Here’s a story you don’t see every day. Brit David Brown, 24, was out one night with friends living the typical life of an early to mid-20s male. That night, a phone number ran through his head constantly throughout his dreams. The next morning he did what a large portion of us guys would probably do, text it. The message was short and simple: “Did I meet you last night?”

Michelle Kitson, the random recipient on the other end, was initially confused and hesitant, but after some reluctance she decided to reply and the two began exchanging text messages. After some time, they met, fell in love, and are now married.

“It was really weird but I was absolutely hooked,” Kitson told the Daily Mail newspaper. “My mum and dad kept saying ‘But he could be an axe murderer’, but I knew there was something special about it.”

When Brown was asked about the origin of the number he couldn’t get out of his head he responded with:

“I’ve no idea how I ended up with her number in my head - it’s only a few digits different from mine.”

To all you texters out there, of which there are millions, beware! You never know who might be on the receiving end…

It’s been a while since we had any great iPhone news (the announcement a few days ago that it would be marketed to business professionals hardly raised a hair on my arm). Today, however, Engadget Mobile posted an internal iPhone Q&A document that was leaked from a Cingular new AT&T employee.

While there isn’t really anything that will make you lose sleep in anticipation or excitement, there are a few tidbits that will somewhat quench the thirst of iPhone fanatics like myself. Here are a few items from the leaked document that are worth mentioning:

• iPhone will have access to Cingular’s MyAccount via the device as well as via iTunes.
• No pre-orders
• Possible iPhone specific service plans
• No subsidies

Other details such as contracts and rate plans will be available closer to launch — which is now less than two months away!

I welcome the ability to access MyAccount from the iPhone directly, that will make managing your account rather easy (for me with 3 lines and family plan that can become cumbersome). The two that really bum me out are the lack of subsidies and no pre-orders. This thing is pretty expensive considering I will probably be needing three of them, not to mention very hard to get out of the gate. Hopefully some more favorable details on these two aspects will emerge closer to launch.

The photo pretty much says it all with this one…

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said yesterday that America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11 if a Democrat is elected president in 2008. But, he added, if he is elected the terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped. Wow, shocker there.

“If any Republican is elected president —- and I think obviously I would be the best at this —- we will remain on offense and will anticipate what [the terrorists] will do and try to stop them before they do it,” Giuliani said.

George Bush/Karl Rove/Neo-Conservative fear-mongering much? This sounds like something Dick Cheney would say if he were on the ballot in ‘08. Apparently Giuliani thinks his best shot at getting elected is by aligning himself with the current hardcore Neo-Con GOP voters. Unfortunately for him, this group is shrinking by the day as the current government’s competence goes further down the tube.

It’s unfortunate because I used to really like Giuliani and probably would have voted for him if Obama or Ron Paul is not on the ballot. But with comments like this, he’s clearly showing his abandonment of decency and morality for the sake of trying to gather a few votes:

Giuliani said terrorists “hate us and not because of anything bad we have done; it has nothing to do with Israel and Palestine. They hate us for the freedoms we have and the freedoms we want to share with the world.”

Odd, seeing as Bin Laden was directly funded and supported by the US in the 1980s. We apparently didn’t have anything to do with it though.

Rudy, I urge you not to lose sight of the characteristics and traits that made you so popular with the American public in the aftermath of 9/11. It’s your only chance of winning the presidency and could be our only chance of having a competent president.

The Dutch are bringing a whole new perspective to the realm of online dating. Their approach: skip the dating altogether and go straight to a wife, but only when you need one. A Dutch website called Rent A Wife offers you the opportunity to do just that, rent a wife, apparently for those odd occasions when you just might need one.

Now, my Dutch is a bit rusty non-existent, but from the looks of it you are able to browse by body type, measurements, age, hair and eye color. It also seems as if they have a sort of classifieds section, where potential wifes are listed with their stats along with a specialty they might have. No word on pricing.

If anyone knows any Dutch please feel free to visit the site and do some translation for us. Otherwise, we’ll leave it at its face value: a joke. The concept of renting a wife basically throws the notion of marriage sanctity right out the window. On the other hand, I imagine it opens up a whole new realm of possibilities for swingers.

Here’s one that will make you appreciate the casual Sunday stroll to your local church parish. World Magazine ran an article last weekend that discusses how Christians in North Korea are being persecuted and tortured at an increasing rate for their religion.

From both sides of the Korean border, underground Christians are speaking out against North Korean persecution. The executions and torture occur for the most part in the gulag, North Korea’s prison camp which is home to about 200,000 political prisoners, however they also occur in public places. Some estimates put the number of Christians the regime kills at 300 per year, with roughly 50,000 Christians sitting in prison.

The amount and level of torture these Christians are put through is gut-wrenching and heart-aching. One warden hung a man upside down and ordered him to deny his beliefs. Upon refusal, the warden stabbed him and pushed him to the ground, then ordered 6,000 prisoners to trample him to death.

In another example, eight prisoners kept their silence when ordered to deny the existence of heaven, which infuriated prison officials so much that they poured molten iron all over them.

In addition, informants claim that Christian prisoners are deliberately crippled so they cannot walk, and may be left naked and starved so that they are forced to eat the rats crawling around their cells raw. A troubling thought…

I can’t believe these types of stories never hit the mainstream media. How can reporters miss this stuff? International correspondents have a moral obligation to report on human rights abuses around the world. They have no problem running stories about the horrible atrocities of Darfur in the poor African country of Sudan, but when it comes to North Korea, with whom the West is embroiled in a nuclear dispute, they look the other way so as to not upset the North Koreans and scare them away from the negotiating table.

Not that the US government is any better though, on the contrary, we’re trend setters when it comes to mistreatment of prisoners enemy combatants, just look at Cuba and Iraq.

Two 17-year-old Australian girls faced sentencing yesterday in Perth Children’s Court after pleading guilty to murdering Eliza Jane Davis, their friend, on June 18, 2006. The two girls wanted to experience murder and told the police that it “felt right” to strangle a friend and bury her body beneath her West Australian home.

As the girls sat in court, the prosecutor said they had confessed that after partying with Eliza on a Saturday night they decided to kill her the next morning.

“Sunday morning me and (her) woke up, and we were just talking, and for some reason we just decided to kill her,” one of the girls told police in her interview.

What exactly was their motive?

“We just did it because we felt like it, it is hard to explain,” the other girl said. “I knew we had wanted to kill someone before. We knew it was wrong, but it didn’t feel wrong at all, it just felt right.”

Apparently the girls snuck up behind Eliza when she was reading, one wrapped speaker wire twice around her throat and started pulling while the other girl held her down and tried to place a chemical-soaked cloth into her mouth.

“She started not being able to get her breath, and we just kept going,” one of the girls said. “She was just yelling at us ‘What the f**k, what are you doing’ .. ‘Oh you freaks, what’s wrong with you psychos.’”

Are the girls showing any remorse you might ask?

“As our friend, we did not really want her to suffer,” one told police. “We didn’t really expect to get away with it. We were willing to take the risk. If she had died another way it probably would have bothered me … but it just did not,” one girl said.

Frankly I’m at a loss for words on this one. How three girls could go from friends one night to two of the three killing the other in the morning is just more than I am able to comprehend. I know there are a lot of non-religious individuals out there who do not believe in demons or evil, but I welcome any opinions from them on what else could have brought about such blatant, cold-hearted brutality.

The North Shore Assembly of God has dealt a low blow to Google, pointing out that despite what you may think, the search giant can’t provide you with everything you’re looking for…

This guy could give Forrest Gump a run for his money…

AT&T COO Randall Stephenson announced yesterday that delivery of the iPhone is on target and is scheduled for the end of June. There have been speculations, fueled by Apple’s announcement of Leopard delays, that the iPhone would not make its target June availability.

“Our expectations are good. Our testing has been good. The iPhone is on target to launch in June,” he said.

Stephenson added that they have over 1 million customers eagerly awaiting the release of iPhone who are ready to buy. He added, however, that availability might not be that high for the initial entry into the market.

“We’re sorting through that right now,” he told the Financial Post. “We got a million people waiting to buy it so we’re hoping we get a million.”

I don’t think anyone expects Apple to push a million iPhones upon launch, but how sweet would it be if there actually wasn’t a waiting list to get one of these bad boys. I, for one, will be waiting patiently to purchase one within the first month or so of their release.