And now for the really paranoid, we present dog tags engraved with vital information that will allow alien Good Samaratins to return you to Earth should you be abducted by flying saucers or fall through some inconvenient rift in the space-time continuum.
From Yahoo.news:More than 1,000 police, some wearing black hoods, raided housing projects outside Paris in a massive sweep Monday, kicking open doors and detaining 33 people in a search for rioters who led an outburst of violence last year, a prosecutor said.This is France? If this keeps up, they might actually end up not surrendering this time.
Cheshire County Council has been forced by the European Union to move four newts at a cost of £60,000, which comes to £15,000 per newt. Apparently our masters in Brussels are unaware that you can get a spanking-fresh newt from any reputable pet shop for £3 and you could probably get a discount for a full set of four.
Network Rail has announced that it has found an alternative to constantly repainting the Forth Bridge.
Reuters reports on the seventh night of rioting and burning by "youths" in Denmark:Bands of youths set fire to cars, buses and schools in Denmark on Saturday, the seventh night of rioting and vandalism in the capital Copenhagen and other Danish cities, police said on Sunday.So far, business as usual. But in paragraph seven, this peculiar non sequitar showed up:
Social workers said an alleged plot to kill a Danish cartoonist for his drawing two years ago of the Prophet Mohammad might have fuelled the riots. Danish newspapers reprinted the cartoon on Wednesday in protest against the plot. What is this doing here?What on Earth do cartoons of Mohammed have to do with rioting "youths", who are no doubt confirmed secularists and can trace their ancestry unbroken to King Ongendus?
We have to make people think that it's unfashionable just as we have with smoking. We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong.And the environment minister chimes in his support, saying that the bourgeois menace of bottled water:
(B)orders on being morally unacceptable.Expect to soon see Emmanuel Goldstein holding up a bottle Evian at the Two Minute Hate.
If you get your news from the mainstream outlets you may not be aware that "youths" of indeterminate religion have been rioting and burning cars and schools in Denmark for five nights.We don't know why they're rioting. I think it's because they're bored. Some people say it's because of the cartoons but that's not my opinion.Boredom? Such denial hasn't been witnessed since Stalin acted all surprised when the Wehrmacht rolled over his border.
NASA is adding kimchi to the International Space Station's menu.
Hot the heels of an appeals court ruling in London that freed five Muslims for possessing Jihadist propaganda, another court has given an Algerian pilot arrested after 9/11 permission to sue the British government."The UK presents itself as a target, as a fragmenting, post-Christian society," the report says, and is "increasingly divided" on its history, national aims, values and political identity.
Veteran Loch Ness Monster hunter gives up search after 37 years, claiming that the creature is dead due to global warming.
Dark Roasted Blend has an impressive post on Babes of the Spaceways and...
Sharon Weinberger wins the Julius Caesar "Ides of March" foresight award.
Popular Mechanics looks at military robots fielded by other than the U.S. military.
Bostworld is featuring scans from a 1963 book looking forward to the strange, new world of 1975.
If you're in Copenhagen, check out the Post & Tele Museum, where images from Tales of Future Past are being showcased.
"Campaigners" are demanding that a sonic device that drives teenagers away should be banned because it targets everyone under the age of twenty.
GMPTE, which is responsible for Greater Manchester public transport, recently came out with this unfortunate poster.
In a brilliant piece of counterproductive thinking, the
And the winner of the 2008 Jellyfish Award goes to the Dutch Catholics who have re-branded Lent as "Christian Ramadan".
Addressing the firestorm generated by his remarks that sharia law in Britain is "unavoidable", the Archbishop of Canterbury said this today in his defence:I believe quite strongly that it is not inappropriate for a pastor of the Church of England to address issues about the perceived concerns of other religious communities, and to try and bring them into better public focus.So Dr. Williams's job is to speak on behalf of other religions. I see.
Polaroid has announced that it will cease producing its famous instant film.
The Times looks at Travelodge's high-tech pyjamas that look like something more suited to a Scandinavian mime troupe.
A massive fire has broken out in the market area of Camden.
Johann Hari of The Independent claims that botox is ruining Hollywood because actors can no longer do proper expressions with their faces paralysed.
Japanese scientists have developed a paper airplane that will fly in space.
Scientists in New Zealand and Japan have created the world's first tear-free onion.
Mona's Lab looks at the 1963 prediction of the Mars Mission that never was.
Over at The Spectator, James MacMillan has an interesting take on the Left; especially as it impacts the arts:In the Daily Telegraph last year Dominic Cavendish asked, ‘Why do so few of today’s plays challenge the left–liberal consensus? Is there a tacit complicity between many of today’s writers and the liberal establishment? Is the “liberal consensus” and the fear of appearing right-wing hobbling the urge to conduct tough, awkward debates?’ The response from Lisa Goldman, artistic director of the Soho theatre, was telling, and depressing in its simplistic caricature of what ‘right-wing’ means. She asked, ‘What would a right-wing play have to offer? Anti-democracy, misogyny, bigotry, nostalgia of all kinds? Let’s get back to a white Britain? That the slave trade had a civilising influence? That women should stay in the home?’ For her, and many like her, anything that is not left-wing is intrinsically and irredeemably evil. There seems no room in her intellectual and aesthetic view to observe a huge and diverse world of moderate and civilised thinkers who have rejected the extreme narrowness of the modern Left.I know exactly what he means. For years I've been saying that if theatres really wanted to do something "dangerous" and "disturbing" they'd have to attack the cosy assumptions of the Left, but that's as likely to happen as the BBC commissioning a sympathetic biography of Margaret Thatcher.
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A gallery of images from the US Navy's robot lab.
Tales of Future Past has been chosen as amctv.com's SciFi Scanner's Site of the Week.
