well, it looks like you and i are the only ones awake in the hood.
the seal thing reminds me of something...didn't america try and use seals in the gulf war to sniff out underwater anti-ship mines and other such nasties?
now, if we can just hip the terrorists to this whole seal thing, then we can probably generate some links between them, the japanese jieitai and the seals.

I saw pretty deep coverage on NHK last night around 10. At least as deep as it could get for right after the attacks.

TV Tokyo, however, decided that it wasn't important enough to cut into a broadcast of Freddy vs. Jason. ...but y'know, in all fairness, at that time only 2 were announced dead in London, and more people than that died in Freddy vs. Jason.

r., I think you are talking about the US Navy Marine Mammal Program. They claim they only use dolphins and sea lions, but they tested out a lot of other animals along the way.

Fascinating stuff somehow.

bs1 actually ran about an hour of live bbc news that I tuned into from about 11:45 british time, about 30 minutes after things got bad... (I forget what time it was here)
curiously, they seemed to decide it wasn't really worth spending more time on just before some important-seeming press conference.

what? do you guys all want 24 american coverage of it. where no one has anything to say. or new pictures. but be damned they are going to keep talking about it. on "analist" after another. yet, nothing gets said.

Doesn't the BBC broadcast their news channel on the internet in situations like that?

But the BBC's site was down, getting hit by too many expats I'd say.

50 dead. Who cares. 1000 people a day die in the Congo as a result of the conflict there. Don't see that on the news, in Japan or elsewhere.

i saw that seal program while looking for london coverage too!