Headline of the Day: German homeopathy conference ends in mass psychedelic overdose.
Just what the presidential election in the US needed...Ex-fugitive millionaire creator of anti-virus-software John McAfee plans to run*.
Pope Francis makes it easier for Catholics who wish to remarry to seek an annulment.
The Atlantic on how 'Kate's Law' could swell prison-populations and cost the US Billions.
The shitty conditions of tea-estates producing many of the UK's top brands. Uh, Profit. Profit über Alles. Profit, Profit, Profit, Profit, Profit.
Danny Boyle confirms sequel to Trainspotting, with return of four main actors.
The woman whose obituary requested that 'In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Hillary Clinton'.
Bears don't like GoPro's evidently:
And no more do human relatives, chimpanzees.
So, there's some talk about the potential transmittability of Alzheimers...or is it CJD (Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease). Either way, I'm guessing a) the headlines over-egg any actual risk, and b) We consistently over-estimate our own understanding, as when, in my lifetime, we routinely dismissed the idea that cancer could be linked to viruses. Whoops.
BBC on a new test of how well...or poorly one's body is ageing.
So, a white woman in Ohio tried to sue a fertility-clinic after being impregnated with a black man's sperm by mistake...
China planning a landing on the dark side of the Moon. No, not a manned landing. Have at you, with the references to Pink Floyd.
Drunk man frustrated with the service at 'SoftBank' takes it out by giving a kicking to an emotion-reading robot.
Glamour-models' 'selfies' before & after makeup. Unsurprisingly, most look more attractive (never mind, more human)...before.
Guardian: Labour: up to eight in shadow cabinet may refuse to serve with Corbyn.
Conservative Party of Canada loses two candidates in one day, one of whom was uncovered as the contractor seen urinating into a customer's coffee-cup on CBC's Marketplace, and the other of whom had posted to YouTube years ago potentially offensive prank-videos in which he pretended to be mentally disabled.
BBC: Queen Elizabeth: Rarely seen pictures from childhood.
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| Here, Princess Elizabeth places Princess Margaret's arm in a sling at a meeting of the Girl Guides in Frogmore, Windsor, in 1942. |
Freed religious lunatic fêted by right-wing theocratic Republican candidate for President in Kentucky. As per usual at all Republican campaign-events, use popular hit-song without permission.
The Muslim flight-attendant fighting her suspension over her refusal to serve alcohol, as a supposed violation of her religious beliefs. Mike Huckabee coming to her defence any day now...
Why didn't Netflix pick up Clarkson & Co. ? Because it just 'wasn't worth the money.' Don't blame 'em.
Driverless cars can be stopped/manipulated by a cheap laser-pointer.
Photographic evidence for parking-tickets manipulated digitally in Lincoln ?
Meanwhile, the city of Boston has apparently been maintaining the database from their licenceplate-reader in plain text on the Internet with no password-protection.** Lovely.
An 'immunity gene' for Influenza ?
Telegraph: Five surprising health benefits of being overweight
CounterPunch: Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs.
The WaPo's factchecking on widely reported numbers on sex-trafficking of children in the US.
New Scientist: 10 mysteries that physics can’t answer… yet.
Oh yeah, this happened:
So, would now be a bad time to link to an opinion-piece by Peter Hitchens ?***...Fuck it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3223828/PETER-HITCHENS-won-t-save-refugees-destroying-country.html
You will see this video again. If I have anything to do with it. Or otherwise...'You may get bored with winning...' by the...'very very stoopid people.'
* Ex-fugitive ? Kinda tells you when I was last paying attention to Mister McAfee.
** If you don't see why this is a problem, and are involved in any kind of political decisions regarding technology, please recuse yourself immediately.
*** I never claimed to be a Labourite, now did I ?
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