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Okay, how the fuck did this story make it into prominent spots on the Reuters website and tonight’s Channel 4 news?

Police Hunt Pub Urinal Thief

LONDON (Reuters) – British police said Friday they were hunting a man who stole a urinal from a pub toilet.

The suspect walked into the Royal Oak pub in Southampton, on the English south coast, ordered half a pint of beer and then made several visits to the men’s toilet.

There he carefully removed a white urinal from the wall, stuffed it into a rucksack and was captured on closed circuit television walking out with the bulging sack on his back.

Now, I’m guessing it was a slow news day. But that pub is about thirty seconds away from the place that I work. There is no way, in a sane world, that The Southern Daily Echo gets the scoop on the national and international news… They even have video!

Sheesh.

Warren Ellis today launched a new column, called Second Life Sketches, at the Reuters website. The first is extremely illuminating, concerning itself with a recent clash between the two dominant perceptions of Second Life; the first, that it is a phenomenally successful, intensely fast-growing leap into the future of the internet; “… a snowballing Internet application that gains speed by the moment.“, and the second, that it is a den of perverse sexual deviations lived free of the moral restraints of the real world.

Ellis’ column is here: http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/01/05/second-life-sketches- two-worlds-fame-and-infamy/
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Nobody fears the ghost of flight 721. It passes overhead, far above, where it cannot be seen, except for the ethereal shades of the contrails it leaves behind it.
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