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Friday, 20 January 2006
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A 74-year-old woman who had been blind for 25 years awoke in a British hospital after suffering a heart attack and could see again.
This is a bizarre story, and apparently true on the face of it; but it doesn't make me wish for a cardiac infarction should I find myself inexplicably sightless.
[ABC News: Health]
11:48:46 PM 
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Fridge magnets may one day be able to fix bad grammar and change the words to something they think is more appropriate.
Swedish grammar is extremely complex compared to that of English; especially as Americans speak it.
So maybe it is no wonder that Swedish scientists want their fridge magnets to organise themselves grammatically.
[ABC News: Science and Technology]
11:09:55 PM
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My editor Josh Levin took it upon himself to conduct a thorough, methodical, exhaustive study of what's in the "unrated" versions of movies on disc. He arrives at "the great unrated DVD paradox: The uncensored version is often less raunchy than the cut you see in theaters."
Well it's nice to see someone do the tedious work required to compare minutes of naked bodies (female breasts in particular) to minutes of their absence...oh, I'm bored just thinking about it.
[Paul Boutin]
10:53:19 PM
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Soul singer Wilson Pickett dies.
Veteran soul singer Wilson Pickett, known for such hits as Mustang Sally and In the Midnight Hour, has died today of a heart attack in Virginia, his manager said.
Sadly, he hadn't really achieved much since the early 70s, but those early hits, with Booker T & the MGs, were gems.
[ABC News: Entertainment (with Mpeg1)]
2:45:19 PM
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The title would appear to say it all, but it is a surprisingly convoluted and interesting story.
That said, don't you wish you'd registered the domain name in 1994 when you could have for a few dollars?
[The Age Technology Headlines]
2:38:44 PM
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The creator of Dame Edna Everage, Barry Humphries, is featured in a new stamp collection issued to commemorate Australia Day.
The least the nation could do, I should have thought.
[ABC News: Entertainment (with Mpeg1)]
1:08:44 PM
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Cory Doctorow:
A mysterious man appears at Edgar Allan Poe's grave every year on his birthday, January 19, and leaves flowers and cognac as a memorial. It's not known who he is, nor how he gets in, and every year his ceremony gets more difficult as crowds of gawkers crowd around the cemetary, hoping to catch and unmask him:
"In letting people know about this tribute, I've been contributing to these people's desire to catch this guy," Jerome said. "It's such a touching tribute, and it's been disrupted by the actions of a few people trying to interfere and expose this guy."
The cryptic visits began in 1949. Jerome has seen the ceremony every January 19 since 1976. Poe was born in 1809.
Link
This is such a cool story; it's such a pity that people are likely to spoil what I'm sure is best left a mystery.
 [Boing Boing]
1:02:16 PM
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