] The number for a phone sex operation was mistakenly
] listed as a BellSouth customer service line in most of
] the 50 million residential phone books the company sent
] out in the past year.

Fark's quote:
"BellSouth now offers phone sex. Usually it's BellSouth screwing you and not the other way around"

AP Wire | 03/18/2003 | Phone sex number mistakenly listed as BellSouth service line

] Fear not, Canada. Our finest female speed skater,
] two-time Olympic gold medalist Catriona Le May Doan, may
] be leaning toward retirement but her replacement is
] already under construction. And let me be the first to
] say that our next Le May Doan looks an awful lot like a
] giant cockroach.
]
] Of course, that's just an early version. Within a year or
] two, we may see a speed skater that looks like a toaster
] oven and moves like Paul Kariya. A lot will depend on
] what happens this Sunday at the Olympic Oval, where 600
] first-year engineering design students at the University
] of Calgary have been asked to match programmable logic
] controllers and proximity sensors and go head-to-head in
] what is being billed as Skatebot Races: the Oval Finale.
] (Batteries not included.)

Robots crash speed skating's future

Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has ruled out German involvement in an Iraq war. Four years ago, however, the Bundeswehr took part in NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia without a U.N. mandate. Why then, but not now?

The Iraq Crisis

] Today there was another rubber band shooting occurrence.
] I want to remind you all that this is not acceptable
] behavior at work.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Some companies have no sense of humor.

] Porn and driving don't mix - at least not in Tennessee.
]
] The state Senate has voted unanimously to ban X-rated
] videos from cars and other vehicles if the television
] screens can be seen from the street.

Boo!

AP Wire | 03/18/2003 | Tenn. Senate Acts Against Porn in Cars

] "There was a machine designed for shredding plastic.
] Men were dropped into it and we were again made to watch.
] Sometimes they went in head first and died quickly.
] Sometimes they went in feet first and died screaming. It
] was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their
] remains would be placed in plastic bags and we were told
] they would be used as fish food . . . on one occasion, I
] saw Qusay [President Saddam Hussein's youngest son]
] personally supervise these murders."
]
] This is one of the many witness statements that were
] taken by researchers from Indict %u2014 the organisation
] I chair - to provide evidence for legal cases
] against specific Iraqi individuals for war crimes, crimes
] against humanity and genocide. This account was taken in
] the past two weeks.

See men shredded, then say you don't back war

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] During a session of Canada's Parliament on Monday, Prime
] Minister Jean Chretien said, "If military action [in
] Iraq] is launched without a new [U.N.] resolution, Canada
] will not participate."

I have very mixed feelings about all this, but I could not resist saying "Big loss there."

CNN.com - Bush: Saddam has 48 hours to leave Iraq - Mar. 17, 2003

] An obscure Jewish sect in New York has been gripped in
] awe by what it believes to be a mystical visitation by a
] 20lb carp that was heard shouting in Hebrew, in what many
] Jews worldwide are hailing as a modern miracle.
]
] Many of the 7,000-member Skver sect of Hasidim in New
] Square, 30 miles north of Manhattan, believe God has
] revealed himself in fish form.
]
] Still, the shouting carp corresponds with the belief
] of some Hasidic sects that righteous people can be
] reincarnated as fish. They say that Nivelo may have been
] selected because he is not Jewish, but a weary Nivelo
] told the New York Times : 'I wish I never said anything
] about it. I'm getting so many calls every day, I've
] stopped answering. Israel, London, Miami, Brooklyn. They
] all want to hear about the talking fish.'

The Observer | International | Word is made flesh as God reveals himself... as a fish

] The highest-level officer to defect from
] Saddam Hussein%u2019s army disappeared from his home in
] Denmark on Monday under mysterious circumstances,
] according to family members and a Danish state official.
] Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji, Saddam's former army chief
] of staff, was seen by some as playing an important role
] in a post-war Iraqi military

Top Iraqi defector disappears