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Saturday, June 07, 2008

SATURDAY'S ODDS & ENDS

Is your cell phone complicated? Try living in Japan where everybody is gadget crazy and their mobiles reflect that. The iPhone is going to be inroduced there late this year and while fancy by most people's standards, in Japan it is just a middle-of-the-road device with few features. Japan is about 5 years ahead of the rest of the world in cell technology.

If Obama is elected to the Oval Office, no matter what he does he will disappoint a lot of people. Both nationally and globally. His non-specific slogan calling for Hope and Change could work against him.

See what happens when stoners play with lasers. They could get 20 years for their efforts.

Police in Vancouver, Canada are employing decoy cops to control traffic.

Seismologists have determined that a new and rare type of earthquake, called a supershear, can occur on long straight fault lines. And they produce reactions more widespread than the type of quakes we are used to.

Something is going on near Colorado Springs. A boy was taken to the hospital with 2nd degree burns to his feet. Firefighters have measured the ground surface temperature at 800°f and no one can offer an explaination.

"Let's all be careful out there!"