Elmo had cleaned up his act — but a shocking report out of Tampa Bay, Florida, says otherwise. A two-year-old’s life has been turned upside down by vicious talk coming from his favorite toy, Elmo Knows Your Name. It seems that after a recent battery change, the PC-interfacing doll began spouting death threats of “kill James” at the toddler, with seemingly no explanation as to how the new phrase entered his vocabulary. The situation came to a head when the boy’s mother heard her son repeating the twisted suggestion. Of course, what she didn’t hear was Elmo’s other threat: that he would “cut anyone who crossed [him] end-to-end with a Bowie knife,” and, “dine on their internal organs.” Fisher Price says it has a team of experts working on the case, and enough tranquilizer darts to put Elmo down, “For good.”
Source: Endgadget.com
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Just upgraded to new version of Firefox
February 20, 2008
It seems ok, but personally I thought the pre-upgrade Firefox was better. Also, I’ve been having some problems with this new upgrade. Specifically, pictures won’t load, especially on Facebook and Digg. Is anyone else using this kind of Firefox, and if so, are you having the same problem? If you want to try it out and see for yourself, you can get the download through Mozilla’s homepage or CNET. I never had these kind of problems with my old Firefox 2 or Firefox 3 Beta 2…but I’m not sure if its the upgrade itself that’s crap, or if its my computer, or its just Facebook and Digg in paticular, because the pictures won’t load on Facebook when I access it with Internet Explorer either. If someone could get back to me on this, that would be great. Feel free to comment or send me an email at kolametal@gmail.com
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U.S. court shuts down leaked doc emporium
February 18, 2008
Wikileaks, the Web site that has revealed countless government secrets, has been forced offline by a California judge.The site, which allows whistleblowers to post documents anonymously, is being sued by a Swiss banking group implicated in money laundering in documents obtained by Wikileaks. The BBC reports:
However, the main site was taken offline after the court ordered that Dynadot, which controls the site’s domain name, should remove all traces of wikileaks from its servers. The court also ordered that Dynadot should “prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court.” Other orders included that the domain name be locked “to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar” to prevent changes being made to the site.
Versions of Wikileaks from Great Britain and other countries are still accessible.
In taking Wikileaks offline, the US joins China and Thailand in censoring the watchdog site.
In its report on the injunction, Wikileaks compares the case to the New York Times being ordered not to publish the Pentagon Papers.
Source: The Raw Story
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