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@Sforza's post: That's absurd. Whoever did that has no respect for her nor for the culinary arts nor for street foods (which that person who murdered her probably lives on, too).

@Grim's post: Cracker nuts formulated for non-Filipino tastes? I heard from my sister that people from her office's U.S. branch ask her to bring cracker nuts to the U.S. whenever she goes there.

(Cracker nuts: Nagaraya)

Microsoft Made Eyes at Facebook as Talks With Yahoo Waned

EDIT: Platypus genome decoded

Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi Assault

BBC Wrote:A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard.

Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin Michael with a metal crutch. They suffered minor injuries.

Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted "Darth Vader!"

Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: "I hope the force will soon be with him."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24860437/?GT1=43001

MSNBC Wrote:Rachael Ray ad pulled as pundit sees terror link
Malkin claimed scarf similar to those worn by murderous Islamic extremists

Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.

In the ad, Ray is wearing a scarf that Michelle Malkin said in her nationally syndicated column resembled a kiffiyeh, Middle Eastern garb that is "popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos."

Dunkin's Senior Vice President for Communications Margie Myers issued a statement saying the scarf "was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended.

"However, as of this past weekend, we are no longer using the online ad because the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

In her column, Malkin also noted that it could appear at times that actor Colin Farrell, rapper Kanye West and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have been photographed in similar scarves that were "distinctive hate couture."

MSNBC Wrote:"However, as of this past weekend, we are no longer using the online ad because the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

In her column, Malkin also noted that it could appear at times that actor Colin Farrell, rapper Kanye West and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have been photographed in similar scarves that were "distinctive hate couture."

Lol at paranoia.

It's just a piece of cloth. Lol!

maitreya Wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24860437/?GT1=43001

MSNBC Wrote:Rachael Ray ad pulled as pundit sees terror link
Malkin claimed scarf similar to those worn by murderous Islamic extremists

Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.

In the ad, Ray is wearing a scarf that Michelle Malkin said in her nationally syndicated column resembled a kiffiyeh, Middle Eastern garb that is "popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos."

Dunkin's Senior Vice President for Communications Margie Myers issued a statement saying the scarf "was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended.

"However, as of this past weekend, we are no longer using the online ad because the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

In her column, Malkin also noted that it could appear at times that actor Colin Farrell, rapper Kanye West and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have been photographed in similar scarves that were "distinctive hate couture."

We're talking about Faux News here. Since when were those fear-mongering douche bags ever classified as a "reliable news source?"

Meh - cowards.

Salamander-inspired therapy may aid injured vets

Quote: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) -- Last week in an operating room in Texas, a wounded American soldier underwent a history-making procedure that could help him regrow the finger that was lost to a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, last year.

Army Sgt. Shiloh Harris' doctors applied specially formulated powder to what's left of the finger in an effort to do for wounded soldiers what salamanders can do naturally: replace missing body parts.

Paging Dr. Connors...

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/woman-h...89865.html

Quote:Woman hides in closet - for a year

A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he discovered a woman had been living in his home for months without permission, police said today.

The 57-year-old man who lives alone - or so he thought - in the western city of Fukuoka installed a security camera and called the police when he saw images of someone walking around his home while he was out.

"We searched the house in the man's presence. We found the woman in the closet," said a local police spokesman.

The woman, named as 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, was found in a flat storage space only just big enough for a person to squeeze into lying down.

She had sneaked a mattress and several plastic bottles into the cubby hole, police said, adding that the women had been arrested.

"She told police that she had nowhere to live," the spokesman said. "She seems to have lived there for about a year, but not all the time."

It is unclear how she managed to enter the home undetected. Police suspect she might have been closet-hopping, moving from house to house.

I have no words.

One word: Pro

maitreya Wrote:One word: Pro

Iinteresting. She has to be a ninja.

theGrim Wrote:

maitreya Wrote:One word: Pro

Iinteresting. She has to be a ninja.

Then it's impossible that she'd be poor since voyeur celeb pics are all you need to get rich, not to mention assassinations.

Maybe it's her way of being a Ninja. xD

Alcohol cuts risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis

Here, have a beer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7442327.stm

A man armed with a knife has killed three people and injured at least 17 in central Tokyo, Japanese media say.

The incident occurred in the Akihabara district, a shopping area known as Electric Town that is popular with young people and tourists.