<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>sandbox : sandbox : All Links : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://sandbox.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[PNG landowners stop mine's waste dump in the ocean]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/world/l/139834/1/" /><id>139834</id><summary><![CDATA[PNG landowners stop mine's waste dump in the ocean]]></summary><issued>2010-03-21T04:04:04+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-21T04:04:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An environmental victory for landowners, great!<br/>Now to find an environmentally-acceptable way to allow the mine to proceed anyway, maybe an even bigger challenge.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pre-Crime Policing]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139831/1/" /><id>139831</id><summary><![CDATA[Pre-Crime Policing]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T19:25:26+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T19:25:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[To hear them tell it, the five police agencies who apprehended 39-year-old Oregonian David Pyles thwarted another lone wolf mass murderer. The problem is he committed no crime, yet the police had him &quot;voluntarily&quot; surrender while facing numerous swat team members with guns pointing at him. His legal firearms were also confiscated. Ultimately all was returned but is this the right sort of behavior?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out.&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/world/l/139830/1/" /><id>139830</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out.&quot;]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T19:04:54+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T19:04:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It was an act of Taliban justice for the crime of shaming her husband's family.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Human ancestors walked comfortably upright 3.6 million years ago]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139829/1/" /><id>139829</id><summary><![CDATA[Human ancestors walked comfortably upright 3.6 million years ago]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T18:01:20+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T18:01:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Many have theorized that our ancient ancestors walked upright even as they spent time in trees. Others disagreed. New research into footprints left behind have proven that our ancestors did take to walking long before previously thought.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[3 Guitar Chords Every Man Should Know]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139828/1/" /><id>139828</id><summary><![CDATA[3 Guitar Chords Every Man Should Know]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T17:43:56+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T17:43:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So you can get a perfect score on &#8220;Free Bird&#8221; in Guitar Hero? Besides your twelve year old cousin, who do you think that&#8217;s going to impress? Instead of wasting your time with pretend guitar, start learning how to play the real deal. The guitar is a skill that will provide you and those around you years of enjoyment. <b>And chicks dig guys who play guitar. Always have, always will.</b>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Viacom uploads its content to Google while suing Google for hosting its content]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139827/1/" /><id>139827</id><summary><![CDATA[Viacom uploads its content to Google while suing Google for hosting its content]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T17:32:58+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T17:32:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Viacom and other groups sued Google for not being able to discern which videos were authorized and which were not. Which were fair use and which were not. The fact that Viacom was secretly uploading its content to youtube makes Viacom's stance harder to defend.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man puts on suit and robs building over 18 hours]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139826/1/" /><id>139826</id><summary><![CDATA[Man puts on suit and robs building over 18 hours]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T17:07:02+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T17:07:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An unknown man put on a business suit, took a cab to an office building and began an 18-hour long theft. No one paid any attention to him as they figured he was supposed to be doing what he was. Amazing the power of a suit.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How to Get Kicked Out of the App Store]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139825/1/" /><id>139825</id><summary><![CDATA[How to Get Kicked Out of the App Store]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T13:42:24+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T13:42:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An iPhone game developer has learned that hard way that one of the following will get your app banned: Publicly slamming the iPhone App Store, or gradually increasing prices until someone pays hundreds of dollars for a simple time waster.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pope Benedict apologises for Irish priests' sex abuse]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139824/1/" /><id>139824</id><summary><![CDATA[Pope Benedict apologises for Irish priests' sex abuse]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T13:06:30+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T13:06:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In a pastoral letter to Irish Catholics, he acknowledged the sense of betrayal in the Church felt by victims and their families.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139822/1/" /><id>139822</id><summary><![CDATA[The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T10:55:18+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T10:55:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[America has spent more than $6 billion since 2002 in an effort to create an effective Afghan police force, buying weapons, building police academies, and hiring defense contractors to train the recruits&#8212;but the program has been a disaster.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Proof you can't take it with you]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139820/1/" /><id>139820</id><summary><![CDATA[Proof you can't take it with you]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T10:02:34+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T10:02:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The late Anna Nicole Smith gets none of her late husband's oil money. They're talking about her like she's still alive, how bizarre. Hope this doesn't change how Larry Birkhead treats their daughter.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Missing Dutch girl killed by cop]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139819/1/" /><id>139819</id><summary><![CDATA[Missing Dutch girl killed by cop]]></summary><issued>2010-03-20T08:52:30+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-20T08:52:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yes, people are killed all over the world.<br/>And yes, even kids, I know.<br/>but a f*cking cop burying a twelve year old girl in his garden after killing her?<br/>hmmm..]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Minds of their own: Animals are smarter than  you think]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139817/1/" /><id>139817</id><summary><![CDATA[Minds of their own: Animals are smarter than  you think]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T23:56:54+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T23:56:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[National Geographic looks into animal intelligence, including Alex the African parrot that could speak coherent sentences, Rico the Border Collie who could recognize 200 distinct words, and a bottle-nosed dolphin who could be asked to create her own tricks, plus the reaction of cognitive psychologists who had thought these were distinctly human possibilities.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bloodbath in Mexico: Drug Prohibition Is to Blame for Thousands of Mexican and Now American Deaths]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/world/l/139816/1/" /><id>139816</id><summary><![CDATA[Bloodbath in Mexico: Drug Prohibition Is to Blame for Thousands of Mexican and Now American Deaths]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T22:36:02+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T22:36:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[When we think about wars happening in the world right now, Iraq and Afghanistan jump to mind. But there is war in our backyard that can match the violence anywhere in the world, and that is the Drug War in Mexico.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Police officers banned from asking for 'Christian' names for fear of offending someone]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/world/l/139815/1/" /><id>139815</id><summary><![CDATA[Police officers banned from asking for 'Christian' names for fear of offending someone]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T22:33:55+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T22:33:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;family name&quot; should be used instead. &#8220;My dear&#8221; or &#8220;love&#8221;, must not be used when addressing women. Officers should not comfort people by &#8220;putting their arm around them&#8221; as it could be seen as &#8220;unprofessional&#8221;. The term &#8220;mixed race&#8221; should be replaced by &#8220;mixed cultural heritage&#8221;.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Chinese man 'ate child's brain' to cure epilepsy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139813/1/" /><id>139813</id><summary><![CDATA[Chinese man 'ate child's brain' to cure epilepsy]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T22:16:22+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T22:16:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wang Chaoxu, of Yunnan in southwest China, believed an old wives' tale that eating a child's brain could cure fits. He allegedly killed an 11-year-old boy and ate his brain in order to cure his epilepsy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['It's just impossible for me to see him as a sexual predator. ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139811/1/" /><id>139811</id><summary><![CDATA['It's just impossible for me to see him as a sexual predator. ]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T20:18:01+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T20:18:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Says one friend: &#8220;He&#8217;s Mr. Friendly. He&#8217;ll photograph his di<i></i>ck and anyone else&#8217;s.&#8221;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lawsuit claims Boy Scouts sex abuse coverup]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139809/1/" /><id>139809</id><summary><![CDATA[Lawsuit claims Boy Scouts sex abuse coverup]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T19:38:16+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T19:38:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.<br/><br/>The &quot;perversion files,&quot; a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the public, but that could all change in the coming weeks in an Oregon courtroom.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[White Death: the Sniper Who Killed 700 Soviets in 100 Days]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/world/l/139808/1/" /><id>139808</id><summary><![CDATA[White Death: the Sniper Who Killed 700 Soviets in 100 Days]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T19:26:03+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T19:26:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&#8211;40 &#176;C, the Finnish sniper undertook a killing spree that saw him single-handedly take the lives of at least 700 men in less than 100 days. Over 500 of these he shot using a standard, bolt-action rifle with non-telescopic sights.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Naked Man's Freeway Show in Dallas]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139807/1/" /><id>139807</id><summary><![CDATA[Naked Man's Freeway Show in Dallas]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T18:28:02+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T18:28:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yes, there is video.  <br/><br/>After somehow climbing a billboard, the man shucked his clothes.  Emergency services were alerted.  After arriving, the man was convinced to descend.  Being in his birthday suit, he gave one of his rescuers a wonderful view of his easter basket and buns. He even managed to get in a little entertainment for freeway users with impromptu interpretive dance. I assume the dance was either 'I am the Walrus' or 'What drugs? Today is simply Glorious!'<br/><br/>'Authorities aren't sure how the man climbed up the billboard post. Officers said they found syringes on the ground near the man.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dutch lash out at gay link in Srebrenica massacre]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/world/l/139805/1/" /><id>139805</id><summary><![CDATA[Dutch lash out at gay link in Srebrenica massacre]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T15:23:27+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T15:23:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[At a U.S. congressional hearing on Thursday on allowing gay soldiers to serve openly in the military, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander John Sheehan said there was a causal link between having homosexuals in the Dutch forces and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the Srebrenica massacre</a> during the Bosnian war.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[British hospital to treat internet-addicted teens]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139804/1/" /><id>139804</id><summary><![CDATA[British hospital to treat internet-addicted teens]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T11:55:15+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T11:55:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A private London hospital has launched Britain's first dedicated technology addiction service for what it dubbed &quot;screenagers,&quot; after parents complained their children were flying into a rage when told to turn off their computer.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Girls as young as two facing rape in tent cities as UN security patrols fail to protect women after Haiti earthquake]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/world/l/139803/1/" /><id>139803</id><summary><![CDATA[Girls as young as two facing rape in tent cities as UN security patrols fail to protect women after Haiti earthquake]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T11:43:41+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T11:43:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Rape is rife in the sprawling tent cities that have become home for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and men are demanding sexual favours in return for food and shelter, according to a report published today.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ban on Bluefin Tuna fishing dies after Canada joins with Japan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139802/1/" /><id>139802</id><summary><![CDATA[Ban on Bluefin Tuna fishing dies after Canada joins with Japan]]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T11:40:57+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T11:40:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Despite a major drop in the number of bluefin tuna, countries such as <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/139775/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Japan</a> would rather make a few bucks now until they are all gone than to try and allow them to repopulate. Japan is known for such attitudes. Now that Canada threw its weight in the human made ban has been denied. Time will tell if mother nature will implement a final ultimate ban or not.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Minor health complaints 'strain NHS finances']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sandbox.plime.com/plime-com/l/139800/1/" /><id>139800</id><summary><![CDATA[Minor health complaints 'strain NHS finances']]></summary><issued>2010-03-19T11:19:16+01:00</issued><modified>2010-03-19T11:19:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The &quot;worried well&quot; are taking up too much of GPs' time complaining of small problems such as coughs and colds which they should be treating at home, it was argued. Such minor treatable complaints cost the NHS &#163;2 billion a year]]></content></entry></items></xml>