All the Wednesday news
Some snippets, infobursts, snatches of the news going on around us brought to you by various internet sources without the poisonous biases and slants that the big news media brings you.
1) MURDER ME DEADLY
A 15-year-old British grammar school boy has been convicted of inciting an internet friend to murder him.
The boy, who can be identified only by the pseudonym John, invented a cast of characters in a chat room as part of a plan to commission his own murder. Some of his inspiration came from James Bond films and the science-fiction blockbuster Men In Black.
He was 14 when he fell in love with Mark, a boy two years older, and adopted the guise of a female secret service agent to order his friend to stab him in an alleyway. Mark was meant to end his life with the words: "I love you, bro..."
2) FINGERS OF FAITH
Tens of thousands of people lined up Thursday to see one of Buddha's fingers -- on loan from China for 10 days -- and although they were herded past in a hurry, many said the relic offered Hong Kong fresh hopes for peace and calm.
Margaret Luk's eyes welled with tears after the 70-year-old retiree spent a fe
3) STATISTICS WE ALL LOVE TO HATE
Junk mail now accounts for nearly 70% of e-mails worldwide, according to filtering firm MessageLabs.
....If one studies the new testament, th ereal message one gets is that the real evil is MAMMON; Satan's considerably wealthier second cousin. Greed is not good. Greed is consumptive and looking at the statistic above, greed is also prevalent in hideous things like Marketing, advertising and the many many infringements that these horrible tools of Mammon make upon our personal well-being and our privacy. Spammers are evil; direct marketers are evil.
1) MURDER ME DEADLY
A 15-year-old British grammar school boy has been convicted of inciting an internet friend to murder him.
The boy, who can be identified only by the pseudonym John, invented a cast of characters in a chat room as part of a plan to commission his own murder. Some of his inspiration came from James Bond films and the science-fiction blockbuster Men In Black.
He was 14 when he fell in love with Mark, a boy two years older, and adopted the guise of a female secret service agent to order his friend to stab him in an alleyway. Mark was meant to end his life with the words: "I love you, bro..."
2) FINGERS OF FAITH
Tens of thousands of people lined up Thursday to see one of Buddha's fingers -- on loan from China for 10 days -- and although they were herded past in a hurry, many said the relic offered Hong Kong fresh hopes for peace and calm.
Margaret Luk's eyes welled with tears after the 70-year-old retiree spent a fe
3) STATISTICS WE ALL LOVE TO HATE
Junk mail now accounts for nearly 70% of e-mails worldwide, according to filtering firm MessageLabs.
....If one studies the new testament, th ereal message one gets is that the real evil is MAMMON; Satan's considerably wealthier second cousin. Greed is not good. Greed is consumptive and looking at the statistic above, greed is also prevalent in hideous things like Marketing, advertising and the many many infringements that these horrible tools of Mammon make upon our personal well-being and our privacy. Spammers are evil; direct marketers are evil.