Oh Internet

On Lothian Road, Edinburgh. Picture swiped from the Edinburgers LJ group

This is London - 28/09/06:
Police are hunting “devil worshippers” after a series of sickening “satanic rite” attacks on sheep at a national park.
Around 100 animals have been found slaughtered and mutilated with their tongues, eyes and sexual organs removed on Dartmoor in Devon in the past year.
All of the bodies had been arranged in a [...]

Funny Farm is an infuriatingly addictive word association game.
I realise that “Paul gets addicted to a stupid game” isn’t a new story, but this time it’s collaborative. The game’s more or less impossible to complete on your own, so when you save your game you get a code to send to other people, which they [...]

On my way home today, the bus I was on took about 3 times longer than normal due to a huge detour, with several roads shut off and police everywhere. It was impossible to see what was going on at the time, but once I got back I found out it was due to a [...]

Remember when I was shocked by that £85 sandwich? I’ve since learned the error of my ways. That pricing is small time.
Using vintage Champagne, Whisky and 24-carat gold leaf, F Duerr & Son show them how things should be done with this £5000 jar of marmalade.

The Fine Cut Seville Orange Marmalade with Whisky, Champagne and [...]

Tired of EU-mandated over-fishing, the denizens of the oceans are rising up to overthrow their evil land-dwelling tormentors. Judging by the video on this page though, we’ve still got a few years of safety yet.

A Blood Parrot fish gets his first taste of life on land, wheeling around in this luxurious fishbowl-on-wheels. A camera mounted [...]

If anyone needs me, I’ll be barricaded in the nearest shopping mall with a rag-tag group of survivors, battling to repel the zombie hordes:
The Observer 24/09/06:
Scientists working at a British laboratory have achieved one of the most controversial breakthroughs ever made in the field of stem cell science by taking cells from dead embryos and [...]

You must go and see:
Little Miss Sunshine
Because it’s the most unimaginably wonderful film you’ll see this year. Really. If you haven’t seen it yet, then stop reading this post right now and book a ticket. It’s basically a family road trip movie, but deals with depression and suicide and death, and is hilariously funny even [...]

Sam Brown of Explodingdog writes an extended love-letter to his ancient, and astonishingly beaten up Powerbook G4. (I know that sounds boring, but go and read it, it’s pretty funny.)
Bizarrely, I’m writing this on an almost identical model and vintage powerbook, which has held up remarkably well, but I guess it’s had a consideraby easier [...]

LogicCamera.com published a list of the 10 most frequently used cameras on Flickr, which I find sort of fascinating. It’s a fantastic little side-effect of the age of smart gadgets and the so-called information age.
Now that all of the electronic doodads we carry about with us are smart enough to know things about themselves and [...]

I don’t know if something has been lost in translation here, or the names in the text have been mixed up, but I’d love it if this article was correct and the guy did try to bite a panda:
Chinese tourist Zhang Xinyan lies in a hospital after being bitten on the leg by a panda [...]

Continuing a series of ‘things not to be swallowed whole’, here’s an article about a python which had to be moved off of a road in Malaysia by firemen after it swallowed an entire pregnant sheep.
(See also: Snake Vs Alligator)

A while back, my ancient CRT screen that I was using as a second monitor on my PC made that dreaded whummm noise that signals the departure from the land of the working. This wasn’t that big a deal, because the picture was pretty flaky anyway, and it was extremely old (I’d bought it second [...]

Following trials in Manchester, pubs in Angus are hoping to reduce late-night noise and violence by handing out free lollipops at chucking out time, under the hypotheses:

Lollipops are delicious.
It’s hard to act loud and macho whilst eating one.