Korean General kick starts meeting with stab at Bush.

Just in a quick news-scoop: North Korean General Kim Yong-choi, in an effort to break the ice and find common(?) ground kick-started a meeting with South Korean counterparts with a fairly popular internet joke at President Bush's expense.

Bush goes out jogging one morning and, preoccupied with international affairs, fails to notice that a car is heading straight at him.
A group of schoolchildren pull the president away just in time, saving his life, and a grateful Bush offers them anything they want in the world as a reward.
"We want a place reserved for us at Arlington Memorial Cemetery," say the children.
"Why is that?" asks Bush.
"Because our parents will kill us if they find out what we've done."

Pretty interesting, but I wonder what it'd sound like in Korean. If anyone can speak it, it'd be great if you could record an audio clip of it and send it in, we'd appreciate that greatly!

Read the Aljazeera article here.

News Scoop

Current affairs always have that fresh coffee feel to them. They're fresh, interesting, and if edible: probably delicious.

So I've decided to do a little news scoop today. I'm in the library right now at school, we get the newspapers delivered everyday, and the BBC Focus (no New Scientist, to my dismay).

• Today, President Bush Jr vetoed the war spending bill. I don't even know if that counts as news as we knew it was going to happen anyway, but it made front page of Reuters.
  
  
• And has anyone noticed how badly the $ is doing against the £? Well the silver lining is that today the $ has hit a 2 month high vs the yen.
  
  
• A little closer to home (or not), obese British children will apparently replace underweight and hungry convicts on the next deportation to Australia. That's right, another reality get-thin show. They'll have to eat bush tucker and sweat off the pounds.
  
  
• And finally, the scoop of the day: Meet the Lawyer with the $67 Million pants. (That's trousers, to you, Brits). Apparently the dry cleaners lost the lawyer's trousers, and now he's suing them for $67 million so he can retire early and buy 84,115 pairs of pants at his quoted value of $800 per pair. Also, he wants 10 years of free weekend car rentals so he can take his dry-cleaning to a different company.
  
  
• Why doesn't he just buy a dry cleaning rig himself? With $67 million I'm sure you could fetch a pretty good deal, or three. Thanks to Dvorak.org/blog , a blog I can't recommend enough.

Enjoy your java beans!