"SCIENTISTS have found that - just like some people - fiddler crabs will exchange favours for sex. Male crabs will protect a female neighbour but do so partly in exchange for sex."
- Matt G
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Intriguing. I had an ex-girlfriend who operated like this. Perhaps she was a descendant!
- Con Christopoulos
I'm thinking about crab jokes but that would be to easy!
- Matt G
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"A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported Thursday."
- Matt G
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That is amazing. Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He had done time, so he new what it was like in there and after going back to his wife, he wanted to go back to jail!!!!! That is brilliant. Hhahahahahahahaha.!!!!
- Con Christopoulos
I wouldn't have posted this if I knew u had new gf! No I would have.
- Matt G
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"STUNG by the economic crisis, a brothel in Berlin has leapt on the "green" bandwagon and is offering discounts to clients who can prove they arrived by public transport or bicycle - with some success."
- Matt G
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Yeah, but have they found out a bio-friendly way of getting rid of all those rubber condoms?
- Con Christopoulos
Social media is the new punk rock - I tend to agree! An interesting view of where social media is at. http://pagesaresocial.com/2009...
You got two screens happening!? To a technophobe like me, that is like, WOW!!
- Con Christopoulos
I've got two computers on the desk at the moment which is silly but I just wanted to get it going. So the two screens are connected to different computers. I am thinking about hooking up the two screens to one computer, it is really easy and its free software to.
- Matt G
from email
"In a landmark decision today, the Federal Court in Brisbane imposed a total of $15.75 million in penalties for contraventions of the Spam Act 2003 (the Spam Act), following the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s first court action taken against unsolicited SMS messages."
- Matt G
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It is unfortunate that even with these high penalties, it won't deter spammers in the slightest.
- Travis Koger
No, but it will just move it offshore and underground I suppose. :-(
- Matt G
I dislike the fact that it is effectively a Government Agency that is going after these people... and spending tax dollars trying to stop it from happening. I think that the network providers should bare the cost as they are allowing it to happen... however having said that I guess I am then supporting the Movie and Music industry going after the ISPs and I think that is wrong. The difference is that the Movie and Music industry is a private company (or public) trying to regain lost profits =P.
- Travis Koger
"A group representing authors in China has accused Google of violating copyrights with its digital library, a claim that Google denies by saying the service complies with international law."
- Matt G
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Wait... lemme get this straight... the Chinese are claiming copyright infringement? Is this the same China where we had to lock up all of our software and manuals overnight when working on consulting projects there? Lest we discover that they'd all been duplicated during the 6 or so hours that we weren't at the project office? Is this the same China where the "key" devices for our...
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- Mark Jepsen
Delicious irony isn't it. Still you can't necessarily blame these authors for that. I am nothing if not fair I posted this the other day - http://friendfeed.com/gutt0...
- Matt G
Yeah, it is VERY ironic. But you're right that the individual authors should expect the U.S. to honor international law. Though a bit of reciprocity would be nice.
- Mark Jepsen
"Start-ups iLike and LaLa will facilitate the new feature, which will enable songs to be streamed on the Google page that will also include a "buy" button. This will help reduce the number of steps fans need to purchase their favorite songs or albums."
- Matt G
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Friendfeed is very slow for me tonight, so much so that I just checked my connection which is normal.
"An Australian man faces jail for armed robbery after police used blood from a leech to make a DNA match from a 2001 crime scene, a court spokeswoman said on Monday."
- Matt G
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