Wanna buy a country? How about Belgium? It’s nice, has a great history, it’s a bit cold, unable to form a government and perhaps about to partition. But it’s cheap.
A Belgian teacher thought that selling the country was a good idea, so he put it up for auction on EBAY. There it stayed, until someone made a $10M bid – EBAY then pulled it out.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,506653,00.html
Category: The Absurd (Page 9 of 12)
Alex Jiménez, a 25 yo Dominican-American soldier, went missing in Iraq on May 12th. His dogtags have been found, but he hasn’t yet. Meanwhile, his wife could be deported. She came illegally to the US in 2001, married Jiménez in 2004 and he was in the process of requesting a Green Card for her. However, that alerted the authorities to her illegal entry and a deportation procedure was started against her.
Personally, I found horrible the idea of deporting the wife of a soldier who is fighting for the US – much less one who is probably dying for this country.
A man was arrested for beating the principal of a school in Posadas (Argentina), during a meeting to discuss the problems with violence at the school. Apparently he felt his son was discriminated against, and decided to express himself by hitting the principal with a motorcycle helmet.
In other Argentine news, two schools have been occupied by students who have problems with the administration. In one, at least, classes are going on but the principal has been prevented by the multitude from going in.
And the metro workers are protesting by allowing people to travel for free. You have to give it to them, it’s much less disruptive in the economy and just as much of a loss for the parent company.
This article is from January, but I just got it forwarded. It’s simply amazing.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/01/72543
Wired
01.23.07
Military Builds Robotic Insects
David Hambling
If you feel something crawling on your neck, it might be a wasp or a bee. Or it might be something much more dangerous.
Israel is developing a robot the size of a hornet to attack terrorists. And although the prototype will not fly for three years, killer Micro
Air Vehicles, or MAVs, are much closer than that.
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