Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Pigeon beats Net firm in data transfer race
Bird with card strapped to leg triumphs in 50-mile South African showdown
I'd believe that.

U.S. student kills burglar with samurai sword
And it sounds like he knew how to use it, too - he took the guy's hand off in addition to slashing his neck.

Unguided, we really do go in circles, study finds
Just as pop­u­lar wis­dom holds, peo­ple try­ing to walk a straight course through un­fa­mil­iar ter­ri­to­ry end up walk­ing in cir­cles, ac­cord­ing to a new stu­dy.
That's too bad, huh?

Cities work much like brains, study finds
The bigger and more complex the city/brain, the more, and better, connections it needs. Pay attention, city of Atlanta! All of America, for that matter.

Masked speeder stymies Arizona police - Crime & courts- msnbc.com
Sounds like the typical guy trying, pathetically, to get out of paying fines for speeding. Except he points this out:
VonTesmar, who said he simply drives with the flow of traffic, said if DPS does have surveillance photos of him on the road, it proves he's not a danger to other drivers. If he was, DPS would have pulled him over, he said.
Also:
"They're out staking out a guy with a monkey mask?" he said. "They watched him break the law and didn't do anything about it? If they had pulled him over, they could have pulled the mask off. It just proves photo radar is not about safety, it's about money."
And cops wonder why people don't respect them. Or the speed limit. Or the government. If you know you're the one people see most often as representing the government, how do you think you should act?
Of course, Christians have a duty to obey, no matter how stupid the rules (unless they go against what God has commanded); but, even if you're not a Christian, as a citizen of the US, or wherever you find yourself, you should probably obey anyway.

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