Halloween horrors
Don’t wonder what my opinion on this one is for I have none. Except maybe, for that handsome red court involved in all this ugliness; why?
Filed Under Human Rights, Media & Society, Politics
I Didn’t Know Numbers Went That High
The Bank of England reported today that the global economy has lost $2,800,000,000,000 so far in this autumn’s financial crisis. If that number has too many zeros for you, let me help you: two trillion, eight hundred billion dollars. When you were a kid and you tried to imagine the biggest, hugest number you could possibly ever imagine in your wildest, crazy dreams, it was less than two trillion, eight hundred billion. For some perspective, the number is greater than the UK’s entire GDP and exceeds the dimensions of most standard calculators.
Filed Under Modern Life, Research, Uncategorized
And in other news…
A young man became the unfortunate victim of a greedy, greasy (french) train toilet. His mobile phone went in first, then his arm followed and then, there was a suction mal-function; poor guy.
Filed Under Media & Society
The Prints Don’t Lie
UK police will soon carry portable fingerprinting devices with them everywhere. Experts say the current processing time of an arrest, which takes one hour on average, could be reduced to mere minutes with the use of this new technology. Faster arrests means cops are back on the beat faster which ideally makes us all safer. It’s great that the system is more efficient, but do we really need to spend tax money on more “Big Brother”-style technology? No one wants their fingerprints saved forever for driving 10 kilometers over the limit.
Filed Under Modern Life, Wondering
Date local
If you think the fierce feeling of loneliness is the worst about a long-distance relationship, you are wrong. The worst, says Slate, is that you and your beloved one are killing the planet. The article argues that all those flights and car drives are way worse for the environment than, for example, eating meat instead of choosing a vegetarian diet. And it ends with a suggestion: why don’t we start a Date Local Movement. Will you join?
Filed Under Environment, Modern Life
Love and murder in the virtual world (police and jail in real life)
You might think you can do whatever you want with those avatars around you in virtual life, but real life Japanese police decided to arrest a woman after she “murdered” her virtual husband in the game Maple Story.
The 43 year-old lady couldn’t get over the virtual divorce and decided to use her ex’s password and login to kill him in the game. She is being charged for illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data.
Filed Under Modern Life, Technology
Father Nose Best
Parents in New Jersey and Ohio can now hire former police drug dogs to inspect their children’s rooms. The company Sniff Dogs hires out hounds with years of professional olfactory expertise for $200-per-hour. These astute pooches capitalize on parents’ paranoia and inability to confront children. The service could be a small price to pay to save the lives of drug-addled teens, but is it worth severing the ties of trust between parent and child? Either way, these veteran drug-busters are cute.
Filed Under History & traditions, Human Rights, Modern Life