Another news spike

[big_bad_al]

Nothing interesting has happened for nearly a week, and all of a sudden, lots of things are out there! The space shuttle Discovery appears to have launched without incident, and is on its way to take a German dude to the ISS. Former Enron executive Ken Lay died of a heart attack (note that this brought up an excellent example of why Wikipedia

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[dhalps]

.. I was actually in the middle of watching the WC playoff when I read this :-p. They air at 3am here-time, since I miss all the ones that are on during a normal-person's workday.

[riccobot]

Allez les Bleus! I feel I must support France even more as we are currently there and will be for the final. There was much honking of horns in celebration last night in response to the semi-final victory.

[macdaddyfrosh]

"Much honking of horns" doesn't cover it. "Much honking of horns at 2AM while we were getting all of the five hours of sleep that our travel 'adventure' afforded us" might.

Grumble grumble Ryanair grumble!