Submission + - Scaled Composites Kill 2
WED Fan writes: "An explosion in Mojave, CA, home of SpaceShip One, has killed 2 people. Early reports indicated fuel processing was involved."
Submission + - Explosion kills 2 at spaceport! (cnn.com)
Darkstar2121 writes: "Rocket motor test causes large explosion involving a nitrous oxide tank on a remote pad."
Submission + - Explosion at Scaled Composites: 2 dead, 4 injured (latimes.com)
Jason Smith writes: Not much in the way of detail yet, but apparently there was a massive explosion at Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites site at the Mojave Airport this afternoon when a tank of nitrous oxide ignited. Two reported dead, four critically injured. One to keep an eye on.
Submission + - Sony Decapitates a Goat in PR Stunt
AbsoluteXyro writes: PETA is going to be pissed. London Entertainment Guide (Slightly NSFW) breaks the news that electronics giant Sony, in another stroke of marketing brilliance, decided to decapitate a goat and invite guests to "reach inside the goat's still-warm carcass to eat offal from its stomach" as a PR stunt to promote God of War II at a recent party in Athens. Images from the party, including at least one showing the freshly decapitated goat's head hanging by it's corpse by a thread of tissue, have been published in a two page spread in the latest edition of Playstation Magazine. Interestingly, Sony UK has refused to say how the goat was killed, but judging by the pictures, we can guess.
Submission + - RMS / "free," as in unprincipled
An anonymous reader writes: http://brookesnews.com/071903fontova.html
"Here's a hippie-dippy spokesman for peace, love and total freedom who regards copyright laws as intolerably oppressive smiling gratefully — while being introduced onto the podium by a Secret Police Chief for a KGB and STASI-trained force who jailed and tortured more political prisoners as a percentage of population than Stalin's police under Lavrenti Beria and who executed at a higher rate than Hitler's pre-war Gestapo under Heinrich Himmler."
