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

Yes, toybox. Situation calls for it for his own safety for it to be fully public if it can be semi-public. Restraining whatever crowds might arise is a social problem better than some wackadude killing him because he had the necessary research skills.

I should clarify, that was a response to one before last, for those just browsing.

Also, was a bit short. If Spike Lee was indicating the address was available, it was a prompt for both protest and safety simultaneously, as the Director of "Do The Right Thing" might be savvy to. Risk management. Got murderously angry mob, better break a window if property damage will quench it.

A woman suffered 40% burns when petrol ignited as she was decanting it in her kitchen in York with the cooker on. Diane Hill, 46, was pouring petrol into a glass jug at her home in Moorgate, Acomb, on Thursday evening after her daughter's car ran out of fuel...

The accident came two days after government minister Francis Maude suggested that motorists take the "sensible precaution" of filling up jerry cans and keeping them in the garage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17560534

A Lithuanian man, from Ilford, Essex, hid in a pile of manure in an attempt to hide from Police. He was captured, warned and then released. His van was found to contain a 1,000 litre tank and pumping equipment. It is believed he uses this equipment to steal fuel. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17562037

The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in China under new legislation set to be announced soon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745

Its everyone in the UK the Chinese government has been doing that for some time

So MI5 will be monitoring the elicit trade in warm pasties and checking out which subversives are refusing to panic buy when instructed to do so by their betters

Why would the UK government and Mi5 want to read through all our emails, facebook posts, mobile telephone call transcripts, internet website visits?

It's something to pass the time with on quiet afternoons.

Stone Art -

That is just the sort of question that will get your name on a list

Don't question - conform and consume

Children losing contact with reality: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17495032

Boy 15 kills mother in hammer attack
"The jury heard authorities raised concerns about the boy's behaviour in the months before the attack.

He told a counsellor voices were telling him to hurt people and that he had had visions of killing people, the court was told.

However, several experts had concluded Daniel was not mentally ill and did not pose a risk.

Judge Julian Flaux ... said it seemed like the teenager wanted to "get away with the perfect murder"."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-17540452

Reading this story, it seems that the boy told his counsellor that he was going to kill someone. The counsellor and experts said there was nothing to worry about. The boy then kills someone, and the Judge and Police say they find it is all a mystery why he killed someone.

Andy Warhol sketch bought for $5 by British Businessman at Las Vegas garage sale is valued at £1.3MILLION.

Andy Fields, 48, said he purchased the work of art from a drug user whose aunt used to care for Warhol when he was a child.

The illustration - from the late 1930s - is believed to have been drawn by the artist when he was 10 or 11.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123864/3-jumble-sale-sketch-turns-Warhol-artwork-valued-1-3m.html
That's not a bad business deal, £1.3 MILLION for a $5 investment. The drug user must be unhappy, although he probably would have killed himself with the drugs. Of course it is probably worth less than $5 dollars but the "brand value" magic adds the extra millions to its value.

I don't know. He might have paid for a stay at the Betty Ford clinic too.

>>Andy Warhol sketch bought for $5 by British Businessman at Las Vegas garage sale is valued at £1.3MILLION.

You missed out this bit:

"Although the businessman, from Tiverton, Devon, claims to have had the artwork verified as genuine, doubts about it remain.
The piece it is signed 'Andy Warhol' and he only changed his name from Andrew Warhola in 1949."

In other words, it's very obviously a fake. Never trust a Daily Mail headline.

no its not all that obvious

how many 10 or 11 year old Andrews do you know who actually go by that moniker?
more likely they answer to 'Andy' or some such diminutive
and the 'a' there at the end could have been an oversight
or... just left off

he may have legally changed it in 1949
but we all try things on as we are thinking about them

i think it could be real



i have a drawing by the real Dennis the Menace when he was 6

France's autism treatment 'shame'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17583123

"In its recent report, the ministry also effectively outlawed a practice known as 'packing' where autistic children are wrapped in damp cloths in order to reconnect with their bodies."



And if you read French, I recommend an account on every day life by an autist person -- first part here: http://martinwinckler.com/article.php3?id_article=1083 [fr]

France's autism treatment 'shame'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17583123

"In its recent report, the ministry also effectively outlawed a practice known as 'packing' where autistic children are wrapped in damp cloths in order to reconnect with their bodies."

yikes

And if you read French, I recommend an account on every day life by an autist person -- first part here: http://martinwinckler.com/article.php3?id_article=1083 [fr]

James Bond has a new favourite drink:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/shortcuts/2012/apr/02/james-bond-product-placement

#13075 "Although the businessman, from Tiverton, Devon, claims to have had the artwork verified as genuine, doubts about it remain.
The piece it is signed 'Andy Warhol' and he only changed his name from Andrew Warhola in 1949."

Hmmm I suppose the clue in the original story is from the bit about the drug user selling stuff belonging to his aunt who happened to care for Andy Warhol when he was a child. I suppose next week this drug user will be selling stuff from his uncle who looked after a young Jackson Pollock.