Krau Ming - Slashdot User

Submission + - Balls Banned at Bubblewrap Public School (thestar.com)

Submitted by Krau Ming on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @09:43AM

Krau Ming writes: from TFA:
"The happy days of kicking a ball around at recess ended Monday after students took home a letter advising that henceforth, no child could bring a soccer ball, football, volleyball or even tennis ball to the junior and senior school... The letter stated that there have been a “few serious incidents” in which staff and students have been hit, or come close to being struck, by flying balls. From now on, only Nerf balls or sponge balls can be brought to school."

The bubblewrapping of our children continues...when will it end? Won't someone please just think of the children???

Submission + - Vancouver loses hockey game; trashes downtown (nationalpost.com)

Submitted by Krau Ming on Thursday June 16, 2011 @10:50AM

Krau Ming writes: Game 7 of the NHL playoffs final was played last night in Vancouver, where the Canucks were smoked by the visiting Boston Bruins, 4-0. Apparently some of the crowd gathered downtown did not like the result of the game and decided to loot stores, burn cars, etc. This pales in comparison to riots at soccer matches overseas, but still, not bad for a Canadian riot, eh?

Submission + - Man killed by armed bird at cockfight (thestar.com)

Submitted by Krau Ming on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @02:24PM

Krau Ming writes: from TFA: "A man attending a cockfight has died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its limb."

Obviously this is what you get for arming a crazy rooster with a knife. Good thing it wasn't given a gun.

Submission + - Scott returns to Dick (sneakpeek.ca)

Submitted by Krau Ming on Friday October 08, 2010 @10:26AM

Krau Ming writes: From the main article: "Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions will produce a 4-hour TV adaptation of author Phlip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle", based on a script by Howard Brenton. The original 1962 novel was a science fiction 'alternate history', that won a sci fi 'Hugo' book award in 1963. Premise of the book, about daily life under totalitarian Fascist imperialism, occurs in 1962, fourteen years after the end of the Second World War in 1948. The victorious Axis Powers, Japan and Germany, conduct intrigues against each other in North America, specifically in the former US, which surrendered to them, after the Axis conquered Eurasia and destroyed the populaces of Africa." --Michael Stevens

Hopefully this will fall in the category of well-done PKD adaptations (though I'll leave it up to the slashdotters to determine which of the previous movies should be categorized as such).

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