Two would-be robbers tried to mess with the wrong girl in Nova Scotia… However, the teenager, fully trained in the 2,500-year-old martial art of jujitsu, used a defensive technique to punch one of the men in the face, knocking him to the ground. When the second man came at her, she kicked him in the groin and punched him in the shoulder.
Both men ran away – without the knapsack.
There is nothing I could possibly say to make this story more awesome.
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Humour, News
What a great idea…
If you live in the UK and use BT’s text-to-voice system to get your SMS messages delivered to your landline, you’ll be hearing a familiar voice at the other end of the line for the next few months. BT has scrapped the computerized voice the company had been using for the system, and replaced it with the voice of Tom Baker of Dr. Who fame. Baker spent 11 days recording nearly 12,000 words and sounds, which were then processed by BT engineers for five months in order to be usable by the text-to-speech system.
Apparently Virgin Mobile (at least in Canada) has some guy who says things to you like ‘You have no messages. None. Seriously’ (paraphrasing), and so on, instead of the standard message center droning. Seems like a fun, if somewhat useless, idea.
Read More [via: engadget.com]
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Technology
Apparently, when I updated my blog to an early beta of Wordpress 2.0 back in November, I failed to notice that the plugin I use to redirect Wordpress’ RSS feed to my feedburner account, broke horribly. Since I’ve never been particularly attentive to my blog, or the stats associated with it, I didn’t notice until just now that my subscribed readership has dwindled almost to nothing since November.
Anywho, just a note that if you’re using WP2.0 and you upgraded from an earlier version, and you were using Steve Smith’s Feedburner Feed Replacement plugin, and you DIDN’T upgrade it to the 2.0 compatible version, you .. um.. probably should!
Site News, apathyant Empire
So when we were searching for houses one I thing I kept an eye out for were electicity outlets and phone jacks. The house we ended up purchasing was fairly well taken care of for the first point (it had had it’s electricity completely updated a few years ago), but extremely deficient in the phone-jack department.
In fact, it actually only had 1 jack in the entire house, and it was in the living room (despite the fact that whoever ’staged’ the house for showing had placed a phone in the master bedroom, we noticed on our second showing that it wasn’t connected to anything. Sneaky!).
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DIY, House, Projects, Technology
The process of buying a house has been an interesting one. There’s the excitement of starting to look, the despair of feeling like you’ll never find anything, the thrill of finding something no one else has seemed to find yet. It’s all very rollercostery.
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DIY, House, Projects
