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> Wallabies get high in poppy fields
Posted by ShyShy - 2009-06-25 01:26 - 4 comments
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WALLABIES are breaking into Tasmania's poppy fields and getting high.

The strange occurrence, revealed in a State Government Budget Estimates hearing, has also solved what some growers say has spurred a campfire legend about mysterious crop circles that appear in northern Tasmania's poppy paddocks.

In true X-Files-style, Attorney-General Lara Giddings said the drugged out wallabies had been found hopping around in circles squashing the poppies, creating the formations – and hence solving the mystery.

The wallabies are increasingly entering the fields and eating the poppy heads, The Mercury reports.

That causes them to get high and run around in circles creating "crop circles".

"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Ms Gidding said.

"Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

Read more about wallabies getting high at The Mercury

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25686...5000540,00.html

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> Pilot buries helicopter crash survivor in sand
Posted by ElChevelle - 2009-06-22 17:13 - 4 comments
A pilot dragged his passenger to safety and buried him neck-deep in sand to protect him from hypothermia Sunday night after their helicopter crashed in crocodile-infested mudflats in Australia's Northern Territory.

Air ambulance workers attend to a man buried in sand following a helicopter crash. "The pilot thought that in this remote location, nobody would find them. So he buried his friend to try and stop the hypothermia," said Ian Badham, director of CareFlight, the air ambulance service involved in the rescue. The two friends had gone camping on a remote beach without road access, about 130 km (80 miles) from the Northern Territory capital of Darwin. While leaving Sunday night, the pair decided to fly their two-seater helicopter over waters that are home to large crocodiles. "It's an area known for its big saltwater crocodiles," Badham said. "Those things make alligators look like wussies."
The pilot later told rescuers that they flew in to take a closer look. The next thing he remembered was lying upside down in the mud with the wreckage of the helicopter on top of him, Badham said.
The men, both in their 50s, were about 100 meters (328 feet) from the main beach. Finding his friend seriously hurt, the pilot dragged him back to shore, away from the crocodiles -- and buried him in sand up to his neck to prevent him from freezing to death. Rescuers responded after the pilot used a satellite phone to alert them.
The friend remained hospitalized Monday in serious but stable condition, Badham said. He suffered head and chest injuries. He also fractured his arm and several ribs. The pilot suffered minor injuries.
"It was the opinion of the (air-ambulance) doctor that the friend's injuries were grave and, quite likely, this man would not have survived the night," Badham said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/2...=rss_topstories

As the passenger, I'd fear something coming around looking for some "eye candy" (IMG:http://www.pabook.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
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> Demonstrations in Iran Disputing Election Results
Posted by SammytheMc - 2009-06-16 18:06 - 7 comments
QUOTE ("BBC")
Supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi have rallied in northern Tehran, witnesses told the BBC.

Earlier Mr Mousavi urged his backers not to march in the centre of the city.

A spokesman said Mr Mousavi feared they might clash with supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who have also been rallying in his support.

Tough new restrictions on the foreign media mean the BBC is unable to confirm the scale of either rally.

The new restrictions have been imposed amid apparent surprise and concern among the authorities at the scale of popular defiance over Friday's official election results, correspondents say.

President Ahmadinejad was declared the easy victor of the presidential poll on Saturday, with results giving him 63% of votes against 34% for Mr Mousavi.

But the opposition alleged widespread irregularities.

The powerful Guardian Council now says it is ready to recount some votes from the poll, in a move later backed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But opposition candidates have demanded a full re-run of the election.

Anger at the official result saw hundreds of thousands of Mr Mousavi's supporters take to the streets on Monday - in a rally the size of which correspondents said not been seen in Tehran since the 1979 revolution.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8103577.stm


As most of you probably know by now, there was an election in Iran recently. The incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, won the official tally by a landslide, winning 63% of the vote over the opposition candidate, Mir-Hussein Mousavi. As phone lines and certain websites were being taken down by the government, Mousavi released an open letter stating that those results were almost certainly the result of a rigged poll, and his supporters started staging demonstrations, some of these initially peaceful rallies becoming violent when state police came to disperse the crowd. I know at least one protestor has been killed.

What's interesting about this is that A) Iran could be a nuclear power in a few years, if they're not sitting on small scale devices already, and B) the technical aspect of the demonstrations. The government of Iran has as yet been unable to keep up with the modernization (and westernization) of its youth, and while they shut twitter down, you still see reports coming out of Iran from behind proxies and see Iranians passing around tactical information, such as which corners to meet on and which hospitals have been compromised by plainclothes policemen. One of the things that comforts me about the internet, aside from the pornography and in spite of the goatses of the world, is that in the right hands it becomes an almost invincible flow of information from citizen to citizen. The government tried its damnedest to shut these youngsters up, but the kids are outfoxing them and continuing to get their message to the world and each other.

In case you need to get up to speed, I found that the Wikipedia article covering the election is very helpful and informative.
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> doubleTwist hacks Apple's billboard
Posted by ShyShy - 2009-06-14 23:42 - 10 comments
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APPLE has been left red-faced after a billboard promoting an iTunes alternative was posted outside one of its flagship stores.

The billboard was promoting DoubleTwist, a software company run by famed hacker Jon Lech Johansen – otherwise known as "DVD Jon".

The program converts copy-protected audio into a different format to allow more transfers and copies of the file.

The billboard was posted on the side of a subway exit next to Apple's major San Francisco store. It was intended to coincide with Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) which took place last week.

But Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART), which owns the billboard space, removed the ad because the black background was "too dark", Mr Johansen claimed on his blog.

[url=http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25625710-5014239,00.html]article continued here[/ur]

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down with the man! It's just funny (IMG:http://www.pabook.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/grin2.gif)
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