According to Eurogamer, an American gamer forked over $100 grand for a virtual space station in the online RPG Project Entropia. The space station sits in the Paradise V Asteroid Belt and includes mining and hunting tax rights, a mall, billboards and the right to name the space station whatever the hell he chooses.

Over 236,000 players are registered and swap real US dollars for fake Project Entropia dollars. This isn't the first piece of real estate to command big bucks. Last year, some dude bought a PE island for $26,500.

God, why do you have to give idiots all the money?

Nineteen year-old Robert Anthony Cannon pleaded guilty for the 2004 beating deaths of six people. In exchange for life in prison without parole, he has agreed to testify against his partners in crime-- two other nineteen year-old men (Jerone Hunter and Michael Salas) and a 28 year-old "mastermind" (Troy Victorino) .

According to MSN, Cannon pleaded guilty to 14 charges, including six counts of capital first-degree murder, five counts of abusing a human corpse, one count of armed burglary and one count of conspiracy to commit a crime.

According to the police, Victorino was kicked out of a house where he was squatting. He then organized the attack to retrieve his beloved Xbox that had been left behind. The men then burst into the home with baseball bats and bludgeoned the victims, along with a small dog. All have confessed, but Victorino, who claims to have been passed out in a local bar when the killings took place.

The state of Florida is seeking the death penalty against Hunter, Salas and Victorino.

a friend is a loving companion at all time
fortune will never come to you
unless it is sough for incessantly
sincere friendship is hard to find
fortune has made us friends
you can hardly make a friend in a year
but you can lose one in an hour

David Swenson of 3M Corporation describes an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory. This "invisible wall" was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through. A person near this "wall" was unable to turn, and so had to walk backwards to retreat from it.
This occurred in late summer in South Carolina, in extremely high humidity. Polypropelene (PP) film on 50K ft. rolls 20ft wide was being slit and transferred to multiple smaller spools. The film was taken off the main roll at high speed, flowed upwards 20ft to overhead rollers, passed horizontally 20ft and then downwards to the slitting device, where it was spooled onto shorter rolls. The whole operation formed a cubical shaped tent, with two walls and a ceiling approximately 20ft square. The spools ran at 1000ft/min, or about 10MPH. The PP film had been manufactured with dissimilar surface structure on opposing faces. Contact electrification can occur even in similar materials if the surface textures or micro-structures are significantly different. The generation of a large imbalance of electrical surface-charge during unspooling was therefor not unexpected, and is a common problem in this industry. "Static cling" in the megavolt range!

On entering the factory floor and far from the equipment, Mr. Swenson's 200KV/ft handheld electrometer was found to slam to full scale. When he attempted to walk through the corridor formed by the moving film, he was stopped about half way through by an "invisible wall." He could lean all his weight forward but was unable to pass. He observed a fly get pulled into the charged, moving plastic, and speculates that the e-fields might have been strong enough to suck in birds!

The production manager did not believe Mr. Swenson's report of the strange phenomena. When they both returned to the factory floor, they found that the "wall" was no longer there. But the production workers had noticed the effect as occurring early in the morning when humidity was lower, so they agreed to try again another day. The second attempt was successful, and early in the morning the field underneath the "tent" was strong enough to raise even the short, curly hair of the production manager. The "invisible wall" effect had returned. He commented that he "didn't know whether to fix it or sell tickets."

New South Wales National Party frontbencher Andrew Fraser grabbed Roads Minister Joe Tripodi around the neck during an altercation in NSW State Parliament overnight.

Mr Tripodi was making a speech in the Lower House about the Pacific Highway, and remarked that the last time he was in Coffs Harbour in northern NSW, the National Party Member in the seat Andrew Fraser was not in the electorate.

Observers say the Member for Coffs Harbour then slammed a glass of water on the table, crossed the chamber to follow the Minister and apparently grabbed Mr Tripodi around the throat.

It is understood several people had to drag him off the Minister before he was ejected by the Sergeant at Arms.

A short time later Andrew Fraser made an apology.

"I wish to unreseverdly apologise to the Minister for Roads and Members of this House for my actions this evening," he said.

"I was gravely out of line in my actions towards the Minister tonight."

Mr Tripodi says he was stunned.

"I just didn't believe it was happening," he said.

"I thought he would stop but he just kept coming at me ... he was out of control, he was like a bull coming straight at me so I was just shocked about it, that's all."

Mr Tripodi says he does not plan to lay charges over the attack.