h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Isn't it cool that the creator of Big Bird's costume was named Kermit!

An alleged mobile brothel in the US state of Florida has taken its last ride following a police sting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7474797.stm

And here is a Creationist trying to get data above to try to disprove the story only to be roundly screwed into the ground.

http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/all-time-classic-creationist-pwnage/#more-718

It really is worth spending the time reading the letters. It is a sheer joy of someone intelligent & p1ssed off roundly putting down an idiot.

Thanks for that last link - but now my sides hurt, ow!

yet another case involving *that* Cradle of Filth t-shirt : this time in Oz.

http://goldcoaststage.arkcms.com/article/2008/06/25/12892_gold-coast-top-story.html

" ... one man's vulgarity is another's lyric."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._California

A ban on handguns in Washington DC has been ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7474924.stm

There are no words!!

Call me stupid...is there not a law regarding explosives....perhaps the lateral way round would be make that law stronger so you can keep the hand guns but be illegal to have the bullets as they contain explosive material..

If this Titanic Exhibition comes to my town, I'm buying sandbags ...

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_574369.html

An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.

The boy's school says he has violated the children's rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7479758.stm

Nice to know the UK isn't the only country infected with the PC disease.

That case in Sweden needs to be sorted out by the parliment telling the teacher and the school to: Get.A.Life.

They will have no ruined the boys birthday this year and probably for years to come: isn't that child abuse?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7480483.stm

"A military shooting demonstration in south east France has left 16 people wounded, after real bullets were used instead of blanks."

Someones going to be in the merde over this.

Remind me not to be a bystander if the French ever try to rescue hostages for real. If just one of them can accidentally shoot 16 innocent people, what would happen if they all had live rounds?

'The declaration did not mention the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams by name, but said the Anglican leadership had done nothing to discipline the Episcopal Church for its stand on gay clergy or the Anglican Church of Canada for blessing same-sex marriages.

Although the conservatives, a coalition mainly of African Anglican churches and orthodox U.S. Episcopalians, said their movement does not represent a complete split in the church, they appeared set to challenge the authority of Williams.

"While acknowledging the nature of Canterbury as an historic see, we do not accept that Anglican identity is determined necessarily through recognition by the Archbishop of Canterbury," they said.'

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/29/anglicans.html



Having one's cake and eating it too?

About the Swedish 8-year-old's birthday party: the party was to be held on the school premises, that's why there was this rule about inviting everyone in the class. All students and parents had been informed of this beforehand.

Had the boy chosen to hold the party anywhere else, the school couldn't have cared less.

Does this look like a good idea, considering modern desires to stage mass protests?

'A new software application for mobile devices, released this month by a startup U.S. firm called Sense Networks, will do just that. It allows users to see, down to the nearest intersection and in real time, what zones of a city are attracting crowds and what streets have the most traffic.'

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/30/software-hot-spots.html

It will be of great use during a zombie attack.

Almost missed --

The 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event.

June 30, 1908



Beeb science article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7470283.stm

Nice blog article here: http://johnmckay.blogspot.com/2008/06/century-of-tunguska.html

It's still June 30 here, so....

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Not exactly news, but interesting nonetheless. Seems that, before we had "big oil" and "big pharma" we had "big banana"

In the early 20th century, with American industry just beginning to expand overseas, and with Latin America still just emerging from its colonial shackles, bananas became one of America's first powerhouse industries:

http://delanceyplace.blogspot.com/

'Heinz 'men kissing' ad: US Christian group urged firm to pull commercial'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/01/advertising.usa

Religion behind homophobia shocker! Well I never. Ignorant gits.

'US elections: Obama to announce grants for faith-based services'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/01/barackobama.uselections2008

Perpetuating the ignorance and lending the nonsense credence.

'Archbishop of Canterbury hits out at breakaway Anglicans'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/01/anglicanism.religion1

Thereby ignoring the fairly large elephant in the room.