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State govs saying ‘No thanks’ to mystery laptops

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Hey it’s free, it’s a laptop, and it’s for your state.  Repeat after me, trojan horse, trojan horse, trojan horse.   I wonder for evey one that isn’t taken others are being taken?

images4 State govs saying No thanks to mystery laptops CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Even during tight budgetary times, a growing handful of state governors are proving too wary to accept laptop computers that have shown up at their offices this month, unsolicited.

The FBI was investigating after the governor’s offices in West Virginia, Vermont, Wyoming and Washington state received between three and five laptops – but none had ordered any of them.

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Did Mexico beat it? Fans go for ‘Thriller’ record

Monday, August 31st, 2009

What a thrill, setting a record for the most people “beating in”.  Sounds like one hell of a party topic to me

thriller 300x218 Did Mexico beat it? Fans go for Thriller record MEXICO CITY (AP) — They say they beat it. Thousands of Mexicans claimed they broke the record for most people dancing to “Thriller” simultaneously in one place on Saturday, which would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday.

“We did it!” organizer Javier Hildago shouted to thousands of people wearing black fedoras, white gloves, aviator shades and ghoulish face paint, breathless after trying to recreate the groundbreaking 1983 video.

Did they? The Guinness Book of World Records will decide in a week.

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