16 dead police officers is a pretty big deal in Chiina.

Quoted: Though it happened on the far side of the country - near the Afghan-Pakistan border - the attack came as security forces were on alert for the Games, which open Friday. It was among the deadliest and most brazen attacks in years in Xinjiang province, site of a sporadically violent rebellion by local Muslims against Chinese rule.

I love Scrabulous, but people should understand intellectual property rights and the fact that unfortunately, the Indian brothers that made the game didn't do it legally.

Bottom line is that there will still be a free version of online Scrabble; no need for malicious attacks on anyone.

Turns out the city put them there about 20 years ago to hold down plastic sheeting that was used to control pesky lake weeds

Thanks?!?

Quoted: The High Court in South Africa has ruled that Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people. It made the order so that ethnic Chinese can benefit from government policies aimed at ending white domination in the private sector.

FYI - 520 is closed this coming weekend for repairs.

Quoted: Washington State Department of Transportation crews will close the SR 520 Evergreen Point floating bridge beginning at 11 p.m. Friday, July 11 for its annual inspection and maintenance work.

I don't know why I still see his movies. I shoulda learned my lesson after watching "The Village."

Quoted: ...but the list of seven or eight producers and executive producers in the credits suggests that Shyamalan raised the money for this one himself, and that he's no longer the independent golden boy — just another indie-film director scrambling for backers.

Our foreclosure rate is definitely being further hurt by other states' slow markets.

Quoted: But the state's delinquency rate was just over half of the nation's in the first quarter, while its foreclosures and foreclosure starts were less than half the U.S. rate

Tighter measures on high-value loans have indeed made it more difficult to qualify for higher-priced purchases. The article makes a good point that, while it's a no-brainer that prices as a whole have declined, the numbers behind those declines (e.g. reported median prices) aren't necessarily accurate or reflective of the markets.

Quoted: Commonly cited measures of U.S. home prices are overstating the degree to which the vast majority of Americans’ home values have declined in the last year, producers of two of the most widely tracked indexes acknowledged this week.

Genius. . . Quoted: FORT WORTH, Texas -- A 21-year-old North Texas man is accused of trying to cash a $360 billion check. Friday, May 2, 2008.