Tuesday 13 April 2010

CNN caught using Onion headlines!

Official: Al Qaeda hasn't gotten far in getting nuclear weapons
04/13/10 04:02 AM, EDT
The president's top counterterrorism adviser says there is indisputable evidence that dozens of terrorist groups have sought weapons of mass destruction. But a U.S. intelligence official who is not authorized to speak for attribution said although al Qaeda clearly wants a nuclear weapons capability, it hasn't gotten very far.

Tuesday 6 April 2010

Small talk

Me: I don't drink white wine.
KR: You're sitting in front of a painting writing a classical music review.

Copyright (for Mother)

Contra my own literary blunders, Wendy Cope's views on copyright are actually a matter of record. Oops.

Intriguing copy, just in

(CNN) -- Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Outside court a few blacks in South Africa watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Video: The promise of black gold

Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Anita Davis contributed to this report.

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Sent out at 6pm, Sri Lankan time: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/test/index.html

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Carl (F.) Orff (in context)

"si puer cum puellula... then her father will come after him. So to speak."