News Bits!

- Webcams solve crimes! A Dallas Beatles fan foiled a crime in Liverpool that he witnessed in progress through a webcam-view of a street related to the Fab Four.
- It looks like Hurricane Ernesto may hit South Florida very soon.
- We're no scientists, but we think this study on smarts and their relation to height is just crap.
- The Austrian girl who was abducted and kept in a basement room the size of a closet for 8 years still feels sad that her kidnapper killed himself.
- Maybe when Katie Couric officially starts anchoring at CBS, the amount of stories focusing on her will slow down. Or perhaps not. Either way, this article suggests that her humor, rather than just her gender, is what will make her anchoring style so different.
- Oh, and the Emmys were last night. Arrested Development didn't win anything. Call us dreamers, but we really wanted Will Arnett to win.
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