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THIS is TRUE #785: 28 June

post from This is True on 03 July 2009 11:38:35 PM. © This is True

SINCE 1994 and reaching more than 107,000 subscribers in over 200   countries, this is the 785th weekly issue of...THIS is TRUE: 28 June 2009            Copyright http://www.thisistrue.com-------------------------------------------------------------------------PICTURE THIS: The magazine Paris Match announced its annual prize for   student photojournalism. The winners, Guillaume Chauvin and Remi Hubert

To read the full text of this week's issue seeThis is True's --weird news stories.

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This is True coversbizarre-but-true stories from newspapers from around the world. Trueis also the source of the (in)famous Get Outof Hell Free cards, the well-edited humor siteJumbo Joke, and is the publisher of theTrue Stella Awards, featuring case write-ups ofcrazy lawsuits.

Special Note from True's 13 March 2005 issue:

Bad News, Good News: The bad news is, the RSS feed for True's free edition was being abused: people were using scripts to postthe text to their web sites automatically, despite very clear prohibitionsagainst that. Since people wouldn't stop that abuse, I stopped it --by not putting the full text in the RSS feed anymore. It sucks that a fewidiots spoiled it for everyone, but that's the way it is. Truedepends on its copyright to stay in business, and I just can't have peoplestealing it like that. I offer all sorts of neat things for free, includingthe "True-a-Day" service for you to put a story on your own web sites thatautomatically changes every day, a free archive of past stories, this freesubscription, and lots more. Yet some just can't be satisfied with that andtake more than what's offered. That is indeed stealing, folks, and those ofyou who post stories on your web sites, post them to Usenet, print them innewsletters, and more threaten True's very existence. And thatmatters to me. It's not a "victimless crime"! I'm very generouswith my work, but I must draw the line somewhere. The "where" is up to me,not you, and if you're one who's stealing it and can't deal with that fact,then stop reading my stuff.

The GOOD news is, I'm very sympathetic to the vast majority -- those whowant to stay within the rules, to not cross the line, to not steal. A lotof you try hard to subscribe and get the issues by e-mail, but havedifficulty, either because you only have a work e-mail address and are notallowed to subscribe to e-mail publications, or your ISP filters out thee-mail you asked to get, even while you still get loads of spam.Thus, as of last week I have started posting the current issue on the True web site so you can read it via the web. Not only that, butbecause very often the letters in the current issue refer to the previousone, I'm also posting the previous issue on the True website. They automatically rotate, and the RSS feed is now a notification ofthe new postings, keeping the RSS option a useful feature. To find thecurrent issue, look in the Navbar on the True site. The previousissue is linked from the current one's page. (That Navbar is pretty handy:it has links to the True-a-Day service, the archive, the Reader Forum, theBonzer and Honorary Unsubscribe archives, site search and a lot more. Thesite is pretty big, but it's well organized -- if you take the time toexplore it and use the tools provided to find what you want.)

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Part 3: “Alien Symbols” in Milk Hill and South
Field

post from Earthfiles.com Articles on 03 July 2009 08:15:04 PM. © Earthfiles.com Articles

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Barman jailed for deadly tequila bet

post from NEWS.com.au | The Other Side on 03 July 2009 05:37:00 PM. © NEWS.com.au | The Other Side

A BARMAN who killed a teenager by tricking him into downing 45 shots of tequila has been jailed.

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Elderly woman calls firefighters to extinguish
'Yule Log' image on TV

post from Offbeat News on 03 July 2009 12:09:40 PM. © Offbeat News

Swiss firefighters called to the home of an elderly woman who reported her TV was burning discovered the "fire" was just an image of a fireplace on the screen.

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Prediction: Bertoletti Will Take the Coney Island
Hot Dog Contest

post from About.com Weird News on 03 July 2009 11:53:48 AM. © About.com Weird News

A new king will be crowned Saturday at Coney Island. Let me go on record as predicting Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti will win the coveted Nathan's mustard yellow belt.Most of...[...]

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Chinese babies 'sold for adoption'

post from Offbeat News on 03 July 2009 11:34:25 AM. © Offbeat News

Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.

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ENM: you'll be hearing about this..

post from The Blogsquatcher on 03 July 2009 11:26:00 AM. © The Blogsquatcher

I saw this last night in a Google alert, but thought I'd just let it slide. There's already too much science bashing going on around here (by me!). But it's getting a lot of repeat play on science sites, so I think you'll probably be hearing about "ecological niche modeling and bigfoot"..

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