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February 4, 2011

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This week’s news has not held back anything, really. I’ve tried to make up stuff like this but you can never outdo reality. Enjoy the read and talk it up this weekend.

- Indian Navy sailors sink their own warship - But it’s not what you think. It was a simple “family day at sea” as the navy personnel shared the day with family members. On the way back to harbor the warship, INS Vindhyagiri (a 3,000-ton warship) was hit by another ship and damaged. As it was towed farther into the harbor a fire broke out and, strangely, as the fire was being put out too much water was pumped into the ship and it was accidentally sunk. Well, at least it wasn’t an accidental nuclear accident, or sunk by aliens… right?

- “Dating service” (or art?) scrapes user profiles and make them members of their dating service. In this day and age it’s easy to take so-called public information and do anything with it. But I expect lawsuits to fly soon enough. *I purposefully did not link directly to the web site but only the news article.

- Might be snow for the Super Bowl in Dallas on Sunday. Only in Texas you say? Nope, it’s everywhere, almost. Check out these Super Bowl apps too.

- Too stupid to have sex? In Canada a judge bars a man from having sex because his IQ is too low. Yeah, right.

- “Two and a Half Men” will continue with or without Charlie Sheen, maybe… CBS cares.