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November 20th 2008 13:25
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A man discovered by his wife to be taking pictures of his genitals with his iPhone and then sending the pictures to another woman, has denied responsibility. It was all due, he said, to an "iPhone glitch".

The iPhone is Apple's glitzy entry into mobile telephony. The man, whom we shall call Gerald, was rumbled by his wife, whom we shall call Susan, after Susan decided to inspect Gerald's sleek new iPhone, and found the unexpected pictures in the sent folder.


Susan confronted her husband, who admitted he had taken the pictures but denied sending them to anyone. The glitch, he said, was a known iPhone issue. He had been told this, he said, by the people at the local Apple store. No photos had actually been sent - pictures "sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent", said Gerald.

Susan, unconvinced, decided to seek expert opinion. Where else, she reasoned, but the online Apple support forums. There she went and told the whole story and asked for guidance. Her marriage, she wrote, depended on it.

Susan's post attracted a variety of comments and advice.

"It's a glitch, but only happens if the pic is sufficiently raunchy," wrote one reader.

"I think your marriage has a glitch" wrote another.

In time, Susan also learned that the glitch issue had never previously been reported on Apple's support forums, and none of the users who replied to her post had ever heard of it.


Susan has written one final comment on the Apple forum, announcing that she has instigated divorce proceedings and thanking everyone for their input.
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An open letter to Barack Obama

November 12th 2008 00:32
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Dear Mr Obama,

On behalf of fair-minded people everywhere, congratulations on your victory. Whatever luck there is in politics and fate, we wish you the best of it in the years to come.

Right now, however, we have a question, and we think there is no bigger question around. It is this: are you going to deliver?

We are tired, Mr Obama, of political leaders who don't deliver. Yes we are. We are tired of fresh faces and talent promising change and grassroots concern and economic prudence and social justice and the ability to make tough decisions - and failing to deliver on any of it.

We are concerned that you will be another leader who puts opinion polls first and people second. We are tired of such politicians Mr Obama, yes we are.

How many times must the people be fooled? We believe the fine speeches; we cheer and we dare to believe in a brighter, fairer future. And then we get one broken promise after another.

Forgive the doubt, Mr Obama, but the US budget deficit is running at $438 billion for 2008, yes it is. And it is looking likely to grow as the slowing economy cuts tax revenue and increases the need for bailout spending. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates your proposals would reduce projected tax revenue by $2.95 trillion over the next decade.

Your finely-worded and rousingly presented proposals won you the election. Were they promises aimed at getting you to the White House, or were they promises for a better future? Do you have a plan to balance the books, Mr Obama, or will you, like pretty much everyone before you, fall back on the defence of multisyllabic obfuscation?

You, Mr Obama, have a chance to do things differently. Don't just play it safe. Deliver the promised change. Make the hard, at times unpopular decisions, the risky decisions, without which we just continue to muddle along in our world full of inequality and injustice and politicians who do little about it.

Be a servant of the people, Mr Obama, not opinion polls about your own popularity. Those things tell you the best time to start a war. They don't tell you about the basic, pragmatic, unsexy issues that the world needs addressing, and they don't count broken promises.

You can deliver these things, Mr Obama. Yes you can.

Signed,
Planet Earth



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Fathers and sons on side

November 9th 2008 21:03
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Most weekends you'll only find seven names on the list for the Pine Rivers Hawks cricket team in Queensland. But that's okay because those seven blokes always bring their seven sons so they have more than enough to take the field.

Two of them, Darren Reilly and his son Jake, 13, open the bowling. Darren, who played before bigger crowds in his AFL days with the (then) Brisbane Bears, says Jake reminds him every morning who has taken more wickets.

Also in the team are Bruce and Chris Stone, Brett and Ashley Mears, Russ and Matthew Dunne, Peter and Matt Bartlett, and Randy and Ryan Kay.

“The kids enjoy it. They try to run us (dads) to death but I think it’s the dads that get the most out of it,” says Darren. “To be able to play sport with your kid is just terrific."
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Blockheaded bureaucracy

November 1st 2008 21:01
There is plenty that is fundamentally right with Australia's immigration policy, with its commitment to multicultural awareness and acceptance, and there is no doubt plenty to applaud in the efforts of the bureaucrats who administer that policy. Most days, it's smooth sailing.

This is bureaucracy, however, and a collision between common sense and the quagmire of committee-inspired regulations which form the framework within which every bureaucrat struggles to breathe, let alone operate, is never far away


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Cleaning is a man's job

October 30th 2008 03:44
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Karl Walker: too young to use that thing

A cleaning company in Wiltshire, England, has sacked a 16-year-old worker on the grounds that he is not old enough to operate a vacuum cleaner. Apollo Cleaning also claimed he was too young to use washing-up liquid or hot water.

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Water bears conquer space

October 24th 2008 17:23
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There are creatures indigenous to this planet called tardigrades and they are in the news because it has just been discovered that they can live in space. Outer space. Vacuum territory. The place where, it has previously been believed, the only things that can survive are some of the hardier forms of cosmic dust.

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Potty of gold

October 22nd 2008 23:58
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Dawn Herb: all you need to make US$19,000 is a toilet, a bathroom window and a colourful lexicon

The American legal system has its detractors, but Dawn Herb is not one of them. Ms Herb, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, isn't about to complain about a system which pays her US$19,000 for swearing at her toilet.

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Call me, collect

October 22nd 2008 04:13
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Can you match this?

We all collect stuff, right? You don't really have to answer that - I just thought I'd entertain myself, if no-one else, with a list of things I collect - in several senses of the word.

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A love story

October 19th 2008 22:42
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When Fred was in hospital about two years ago he accidentally slammed into a closed door and spent the next two days in a coma. Cynthia was the duty doctor and she nursed him back to health as best she could. Fred still hasn't fully recovered - probably never will - but he's not complaining too much since the accident helped him find Cynthia, his true love.

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God bless America

October 19th 2008 04:12
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Senator Ernie Chambers

One is led to wonder at the amount of cynicism and scepticism being aimed at American politicians at the moment. Are we all getting complacent? Aren't these democratically elected citizens our natural leaders and guides in questions of community values and behaviour?

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