Colide81 (James)

"A sailor from a visiting US Navy Ship has been slashed in the face with scissors while on shore leave in Western Australia." - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"Bass, catfish, and perch make for a great fish fry down on the bayou, but lately, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has found sharks in inland waters of the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp. Most people have a preconceived notion that sharks are found in the ocean. While that's certainly true, sharks are also being found among the beautiful cypress trees in the waters of the Atchafalaya. "Well, I guess this is a swamp, shark that lives in the swamp," said Mike Walker with Wildlife and Fisheries. "You could call it a swamp shark."" - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"Suresh Tendulkar, an economic adviser to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said he is urging the government to diversify its $264.6 billion foreign-exchange reserves and hold fewer dollars. “The major part of Indian reserves is in dollars -- that is something that’s a problem for us,” Tendulkar, chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, said in an interview yesterday in Aix-en-Provence, France, where he was attending an economic conference." - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"Britain warned it could face more than 100,000 daily cases of swine flu and the United States called a meeting of top officials as governments grappled on Friday with a resurgent swine flu pandemic. The warning from British Health Secretary Andy Burnham came as the Japanese health ministry said doctors had detected the second case worldwide of a patient resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu, widely used to treat the illness." - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"MICHAEL Jackson's mega hit Thriller has been given this hilarious revamp by the army's world-famous Band of the Coldstream Guards - just a stones throw from Buckingham Palace." - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"Krystina Perry wasn’t looking for love. The self-proclaimed Army brat signed up for an account with MilitaryLoveLinks.com in 2007, she said, so she could find a pen pal. When she signed into her account on Oct. 8 of that year, she noticed none of her friends were online — so she sent a message to an Army private named Mark. “We just started talking, and we talked all the way until he had to go to PT in the morning,” said Krystina, now 23. “That same day, he was like, ‘I think I love you,’ and I was like, ‘I love you, too.’ From there, it just kind of took off.”" - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"Russia will allow the U.S. to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a top Kremlin aide said Friday, a gesture aimed at bolstering U.S. military operations and improving strained ties between Washington and Moscow." - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"Navy officials will make the new E-6 and below service uniform available in Navy Exchange uniform stores beginning Sept. 1. The news came in a Navy-wide message that also clarified the exchange’s policy on defective or ill-fitting uniform items. Navy Exchange Command’s proposal to field the uniforms in all regions “was based on the assessment of the inventory on hand and what the manufacturers are able to put out,” said Capt. Vince Drouillard, branch head within the Navy’s personnel, plans and policy division. “Part of the reason we had a two-year rollout plan was to give industry time to produce the correct inventory.”" - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"hone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life Kiyoshi Ota / Bloomberg News The many capabilities of Apple's iPhone 3GS are also a drain on the device's battery. Buyers are finding that the device has trouble making it through a workday without a rest stop at the electrical" - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"Taunting the United States on its birthday, North Korea fired seven missiles into the Sea of Japan early Saturday in a provocative move that some experts said might have been intended to discourage deployment of new missile defenses against the communist state." - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet

"In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location, and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes Web typography much more attractive. @font-face is a CSS rule that allows Web designers to reference fonts not installed on end-user machines. Just as you would have a pointer to a server-based stylesheet or JavaScript file in your Web page code, you can now make reference to a hosted typeface." - Colide81 (James) via Bookmarklet