Aren’t these the same peple appalled at violent games?

Aimed at 13 to 34-year-old males, Left Behind: Eternal Forces casts the player as a director of God's Earthly militia, left behind in the Rapture to roam the streets of New York, battling Satan's minions and shooting unbelievers.

With plans to distribute 1 million copies in evangelical "megachurches" nationwide pre-Christmas, Eternal Forces has attracted criticism from religious and secular commentators for its pushing of a violent brand of Christian supremacy. Christian anti-videogame violence campaigner Jack Thompson said: "It's absurd. You can be the Christians blowing away the infidels, and if that doesn't hit your hot button, you can be the Antichrist blowing away the Christians."

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Oh! And by the way—-the game is shot full of Double Fusion spyware and tracking programs that reportedly "records players' behaviour, location, and other data to be uploaded to Left Behind's Bible-powered marketing machine."
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Some Bloggers Never Die

Death and dying have lately become prime topics of interest for bloggers.

Family members have taken the opportunity to turn weblogs into information portals, like the journal of Brian Faughnan, who disappeared during a 2002 hiking trip. Faughnan's family later reinvented the blog to provide status reports to the public while they searched for him. (His body still has not been found.)

BBC reporter Ivan Noble created a Tumour Diary to chronicle his battle against brain cancer — which he officially won last month.

The official stance of journals and weblogs regarding posts about or by the deceased varies according to the host.

LiveJournal representative Jesse Proulx said LiveJournal has "a strict procedure that depends on the wishes of the deceased user's immediate family" when it comes to dealing with the issue. An account can either be suspended and removed entirely, or the account can be made permanent, "which means that all content in the account will remain intact for as long as the service exists," he said.

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Wie kommt man nach….Yikes! I can’t remember the name?!

German police rescued an American soccer fan lost in Hanover and unable to find his hotel again after helplessly wandering around the city for more than six hours after a match, federal police said Friday.

The 25-year-old Boston man had checked into his hotel in the afternoon before going to see a match between Poland and Costa Rica but could not remember his hotel's name, its address or anything else about it, police spokesman Holger Jureczko said.

"He came into the police station at 3 a.m. and asked for help," Jureczko said. "The only thing he could remember was paying 10 euros for a taxi ride to the city center and that he went past a park and a Mercedes dealer. There are a lot of Mercedes dealers in Hanover but we were able to find the one in the vicinity of a park."

Police took the American to the area that matched his vague description in the city of 500,000 and spent an hour driving up and down streets in that quarter until he recognized his hotel just before dawn Wednesday.

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Highway robbers leap into their work

Beijing police have detained a gang of thieves who pulled off a high-speed, highway heist straight out of a Hollywood action movie.

Police patrolling a Beijing freeway saw several people "surfing" on top of a van as it pulled alongside a truck loaded with cargo, the Beijing News said Friday.

"The men leapt from the van onto the truck's trailer and started throwing back bags of a white-colored substance" into the moving van, the paper said.

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And what did they get for this dangerous stunt? Gold? Diamonds? Negotiable bonds? Nope. They got $1250 worth of polyethylene of the sort used to make hula hoops.

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Is this why horses sometimes get batty?

You could call it a batty idea, but bats seem to be more closely related to horses than cows are.

Once thought to belong to the same group as primates, bats actually belong to the super-order Pegasoferae, which contains horses, cats and dogs, cows, whales and hedgehogs. Within this group, bats were thought to be only distant cousins to horses, but DNA analysis suggests that only cats and dogs are more closely related to horses than bats are (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0603797103).

"I think this will be a surprise for many scientists," says Norihiro Okada at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. "No one expected this."

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I dare say.

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