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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090915/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu
Mafia informant said that the Calabrian mafia has gotten in on the lucrative business of radioactive waste disposal, but instead of disposing the material safely, they just put them on ships and blew up the ships at sea!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8257912.stm
The US government is VERY concerned about cybersecurity in China. US travelers that go to China are being told to leave their computers at home and buy separate IT equipment only for use in China. They even tell travelers to weigh their laptops before and after going to China!
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8754
Two MIT students spent $148 to send back photos with GPS coordinates from the edge of space. They used a used Canon A470 running open-source software, a $30 weather balloon with helium from a party favor store, and a prepaid cell phone with GPS and text messaging capabilities:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/stratophoto/
Discovery Channel has a neat feature on a collision between two planets--one the size of Mercury, the other the size of our moon:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/discovery-news-2009-proof-of-cosmic-smash-up.html
Clearwire's CEO said that Clearwire could switch from WiMAX to LTE if LTE beats WiMAX out to become the dominant 4G technology. I wonder how that makes Intel feel when they invested their $1 billion or so to try to boost WiMAX:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/clearwire-ceo-leaves-door-open-lte/2009-09-16?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Snake with a foot was found in China:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html
Man and woman went into a dumpster to get some privacy so that they could have sex, but they were interrupted when someone discovered them and decided to rob them:
http://www.kansas.com/197/story/970373.html?storylink=omni_popular
Man arrested for drunk driving on a Wisconsin highway...in a wheelchair that a friend loaned him:
http://www.wwmt.com/articles/0in-1366994-style-margin.html
16-year-old cheerleader hunted and killed a 10-foot-long alligator that weighed 353 pounds:
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=78363&provider=top
Johns Hopkins undergrad caught a man that broke into the garage of his home and killed him with a samurai sword:
http://www.gantdaily.com/news/35/ARTICLE/61257/2009-09-15.html