Via Wizbang

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War icon by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64.

Fisher died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said Friday. There was no immediate word on cause of death.

Born in Chicago and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Fischer was wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions. In 2005, he moved to Iceland, a chess-mad nation and site of his greatest triumph.

Garry Kasparov, the former Russian chess champion, said Fischer's ascent in the chess world in the 1960s and his promotion of chess worldwide was "a revolutionary breakthrough" for the game. But Fischer's reputation as a genius of chess was eclipsed, in the eyes of many, by his idiosyncrasies.

"The tragedy is that he left this world too early, and his extravagant life and scandalous statements did not contribute to the popularity of chess," Kasparov told The Associated Press.

Creating new worlds

Astronomers may have seen the beginning of a solar system. Too bad we won't live long enough to see it when it's done.
CNN

Wow, this is a really interesting story. Do white people have fish genes in them?
MSNBC

Death in Nepal

There is to be an investigation into why Nepali soldiers killed 11 people last night. I'm interested in what this will turn up.
MSNBC

Wikipedia Fraud

Some idiot named Brian Chase tried to pull a gag on his one of his friends by using wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, and its a good resource when people aren't trying to play jokes on each other.
CNN
Wikipedia

Digital classrooms

This would be awsome in the Broward school system. Digital classrooms have been the topic of much debate and it looks like it could work... as long as the kids respect the equiptment.
CNN

XBOX360 glitch

A Chicago man is sueing microsoft because of an Xbox 360 glitch. What an idiot, Couldn't you just get a replacement? Instead this guy goes and sues microsoft. Real smart dude.
MSNBC

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the latest and greatest game console, and its going global. I hope that the Xbox 360 will at least come out with some good games. A new Halo or Knights of the Old Republic game would be good.
MSNBC

Techno Blankets

The new "All Day Every Day" blanket is warm and water resistance. It will be used in distaster areas such as New Orleans.
MSNBC

Diseased Monkeys

Have you ever seen a diseased monkey in malasia? Well these people have, and they think its a health threat.
Fox

A Lion's Share of Gold

Bellamy, a thirteen year old lion with arthritis just had gold pellets put in him. These pellets were injected into his muscles, this relieved his arthritis pain greatly.
MSNBC

A New Species?

In Borneo a new species was spotted. Observers got a picture, and are now searching for this unidentified creature.
MSNBC

Virgin Galactic

The Airline, Virgin Atlantic, has come out with a new frequent flier reward, space travel. Trips into space will start in 2008, until then they will be making more "Space Ship Ones."
CNN

Panda Celebrity

Why are they writing about pandas. Isn't there something better to write about. This is just exasperating.
CNN

Hydroponics on Mars

This is a good Idea, but if they don't have a good crop this could be useless. Lets just hope that they are able to grow something.
CNN

A.com

Domains worth $1,000,000? This is an absurd price for a website like A.com.
CNN

What Happened?

The Japanese space probe, Hayabusa, failed its mission to collect samples from an asteroid. The mission was difficult, but even so the Japanese are probably really mad.
CNN

Smelly Plant Draws Crowds

The rare corpse flower has bloomed. Why would anyone except for a botanist want to see and smell a flower that creates an odor that smells of death.
CNN

The Wait for XBOX 360

The Xbox 360 is going to come, but most people will probably have a long wait to get one.
CNN

Onion

Animal House
Animal planet is coming out with a new reality show where they put assorted animals in the same house.
Onion

That's Your Horoscope For Today
Just hope that you aren't a Scorpio.
Onion

Twin bombs

Two suicide bombers executed a coordinated attack and killed up to seventy people. This is a tragedy, but our soldiers must continue to stay in Iraq and fight.
CNN

Principal

I September an elementary school principal paraded a third grader, Katie White, through the school accusing her of being a thief and a liar. The principal did this because another girl in Katie's class accused Katie of stealing five dollars. This principal retired this month.

This is one messed up principal!
CNN

18 year old murderer?

David Ludwig, was put in police custody today after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend's parents, and later kidnapped his girlfriend. As I have said before, these kind of people should imprisoned or killed.
CNN

The onion

Bush and Beer
Chris Reinard had a Beer with bush and described it as, "really awkward"
I just read this article and I describe it as "really dumb"
onion

Senate race
Look out for these sprinting bureaucrats.

Bus plummets into gorge

The bus had fifty passengers when it fell into a river-gorge in Pakistan, where an earthquake hit recently. This is a sad story, but at least there are people that will help these passengers.
CNN

Double homicide

A girl's parents were shot by her boyfriend, and then she was kidnapped. I can't believe that people can be this psychopathic, the murderer should be jailed for life.
CNN

Don't catch the Flu!

The avian flu has taken 64 lives and has infect 126 people. I hope that this doesn't become an epidemic. If this disease mutates and spreads, many people will die.
CNN

On a funnier note... The Onion

Avian arthritis
This joint disease found only in birds is being ignored.
Onion

The Iraq constitution
Ratified, then burned a few seconds later.
Onion

Giant Panda gets a name

I don't know how these kinds of dumb articles actually make it to the news. I really don't think about the names of baby pandas or how long they have to wait to be named.
CNN

Intelligent design theory

Intelligent design is a theory and Darwin's theory are not laws, so I don't understand how people can object to having both taught or at least discussed in schools. As long as students know that neither of the theories have been proven.
CNN

Flu Flew

A new flu is sweeping across the world. It has infected birds in Romania and Greece. The flu is not easily spreaded, but that could change if it mutates.
CNN

Pictures of space

These pictures are really cool.
MSNBC

Would you like some spam

A michigan man was arrested and charged with mass spamming. Good riddance!
MSNBC

Storms and 'Canes

Tropical storm Wilma is headed towards Central America it may turn around after making landfall and hit Florida.
NOAA

Another i-pod

Apple's at it again. They just released the new i-pod. It has a 2.5 inch T.V. screen now, so you can see tiny, barely recognizable figure, kind of like a game boy.
MSNBC

China in space

The second manned Chinese spacecraft was launched today, sending two Chinese men into space. Some reporters were allowed to watch this event, a big deal for the secretive chinese government.
CNN

Birdlike dinos

These dinosaurs may change paleontological history.
MSNBC

Fake articles

Aliens in central park
These people aren't as good as the onion writers.
Fake News

Dog trial
This is one of the dumbest articles I've ever read.
Fake News

Too much force?

What were the police thinking when they bloodied a 65 year old man. They're supposed to use reasonable force, not excessive force.
CNN

Unmanned race

These cars are cool. They must have some advanced sensors on them.
CNN

The dark side of the universe

The dark matter theory has been under consideration for a while, but it's still hazy.

The Union Dumb News

The almighty handshake
These people constantly surprise me with their stupid ideas, this being one of them.
Union

Cosmic Stan
A lunatic that knows what he's talking about (even though nobody else does).

Weather
Big storms on the horizon
The only powerful storm near the Atlantic south east is tropical depression Vince, which appears to be dissipating.

Fish Tales

This is a pretty neat article about a scientist that trying to save the largest fish in the sea from extinction. There were reports of 200-600lb Chinese carp and 1300lb stingray. If he finds these fish, he will be internationally recognized, and he will add another couple of species to the catalog. If he fails then I guess he spent his life chasing "fish tales".
CNN

This is very sad

The underdeveloped baby epidemic has reached a high, this is really bad. Let's hope it's just an evolutionary phase or something like that.
Fox

Apple's at it again

Go back to computers you MP3 wannabees! As I have said before I don't like apple. This new phone of theirs is not on my christmas list.
MSNBC

The union

I hesitate to put this story on the site, only because it makes me mad thinking about the disrespect these authors are showing toward Katrina victims.
Union

Even I don't hate mice that much!
Union

And you thought OUR crime rate was bad...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- Crime-obsessed South Africans have a powerful new weapon with which to stop likely criminals: the car flamethrower.

Casting a man-high fireball, reportedly with no damage to the paint, the Blaster has been placed on 25 South African vehicles since its introduction last month.

The first buyer, Police Superintendent David Walkley of Johannesburg's crime intelligence unit, is satisfied the Blaster is legal, provided it is used correctly.

"It depends entirely on the circumstances and whether you can justify self-defense," he said.

"Yes, there are certain risks in using it, but there are also risks in not having anything at all."

Mars... No problem

Neil Armstrong thinks that it will be less difficult to get to mars than it was to get to the moon. I think so too Armstrong, duh. you had 10 years to fully design a rocket and get to the moon, we have 20 years and technology we can look back on. "It will be expensive", thanks, I would never have guessed.
CNN

Teen Hackers

These kids went into their school's computer data base to change some grades for their friends. Smart people, too bad they lack common sense!
MSNBC

EWW

This is some nasty stuff, just remember not to step in the freezer.
WND

Funny Stuff- Union news

Gatorade- third world country thirst quencher
Look out for the Gatorade people in under-quenched nations!
Union

Too Much T.V
Union

Storms
Hurricane Maria is headed north past the U.S. while tropical depression 16 will hit mid to north Florida.

In other news, the passing of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a sad thing. A champion of State's rights, I worry not that the court will shift to the right with President Bush selecting two new Justices (Judge Rehnquist was one of the conservative anchors of the Supreme Court and Justice O'Connor was a swing vote that fell conservative more often than not) but instead wonder if the two new justices will be stalwart State's Rights champions.

Watching the State of Confusion that is the State of Emergency in Louisiana, and how badly the local government and Federal government coordinated their efforts...

...I sense that we are on a sort of Federalist precipice.

Will the role of the state diminish? Will the Federal government become stronger, swifter, bolder in its actions?

I look at the ridiculous behavior between the states regarding wine sales and I wonder if a strong federal government is a bad thing.

Since everyone else is talking about the New Orleans problem, I will write about other stuff.

"Taking a bite out of Apple"

Apple is going to get whacked.. this could be good
CNN,

Chimps and Humans

I really don't know why the scientists even bother to tell us this, it doesn't have anything to do with human evolution. This is like one of those fun facts that quaker oats puts on their paper pakages. I guess now that people are more concerned with the reckage in louisiana these people write about the finding of some chimp teeth without getting too much attention.
MSNBC

I want my suit back!

This is a good story for all you people who have studied NASA's history.

CNN

I have found a large number of funny articles.

Click here to read the articles

What could go wrong

The people that write these articles are insane!
The Union

Stupid hurricane

Hurricane Katrina has killed at least 68 people and is still moving.
CNN, Fox, MSNBC

Insurance is going to be costly.

This insurance bill is going to be huge after Katrina
MSNBC,FOX

Gas was up... then it went down

Its a good thing gas didn't remain at those prices.
FOX, CNN, MSNBC

Things to make you laugh

The onion has fake, stupid stories.
Shampoo=God? Union
All Hail The Mighty Cow Union

The Hurricanes and other storms.

The only storm out there is tropical depression Katrina in indiana.

Five Dead
I wonder who killed them, and also why the police didn't investigate the house if they didn't see any movement inside.
CNN, MSNBC

New child wellfare law
I support this law although I don't agree with the actions of the parents.
MSNBC,CNN, FOX

Plane crashes in Greece
This is weird, isn't it coincidental that the plane ran out of gas and lost cabin pressure.
FOX, MSNBC

Nice Plane
This plane is awsome... if it works
CNN

Yet another stem cell breakthrough
Now they have a way to create stem cells that is "morally safe" but of course they need another couple of years. I say, "WORK FASTER"
CNN

There are no large storms near the U.S.A at this, but if you want to learn about other storms you can go to NOAA

Gaza is empty
Palestinians have kicked all of the Gaza settlers in a takeover.
FOX, CNN, MSNBC

Man! these Belgian soccer guys are horrible
The Belgian soccer team is so bad that when their goalie left to go to a concert they lost a game 50 points to one.;
MSNBC

What is wrong with this picture?
I can't believe that these Italian guys would actually allow this war criminal to have a fourteen day vacation from house arrest.
MSNBC

IPod gone? good
I never liked apple and if their IPod goes out of style all I can say is "HAA HAA"
CNN

This article is so messed up, but its from the union so don't believe a word of it
Good Cop... Bad terrorist
union.com

I have some information about storms that are threatening florida so if you want to learn about those click here.
Hurricane Hilary is at 18.6N by 112.1W
Tropical storm eleven is at 19.5N by 195.0W

Al Quaeda launches missiles at a warehouse.
Al Quaeda launched three missiles at U.S ships and missed one of them killed a man in Iran
CNN, FOX,
MSNBC

Teen Killed by tiger
A teen was killed by tiger while attending a photo shoot
MSNBC, CNN, FOX

Tornado blows through wisconsin city
1 person was killed and 8 were injured.
FOX, CNN, MSNBC

High school throws out textbooks
This high school favors laptops over books.
MSNBC

Fake Story "Nukehavistan may have nuclear weapons
This is incredibly dumb and funny.
THE UNION

Settlers thrown out of Gaza
People living in the Gaza strip were ordered to leave their settlements in the gaza strip by midnight yesterday, now they have been forced out. To read more you can go to Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC

Soda banned in schools
The ABA is banning sodas in middle school and limiting soda sales in high school, in my opinion this stupid. If the American beverage association decided to only sell soda during lunch I would agree with them. Everyone is making a big deal about the public schools not having enough money, and this would cut the budget further.You can find the artical at MSNBC and at CNN

Nasty Killer
You just have to read this for yourself.
Resources: CNN, FOX, MSNBC

Nintendo is getting desperate
MSNBC

DQ is Evil!
This an article from the people's cube, a website that makes up fake news stories. The Peoples Cube

Researchers have made some progress towards diminishing the latent HIV virus. It seems that a certain medicine used to treat epilepsy is useful in routing out the last of the latent HIV cells, one of the last pieces of the deadly puzzle. Researchers, though offering only cautious optimism, believe that if they are successful in routing the last of the latent HIV - that they will be able to cure an infected person completely.

Read this article over on MSNBC for more. Good Job, people!

Every day I will be posting 5 recent articles, These will come from CNN, Drudge report, FOX news, NPR, MSNBC, and World Net Daily (WND).

Britain Bars Radical Muslim: MSNBC, FOX, CNN

NASA puts off rocket launch: FOX, CNN, Drudge Report

Fires rage through the western United States: CNN, FOX

Video games and Composers? CNN

The sun could've been a creator: MSNBC

Today is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki.

The scholars and pundits of today still argue over the necessity of it all, whether or not we could have wrested surrender from the hands of the Japanese without the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Having been there, seen the coastlines, met the people - I can't imagine anything other than the costliest of victories. I was but a simple sailor at the time though, certainly no real student of the politics or history of the era. Who will ever know?

The fact that it was a sad day for humanity is not a matter for debate.

Here are some pictures/postcards that I took/bought while I visited ground zero as a sailor in December of 1994, as well as an excerpt from a letter I had written to my girlfriend at the time.

20 DEC '94 - NAGASAKI WAS VERY EMOTIONALLY IMPACTING, FOR ME. I WAS ABLE TO STAND AT GROUND-ZERO RIGHT WHERE THE BOMB WENT OFF. THE A-BOMB MUSEUM HAD MANY GRAPHIC PICTURES, VIDEOS, AND PERSONAL INTERVIEW-ACCOUNTS FROM THE VICTIMS. I THINK I WAS MOST TAKEN WITH A PILE OF CANVAS. IT LOOKED LIKE A PILE OF FOLDED CANVAS ANYWAY, BUY IT WAS REALLY HALF INCH THICK IRON PLATE THAT WAS WITHIN THE HYPO-CENTER OF THE BLAST! IN A HALF SECOND THE BOMB BLAST HAD CRUSHED THE-IRON ROOFING OF THE PRISON AS IF IT WERE SUPPLE CLOTH. MORE SO THAN ALL OF THE PICTURES AND MELTED GLASS THAT I HAD VIEWED, THAT IRON PLATE WILL FOREVER BE IN MY MIND. IT LOOKED LIKE MY BLANKET DOES WHEN I PUSH IT TO THE END OF MY RACK. I KNOW OF NOTHING THAT CAN DO THAT SO CASUALLY AS THAT BLAST DID. 75,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED INSTANTLY, WITH 75,000 MORE TO FOLLOW IN THE WEEKS AFTER. A TRUE TRAGEDY. BUT... HOW ELSE WERE WE TO END THE WAR? MY SYMPATHIES ARE CERTAINLY WITH THE MEN WHO MADE THAT DECISION, AS WELL AS THE VICTIMS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. NAGASAKI IS DEDICATED TO NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND WORLD PEACE. CAN YOU BLAME THEM? PART OF ME WAS SURPRISED TO SEE ALMOST NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF THE BLAST REMAINING TODAY. EVEN AT GROUND ZERO, WHERE A PARK TO WORLD PEACE STANDS TODAY, TREES GROW IN THE GROUND AND FLOWERS LOOK TO THE SUN. I WAS EXPECTING TO SEE A LITTLE MORE BARREN-NESS FOR SOME REASON. IT CONFIRMED THE RESOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, I THINK. I FEEL BETTER FOR HAVING ACTUALLY BEEN THERE, AND THROWN A PENNY IN THE WATERS OF THE PEACE FOUNTAIN IN APOLOGY - I THREW ONE IN THERE FOR YOU, TOO.

See if you can read this one without shaking your head:

Sis, boom, busted Cheerleaders help police catch driver who left accident scene

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) -- A man who left an accident scene was tracked down with the help of some cheerleaders who witnessed the crash and turned his license plate number into a cheer, police said.

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The young ladies deserve credit, surely. It's just hard not to chuckle.