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Calling Nowhere: TalkToAliens.com went on the air in February, charging customers $3.99 a minute to call a 900 number and have their voice beamed live into space via a parabolic dish antenna. And in December Agence France-Presse reported on German inventor Juergen Broether and his $2,000 system for talking to the dead: it consists of a one-way mobile phone and a battery-powered receiver/speaker to be buried near the coffin of the addressee.
Totalitarian Hijinks
America’s Gun Problem
A 59-year-old man drowned in a quarry near Hillsville, Pennsylvania, in March while testing his new depth finder. And on the eve of Bunny Days, the annual pre-Easter festival in Mission Viejo, California, the city council granted residents of a gated community the right to hire exterminators to shoot bothersome rabbits on sight.
