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

underworld, even.

The man gets out of the car, in front of photographers,
waving top secret documents.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7990719.stm

Is there ANY hope left for the sceptred isle?

I can only

alec.

There are reports that a rival monastery was bulldozed and skeptical monks were sent abruptly to the next plane of existence.

Thankfully the idiot that waved the secret papers about has now resigned, jumoed before he was pushed methinks

there is no polite word to describe this person

Maybe he was trying to use the 'purloined letter' trick of showing the documents to all and sundry so that everybody would believe the real secret papers are somewhere else.

If only the powers that be were that clever toybox!

I had thought they were clever enough to find this sort of dodgy excuses usually

Maybe he'd had enough of police work and wanted to retire anyway.

RF

Now that seems more plausible.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5130328/Turkish-newsreader-blacked-up-face-during-Barack-Obama-visit.html

unbelievable....

I agree - absolutely unbelievable that people in different countries might actually have different ways of expressing themselves that may not always be understood by us here in our country! Absolutely shocking!!

Not exactly 'news', but interesting:

http://news.cnet.com/George-Orwell%2C-here-we-come/2010-1071_3-979276.html?tag=mncol;txt

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RFID chips

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/06/27/rfid_chips_are_here/

On a similar line to the Turkish story:

'Two ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspapers have altered a photo of Israel's new cabinet, removing two female ministers.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7982146.stm

Now this is good (old) news:


'Our results show that human urine could be used as a fertilizer for cabbage and does not pose any significant hygienic threats or leave any distinctive flavor in food products.'

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf0717891

14,000 year old Scots unearthed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7992300.stm

They can tell the age of similar ancient remains by looking at their nuts:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1352091.stm

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And yet Neanderthals are thought to have died out 25,000 years ago.

Scotland rewrites history again!

There's still elements of Neanderthal society in and around Duke St

a while ago I mentioned that I often like analysis or opinion pieces more than strict news story. This one caught my eye just now. U.S. centric to a certain extent, but disturbing:

' There have been more stories like this in recent months, and if history is any guide, there will be more to come. The timing of all this is deeply troubling, and the media players involved are all too familiar. There is something sinister at work here, something malevolent, something sly.

Consider the curious historical synchronicity of all this: after the inauguration of a new Democratic president, there has been a sudden upsurge of right-wing polemicists agitating right-wing citizens into right-wing-motivated acts of violence. The last time things came together like this was back in 1993, after the Waco and Ruby Ridge debacles, combined with the passage of NAFTA and the Brady Bill, detonated into a militia movement that was wildly active, and exceedingly violent, throughout the entirety of President Bill Clinton's two terms.

Dozens of militia-related incidents, including the Oklahoma City bombing, took place during those years. In 2001, however, these incidents stopped almost completely, and for the entirety of George W. Bush's two terms as president, hardly a peep was heard from the militia movement that had been so robustly vigorous during the administration of Bush's predecessor.

A Democratic president takes office in 1993 and the militia movement explodes, egged on by a whole host of right-wing media voices.

A Republican president takes office in 2001 and the militia movement, along with those media voices who sponsored it, all but disappear from the American political landscape.

A Democratic president takes office in 2009, and once again, right-wing media voices begin their clarion call for armed revolution, and once again, a portion of their listeners erupt into violence. '

http://www.truthout.org/041009R


Fox News delendum est.



(I chose the neuter gender for the gerundive intentionally. )