links for 2006-05-16

• Verizon stock takes hit on $50 billion lawsuit
  You get three guesses as to the nature of the lawsuit, and I'll give you a hint: It rhymes with "mire-crapping."
• Giant Smurf Arrested After Unsmurflike Behaviour
  I know that Fark already posted this, but that's gotta be the funniest headline of the year.
• Self-Defense By Bas Rutten -via YouTube
  You know what Bas? I never underestimate a kick to the groin. BANG! (Flood, please watch this guy.)
• Premature Address to the Nation
  CNN accidentally airs footage of Bush rehearsing his speech.
• How to Create a Ghost
  Kind of a long article, but basically it tells of how a group of people imagined a ghost so completely that they started hallucinating him into existence. Or not. Maybe it was a playful demon. So hard to tell with the paranormal.