The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most mornings - he then jumps off at the next stop 400m down the road, near a fish and chip shop.

Hmph... I still can't even train my cat to do dishes.

Mystery cat takes regular bus to the shops | the Daily Mail

Hari & Parker do Junior Big Brother. Hari and Parker are cute little toys that love to hang around.
They watch and listen – and they look great in a child's bedroom. The cute characters are in fact the speculative instruments of a government campaign to promote and encourage children to commit subtle acts of domestic surveillance.
Hari has a microphone ear and Parker a video-camera nose and fingerprint-scanner paw.

The Hari&Parker brand is instantly recognisable. Their reassuring faces can be found on toys,

"Better be nice to me, or I'll send you to guantanamo..."

The Science of Spying - Part 3

Catonic wrote:
1970s film explaining how to teach "trainable persons" about sex. NSFW, of course (and you already clicked play, didn't you?)

20 minutes. Of course, I didn't watch all of it.

I have the DVD. It came in a lunchbox.

RE: YouTube - ABC of Sex Education for Trainable Persons (1975)

We're sure somewhere Drew Curtis's head is exploding over this one: submitted for your perusal, one California State Senator Carole Migden -- former voter for a state bill that fines people for using their cellphones while driving -- rear-ended her state-issued SUV into a Honda sedan on Highway 12 in Solano County, today. While on her phone. The driver of the Honda was taken to the hospital with minor injuries,

Maybe she should let Corzine drive next time.

Senator who voted for anti-cellphone-driving law crashes car -- while on the phone - Engadget

Off The Hook, a dictionary of African American slang, is being sold in Japan to help them better understand the language used in many bigger cities like Boston and New York.

WHATEVER KINDA RAMBLINGS: Off The Hook, a dictionary of African American slang

A building at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston was evacuated Friday amid reports that an armed person was barricaded there, the space agency said. Other employees at the center were told to remain in lockdown as authorities surrounded the scene.

Space makes people crazy... We should outlaw space.

NASA building evacuated amid gun reports - Space News - MSNBC.com

skullaria wrote:
Well, this is a bit naive and unrealistic. Any news this big is GOING to have political implications. Possibly leading to decisions made in haste. Dream on. Take a lesson from 911.

True... Although I do agree that the context does make it somewhat inappropriate. Like two kids getting in trouble for fighting at a funeral... "Well, he started it!" doesn't mean anyone is in the right.

I also hate the types of BS correlations which are drawn in cases like this. Guns didn't make this guy kill people, writing dumb plays didn't do it, and neither did his manner or way of dressing. The simple fact is that he is crazy. Should we politicize that? Why not?

What made him crazy? I know a lot of crazy people. Some of them go crazy when they're too alone... while others go crazy when they're around too many people. Some of them go crazy while driving in traffic, and others go crazy when they haven't had enough medication, or had too much. Some people go crazy when picture frames are slightly to the left, while others may insist nothing should go to the right. Some believe that they are in the morally righteous no matter what they do, while others might believe that they are not allowed to do anything because everyone is against them.

What can we outlaw to stop crazy people? Hmmm... Let's make everything white. Infact, let's make everyone wear blindfolds so they are not disturbed by their environment. Why not just lock everyone in their rooms as well, removing any sharp objects. People don't need all the stress they have, no one should really work... well some. We need two sections of society, the authority and the people. The authority is never crazy. And if the people would just shut up, and listen to the authority, they wouldn't need to be crazy either. This will make society sane. Shootings like this will never happen again.

RE: Why the Shootings Mean That We Must Support My Politics

"I believe we are building the forces of good to beat the forces of evil. ... We are taking a major step in giving the American people their first light saber," Obering told dignitaries and employees gathered for the ceremony.

I know that no one's going to destry this guys house with popcorn, but maybe someone should.

I wonder if he knows Jim Channon...

FOXNews.com - U.S. Air Force Debuts Laser-Weapon Aircraft - Science News | Current Articles

"Talking" CCTV cameras that tell off people dropping litter or committing anti-social behaviour are to be extended to 20 areas across England.

They are already used in Middlesbrough where people seen misbehaving can be told to stop via a loudspeaker, controlled by control centre staff.

About �500,000 will be spent adding speaker facilities to existing cameras.

Shadow home affairs minister James Brokenshire said the government should be "very careful" over the cameras.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | 'Talking' CCTV scolds offenders

Decius wrote:

I've known one woman to have one of these. She was very anti-choice. The baby that she so wanted was found at just under 7 months to have severe hydrocephalus and spinal bifida. She was told there was no question the child would be profoundly mentally retarded and would need life long institutional care. After a few weeks of prayer, her and her husband decided to have the procedure.

I think this is exactly the sort of realistic and difficult scenario that comes up with optional late term abortions and often isn't frankly discussed. People talk about rape, incest, and the health of the mother. There is another scenario: The baby may be broken, severely. Is it murder to abort such a pregnancy? This is going to become a vital question very soon now, and I think that searching for theological explanations is as useful here as it is in explaining the age of the planet. This is a deep moral, philosophical problem that absolutely requires an analysis of the alternatives on their impact and merit. I don't really know if anyone deeply addresses this, and I think popping out with a strict interpretation of some scriptural verse is a cop out that avoids taking this issue head-on and does not properly prepare people to handle this situation.

If you invited someone over to your house for a drink... and they refused to leave, sat on your sofa for months and months, ate a significant portion of your food, attempted to make you moody all day long, made you nauseous, forced you to see the doctor, made you pay their doctor bills, at what point do you get to legally shoot them? Granted... an adult should be able to survive outside of your house so you should be able to kick the asshole out... but it doesn't work this way with a fetus. Even if you put an ad in the paper... no one wants an unborn fetus, only living babies. Therefore a fetus that can't survive on it's own has no rights to live. You're status before you're hatched isn't good enough to warrant protection. You go from being a parasite, to having rights. Maybe, if science advances, Women may be able to have a Postponement wherein the fetus is removed and frozen until such date as they wish to carry the thing to term. I think these would be popular. Think of the ebay possibilities as unused fetuses from deceased celebrities become hot properties.

RE: Late Term Abortion Ban Upheld by Supreme Court