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Hero of the Week
Mighty Mouse is on the way
Posted by liam on November 2, 2007 9:52 AM
Genetic tampering seems to be taking a leap up from the old Vacanti mouse(weird mouse which had what looked like a human ear grown on its back)
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Crickey Crocs!
Posted by liam on August 15, 2007 11:52 AM
David George, the 53-year-old manager of a cattle ranch near Coen in the tropical north of Queensland state, told Australian radio he was dazed after falling from his horse."By the time I regained my senses, I was in the middle of a swamp," George said.
Watch the video interview here
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Dogs? This postman dodges bullets
Posted by liam on January 29, 2007 12:00 PM
Spotted this story in the Liverpool Daily Post - Introducing Morale Man, While dogs and badly-written addresses are the biggest challenges facing most postal workers, one Wallasey man is braving bombs, roadside explosions and enemy fire, delivering letters to British troops serving in Basra in southern Iraq.
Corporal Pete McFarlane, 34, who is serving with 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment is the unit postal NCO, known to his fellow soldiers as the "morale man".
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The stars are your limit, astronaut tells students
Posted by liam on January 27, 2007 2:00 PM
Always been a bit of a Space Cadet, so I was gutted that I missed out on going to see Major General Charles F Bolden when he visited Spaceport at Seacombe Ferry. For anyone who's interested in Space travel, he joined NASA back in 1980, he was one of if not the first black mission controller, has clocked more than 680 hours in space, and in 1994 this was the commander of the Space Shuttle Discovery (the historic first joint U.S./Russian Space Shuttle mission involving the participation of a Russian Cosmonaut as a mission specialist crew member).
General Bolden visited the Spaceport at Seacombe Ferry before going to Birkenhead Sixth Form College to speak to students about his career, and encouraged them to never let other people tell them what they cannot do.
Maj Gen Bolden told students in Wirral: “I want everyone to realise you should never let people tell you what you can and can’t do.“I didn’t apply for Nasa the first time round, because I thought you had to be a tall, blond, blue-eyed fighter pilot, I was too chicken.
When he first entered the shuttle programme, he said he felt frustrated: “I walked into Nasa mission control and there were no black controllers.“There are now. I guess I bit my lip at the time, but I learned it was not Nasa’s fault. Blacks just didn't apply, so when I talk to young people, I tell them to get with it.”
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What a guy
Posted by liam on August 4, 2006 12:44 PM
After the rescue, at about 11am last Friday, Ray made sure they were safe and then let the Fire Brigade take over as he picked up his mailbag and headed off again on his round."I thought I had held the mail up long enough with what was going on so I thought I had better carry on with my round," said Ray.
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Not one to support bullfighting but this story is funny
Posted by liam on June 21, 2006 12:11 PM
On this day in 1890 Unlucky matador Luis Freg was born. This little Mexican was injured more often than any other bullfighter. He was gored an estimated 57 times by bulls, and given the Last Rites five times. He quit the ring in one piece, but drowned two years later.
Though it should be noted that he may actually have been born in 1988, there is some historical argument about what year he was born
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Super Hamster
Posted by liam on June 2, 2006 11:18 AM
Mike the marvellous miracle hamster who survived going through a industry size council shredding machine, and came out the other side completely unharmed (if a little scruffy).
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Salute to Gary McKinnock
Posted by liam on April 27, 2006 5:00 PM
Ok everybody we have this week's Geek Chic Hero of the Week.
To the United States, he is a seriously dangerous man who put the nation's security at risk by committing "the biggest military computer hack of all time". But British Gary McKinnon broke into the systems at NASA, the Pentagon, Johnson Space Centre as well as systems used by the U.S. army, navy and air force for a very good reason. He wanted to look for evidence of UFOs and Aliens. Even better than that he claims he found evidence that they do.
It's not all fun and game for the lad, he is being charged with terrorism and may be sent to Guantanimo Bay according to his defence lawyers. Now although he is being charged as a terrorist this is more a case of embarassing the US government and defences forces, Kinnock explained that
"many U.S. top-security systems were using an insecure Microsoft Windows programme and had no password protection at all." He argues he is being made a scapegoat by U.S. authorities to deter other would-be hackers rather than address their own security flaws. His supporters include some MPs who back his fight to change the UK-U.S. extradition treaty
Personally i hope he manages to sell his story for really expensive movie rights and gets a nice well paid job as an IT security after all this.
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