Sunday, June 08, 2008
News of the World. In case you missed it ...
From Harvard: The university president feels the heat (ours?) and responds....
From St. Paul, Minnesota: Deconstructing Obama's speechwriters...
From Cannes: Deconstructing Sean Penn's brain...
From Paris: What seduces beautiful European women?
From Cannes: Angelina Jolie is not the typcial bubblehead Hollywood actress -- and if you think she is, you'd better not tell her to her face because (in addition to wanting to win the war in Iraq) she likes guns....
From China: Sex secrets of the Giant Panda, revealed. Video! (Panda porn?)
From Washington State: Sex secrets of people who really love their cars, revealed. (Though maybe you don't really want to know.)
From Bath University, UK: Asexual reproduction secrets of the first ancestors of our future Robot Overlords of the 22nd Century, revealed. Meet their Adam and, er, Adam II.
From New Zealand: Progress in the vital fight against Global Warming:
From Taiwan: "Uh... how am I supposed to start the motor with these things?"
From Harvard: The university president feels the heat (ours?) and responds....
"Harvard's $35-billion endowment has become something of a target — publicly both envied and maligned," said Ms. Faust in her speech. "But it is poorly understood. It represents a concrete embodiment of our accountability..."Much like Paris Hilton's trust fund.
From St. Paul, Minnesota: Deconstructing Obama's speechwriters...
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless...I certainly hope he's right and that generations from now I will be able to look back and tell my children anything, even my own name.
From Cannes: Deconstructing Sean Penn's brain...
[Penn explained] ”I don’t have a candidate I’m supporting and I’m certainly interested and excited by the hope that Barack Obama is inspiring,” but went on to accuse Obama of a “phenomenally inhuman and unconstitutional” voting record. "I hope that he will understand, if he is the nominee, the degree of disillusionment that will happen if he doesn’t become a greater man than he will ever be,” Penn said.
From Paris: What seduces beautiful European women?
Italian bombshell Carla Bruni tells how French President Nicolas Sarkozy seduced her in a new book, "Carla and Nicolas, The True Story." Bruni told authors Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual: "It all happened suddenly. I wasn't expecting someone so funny, so full of life . . . I was seduced by his physique and his intelligence. He has five or six brains which are remarkably irrigated."
From Cannes: Angelina Jolie is not the typcial bubblehead Hollywood actress -- and if you think she is, you'd better not tell her to her face because (in addition to wanting to win the war in Iraq) she likes guns....
"If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them," she says with a dry candour. "I bought original, real guns of the type we used in Tomb Raider for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we have one. And yes, I'd be able to use it ..."
From China: Sex secrets of the Giant Panda, revealed. Video! (Panda porn?)
From Washington State: Sex secrets of people who really love their cars, revealed. (Though maybe you don't really want to know.)
From Bath University, UK: Asexual reproduction secrets of the first ancestors of our future Robot Overlords of the 22nd Century, revealed. Meet their Adam and, er, Adam II.
From New Zealand: Progress in the vital fight against Global Warming:
New Zealand scientists claim to have developed a "flatulence inoculation" aimed at cutting down on the massive amount of methane produced by its sheep and cows. Such animals are believed to be responsible for more than half of the country's greenhouse gases, causing huge environmental problems. ... The 45 million sheep and 10 million cattle in New Zealand burped and farted about 90 percent of that country's methane emissions....Forget Global Warming, I'll take a shot the next time I'm heading out to drink Guiness at the White Horse.
From Taiwan: "Uh... how am I supposed to start the motor with these things?"
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates ousted the Air Force's top military and civilian leaders yesterday, holding them to account in a Pentagon shake-up...
Gates cited two embarrassing incidents in the past year. In one, a B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and flown across the country without anyone realizing nukes were aboard.
In the other, four electrical fuses for ballistic missile warheads were mistakenly sent to Taiwan in the place of helicopter batteries.
