As I was surfing the internet yesterday, I came across this little news item. One woman claims she lost the winning ticket for
a $162 million dollar lottery payout. The article says that she was "in tears" when she went to the police department. No
shit, I think I might be in a little bit worse shape than that. I can't even imagine how she must feel. I think I might just go
catatonic if I lost $162 million. But now another woman has stepped up and brought in the winning ticket, claiming that she
had it all along and was just making arrangements with a lawyer and an accountant. There is sure to be a lawsuit over the
ticket, which will probably result in the lawyers getting more money than either of the women in the end, anyway.
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Well, the Martha Stewart jury selection started yesterday. Oh, how I would love to be on that jury - I'd be sure that she
was the first ever defendant given the death penalty for insider trading. I read an article that said that finding 12 jurors
without a strong opinion of Stewart might be difficult. That's a huge understatement - that evil bitch brings out strong
emotions from everyone.
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Well, we got the first ever color pictures back from the surface of another planet yesterday. I don't know about the
scientific usefulness of the $400 million Mars rover project, but I think it is kickass. However, a nasty development has
occurred in conjunction with this project. One of the scientists interviewed for this CNN.com article said that he was in
"shock and awe" at the quality of the pictures. If that phrase, which started out as a boastful nickname to the Iraq attacks
last year and has become a centerpiece for sarcastic ridicule of the results of that same Iraqi invasion, becomes the
catchphrase of the newsworld, I'm going to be sick. It's similar to the way the media co-opted "[insert word here]-gate" for
every political scandal after the Watergate scandal. Watergate was the name of the hotel that Nixon's cronies broke into,
why do they insist on referring back to it all the time? It's obnoxious if you ask me.
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So I was messing around with Google's image search and came up with this picture for Sexstone. My favorite part is that
this company lists their employee's hobbies on their website - here is Mr. Sexstone's: "Enjoys caravaning, cycling,
gardening, bowls and watercolours." Bowls? Is anyone out there thinking what I'm thinking?
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Anyway, the picture at the top of the page is what I came up with when I did an image search for Mixed Bag. I liked it so
much that I'm going to use it for the Mixed Bag logo from now on. E-mail me with any interesting stuff you come up with on
the image search and I'll compile a collage for a future article.
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