- 2nd
- Smokers ~= Criminals → A while ago I completely randomly guessed that 87% of unpleasant people are smokers. Actually, the figure is 85%, providing "unpleasant person" is defined as "man in jail". Yes, it’s true: 85% of male inmates smoke. It’s not too hard to understand is it? It’s so much easier to imagine a criminal with a cigarette than [...]
- 9th
- Brain sex → Determine your brain sex. This is an interesting test to observe. One of their questions went like this: "You are given $50, and you must decide how much to keep for yourself and how much to give to your partner. Your partner then decides whether to accept the deal. If he rejects it, you both walk [...]
- 11th
- Polymorphing kittens → I think I have invented history’s greatest most profitable, most unethical business plan: Step 1. Buy a chunk of radioactive material. Spread it around a room. Step 2. Start breeding kittens in that room. Step 3. Kill the ugly deformed offspring, and maybe the normal ones too. Step 4. Collect the ones with cute mutations (2 tails, 4 ears, [...]
- 16th
- The Pope would like a word with you → Human Rights Act + Every Sperm is Sacred + Rising Male Infertility = The legal foundations are being set to literally sue someone’s balls off.
- 22nd
- Review: Going Postal → Just finished reading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. I over-read Pratchett books last year and got a bit sick of them (or maybe the Watch series really does go downhill after Men at Arms… either way I was not impressed at all with The Fifth Elephant), but after a short break, I have to say [...]
- 25th
- Conservatards vs. Laboredom → I’ve seen a couple of these Tory adverts up around here: the immigration one, and the clean hospitals one. At the bottom, they say "Are you thinking what we’re thinking?" On both the posters I’ve seen, some civic minded vandal has graffiti’d "NO" after. The first time I saw one, the "NO" was already there, so [...]
- 26th
- Drug war tech race → Ingenious drug smugglers build submarine. Impressive. Just goes to show how creativity and innovation flourish in the face of adversity. If only we could figure out a way to get the drug barons to innovate in useful fields. I think I have a plan… This page claims global drug trade is worth up to $400bn annually. There [...]
