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Tasmania, Australia: Rodney McLagan, aged 48, pleaded guilty yesterday to possessing bestiality material with octopus and tigers among other 30,000 porn related photos. His lawyer said that Mr McLagan ?identified himself as a beast?, hence had a fixation with animals. His sentence will be heard some time this month.

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The European Union (EU) decided to follow Australia’s example and faze out the use of incandescent lightbulbs, starting from 2009. The fluorescent bulbs that will replace the old technology use five times less energy and last ten times longer, than the old counterpart, which in turn compensates the extra cost. Europeans are expected to [...]

On Sunday 22 of June, Ian Usher from Perth, will put his life for sale on eBay. He has an eBay account, a blog and a web page giving out details of his past and present life and explains why he decided to do this. In the auction he is basically [...]

This one comes from Google Australia It seems that a “treasure hunt” contest will be released soon and the Google Engineering team gives us a clue

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Soon :). 1210550400

Update Message decoded
http://treasurehunt.appspot.com
special thanks @asteris for the tip

In Australia a bunch of friends created the “Tesla Downunder club” where they gather up and make their own Tesla coils. For more info on what is a Tesla coil you can see in wikipedia but I think what you need to see is the photos from this club’s creations here. First have a look [...]

Well this is a once chance in a life time, your chance to buy your own number from 1 to 1000. Simply pick the number you want (if it is still available) and few days later receive it through post!
Onethousandpaintings is the company behind this and what they offer is simple:
“One thousand numbers = one [...]