Gamespot: Microsoft may pull Xbox in Australia
Ape-man Ballmer tries petulant bully tactics, but he can get stuffed because it’s Australia’s right to provide legislation to allow citizens to view legally purchased content from other regions.

Age: “Dinosaur preserved for all time
Move over, ice man. Scientists have found a 77-million-year-old dinosaur so well preserved they’re calling it a mummy.
Most of the leathery skin on this creature, discovered two years ago in Montana where there are a number of fossil sites, is intact, though turned to mineral.
Its throat and shoulder muscle are still there. Its face retains traces of its nail-like beak. Its discoverers even say it contains the remnants of its last meal, a half-digested mass of plant material.”
(quoting lots because the Age doesn’t allow access to archives).

IHT: “An inscription in stone, found in or near Jerusalem and written in a language and script of 2,000 years ago, bears the words “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.””
Jesus had a brother? I wonder if he was the oldest or the youngest.

PM soars in wake of terror

Harsh editorial comment at news.com.au

Name that beard

BBC: “Crushed passenger wins obesity payout”

Doonesbury talks sense on Iraq.

Age: “Australia would fight terrorism in South-East Asia through diplomacy rather than sending in troops, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.”
Shame they can’t propose the same thing in Iraq!