When I heard about Brad's death I was sad because of the loss to the community, but it didn't really touch me personally. I had seen him all over the site, but I didn't really feel as if either of us had influenced the other. Then I saw my name on the graphs and it suddenly hit me. We influenced each other in our own little ways. Then I got to the graph for the week after and the orange bubble was gone. It looked so empty and I realized how much of an impact he really had on the MemeStreams community. You will be dearly missed by all.
http://www.memestreams.net/yearingraphs/brad/

RE: I am sad, and unhappy...

An animal rights group's plan to free 10,000 mink from a farm turned deadly after many of the emancipated mustelids became cannibals while others went on a carnivorous feeding frenzy.

Mink eat each other after animal rights break-in

CNN has just released a DVD of footage from the war in Iraq, just in case you didn't get enough of it when it was actually happening. Doesn't it seem weird to see a documentary come out so soon after the event? Ah, capitalism at its finest!

War in Iraq: The Road to Baghdad

] At the 1909 rate of 2 cents per day, the late fine would
] have amounted to $685. But the library directors decided
] to waive the penalty.

Yahoo! News - Woman Returns 94-Year-Old Overdue Book

Broadband internet connections should come with pamphlets explaining the risks of repetative motion injuries and how to avoid them. After all, you could hurt yourself downloading porn at up to 50 times the speed of dialup.
-Jon

News of the Weird (founded 1988) is the most widely-read bizarre-but-all-true news feature in the United States indeed, the gold standard of weird-news reporting. The weekly News of the Weird column appears in more than 300 daily and weekly newspapers and websites around the world.

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird

"Do you need a break from the daily mobile soap? Surround yourself with soothing space. Simply press your pocket-size BuBL device. Release a bubble of silence. You'll feel pleasantly isolated inside, even in a crowded place. Evaporate all phone signals up to three meters around.
Enjoy the silence.
Create your Personal BuBL Space."

Read carefully... Great idea.

I work in a deli and I get really annoyed when people try to talk on their cell phones and place an order at the same time. This would be great to have at work, but it would probably mess with the wireless networking units in the scales. Too bad.

BuBL Space

] Compared to most holiday snaps of London, this one's out
] of this world.

Yahoo! News - Glittering London snapped from space

] An 80-year-old British retiree has been called up by the
] Ministry of Defense for possible action in Iraq, the Sun
] newspaper reported on Thursday.

Yahoo! News - Retiree, 80, Gets Call-Up to Fight Iraq

] Witness to centuries of bloodshed, the ancient walls of
] Jerusalem's Old City saw only white Tuesday as
] Palestinians and Israelis traded snowballs instead of
] stones and bullets.

Yahoo! News - Snowballs Replace Bullets as Snow Hits Holy Land