2010-07-30

• White House pushes for warrantless access to Internet records: [1]
• YouTube censors lesbian kiss: [2]
• Arizona allows concealed weapons without a permit: [3]
• Aussie authorities hope to get an Internet pornography ban law into effect, soon: [4]
• Check out what happened to that guy who was arrested for taking pictures of Amtrak trains for an Amtrak-sponsored photo contest: [5]
• A 77-foot-tall cross is erected in Kerrville, Texas, at a cost of $2 million: [6]
• 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the NC-17 movie rating, which is still the kiss of death for any motion picture: [7]
• Big businesses download Facebook user torrent: [8]
• U.S. ducks as cluster bomb ban takes effect: [9]
• Theme park bans sex in their hotels: [10]
• It's now legal to wear those stupid saggin' pants: [11]
• India court declares a woman has not been raped, if further sexual acts are consensual: [12]
• UK bans R4 cards, making Nintendo DS pirating doubly illegal: [13]
• The cruel life of child witches in Africa: [14]
• And a not exactly unrelated case, Congo infants are raped in black magic rituals: [15]
• Anne Rice quits Christianity because she can't stand the politics: [16]
• News flash – people are using the iPhone 4 for porn: [17] (…you put a video camera in that thing and you're surprised at the result?)
• Malaysia – "No sex please, we are online:" [18]
• Gay pride march in Jerusalem angers Orthodox Jews: [19]
• Chilean cardinal compares homosexuality to not having a foot, hand, or eye: [20]
• Taliban will behead informers who have been revealed following the explosive disclosure by Wikileaks: [21]
• Hugo Chavez hurts worldwide sales of toothpaste and makeup: [22]
• Sex boosts brain growth, despite the way all those men act: [23]
• Ladies, you need to listen to what Christian guys tell you to wear: [24]
• More women becoming virgins again with hymen replacement operations: [25]
• Four white South Africans fined for racist abuse video: [26]
• Death penalty book author defiant in Singapore: [27]
• WWF says sorry to Saudi Arabia over vandalism: [28]
• Copyright getting in the way of preserving video game history: [29]
• Vatican crackdown on bare-kneed tourists sparks hypocrisy claims: [30]
• Saudi mother says Indian cult brainwashed son: [31]
• Cash-strapped Miami approves 500-foot-tall billboards: [32]

Picture of the moment:

• Condom ad from Argentina that would never see the light of day in the US: [33]
• Uganda's first action movie: [34]
• Rev. Ankara writes, "In a neverending quest to find the worst music of all time, I believe I have discovered a winner in the bad auto-tune category. THIS THING WILL FESTER ON YOUR KNOBS AND BURN OUT YOUR KEEN GLAND." [35]

2010-07-29

• The incredibly racist Tea Party Comix: [1]
• Federal judge blocks key provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law: [2]
• New Jersey public library removes all copies of Revolutionary Voices: A Multiculture Queer Youth Anthology because the library director thinks it's child pornography: [3]
• Android phone wallpaper app that steals your data has been downloaded millions of times: [4]
• Beer laced with cheese helps sexual performance: [5]
• Every black hole may hold a hidden universe: [6]
• Oakland, California approves large-scale pot farms: [7]
• Ninja mums urge women to take back the streets: [8]
• Tokyo officials visit the world's oldest man on his 111th birthday and find he's been dead for three decades: [9]
• Russian court orders ISPs to block YouTube and the Internet Archive over racist video: [10]
• 60-year-old man from Northampton is banned from dressing as a schoolgirl: [11]
• Vietnam restricts online games because kids are robbing and killing to get the money to play: [12]
• 57 illegal immigrants have died in the deserts of Arizona in July, so far: [13]
• Disabled man eaten to death by maggots: [14]
• BP is releasing fake photos of its "crisis command center:" [15]
• The ACLU files a Freedom of Information Act request for the FBI to release its data on tracking Muslims in the United States: [16]
• Those leaked military documents reveal that yes, the government really was concerned about exposing its soldiers to depleted uranium: [17]
• Anti-Islamic bus ads appear in several major cities: [18]
• Santa Claus has some not-so-nice things to say about Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church: [19]
• Researcher exposes a massive automated check counterfeiting operation out of Russia: [20]
• Keene, New Hampshire topless protests expose nudity regulations: [21]
• All terrorists are Muslims…except for the 94% that aren't: [22]
• If you borrow half a million dollars to start your own church and then skip out with the money, do you really think you can get away by moving to Texas? [23]
• Georgia wildlife preserve sees the birth of a zedonk, a zebra-donkey hybrid: [24]
• CNN asks the hard-hitting question, "Does watching porn make it harder to have sex with a real life person?" [25]
• More wonderful Christian tolerance for gays from the National Organization for Marriage: [26]
• India teacher is beaten to death by an angry mob for making a homemade porn film with one of his students: [27]
• French couple arrested on charges of secretly murdering their newborn baby…from eight separate pregnancies: [28]
• Hamas bans lingerie displays in the Gaza Strip: [29]
• Dragon's Call censored in China: [30]
• Blackberry may be banned in India due to its strong encryption: [31]
• The Jordan River is too polluted for religious pilgrims to be baptized there: [32]
• White House orders the EPA to stop censoring employees: [33]
• The Church of Scientology does not want you to see L. Ron Hubbard's woman-hatin' book chapter: [34]
• Battling accusations of child witchcraft in Africa: [35]
• Wild offshore parties banned in California: [36]
• Michigan middle school parents outraged over a book with Naughty Words on the reading list for summer: [37]
• Factory explodes in Nanjing, China, killing 10; officials try to censor it: [38]
• San Antonio man convicted of stabbing and beheading three young children in 2003: [39]
• The Facebook page for the High Weirdness Project now has a new "Wiki" tab, with links directly to the wiki site: [40]

Picture of the moment:

• X-Day photos on the SubGenius Web site: [41] (Rev. Ivan Stang writes, "If there are any pictures on there that breach anyone's personal security, let me know and I'll remove them.")
• Coathanger Christ: [42]

2010-07-28

• "Save the date" – Jesus Christ returns on May 21, 2011: [1]
• Utah Supreme Court overturns FLDS (the "polygamist Mormon cult") leader Warren S. Jeffs’ convictions on rape as an accomplice and sends his case back for a new trial: [2]
• If passed, House Resolution 5741 will give the President the power to require two years of compulsory service from every US resident between ages 18 and 42: [3]
• Russian prosecutors open criminal proceedings against Scientology: [4]
• You have the right to photograph federal buildings, as long as you don't actually try to do it: [5]
• Rape charges dropped after messages recovered from iPhone: [6]
• Russian cop with cajones posts video to YouTube exposing police corruption, resulting in ten minutes that shook the world: [7]
• The US House of Representatives passes a bill against "libel tourism," which protects US writers from being sued for libel in other countries: [8]
• Can the Kindle bypass Chinese government censorship? [9]
• Scientists say the Taliban can't train monkeys to shoot US soldiers with machine guns: [10]
• Orthodox priest accidentally drowns baby during baptism: [11]
• Five-year-old boy wins defamation lawsuit against UK supermarket: [12]
• Colorado bat caves closed to prevent humans from spreading deadly fungus to bats: [13]
• As the saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows: [14]
• Defendant – "12? But she looked 16"…and the judge agrees: [15]
• Sex toy retailer pumps $100,000 into California marijuana push: [16]
• The federal government is spending approximately $434,000 to develop a video game aimed at helping pre-teen girls resist peer pressure to have sex: [17]]
• A blog especially for exposing the truth – that the CIA killed John Lennon: [18]
• Researchers explore the link between oral sex and cancer: [19]
• An entire detective squad in the French city of Grenoble is on leave after officers receive death threats: [20]
• Massachusetts Legislature approves a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote: [21]
• The hidden dimensions of science versus religion: [22]
• California anti-mosque protests urge people to bring dogs to protests, because Muslims hate dogs: [23]
• Lutherans ordain seven gay pastors: [24]
• More proof that Chuck Norris is an idiot, and screw the Internet meme: [25]
• BBC Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson sparks outrage by claiming Muslim women wear kinky G-strings under their burqas: [26] (…because this has everything to do with sexy cars.)
• Malaysian court punishes 12 Muslims for illegally protesting the construction of a Hindu temple and parading a severed cow's head: [27]
• The National Association for Marriage's gay-hating city-by-city bus tour: [28] (It doesn't help that the group's initials make one think, "om nom nom nom"…)
• Porn motherlode unearthed from San Francisco work computers: [29]
• Bullfighting is banned in Spain (Catalonia) for the first time: [30]
• Chinese censors attempt to wipe out news of protests on Internet forums: [31]
• Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde is banned from operating the site: [32]
• Family Research Council using fraudulent pamphlet in anti-gay ad: [33]

Picture of the moment:

• Scientific tattoos:
  [34] (I like the one of the moon.)

2010-07-27

• Saturday, August 7th – the Cleveland Freethinkers hold their August Roundtable with Rev. Ivan Stang: [1]
• UK politicians are ready to hand sweeping Big Brother powers to EU states so they can spy on British citizens: [2]
• Publishers announce that classic children's author Enid Blyton's books (Faraway Tree) will be re-edited to make the dialogue more "modern:" [3]
• Porn stories mysteriously disappear from Apple's "iBooks" bestseller list: [4]
• Los Angeles organic food grocery store is raided by armed officers with guns drawn, to seize illegal jugs of raw milk: [5]
• "Privacy expert" crusading against Wal-Mart's RFID tags: [6]
• We humans can mind-meld, too: [7]
• The biggest US banks are laundering hundreds of billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels: [8]
• Director Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, many others) defends Hitler and rants against the Jewish-controlled media: [9]
• Malaysia's reality show that follows the contest for a new Islamic leader is very popular: [10]
• Pedophiles rejoice – MySpace desperately tries to rebuild its market by going for a "younger audience:" [11] (Actual quote: "We are pregnant with product…")
• Angry cows attack walkers in French Pyrenees: [12]
• Russian Satanists jailed for "ritual sacrifice" teen killings: [13]
• Christian Peacemaker Team in Hebron: [14]
• Adbusters (anyone remember them?) wants to expand Buy Nothing Day to an entire week this November: [15]
• The US Air Force opens its own "cyber schoolhouse:" [16]
• British Airways to argue that cheap Carribean flights are a human right: [17]
• This kid dressed up as the Joker, set his school on fire, then stayed and filmed it for YouTube while waiting for the cops to arrive: [18]
• Serial cult rapist Michael Lyons (a.k.a. Mohan Singh) may have raped dozens of women around the world: [19]
• Russia says Scientology is "extremism:" [20]
• Meanwhile, the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee calls Islam a cult: [21]
• EFF wins, Apple loses – jailbreaking the iPhone is now legal: [22]
• China bans artificial flavors in baby food: [23]
• Censorship – what do school library specialists really know? [24]
• Aussie pagan drags a police officer behind her car for 190 meters…and is then accused of being a witch: [25]
• Russia considers adopting chemical castration for pedophiles: [26]
• What do you do if you find out your son is gay? This probably isn't it: [27]
• "Rush Limbaugh"-like televangelists are on the rise in India: [28]
• First full face transplant patient appears in public in Spain: [29]
• Christian student sues Augusta State University (Georgia) because she's too open-mouthed (and insert-footed) about her views on homosexuality: [30]
• "Want to see the Pope? Give us money first:" [31]
• East Africa – it's so scary, religious fanatics won't spare even the capital: [32]
• UK graveyard charges Muslims less for burial plots: [33]

Picture of the moment:

• The eight weirdest radioactive products that people really used: [34]
• Just to mess with people's minds – a Chick-like tract made in an entirely fake language. Print it out, leave it in various places, and watch as people try to figure out what it means: [35]
• The ultimate drawbridge prank: [36]

2010-07-26

• Wikileaks releases over 75,000 confidential files related to the war in Afghanistan: [1]
• Finally, a victory against the Digital Millennium Copyright Act – you can legally break DRM unless you are doing so "in order to violate copyright law:" [2]
• Aussie hackers crack Hell's Pizza customer database: [3]
• Police forces are trying out Minority Report-style crime prediction software: [4]
• 1-year-old in Chicago tests positive for PCP and cocaine: [5]
• BP hires prison labor to clean up the oil spill: [6]
• Take a look at Kaleidoscope, the Firefox browser anti-censorship plug-in: [7] (Download the plug-in here: [8])
• Children are being accused of witchcraft…in the UK: [9]
• Tesla electric cars have a long way to go before you see them at your local dealer: [10]
• The latest televangelist sex scandal – Benny Hinn may be gettin' fruitful with Paula White: [11]
• DC Circuit court approves the use of "In God We Trust" on US currency: [12]
• The new SCADA worm is attacking Iran, hard: [13] (Iran to accuse the US of "cyber warfare" in 3…2…1…)
• Chatroulette is getting tired of all the guys flashing their teenie weenie peenies to minors: [14]
• Town of Elmhurst, Illinois considers outlawing eye-rolling ( ): [15]
• A plan to use giant dirigibles to curb global warming: [16]
• Aliens attack Bosnian man's home with meteorites: [17]
• Alabama law makes it tougher for teachers to have sex with students: [18]
• PETA is for wimps. You think vegan-only activism is tough in the US? Try doing it in the Middle East: [19]
• Visit this porn shop in Uniontown, Indiana and these busy-body Christians will take pictures of you and post them online: [20] (So, what would happen if a bunch of people went there especially to be photographed?)
• UK "equalities minister" (what?) offers advice on how to combat anorexia – "all women should aspire for hourglass size 14 figures:" [21]
• The first Cambodian official to be convicted of the "killing fields" massacres of the 1970s will serve only 19 years in prison – apparently because he found Christ and became a born-again Christian: [22]
• Leader of the Islamic movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, begins a five-month jail sentence for spitting on a border police guard – this will end well: [23]
• That email you get from Amazon.com about your shipment might be fake: [24]
• NXIVM cult activities in Albany, New York: [25]
• UK might expand its TV licenses to include the iPad: [26]
• Dozens of Israeli rabbis oppose fellow rabbi's arrest for publishing a book: [27]
• United Arab Emirates plans to restrict Blackberry phones: [28]
• Michael Jackson had a secret collection of Nazi documentaries: [29]
• The latest comic-book-to-movie adaptation – Will Eisner's A Contract With God: [30]
• Pentagon officials use government computers to access child porn: [31]
• It looks as though the Psychic Twins have competition in Korea: [32]
• Beware, those evil terrorist Muslims are out to stop American law enforcement: [33]
• And a Florida candidate for elected office wants to bar Muslims from holding public office: [34]
• Dumbass in Florida signs gives his motel away to a shyster who convinced him that it had a voodoo curse: [35]
• Muslims party on in Malaysia despite religious crackdown: [36]
• White supremacists plan immigration rally in downtown Knoxville: [37] (What, you mean there are white supremacists in Tennessee?)
• Before travelling to Italy, it might be a good idea to brush up on their tourist laws…all 150 of them: [38]

Picture of the moment:

• What happened when the Westboro Baptist Church picketed Comic-Con: [39]
• How the Brooklyn Public Library has responded to book challenges: [40]

2010-07-25

• Pioneering pagan Isaac Bonewits is in the terminal stages of cancer, alas, so his fellow pagans will be performing a fund-raising ritual for him on Monday, July 26: [1] (His medical bills are staggering.)
• Tired of going to church on Sundays? This priest is going to be giving Holy Communion over Twitter: [2]
• There's a hidden snake game on YouTube. Pause any video, then press and hold the left arrow button on your keyboard: [3]
• There's oil in the air around the Gulf of Mexico now: [4]
• 150 to 200 women are killed in India every year after being branded as witches: [5]
• So here's a story of a man in Dubai arrested for practicing witchcraft: [6]
• Your Barbie doll can now double as a secret spy camera: [7]
• The documentary Gasland, an expose of the natural gas industry, is on the Web: [8]
• Pope coins given as change in Vatican City: [9]
• South Korea's government adopts guidelines regarding the termination of artificial life support for terminally ill patients: [10]
• Insult the French flag and face a 1,500 euro fine: [11]
• Saudi cleric declares it's okay for women to uncover their faces in areas where the burqa is banned: [12]
• What the skeptical world needs – a skeptic with her own YouTube channel who takes on pseudosecience, creationism, and other morons…and she's a smokin' hot babe, too: [13] (Be sure to check out her promo for her e-book, The Unreasonable God: [14])
• Openly gay Aussie politician says she agrees with her party’s opposition to same-sex marriage: [15]
• That can't be any more stupid than the other Aussie politician running for office on an anti-Muslim platform: [16]
• 15 dead in stampede at Germany's Love Parade: [17]
• Father and son are kicked off a Canadian airline for watching a video of the September 11, 2001 attacks: [18]
• Movie with a menstruating ghost stirs up controversy in Indonesia: [19]
• Professional bicycle racers fork over 35 euros for quack gadget: [20]
• A rant that rips the cult of Ayn Rand a new one, from the author of Going Postal: [21]
• Bogus "Obama Mom" ads lure students: [22]
• Facebook removes its "Most Recent" news feed option for some users: [23]
• CNN anchors say bloggers should be held responsible for lying about people on the Internet: [24]
• Cranston, Rhode Island high school decides to remove a prayer banner that's been hanging there for 52 years…guess what happens next: [25]
• Creationism logic at its finest – not only was the world created by God, but you can't have sex with robots, either: [26]
• Pregnant man is about to become a father for the third time: [27]
• Burger King ad is banned, because the burger in the ad is bigger than the real burger: [28]
• Australian Senate censors linked to a political cartoon they don't like: [29]
• Priests in gay clubs further embarrass the Catholic Church: [30]
• India unveils prototype for a $35 touch-screen computer: [31]
• Psychic detective to search for mum missing for 50 years: [32]
• Left Behind author Tim LaHaye, and his latest end-times-fiction co-author, accuse the Obama administration of killing religious freedom: [33]
• Benny Hinn and the National Enquirer: [34]
• Nerd rage has been taken to a whole new level: [35]
• UFC pay-per-view pirates beware: [36]
• Web troll harvests copyright violators to boost newspaper profits: [37]
• Connecticut's Attorney General backs a ban on violent video games: [38]
• Christians in Vietnam say the government is behind a recent mob attack on a home-based Christian ministry: [39]

Picture of the moment:

• Tater Gumfries writes, "Give this gal a membership and a rant at X-Day 14:" [40]
• Jesus buys his siding in Oklahoma City: [41]
• Back away from the desk, please…[42]
• Classic censorship from 1952 – when Disney censored Donald Duck #52: [43]

2010-07-24

• There's a huge sunspot on the Sun that is so large, it can be seen with the naked eye (but don't try!): [1]
• The result of a some very nasty infighting in the pagan publishing world has resulted in a Facebook group called Pagans Against Plagiarism: [2]
• Saudi man keeps his son in the basement for years because he's possessed by an evil female djinni: [3]
• New crazy on the radar: [4]
• Here's why it's a bad idea to have elections for judges – this election campaign involves being sworn in with the phrase "so help me God:" [5]
• A new documentary, Holy Wars, follows a danger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Muslim Irish convert, both of whom believe their religion will ultimately rule the worldHoly Wars, [6]
• Virgin Galactic may be selling tickets by autumn: [7]
• It might be a good idea not to go to the hospital in July: [8]
• Missouri has her top pulled down and shown on Girls Gone Wild, but she still loses her lawsuit: [9]
• Not the best vacation ever – you pay these folks to live the experience being kidnapped: [10]
• Wal-Mart uses radio ID tags to track its clothing: [11]
• Road kill squirrels and beer at bargain prices: [12]
• The Yes Men use BitTorrent to avoid censorship: [13]
• Booksellers oppose Massachusetts law that extends censorship on the Web: [14]
• Angry computer expert attacks Scientologist during their stress test: [15]
• The Vatican is launching an Inquisition against nuns: [16]
• New Jersey ACLU open records requests show book removal decisions history: [17]
• Wikipedia revisionism by Israeli pressure groups: [18] (Note the keyword "Zionist" in this screed…)
• Scientologists prosecuted in Russia for hatemongering: [19]
• Alex Jones' infowars.com is censored in Greece: [20]
• Corporate Web filters are blocking the Australian Sex Party: [21] (Then again, when you see their Web site, you'll know why: [22])
• Another problem with the way sex offenders are handled today: [23]
• Oh, wait, here's another sex offender story: [24] (I'm expecting the complaint about how I'm promoting pedophiles any minute, now…)
• TV Guide to produce a "special" on the history of sex on TV: [25]
• As if mutilating young girls for life with "female circumcision" isn't enough, teenage girls in Africa are also subjected to "breast ironing:" [26]
• Dead Taliban commander threatens to come back from the dead: [27]
• UFO near White House emits ray of light – horseplay, false flag or "socially destabilizing" event?: [28]
• Big Mexican women are helping Afghan solders go AWOL in the US: [29]
• Exorcist blames possessions on Wicca, ouija boards, and Twilight: [30]
• Black woman runs for Wisconsin office, and her campaign slogan is censored – "Not The White Man's Bitch:" [31]
• UK's Feminist Party received a 100,000 donation and promptly burns it all: [32]
• World's oldest sex toy is discovered: [33]
• Congress tries again to ban animal cruelty videos: [34]
• Reverend DJ 2B, SubGenius techno artist, is included on the new charity CD Dubsteppers for Haiti: [35]
  

Picture of the moment:

• The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense: [36]

2010-07-23

• Here's what happens when you use Australia's Freedom of Information laws to obtain government documents on its plans to spy on Aussie Internet users: [1]
• Never mind the sex bots, here's the real new development – robots that poop: [2]
• Virus writers are picking up new Microsoft attack: [3]
• Warning – sitting too much can kill you: [4]
• The natural gas industry tries to debunk the documentary Gasland: [5]
• New Zealand Christian school ordered to pay compensation after firing gay sports coach: [6]
• God smites mutant horses: [7]
• "We're not trying to scare you, parents, but your children can get this legal drug called K2:" [8]
• German teacher takes girl to court for drawing rabbits: [9]
• Microsoft admits that the Xbox 360 with Kinect "could" allow virtual sex apps: [10]
• Thanks to the person who pointed this out – "Go to the National Socialist Movement (US) Web page, and click 'blog'…WTF is that?" [11]
• Even Italy has gay priests: [12]
• Woman in 911 call says she strangled her autistic children: [13]
• Baltimore's Office of Promotion and the Arts considers legal action against rapper Wale for using profanities during his show: [14]
• Congo's children battle witchcraft accusations: [15]
• Last year they predicted the Internet would run out of IP addresses in 2010…okay, it's been extended to 2011: [16]
• Protest planned against "Americans for Truth" anti-gay workshop: [17]
• Indonesia moves to block porn Web sites for Ramadan: [18]
• Pissing off a movie critic by claiming copyright over a video review: [19]
• Circumcision won't prevent HIV in gays: [20]
• Racist bestiality enthusiast joins fight against "Ground Zero mosque:" [21]
• News flash – most torrents break copyright: [22]
• Iraqi province to crack down on clerics who call down the wrath of Allah on their enemies: [23]
• Thousands of British oysters have contracted herpes: [24] (That's "oysters" as in "shellfish"…)
• Israel refuses to stop using internationally banned phosphorus bombs: [25]
• Head of the American Association of Professors accused BP of trying to buy the silence of scientists and academics to protect itself: [26]
• There was Ubuntu Satanic Edition, now there's Ubuntu Muslim Edition: [27]
• Sonme Internet porn sites are now accessible in China: [28]
• Priest in trouble for giving Communion to a dog: [29]
• Two Muslim women marched out of swimming pool in French holiday village because they were wearing burkinis: [30]
• I'm sorry, but there are some thing I just won't do for my brother: [31]
• Sex makes you smarter, so how about virtual sex? [32]
• Gulf oil spill workers complain about BP's floating hotels: [33]

Picture of the moment:

• Beware, 4chan – it looks as though the Church of the SubGenius has its very own chan board: [34] (Extremely not safe for work!)
• Worst town name…ever? [35]
• Buy these stickers if you want to be given "special" attention at the airport: [36]
• More fun with vintage ads: [37]

2010-07-22

• Florida church to commemorate 9/11 by burning Qu'rans: [1] (Their Facebook page: [2])
• Hundreds of National Guard troops to be deployed to the US-Mexico border: [3]
• Buy vodka and support fair international trade: [4]
• Dell ships motherboard with malicious code: [5]
• New "Kraken" GSM-cracking software is released: [6]
• Computer expert remains jailed three weeks after arrest at G20 protest: [7]
• The Tea Party falls for a fake story in The Onion: [8]
• Game warriors – the Ministry of Peace wants you: [9]
• Lobbyists push for the use of deadly asbestos in developing nations: [10]
• Florida dengue fever outbreak leads back to CIA and Army experiments: [11]
• Canada anarchists under police surveillance: [12]
• 4chan's /b/ turns SFW: [13]
• Cry on a YouTube video and get invited to Good Morning America: [14]
• Archeologists find a second henge buried at Stonehenge: [15]
• Gulf Oil Spill cocktail recipe: [16]
• Pabst Blue Ribbon is classy and expensive in China: [17]
• 150 people (mostly children) stung by jellyfish on New Hampshire beach: [18]
• Transsexual makes it as French Vogue cover girl: [19]
• CEO of a $150 million Atlanta bank is shot dead by cops who find him masturbating in the middle of the woods: [20]
• Google pledges to obey China's censorship laws and stop automatically switching mainland users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site: [21]
• Videotaping cops can get you arrested: [22]
• Buddhist Bhutan proposes a law outlawing conversions to other religions: [23]
• Brazilian televangelist to build a $200 million mega-church replica of Solomon's Temple: [24]
• Nigerian lawsuit claims ban on child marriage restricts Muslim' religious freedom: [25]
• First edition of Oscar Wilde's banned play to go up for auction at $45,000 (for starters): [26]
• American Family Association to boycott Home Depot for exposing children to homosexuality: [27]
• Muslims in Malaysia ban "devil" Manchester United T-shirts: [28]
• Dubai student sentenced to prison for homosexuality: [29]
• Lesbians seek U.S. help amid Ugandan crackdown: [30]
• China pressure forces UN censor of artwork, artists enraged: [31]
• Man who threatened South Park for insulting Muhammad is arrested for something else: [32]
• A review of all the clubs who have banned, allowed, or ignored vuvuzelas: [33]
• Sexy Playboy ladies completely censored in Dead Rising 2: [34]
• The Times of London changes its Web site to pay-only, losing 90% of its readership: [35]
• Psychic detective to work on decade-old murder case: [36]

(Hat tip to the Smygo mailing list, which served as the source for several of today's stories.)

Picture of the moment:

• Modern claddagh ring: [37]

2010-07-21

• Mozilla – "Find a bug in our browser and we'll pay you $3,000!" Google Chrome – "Oh yeah? We'll pay you more!" [1]
• Online casino glitch lets players use others' money: [2]
• Australia's Sex Party platform includes euthanasia, decriminalising all drugs for personal use, and watering down strict anti-pornography laws…sign me up: [3]
• Disinformation pulls "Bob" out of their ass once again: [4]
• The ten most horrifying, absurd things in the GOP's campaign platforms: [5]
• Mallrat-fashion clothing chain Forever 21 starts its very own teen pregnancy maternity line: [6]
• Israeli Arab man convicted of rape after posing as a Jew to seduce a woman: [7]
• Apparently, posting videos of yourself dancing with a surgical mask on is the thing to do for Japanese girls these days: [8]
• The Chinese are making cheap copies of everything from MP3 players to…combat fighter jets: [9]
• Black parents give birth to white child: [10]
• Australian censor bans gay zombie porn: [11]
• Internet censors' long history of playing the porn card: [12]
• Facebook bans man for dating too many Facebook members: [13]
• Spain rejects proposal to ban the burqa: [14]
• In defense of modern Satanism: [15]
• Scientology's new enemy – Twitter: [16]
• For a cost of only $99, you too can fight in the war against the evil homosexual agenda in America: [17]
• Do you live near Charlotte, Texas? For rest of this week, you're going to have some fun entertainment: [18]
• Poland comes out and admits, "Yes, we look at porn:" [19]
• Gay coach sacked from Christian school in New Zealand: [20]
• India court refuses to block release of Bollywood's Once Upon a Time in Mumbai: [21]
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez exhumes the corpse of Simon Bolivar to prove conspiracy theory: [22]
• 10-year-old girl posts a YouTube video of herself playing Charlie Chaplin, to raise money for a children's hospice…and here come the copyright cops: [23]
• More politics and infighting at Wikileaks: [24]
• Circumcision campaigns are rolling out in Africa to prevent HIV infections: [25]
• Blind football ad upsets a lot of prudes: [26]
• British Columbia newspaper is running a 5-part series excerpted from Marci McDonald's The Armegeddon Factor on how the Christian right is building political power in Canada: [27]
• World’s first pirate ISP launches in Sweden: [28]
• China's plan to use the Internet for propaganda: [29]
• Pirate radio station plan for uncensored news in Fiji: [30]
• Opposition newspaper confiscated in Tunisia: [31]
• For the first time, Israel is blocking Internet gambling sites: [32]
• Devoutly Islamic Indonesian province expels three Americans on suspicion they were proselytizing: [33]
• Lesbian teen banned from her high school prom gets a $35,000 settlement: [34]
• Quantum time machine lets you travel to the past without worrying about the Grandfather Paradox: [35]
• As the modern world homogenizes everyone and makes them "normal," the custom of tribal scarring of children is disappearing: [36]
• Parents force their 12-year-old kid into the full-body scanner at a Florida airport: [37]

Picture of the moment:

• (Warning – Not Safe For Work) – "…and you thought you'd seen fucked up porn?" [38]

2010-07-20

• The reason why the US government shut down 73,000 blogs at blogetery.com? Al-Qaeda was posting on one of them: [1]
• A mystery trader has bought up all of the cocoa in Europe: [2]
• Get ready, the U.S. Copyright Group is readying its lawsuits against BitTorrent users: [3]
• The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office removes its newly-created category that allowed people to patent and trademark their medical marijuana: [4]
• Link courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine – Determination of Human Penile Electrical Resistance and Implication on Safety for Electrosurgery of Penis: [5]
• Ninja theme park…or rather, "athletic park"…opens in China: [6]
• New York City places restrictions on art vendors selling paintings, photos, books and sculptures in public parks: [7]
• Oklahoma's November ballot will include a state Constitutional amendment to bar the courts' use of sharia law: [8] (But of course, the Bible is perfectly okay…)
• Death be not a bummer – 23 cheerful ditties about murder, death, and the apocalypse: [9]
• Indonesia may forbid Muslims from drinking the coffee extracted from the dung of a civet cat, because it is unclean: [10]
• Islamic face veils banned at universities in…Syria? [11]
• What's the biggest Christian nation in the world? Soon it will be China: [12]
• EU to hold atheist and Freemason summit: [13]
• In October, Scotland's new Sexual Offences aAt will go into effect, requiring you to get permission before "communicating with someone sexually:" [14]
• Georgia softens its sex offender laws so that 13,000 sex offenders can live and work wherever they want: [15]
• California proposition to ban divorce is now official, all it needs is 700,000 petition signatures: [16]
• This guy beat his stepfather to death because he believed the guy had been telepathically molesting his daughter: [17]
• Massachusetts becomes the first state in the nation to ban de-barking surgery on dogs: [18]
• Sweden's new education law restricts confessional schools and homeschooling: [19]
• Dutch ISPs don't have to censor The Pirate Bay: [20]
• Welsh councilor in trouble for calling Scientology "stupid" on Twitter: [21] (News flash – Scientology is stupid.)
• Tehran's Evin Prison – books banned, drugs allowed: [22]
• Sign up for the National Vapers Network, for "use of personal vaporisers (including electronic cigarettes):" [23]
• Young Indian boy commits suicide after being caned: [24]
• They're still banning vuvuzelas, even though the World Cup is over: [25]
• Scientology – a masked branch of Masonic Judaism: [26] (Sorry for running two Scientology stories in one day, but I couldn't pass this one up…)
• China officials rein in a vulgar reality TV show for promoting materialism and talking openly about sex: [27]
• Burqa babes battle ban with music: [28]
• A news story on child witch hysteria, entitled "Troubled Souls," airs in South Africa: [29]
• A new tool for all of you suspicious spouses, concerned companies, and law enforcement officials – the $100 porn detection stick: [30]
• Banned Family Guy abortion episode will be released on DVD in September: [31]
• 4chan's sad war to silence Gawker: [32]
• German mudslide caused by secret underground Nazi death gas factory: [33]
• Coca Cola apologizes for Facebook porn message: [34]
• The perils of eating fire in Saudi Arabia: [35]
• Amazon says e-books are outselling hardcover books: [36]
• China sounds alarm over filthy cooking oil: [37]
• News flash – Malaysian teens like porn: [38]
• And these marketing guys were paid to come up with the idea that a real-life parachuting donkey was a good idea for an advertisement: [39]
• Upset Pakistanis debate the name "Pornistan:" [40]
• Disney releases a free Tron game as a promo for its upcoming Tron Legacy movie: [41]
• Fringe candidate to protest the homosexual agenda in South Florida: [42]

Picture of the moment:

• Worst…or best…baby photo ever: [43]

2010-07-19

• The latest viral video (of 11-year-old "Kerligirl13" crying while her dad yells at the people trolling her on the Internet) is so popular, its star has been placed under police protection due to "death threats" from 4chan: [1] (Picture a death threat from 4chan… )
• Witch hunter Helen Ukpabio continues to attack her Internet critics, with a new Web site especially to slander them: [2] (Funny, the Religious Freedom Watch site does the same thing…)
• Feds shut down 73,000 blogs as the site blogetery.com goes dark: [3] (Also: [4])
• Custody battle in a Kansas court – the husband is a Muslim, the wife is a Jehovah's Witness: [5]
• Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle declares she was called by God to run for Senate: [6]
• Damn vulnerable Linux – the most vulnerable and exploitable operating system ever: [7]
• This guy really, really loved animals: [8] (And no, not that way, but evidently he was just as whacked out…)
• Oh boy, the Christmas shopping season gets underway in August: [9]
• An eight-year-old policy that forbids government contractors and employees to engage in sex trafficking in war zones has proved almost impossible to enforce: [10]
• The Unknown Highway stalker drama has long since gone over the edge: [11]
• An atheist food drive, to take place during Banned Books Week (September 27 to October 2): [12]
• Mississippi public radio drops Fresh Air with Terry Gross because it has too much sex talk: [13]
• Doctors are advising football fans who went to the World Cup in South Africa to check their HIV status if they had unprotected sex on their trip: [14]
• Witch School co-founder Ed Hubbard admits to being a member of the Illuminati: [15]
• News reporter takes water samples with oil from the Gulf of Mexico, and one sample explodes during testing: [16]
• Fictitious femme fatale fools government "cyber security" experts: [17]
• Psychoanalysts going overboard with analyses of cartoon characters and animated films: [18]
• Make a bomb in your kitchen for Allah or Jesus or whoever – simple methods of cooking up an explosion to wipe out the infidels: [19]
• Pakistan hires transgendered workers to shame tax delinquents: [20]
• Alex Jones drums up an audience for his The Obama Deception by claiming it's been censored: [21]
• Why do Anonymous geeks hate Scientologists? [22]
• Worldnet Daily sure hates it when Christian media are fined by the FCC: [23]
• 13 great books for gay teens: [24]
• Pakistani movie distributors want the banned comedy Tere Bin Laden before it hits the bootleg and pirate market: [25]
• British author of death penalty book held in Singapore: [26]
• Female Russian spy found guilty of espionage – and a US porn company wants her to do it on film: [27]
• Bodies the Exhibition, an exhibit of embalmed human bodies in plastic, may be banned in Seattle: [28]
• Poland hosts post-Communist Europe's first gay Euro-Pride parade: [29]
• First there was the documentary Trekkies, then came Ringers…now comes The Dungeon Masters: [30]
• UK Religious leaders urged to place solar panels on temples and church roofs: [31]
• Greek journalist gunned down by 20 bullets: [32]
• Nigerian officials call for protecting the children from online predators: [33] (Does that include Nigerian 419 scammers?)
• Irish shrine "The Knock" to petition the Vatican for acceptance that yes, it really does miraculously cure people: [34]
• Horse meat for human consumption goes on sale in Western Australia: [35] (Hey, if it's good enough for my dog…)
• Zimbabwe's dictator…I mean President Robert Mugabe supports polygamy: [36]
• Crackdown on Christians worsens in Uzbekistan: [37]

Picture of the moment:

• Dobbshead in porn…or at least, Dobbshead beside porn: [38]
• Man commits suicide (for real) by sliding down the face of the Hoover Dam: [39]

2010-07-18

(The domain www.mahagonny.com has scooped up the domain name www.bulldada.net and linked it directly to the Bulldada Newsblog: [1] I'm flattered that they would do this, but I have no idea who deserves the credit for it.)

• BP buys up environmental scientists to make its excuses for the Gulf oil spill sound reasonable: [2]
• Neo-Nazi leads vigilante Arizona border patrol -' "We'll kill them:" [3]
• Uzbekistan women claim a mass sterilization campaign by the government: [4]
• Indonesians find they've been praying towards Africa instead of Mecca, yet God hasn't smitten them: [5]
• Atheists blow each other: [6]
• Texas court orders the only Sikh temple in Austin to be torn down: [7]
• Bus driver sues after being fired for refusing to take women to Planned Parenthood: [8]
• The Washington Times warns us – "The Washington Post is exposing our national intelligence to terrorists:" [9]
• Wal-Mart runs radio ads urging Massachusetts voters to support repeal of law requiring price stickers on each item in a grocery store: [10]
• Anime geeks worldwide are saving their money for a ticket on this airline: [11]
• It seems like no matter where in the US you try to build a mosque, some local yokels get offended: [12]
• Porn shop on major business street decides to replace its wood-paneled storefront with clear glass windows…guess what happens next: [13]
• Idaho man sees the Mark of the Beast on his hand, so he cuts off his hand and microwaves it: [14]
• Aged 9,000 years, ancient beer finally hits the stores: [15]
• NFL player pleads guilty to assault, is ordered to undergo "human sexuality counseling:" [16]
• Hamas bans women from smoking water pipes in public: [17]
• Illegal immigration is a serious problem, and the (Israeli) government is looking into sending them to Europe and Africa: [18]
• Algerian prisoners choose mo’ Gitmo over going home: [19]
• Investigators declare that Satan cultists and cannibals were behind mysterious murders in 1970 where the victims' hearts were missing: [20]
• Female priests respond to the Vatican: [21]
• "Not that we're trying to scare you, but your children are in danger of becoming addicted to online porn:" [22]
• Imagine strip clubs minus nudity in America: [23]
• Porn stars accused of sledgehammer murder: [24]
• Still more on the CIA and its hate-on for Wikileaks: [25]
• Vaseline's Facebook app to promote its new face cream is accused of being racist: [26]
• Scientists discover the human sperm gene is 600 million years old: [27] (Suck it, creationists…)
• Gurkha soldier is flown back to the UK after hacking the head off a dead Taliban commander with his ceremonial knife to prove the dead man’s identity: [28]
• The mainstream media suddenly realize that the number of children accused of Witchcraft in Africa is increasing: [29]
• Court bans The Pirate Bay from The Netherlands (again): [30]
• People are shocked, shocked when a Google search "Vatican" brings up a link to a website called pedofilo.com, the Italian word for "paedophile:" [31]
• Muslim attack on Christian village in Nigeria kills eight: [32]
• Gamers – the classic Alien Swarm mod for Unreal Tournament is being released for free tomorrow (Monday, July 19): [33]
• They cast out demons and burn "witchcraft items," and they're taking over entire states: [34]
• Lady Gaga does the stupid thing and gives the Westboro Baptist Church the attention it craves: [35]
• The Taliban warn Afghan women, "leave your job or we'll cut off your head:" [36]

Picture of the moment:

• Archangel Mike writes, "Yay! I told a few of you folks about this at X-Day, and now here it is, available for pre-order. Lovecraftian sci-fi adventure! Super-science gone terribly wrong! Check it out: [37]"
• Rule 34 rears its ugly head once again: [38]
• "Do what you want" – exposing Satanism in society: [39]

2010-07-17

• Four kids struck by lightning at Bible camp: [1]
• An update to the saga of the rubber fetuses: [2]
• Obscenity charges are dropped against porn producer John Stagliano (Buttman): [3]
• A bunch of stupid atheists: [4]
• Who are the biggest consumers of porn? Religious conservatives: [5]
• Christians call for a painting to be removed from art show at California's Sacramento Law Library: [6]
• The Vatican officially issues its edict on "Grace Delicts," classifying major crimes including clergy sex abuse and ordination of women: [7]
• So you're hooked on H and you can't get a hit. What do you do? Inject yourself with your roommate's blood and get high on that: [8]
• The Billboard Wars continue to heat up – only this time instead of atheism, it's the right to die: [9]
• Bee attack is God's wrath against homosexuals: [10]
• Anti-Muslim Dutch lawmaker to spread his movement in the UK: [11]
• Hindus urge the Vatican to be more kind to Catholic women: [12]
• Hacker arrested for spying on schoolgirls via their own webcams: [13]
• Witchcraft story #1 – local provincial leader in Zambia sets up his own illegal prison especially to confine people suspected of practicing witchcraft: [14]
• Witchcraft story #2 – six women jailed for witchcraft in Cameroon: [15]
• Witchcraft story #3 – International Federation of Women Lawyers expresses concern about witchcraft in Ghana: [16]
• Pre-Buddhist Tibetan religious scriptures found: [17]
• Politics in India – woman politician summoned to appear before a panel and answer questions about her appearing in a 2007 election poster as the Goddess Durga: [18]
• Microsoft posts its unaired Family Guy Windows 7 clips: [19]
• Young women serving in the Israeli army kill the besieged people of Gaza by remote-controlled weapons like video games: [20] (The term "beseiged people of Gaza" shows that is a completely fair and unbiased article…)
• Feds look for Wikileaks founder at 2600's The Next Hope hacker con: [21]
• News flash – high heels can damage your legs: [22]
• Playboy might take over Penthouse: [23]
• And that "Dancing Auschwitz" video is yanked from YouTube because of…you guessed it…copyright: [24]
• Family Research Council issues special alert to terrify followers into donating more money: [25]
• Atari is finally going all-out and planning a whole series of remakes of its classic Atari 2600 games: [26]
• Girl seeks help through Facebook while being attacked: [27]
• Firefox comes to the iPhone, sort of: [28]
• Macedonian Constitution Court announces that citizens have a fundamental right to have sex: [29]
• Southeast Asian governments are censoring sex on the Internet in order to Protect The Children: [30]
• Young girl in St. Louis fights off cancer, and the Vatican comes calling to investigate a possible miracle: [31]
• The Washington Times (which is owned by the Unification Church, remember) declares homosexuals and Muslims to be radical groups: [32]

Picture of the moment:

• Bloody fetus cookies: [33]
• Secret X-Day pictures from Rev. Ivan Stang are posted to the newsgroup alt.binaries.slack: [34]
• Video from a Japanese horror goth concert: [35]
• Cute little Satan toys: [36]

2010-07-16

• Pressure from China and Taiwan force the Black Hat security con to cancel a talk on the "Chinese Cyber Army:" [1]
• Sexy PETA ad featuring Pamela Anderson gets banned in Canada: [2]
• Moonies get approval for a new burial site in the UK, even though no one wants them there: [3]
• Iran's President runs into trouble over neckties: [4]
• Nevada public health group cuts ties with church that continues to support Ugandan anti-gay pastor: [5]
• New law bans masturbating on international flights: [6]
• Louis C.K. gets NPR show banned in Mississippi: [7]
• 18th century ship found at World Trade Center site: [8]
• 79 places Google is being sued or blocked: [9]
• What is Australia using as a model of Internet content that needs to be censored? Family Guy: [10]
• Tunisian Gmail users targeted by phishers from their own government: [11]
• Florida atheists outraged because city commission begins meetings with prayer: [12]
• Federal appeals court upholds the torture convictions and 97-year sentence imposed on the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor: [13]
• Russia's sexual revolution isn't going very well: [14]
• Planet found with comet-like tail: [15]
• Can you get sterilized and still be married as a Catholic? [16]
• Vatican Radio fights charges that its radio towers are causing cancer: [17]
• For $75,000 you can buy a book about your favorite Indian cricket star, including a signature page printed with a pint of his own blood: [18]
• 89-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz death camp has enough of a sense of humor to make a music video that's upsetting just about everyone: [19]
• Judge rules the CIA can suppress information about torture tapes and memos: [20]
• Chinese microblog sites down in apparent crackdown: [21]
• Arizona student founds her own high school film festival, then resigns when she finds her movie of choice is being censored: [22]
• BP staff "deeply affected" by coffee spill parody video: [23]
• Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson plans to shoot Scientology film The Master in August 2010: [24]
• Woman with two wombs is double-pregnant: [25]
• University of Texas votes to rename dorm named after Ku Klux Klan leaders: [26]
• Argentina legalizes same-sex marriage: [27]
• Televangelist in Lagos charged with fraud: [28]
• So, what's the best-selling e-book on Apple's new "iBooks" store? It's called, ahem, Incest Urges of a Nymphomaniac: [29]
• Some smart words about witch hunting: [30]
• 2.5 million Muslims threatening to leave Facebook: [31]
• National religious broadcasters ask the FCC to appeal the court decision knocking down its indecency rules to the Supreme Court: [32]
• UK Royalty Society suggests ISPs pay for pirated music: [33]
• Long-lost Charlie Chaplin film, The Thief Catcher (1914), to debut at Virginia film festival: [34]

Picture of the moment:

• Not the best logo for a Christian bookseller: [35]
• The making of a Real Doll: [36]
• "Customers who bought the male masturbator kit also bought…" [37]