LG Launches Universal Translator for Teen Speak

post from Offbeat News on 29 May 2009 11:55:52 PM. © Offbeat News

It's no secret that texting has actually become more popular than talking on cell phones, and skews more toward the youthful set. Parents though, might not understand when a teenage child texts them with "TTYL" or "ROFL." LG has unveiled DTXTR (or "de-text-er"), a translation tool for us old fogies.

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THIS is TRUE #780: 24 May

post from This is True on 29 May 2009 11:41:50 PM. © This is True

SINCE 1994 and reaching more than 108,000 subscribers in over 200   countries, this is the 780th weekly issue of...THIS is TRUE: 24 May 2009             Copyright http://www.thisistrue.com-------------------------------------------------------------------------WHAT A DUMMY: Kenny Tessel, the owner of KT's Barbecue restaurant in   Reading, Ohio, may continue to keep his mannequin, "BarBe", outside his

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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.

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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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Paper Runs Ad Calling for Obama's Assassination

post from Offbeat News on 29 May 2009 10:27:25 PM. © Offbeat News

A Pennsylvania newspaper should be expecting a visit from the Secret Service soon. The Warren Pennsylvania Times-Observer published an ad on Thursday that called for the assassination of President Barack Obama.

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Part 4: 1954 SOM1-01 Training Manual and Challis,
Idaho, Huge Triangle

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Part 3: 1954 SOM1-01 Training Manual and Challis,
Idaho, Huge Triangle

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Vietnam Plans to Outlaw Dancing in Karaoke Clubs

post from Offbeat News on 29 May 2009 06:15:19 PM. © Offbeat News

Busting a move in a karaoke club may soon get you busted in Vietnam. Government officials are currently pushing for a ban on dancing in the countrya s increasingly popular singing establishments.

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Watch This: The Car That Can Swing

post from Sky News | Strange News | First For Breaking News on 29 May 2009 06:15:06 PM. © Sky News | Strange News | First For Breaking News

This is the car that can swing into action.

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Near Miss Video: Gymnast Flips Over Kid

post from Sky News | Strange News | First For Breaking News on 29 May 2009 06:15:06 PM. © Sky News | Strange News | First For Breaking News

It's a near miss for this gymnast as she flips through her routine.

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No Landscape and No Math in Rome

Strings 2009 is about three weeks away, and it will bring 450 or so string theorists to Rome. The topics of the talks at the Strings 200x conferences give a good idea of what the hot topics in the field are, and this year’s talk titles are now available. What’s big this [...]

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