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Friday, April 17, 2009
We interrupt this blog
Updates will be erratic (hopefully rational but with we Scots and Celidhs who can tell) for the duration of the games.
There are only so many Cabers to turn and Stones to throw. Then again making the English wet their pants seeing so many Scots in their Clan Tartans and naked steel in their hands always fills the hours.
For those how aren't in the know ... a Celidh [said Kay-Lee] is one hell of a party and if you have never been to one you have never been to a party!
Cybercriminals' new trick: Smishing
![Cybercriminals' new trick: Smishing Cybercriminals' new trick: Smishing](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/my/yplus/csp_pcm_sbc_dsl/cms1.my.sp1.yahoo.com/uploads/apr2009/smish041709.jpg)
Smishing
Also:
Council uses cows to discourage bikers
Man arrested for DWI hours after DWI sentencing
A Texas man was arrested and booked with second-offense driving while intoxicated only hours after he left a court for sentencing for an earlier DWI conviction.
Woman gets shot in head, but makes tea
Also she would have never heard the end of it, if she didn't offer her guests tea!
A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday.
Stolen library book returned after 145 years
A book pilfered by a union soldier during the War of Northern Aggression is back on the shelves.
Stolen library book returned after 145 years
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Mystery behind big donations unsettles schools
![Mystery behind big donations unsettles schools Mystery behind big donations unsettles schools](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/my/yplus/csp_pcm_sbc_dsl/cms1.my.sp1.yahoo.com/uploads/apr2009/howmuchcheck_original.jpg)
Mystery behind big donations
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Paper or plastic?
![Paper or plastic? Answer might not matter Paper or plastic? Answer might not matter](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/my/yplus/csp_pcm_sbc_dsl/cms1.my.sp1.yahoo.com/uploads/apr2009/plasticbags.jpg)
Answer might not matter
Also:
Three new tactics to help land a job
These creative approaches can pay off even when opportunities are hard to find.
Tactics to find a new job
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Texas secession talk sparks uproar
![Texas secession talk sparks uproar Texas secession talk sparks uproar](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/my/yplus/csp_pcm_sbc_dsl/cms1.my.sp1.yahoo.com/uploads/apr2009/rickperry.jpg)
Secession talk sparks uproar
Secret song by suddenly famous singer found
![Secret song by suddenly famous singer found Secret song by suddenly famous singer found](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/my/yplus/csp_pcm_sbc_dsl/cms1.my.sp1.yahoo.com/uploads/apr2009/susanboyle_0.jpg)
Secret song by suddenly famous singer found
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Greenhouse gases hurt health
![EPA: Greenhouse gases hurt health EPA: Greenhouse gases hurt health](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/my/yplus/csp_pcm_sbc_dsl/cms1.my.sp1.yahoo.com/uploads/apr2009/greenhousegas041709.jpg)
EPA: Greenhouse gases hurt health
Food swaps could add years to your life
![8 food swaps could add years to your life 8 food swaps could add years to your life](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/my/yplus/csp_pcm_sbc_dsl/cms1.my.sp1.yahoo.com/uploads/apr2009/berries041709.jpg)
8 food swaps could add years to your life
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Canada's Boreal Caribou Herds are Dying Off
Environment Canada released a report (six months after it was finalized by scientists, thanks to the Conservative federal government): "The study concludes 29 of the 57 remaining herds of boreal caribou are not self-sustaining. Several are at risk in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, where logging, mining and energy development has been booming in the last decade." Will the government do something? Probably not. It went to the trouble of adding a preface to the 254-page report saying it's not detailed enough to "identify critical habitat" to protect...
Man assaulted by police during G20 died from internal bleeding, not heart-attack
A new postmortem shows that Tomlinson died of abdominal bleeding after the attack by the police-officer.
Tomlinson was not a demonstrator -- he was a passer-by on the way home.
The Coroner's statement said the second post-mortem's conclusions were provisional.In its statement, the Coroner's Court said that the inquest had looked at the first post-mortem carried out after Mr Tomlinson collapsed and died on the evening of 1 April.
That examination, carried out by Dr Freddy Patel, concluded that Mr Tomlinson had diseased heart and liver and a substantial amount of blood in the abdominal cavity.
"His provisional interpretation of his findings was that the cause of death was coronary artery disease," said the statement.
"A subsequent post-mortem examination was conducted by another consultant forensic pathologist, Dr Nat Cary, instructed by the IPCC and by solicitors acting for the family of the late Mr Tomlinson.
By Definition ...
Now you know what the wing-nuts are ranting about.
Can scavenger was a multi-millionaire
From Sweden's The Local:
“He went to the library every day because he didn’t buy newspapers. There he read [Swedish business daily] Dagens Industri,” a cousin (of Degerman told the Expressen newspaper).
“He knew stocks inside and out.”
And Tin-Can Curt used that investing know-how to turn the modest deposits he collected from returning empty cans into mutual funds worth more than 8 million kronor.
In addition, he had purchased 124 gold bars currently valued at 2.6 million kronor and had nearly 47,000 kronor in the bank.
Tin-Can Curt also owned his own home, which was found to have 3,000 kronor in loose change, bringing the total value of his estate to 12,005,877 kronor.
The diagnosis? Fir on the lung
Here is a television news story about Artyom Sidorkin, the Russian gentleman who recently had a two-inch live Fir tree removed from his lung where it had taken root.
To find out more on his story, see The diagnosis? Fir on the lung.
Asteroids won't raise killer waves
![The monster waves created by an small asteroid impact would break before they reached land, but you still wouldn't want to be near one when it hit (Image: Stocktrek Images / Getty)](http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20227044.400/mg20227044.400-2_300.jpg)
New simulations suggest the monster waves created by an small asteroid impact would break before they reached land, but you still wouldn't want to be near one when it hit.
Asteroids won't raise killer waves - but mind the splash
Polar 'bugs' may explain how life survived snowball Earth
![Microbes have been trapped in an icy capsule cut off from the world beneath this glacier for more than 1.5 million years. In the summer a gush of water dyed red from the iron compounds trapped with them manages to escape (Image: Benjamin Urmston/Science)](http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn16965/dn16965-1_300.jpg)
The secret to how life endured the period when glaciers reached the equator may be hidden in the bacteria living beneath an Antarctic glacier.
Polar 'bugs' may explain how life survived snowball Earth
The secret landscapes of stone
![](http://www.newscientist.com/data/galleries/dn16943-rocks-and-minerals/ocean-jasper-109_thumbnail_70_100.jpg)
The secret landscapes of stone
Titanium reveals explosive origins of the solar system
![The same ratio of two varieties of titanium has been found in a range of meteorites, hinting that the cloud of gas and dust that formed the solar system was well-mixed before the first solids formed (Illustration: NASA)](http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn16969/dn16969-1_220.jpg)
The solar system was born out of a well-mixed blend of debris from two different types of stellar explosion, a new meteorite study suggests.
Titanium reveals explosive origins of the solar system
Could it be?
On the Archaeology Front ...
![Bust of Cleopatra recently found at Taposiris Magna](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45668000/jpg/_45668594_007176561-1.jpg)
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