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Too bad he didn’t cook hamburgers, cuz then I could call him the Hamburglar (sorry Mickey D’s). Whew, Seattle is safe and I won’t have any people taking chicken away from my Yoda. Anyways, damn, dude had a serious case of the munchies, no?
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SEATTLE (Reuters) – A hungry burglar more interested in food than glittering jewellery broke into nearly a dozen Seattle homes in the last week to gobble down vast quantities of food before being arrested, police say.

In another break-in, the burglar thawed frozen steaks, fried them, and ate them while watching television until being found by the returning homeowners and chased away, according to police.

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Yo yo yo! Ain’t it easier from a kid from the ‘hood to make it big playing basketball or rappin’? Who needs school? Haven’t you seen Tracy McGrady at Dew U? Oh, and pimpjuice is the shizzy.
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Nelly’s energy drink Pimp Juice has created the P.I.M.P Scholars Program, which will provide financial assistance to eligible college students.

According to the company, P.I.M.P is an acronym for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. The scholarship, which is competitive, will award two applicants, one male and one female, with a $5,000 award.

http://allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=3402

Lucas is pissed, but didn’t he totally alter some of the old Stars Wars Episodes IV, V, and VI movies? Hey, if you own the rights, you should be able to do whatever you want with the film…
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Sony’s Columbia TriStar home-video unit is releasing two Three Stooges DVDs that allow viewers to watch the original black-and-white or digitally colorized versions.

“Star Wars” creator George Lucas, who testified with Steven Spielberg before Congress in the 1980s against colorization and other forms of alteration, said the process yanks such slapstick performers as the Stooges out of the black-and-white universe they belong in.

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Hmm, $30 a copy for a legit, pathetically crippled piece of operating system, or $2 on the black market for the full functionality of Windows XP Professional Edition. Hard choice for those consumers in such Asian markets, no?
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Picture Bill Gates or any other senior Microsoft exec holding forth in a keynote about the limitless possibilities of ever-faster hardware, ever more powerful software. Then cut to this week’s Windows XP Starter Edition announcement and read “users can have up to three programs and three windows per program running concurrently. Further simplification of the operating system includes the display resolution set to 800×600 maximum and no support for PC-to-PC home networking, sharing printers across a network or more advanced features such as the ability to establish multiple user accounts on a single PC.”

It’s cheap, it’s crippled, and if it’s a bid to convert Asian PC users from pirate copies of Windows, it’s surely futile. Microsoft announced Starter Edition as a five country, one year pilot to be tried out in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and two more that have yet to be announced. It’s essentially a localised version with much of the useful stuff in XP pre-broken, and it will probably cost around $30

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/11/winxp_starter_edition_announced/

Well, at least he can trade the money in for 13 million cigs fags… The Brits just seem way too lax over there, letting inmates play the lottery and all… And their life sentences are at the discretion o the judge? What the hell?
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A convicted rapist serving a lengthy jail sentence has won $13 million on Britain’s national lottery, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Iorworth Hoare was on weekend release from a low-security prison when he bought his winning ticket for last Saturday’s Lotto Extra draw, the Sun said.

Hoare was nearing the end of a life sentence after being jailed in 1989 for attempted rape. The length of a life sentence is at the discretion of the judge. He had previously served sentences for rape, attempted rape, and indecent assault.

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