27 Apr 06 Net Crap (4/27)

• Slashdot | Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest
  Slashdot announces its redesign contest.
• Boing Boing: Movie: United 93
  Good grief. Xeni admitted she was wrong?
• Chernobyl Legacy
  Heartbreaking photographs of the children of Chernobyl. These poor children. These poor, poor children.
• Oops. She did it again.
  (Sometimes these headlines just write themselves.) Two months after she gave birth, Britney Spears became pregnant again. In four months, she’ll give birth to their second child.
• College Humor: “To the man who was quick enough to record this insane preacher when he appeared on local cable - we salute you … “
• Yahoo! News UK: China faces storm in a D-cup as bust sizes grow
  “The report, seen on the daily’s Web site on Tuesday, said that the Hong Kong-based lingerie firm Embry Group no longer produces A-cups for larger chest circumferences and has increased production of C-, D- and E-cup bras to meet pressing demand.”
• The Register: The “New” DMCA Ranks Piracy Worse than Child Pornography?
  “It appears that the DMCA will have a maximum sentence of ten years inside for the crime of software and music piracy. [...] downloading child porn will get you seven years [...] aggravated assault six years.”
• RIAA sues computer-less family, 234 others, for file sharing
  “How can they sue us when we don’t even have a computer?”
• Everything I Know I Learned From the Bush Administration
  BWA HA HA HA HA! This is frickin’ hilarious …
• What astonishes me is how wackadoodle the one on caffeine is — considering so many of us “dose” ourselves with large amounts of that every day.
• David Copperfield uses slight-of-hand to bamboozle thieves who try to rob him.
  “Copperfield told Page Two he pulled out all of his pockets for Riley to see he had nothing, even though he had a cellphone, passport and wallet stuffed in them.”
• A really cool article on Snopes about a bunch of people who freed a trapped whale … and the whale thanked them.