could have been better summarised...

The top google news headline for Kylie is "Fans rally behind Minogue's cancer". In the process of summarising the news, Google News dropped the final word "fight" from the actual headline in the newspaper article referenced.. Oops. (noticed by glyph)

Google News has no human editors selecting stories or deciding which ones deserve top placement. Our headlines are selected by computer algorithms,

... yes, that's quite apparent.

smacking the loser

Our hapless hopeless foreign minister, fresh from lying about Timor Sea negotiations (hint to Lex: it's not an "agreement" if only one side agrees), decided earlier this week to engage in a bit of revisionist history to make himself and the Libs look good and the ALP look bad. Kevin Rudd smacks Downer around the room in this opinion piece in the Oz, delivering a bit of remedial history at the end of a brick.

Lex the Loser almost makes me nostalgic for the days of Gareth "Puppy Joke" Evans. At least he showed occasional flashes of sentience.

a phrase probably never before uttered in the history of music

Tori Amos covering Kylie.

"Can't Get You Out Of My Head", to be exact. And it was oh-my-god good. Waaaa. Now I must wait for it to appear on the various bootleg sites.

[update I love the internets. And TurbidBlue. They rock, too. here tis]

more tori boots

So those of you who are sick of Tori should just skip this message.

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quote of the day

from a news article that Kyle dug up:

"We understand the perceived eccentricity of developing a system for humans to interact with poultry remotely, but this work has a much wider significance," he added.

also:

There's also the option of wearing special shoes with electric sensors that receive information about the chicken's leg movements from sensors embedded in the jacket -- you get to feel an electric tingle in your leg every time the chicken takes a step.

"Remote dance synchronization is a real possibility," said Lee Shang Ping, a fellow team member.

... this will of course allow us achieve the vital goal of teaching chickens to play Dance Dance Revolution. Never underestimate the skills of a chicken with a dance mat.