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Tall tower, short operators: Sign outside the lifts at the Sky Tower.

Star Wars fans who've been in a "nerd-line"outside Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theatre weeks in advance of the May 19 opening of Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith have not been impressed with local police, who amuse themselves by driving past and making Darth Vader breathing noises through their loudspeakers. 20th Century Fox says the film isn't screening at the Chinese that day; an Adam Sandler gridiron pic, The Longest Yard, is scheduled to open there instead.

(Source: blogging.la)

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More ways technology can replace actual parenting: Some school uniform blazers in Japan are being fitted with global positioning systems (GPS), allowing parents to track their children. The rationale is that if the child gets nabbed by an evil-doer parents can simply call the GPS service centre and get the security company's agents to go rescue the child ... What happens when kid takes off bugged blazer to kick a ball around?

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An American who owns a Papal-sounding internet domain name says he will ask his Catholic grandmother what he should do with it. Roger Cadenhead of Florida said the decision "would be guided by the idea not to p*** off 1.1 billion Roman Catholics". He bought www.BenedictXVI.com on April 1, weeks before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger revealed he would assume the papacy under the same name. "I couldn't resist the chance to have some skin in the game. Someone else already has JohnPaulIII.com and JohnXXIV.com, but otherwise I put a chip down on every name of the past three centuries," he said. (Source: Ananova)

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A reader named Mark wonders if a Catholic rodent-control company will bring out a new product called Rat Zinger?

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Bjork: pretentious or just nuts? From the Observer: "A true fashion radical, Bjork champions designers like Rei Kawakubo and Sophia Kokosalaki (who made her 2004 Olympic 'curtain'). She would never wear jeans and a T-shirt, she says, because they are 'a symbol of white American imperialism, like drinking Coca-Cola'."