George the Cat, Missing for 13 years, is Returned to His Family (1)
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George, in 1995 17-year-old George the cat has been reunited with his family after having been missing for thirteen years. George was returned to Frank Walburg and his wife, Melinda Merman, last week after Sonoma County Animal Care and Control officers rescued him from a trailer park — just three miles from their Santa Rosa, CA home — at the request of the park’s manager. Authorities scanned George and found an implanted microchip that enabled ...
US Air Force Abandoned Nuclear Bomb in Greenland [Top Secret] (12)
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The US government plotted to hide the fact that they were constantly flying nuclear-armed B-52 bombers over Greenland during the 1960s, the BBC has discovered in a recent investigation. The operation, called Chrome Dome, was designed to instantly respond to the Soviet Union if the latter launched a nuclear missile attack against Thule, a US Air Force base strategically placed near the North Pole. The Pentagon believed that this could potentially start a full-scale thermonuclear ...
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brian said:
The world (or the US) is nuts
Microsoft Chips In $25K in Search for Missing Kid [Missing] (4)
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There's still no sign of 15-year-old Brandon Crisp, who went missing after his parents confiscated his Xbox, but Microsoft Canada added $25,000 to the reward for information leading to his safe return, doubling it. Microsoft is also working with Barrie, Ontario authorities, divulging IP addresses of anyone who may have come in contact with Brandon via Call of Duty 4, his favorite game. Microsoft is to be lauded for putting its money where its mouth ...
Ys: Books I & II Easing On Down To Nintendo DS In February [Atlus] (1)
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Atlus keeps its Japanese RPG import streak alive with the North American release of Legacy of Ys: Books I & II for the Nintendo DS, due to ship February 10, 2009. The role-playing game is a remake of Ys I & II, two classic games now twenty-plus years long in the tooth. The two games were released separately in Japan earlier this year, but Atlus is being charitable to our wallets, keeping both remakes on ...
Missing: Basith Salami (Maryland) (1)
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Prince George's County Police are asking for help from the public in locating a missing 9-year-old boy who disappeared on Tuesday afternoon. Investigators say Basith Akinola Salami got off a school bus in the area of Doubletree Lane and Citrus Lane in Springdale at about 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, but he didn't make it home. They say he has not been seen or heard from since.Salami is described as a 9-year-old black male with a ...
8 Ways to Open Text as a Link (1)
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One of those pesky things that bug me is when somebody writes a link in that I want to click, but there is no HTML code included to make it into a click-able link. Thankfully several add-ons for Firefox have figured out how to turn URLs and e-mail addresses not marked up as a link into things I can click on. There are eight add-ons for Firefox that do this job very well. The only ...