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Wait Wait - News - 2013-01-26
NPR's news quiz show "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" asks the show's contests questions about people and events that recently appeared in the news. Most appeared on the front page, but some of them are unlikely to make the front page.
Below are a couple of items that caught myeye ear on this week's show
Edit: I added one more to the list: "Apps 4 Apes".
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865571184/Verizon-employee-caught-outsourcing-own-computer-programming-job-to-China.html
According to the Telegraph, the fellow "had outsourced his own job, paying a Chinese firm approximately $50,000 … from his salary to write computer programs on his behalf."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime-doesnt-bray-getaway-donkey-ruins-robbery-by-alerting-police-8460320.html
A trio of bungling thieves in Colombia were forced to abandon a robbery after their 'getaway donkey' made too much noise and alerted local police.
http://news.discovery.com/human/life/cheese-fire-closes-norwegian-tunnel-130123.htm
A truck carrying a trailer with 27 tons of goat cheese through Norway caught fire in a tunnel recently. But this was no ordinary cheese: The resulting tunnel fire raged for days.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414603,00.asp
At 13 zoos around the world, including the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., orangutans are playing online games, with the help of Orangutan Outreach and the Apps for Apes program.
Below are a couple of items that caught my
Edit: I added one more to the list: "Apps 4 Apes".
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865571184/Verizon-employee-caught-outsourcing-own-computer-programming-job-to-China.html
According to the Telegraph, the fellow "had outsourced his own job, paying a Chinese firm approximately $50,000 … from his salary to write computer programs on his behalf."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime-doesnt-bray-getaway-donkey-ruins-robbery-by-alerting-police-8460320.html
A trio of bungling thieves in Colombia were forced to abandon a robbery after their 'getaway donkey' made too much noise and alerted local police.
http://news.discovery.com/human/life/cheese-fire-closes-norwegian-tunnel-130123.htm
A truck carrying a trailer with 27 tons of goat cheese through Norway caught fire in a tunnel recently. But this was no ordinary cheese: The resulting tunnel fire raged for days.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414603,00.asp
At 13 zoos around the world, including the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., orangutans are playing online games, with the help of Orangutan Outreach and the Apps for Apes program.