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View Article  Nothin' new but the cake: Couple marry five times in nine months
by Riley Jones on Thu 19 Jun 2008 08:17 PM EDT


When Simonne Harris was whisked off to Las Vegas by her new boyfriend she was touched by the romantic gesture to mark her 31st birthday.

But a birthday celebration was only part of Ryan Feeney's plan for the week-long trip with his girlfriend of just three months.

First, Mr Feeney, 35, proposed by slipping a ring into her glass of champagne during the transatlantic flight and then when his bride accepted to applause from fellow travellers, he revealed he had booked their wedding at the famous Little White Wedding Chapel two days later.

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View Article  The Underground Moscow
by Riley Jones on Thu 19 Jun 2008 04:31 PM EDT


Right beneath the Moscow downtown with its extra-costly realty lies ex-KGB dungeons. They are still full functioning and access is not so easy and still nobody knows the exact location and plan of those underground man-made caverns of Moscow but some parts of them are now open for the tourists.

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View Article  Small Alabama community versus a leprechaun: "I'm gonna cut down that tree, I'm gonna get his gold. I'M GONNA GET IT!"
by Riley Jones on Thu 19 Jun 2008 12:14 PM EDT
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View Article  Insane Biker Stunts on the Highway
by Riley Jones on Thu 19 Jun 2008 11:00 AM EDT
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View Article  6 Great Action Heroes (Who Should Be Convicted of Murder)
by Riley Jones on Thu 19 Jun 2008 08:30 AM EDT


The thing is, it's explained early in the movie that there are bad guys who are entirely computer-generated (the "Agents") and then there are regular people who, when they get shot in the Matrix, die in real life. And those security guards were the latter.

Yet, for some reason it's played so that Neo is totally free from any guilt over killing a bunch of people, instead of just generating a helicopter and grabbing Morpheus from the top floor. You know, like they wind up doing anyway.

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View Article  Japanese Firm Creates Robot Girlfriend for Lonely Men
by Riley Jones on Thu 19 Jun 2008 08:11 AM EDT


She's big-busted, petite, very friendly and she runs on batteries.

Sega, best known for its home video game consoles, has introduced a 15-inch tall robotic 'girlfriend' that kisses on command, with a target market of lonely adult men.

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