Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man's Social Security check, the police said.

A man who hid hunting knives in his pants to try to steal them from a western Michigan store tripped while fleeing and stabbed himself in the abdomen, police say.

Huckabee and Edwards

Dear Diary, Ok, it planning time. The first thing I need to do is start living my life in the now. So starting tomorrow. I am living in the now. Err well.. that not living in the now is it. Ok, starting now, I am living in the now. Er now?! Oh fuck, this is enlightenment thing is impossible! Fuck it, pass me the remote and cheese doodles.

And all I've been fiddling with is the best way to get my music and movies setup to play on the Wii rather than the actual games. So far I've tried Weezo and Orb. Weezo's pages get all screwed up but Orb is choppy and keeps buffering, it also eats up a lot of CPU. Thinking of sticking it in a separate VM or get a cheapo dedicated PC for it.

Anyone got any good flashgames for the wii?

From the new Fox business channel about to launch:

"And today thanks to Bush's war on terror, and God, the Dow is up 10 points."

This segment brought to you by Halliburton. English only subtitles available. Gore/Clinton + Osama = true.

Pretty frequently when my PC is running slowly and laggish my Task Manager will tell me that Internet Explorer is taking up 98-99% of the CPU while using about 70MB of RAM. However, no IE will be visible on screen. It's like it's running in stealth mode doing its own thing.

It's got XP sp2 with all the latest patches. Since I'm a cheapskate I use the AVG free edition for antivirus and Windows Defender or whatever M$'s spyware protection is called. They both tell me daily nothing is wrong.

Any ideas? Thanks

Go to Jail Go directly to jail.

...In 2005, 56 prisoners were murdered. There are roughly 2 million inmates held in state prisons, meaning that the homicide rate per 100,000 prisoners last year was only 2.8. That number is less than half the rate of New York City (6.6 per 100,000) and an order of magnitude lower than Baltimore (42 per 100,000). Indeed, of the 66 largest cities in the United States, only El Paso, Tex. and Honolulu, Hawaii have lower homicide rates than the state prisons...

"I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.

A new report says that the increased speeds and other features of 802.11n should be enough to replace Ethernet on any companies' WANs in the next two to three years. While 802.11n speeds still fall far short of those of gigabit Ethernet, The Burton Group believes that they should be good enough for most uses. In fact, in its list of recommendations on when to deploy 802.11n, one of the criteria listed is "when fast Ethernet (100Mbps) throughput is good enough."

I keep my google personalized homepage up all day to keep me updated on current events. Today I've seen two headlines that made me think.

BBC: Girl, 3, survives fatal shooting

MSNBC: NASA: No Sign of Drunk Astronauts

Funniest news since Haggard was outed.

Technology Daily features an overview of each major U.S. Presidential candidate's record on technology issues. The information was "compiled from the Congressional Record, speeches and statements on campaign Web sites." Third party candidates are ignored, but eight Democrats and eight Republicans are covered. This information is an important jumping-off point for the informed Slashdot voter.

Great arena, expensive parking and beer, not so great crowd. Plenty of empty seats, at kickoff it was almost half empty. With all the hype and sellouts everywhere else I was surprised that the upper deck didn't even have to be used. The official attendance was about 17k, not terrible for soccer in the US but about 10k short of capacity.

Got to see some firsts, Beckham's first start with the Galaxy, first game as captain, first yellow card, first goal, and first assist. I also got my first glimpse of Posh but the bodyguards intimidated me into not taking pictures, I'm a failure as a paparazzo.

Three years ago, a 44-year-old man was admitted to hospital in Marseille, France, complaining of weakness in his left leg. He had no idea what doctors would find to be the source of the problem: a huge pocket of fluid where most of his brain ought to be.

Cool picture too.