2010-03-12

• Today (March 12, 2010) is the World Day Against Cyber Censorship: [1] (So, what can you do? Talking about it would be a good start…)
• And tonight marks the beginning of the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne, Australia: [2]
• Obama supports DNA sampling upon arrest: [3]
• So, what would happen if your name and face were plastered all over Facebook as a child killer – and it wasn't true? [4]
• French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment: [5]
• This school would rather shut down its senior prom than let a lesbian take her date there: [6]
• The Vatican blasts a Rome high school (figuratively, not literally) for installing condom vending machines: [7]
• Ancient Peruvian sex rituals on display in Paris: [8]
• Swedish artist who drew one of the Forbidden Muhammad Cartoons says, "I don't want to mock Islam, I want to mock all religions:" [9] (Time to get this guy a SubGenius membership, before he's killed.)
• The ZeuS botnet software keeps getting better: [10]
• How your Twitter account could land you in jail: [11]
• The FBI supply chain, illustrated: [12]
• Banking on private prisons: [13]
• Nepal to ban smoking in public places: [14]
• Massachusetts Senate passes a bill to crack down on school bullies and "cyber bullying:" [15]
• Meanwhile, Massachusetts' Supreme Court overturns the case of a guy who was convicted of "intending to email-nude pictures of himself" to a teenage girl (who was actually a police officer): [16]
• 119 broadcast clichés in one sentence: [17]
• Pink Floyd wins lawsuit against its record label, which means that soon you won't be able to download individual Pink Floyd songs (legally) – only full albums or nothing: [18] (That even includes "Shine On You Crazy Diamond.")
• News flash – Internet censorship is getting smarter: [19]
• After 50 years, scientists have figured out why thalidomide babies were born without limbs: [20]
• Dutch nurses to patients – "Please stop asking us for sex:" [21]
• You may use Google Maps to go places, but you may not want to use Google Bike Maps just yet: [22]
• Federal appeals court in San Francisco upholds the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency: [23]
• Silent Hunter V recalled in Germany over Nazi symbols: [24]
• Man sues airline for not looking at his scrotum: [25]
• US Fish and Wildlife Service looks for a ban on importing giant snakes into the country: [26]
• "What an excellent day for an exorcism:" [27]
• Next Sunday (March 21) will see the largest vintage paperback book fair in the world: [28]
• Texas education board refuses to require religious-freedom lesson: [29]
• London witchcraft bookshop saved as if by magic: [30]
• Miami cult leader requires his followers to drink snail mucus: [31]
• "Psychic" gizmo reads your mind: [32]
• Here's a surprise…Madonna’s Raising Malawi charity has a paper trail now that leads it right back to the Kabbalah Centre: [33]

Picture of the moment:

• If Transformers had sex with trucks, this would be the result: [34]