“Now I am the master” yells the Dark Lord Donald, laying into his onetime mentor.
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Don’t Stand By Me – Surviving a lightning strike. By Joshua Foer: “Unlike garden-variety electrical shock, which finds the quickest route directly through the body, lightning can flash over the outside of a victim, sometimes blowing off clothes without leaving so much as a mark on the skin. The high-voltage electricity that zips through the
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I love Wikipedia. An enjoyable evening for me is sitting down with a cup of steaming bullshit and flicking though its virtual pages. Though, of course, I no longer have broadband access, so that’s a straightforward lie. However… now I have discovered… this! Main Page – Uncyclopedia: “Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.”
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Wired News: New Tech Protects Ancient Torahs: “The Burlingame Police Department circulated a bulletin to other law enforcement agencies listing their stolen Torah’s vital statistics — 40 pounds, 175 feet, 600 to 800 years old, ‘contains the five books of Moses’ — but nothing that would help a cop pick it out of a lineup.”
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Man With Chain Saw Allowed to Enter U.S. – Yahoo! News: “BOSTON – On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and
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In Tokyo, a Ghetto of Geeks: “‘There are some people who do lose their grip on reality, but that is not me — or most of us,’ said Ishihara, a chubby man with glasses who this year started dating a woman steadily for the first time. She’s an anime artist. ‘For me, the pillows have
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And the horror at Episode III keeps flooding in… 1. A 33-year-old factory supervisor who identified herself as “Priscilla” said the man got out of his tinted two-door car, strutted about menacingly in his Darth Vader suit before opening it and revealing himself to 15 women workers standing at a bus stop at about 7am.
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(congrats to Liverpool fans btw – well fought). Labour want teenagers doing community service to wear orange suits. The probation service, having had this idea before, argue that it was stymied because the teenagers won’t turn up if they’re being humiliated (which also raises the question as to what the government and/or probation service are
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Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | ‘Look at that bling!’: “‘Young people are like women,’ says the Nike lad with a sage nod. ‘They like attention. They like to be heard.’”
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BBC NEWS | Health | Discovery of ‘irony’ brain areas: “By comparing healthy people and those with damage to different parts of the brain, they found the front of the brain was a key to understanding irony.” Next week: brain found to be seat of soul; kidneys say “we’re miffed.”