Category: News
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Tsunami Videos
Cheese and Crackers just got hit with 1.8 million visitors looking for Tsunami videos. Many of them are BitTorrents, but he also has WMVs, MP4s and ASFs. Many of the visitors seem to be coming from Drudge. Some of the videos give you an idea of the size of the waves – many of them…
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On Stinginess
I really don’t know what Glenn is getting so worked up about. He is persistently misrepresenting what was said. Is anyone fact checking Glenn? Matthew correctly points out: Besided that, a word on the “stingy” issue. What the UN official actually said was that rich countries including the US are stingy with aid money. Whether…
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Tsunami death toll tops 80,000
The toll keeps going up, and will probably top 100,000. Some pretty harrowing scenes on TV – bloggers are doing their best on describing events, as sites like Instapundit report. Donations are approaching a quarter of a billion dollars. You can do your bit here.
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Earthquake in Asia
A pretty massive earthquake – Glenn has a roundup of local bloggers to go check out. Here are the seismic readings.
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The offensive has begun…
Fallujah offensive begins, Iraqi troops seize main hospital. Iraqi troops took control of the main hospital in the besieged city of Falluja, a U.S. pool reporter outside the city said Sunday. The operation marks the start of the planned offensive to retake the city, Pentagon officials said, but it remains unclear when the main assault…
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Six die as train ploughs into car
While travelling on trains or planes I sometimes wonder what would it be like if something tragic were to happen, how it would affect me, or the strangers around me. I used to get this train every day, I do wonder if any of the people that died were people I shared a carriage with,…
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Video Shows 9/11 Hijackers' Security Check
Some of the hijackers who crashed a jetliner into the Pentagon (news – web sites) on Sept. 11, 2001, twice set off alarms as they passed through metal detectors that morning at Washington Dulles International Airport, but security screeners did not appear to question them about utility knives investigators believe they were carrying as part…
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Bookies pay out for Big Brother nookie
Michelle and Stu got it on the other day, and the bookies have been forced to pay up. Yes I do watch Big Brother.
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Colombia Three freed
News just out, the three lads who were ‘on holidays’ in Colombia, on false passports, have been released.
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Library of Alexandria discovered
The BBC is reporting that the lost Library of Alexander has been found, great news if the whole site can be fully explored. Carl Sagan was fascinated with the books that may have been present in the library – perhaps they could find me the lost parts of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound – or any of…