Stalking Venus

Today seems to be a particularly good day for bizarre news.
In the Northern Territories of Australia, a man was recently arrested for speeding along in a car filled with drugs (inlcuding 2 cannabis plants on the back seat), at 150km/h, using a video camera to film himself masturbating, while shooting at kangaroos with a rifle.
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The Lesbian Gamers (”because sometimes we use our hands for other things”) website has an interesting post about an upcoming Playstation 3 downloadable game called Fat Princess. It’s causing a bit of a stir, because the object of the game is to try and figure out how to pick up and move this chubby chick.
“It’s [...]

Oh yes it is! That’s what the Sydney Morning Herald reported this morning. Apparently the stuff they use in the CRT new LCD flat screens contribute way more to global warming than coal fire emissions.
“As a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide, yet no one knows how [...]

Great post on Dark Roasted Blend this morning about Jim Denevan, a sand artist who makes some of the most amazing transient artworks I’ve ever seen. Scale is his thing, and his latest project is massive, representing about 8 days of walking. So much work and it’s all gone the next time it rains.
Go read [...]

Major flooding has occurred after recent thunderstorms on Thursday and Friday caused rivers in Iowa to break their banks.
From CNN:
Officials recommended that downtown residents and businesses evacuate parts of downtown on both sides of the river by 6 p.m. Friday. Included are all areas in Des Moines’ 500-year floodplain.
The alert was prompted by rising [...]