Typical Russian computer
-Headline of the day-
"Why we must break with the American crazies," from british writer Anatole Kaletsky. You get one guess as to which 'American crazies' he's talking about... OK, here's a hint:
(Times Online)
-Two in as many days-
Apparently, it's a fad or something -- it's the second naked driver story in two days. The headline: "Naked driver charged with 'embracing while driving'." The report: "A Seattle man was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and having sex while driving last weekend, the Washington State Patrol reported." Both the man and a woman passenger were completely naked as the woman performed oral sex on the driver. That doesn't actually require full nudity from either participant, but there ya go.
If oral sex doesn't strike you as being an actual 'embrace,' then Trooper Jeff Merrill puts it another way; "You are not supposed to be hugging or kissing while driving," he said. "It's so distracting." Understatement as an artform, ladies and gentlemen... (Scripps)
-Picking the right country for the job-
While people are wondering if a computer outage on the International Space Station means that the station will have to be evacuated, I'm thinking the media is missing an important point here. The rocket scientists think that 'a connector on a newly installed power-conducting truss that is a key suspect in the computer glitch.' "NASA suspects the connector because the Russian computers blinked out at about the same time the connector went on line," the report reads.
Now, here are the players involved in the ISS project: USA, Russia, Japan, Canada, and the European Space Agency. See where I'm going here?
Yeah, you've got Japan onboard and you give the computer-supplying business to the country that brought you freakin' Chernobyl. Good thinkin'. (AP)
