2008-07-05

• The world ends at precisely 7:00 AM: [1]

2008-07-02 - 07-04

The Bulldada Newsblog is on hiatus until the End of the World. We will resume our duties after the Xists arrive and civilization is reduced to a smoking ruin.

See also: The Church of the SubGenius

2008-07-01

• The first US criminal copyright infringement in the US is handed down – a 26-year-old Virginia man is guilty of his role in operating elitetorrents.org: [1]
• Oliver Stone is hard at work directing W, a biography of President George W. Bush: [2]
• Hip-hop sites hacked by "anonymous" hate group: [3]
• Google disables anti-Obama blogs: [4]
• Bush's top general quashed torture dissent: [5]
• Reputed Indian newspapers taken in by Nazi war criminal hoax: [6]
• The American Family Association's rule of always replacing the word "gay" with "homosexual" backfires: [7]
• The latest trend in courtrooms – banning Bad Words: [8]
• Want to buy some homemade children's clothes from the famous Texas Polygamous Cult? [9] (I guess that's an easier name to call them than "Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints.")
• Jesus for President: [10]
• Presbyterian Church allows ordination of gay clergy: [11]
• Human flesh search engines: Chinese vigilantes that hunt victims on the Web: [12]
• U.S. lawmakers consider sweeping effort to banish junk foods from public schools: [13]
• Outraged American declares August 22 "We Are Fed Up Day:" [14]

2008-06-30

• Happy Tunguska Day: [1]
• Al-Qaeda's growing online offensive: [2]
• Spam on the Blackberry and iPhone is expected to increase dramatically: [3]
• Colorado Catholic bishop bans clergy from giving political contributions: [4]
• The Anglican church has officially split: [5]
• Russia's Supreme Court allows religious organizations to operate Sunday schools without a license: [6]
• Legal peyote for ceremonial purposes is becoming hard to find: [7]
• NASA believes the soil of Mars could support life: [8]
• A look at how US search engines are willingly censoring themselves to please China: [9]
• Quentin Tarantino to cast a porn star in his remake of Saint Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!: [10]
• News flash – children are learning bad things from TV and the media: [11]
• Indiana teacher suspended for using The Freedom Writers Diary in her classroom: [12]
• Protecting your kids from mobile phone porn by blocking their Web access: [13]
• Official-sounding people get together to force Wikipedia to become more accountable and accurate: [14]
• FCC to review "embedded advertising" on TV: [15]
• Major London bank Lloyds gives debit cards to children, which they use to buy cigarettes and online porn: [16]
• Hamas worries about the increasing popularity of religious cults in Palestine: [17]
• Iran prepares for war by digging 320,000 graves for fallen enemy soldiers…in advance: [18]
• Televangelist Todd Bentley draws a crowd of 400,000 at Florida concert/revival: [19]
• Pssst…wanna cyber? Look for Aussie women: [20]
• That fake blood you're buying for your costume could benefit the city of Salem, Massachusetts: [21]
• In Virginia, if you're a sex offender you can't volunteer at church…wait, is something missing here? [22]

Podcast of the moment:

• George Carlin and Tim Russert in Hell: [23]

Picture of the moment:

• The Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show: [24]

2008-06-29

• We say the world will end on July 5th, 2008 (...this Saturday!), but this nutjob has determined that the next Major Judgement Date will actually be July 8, 2008: [1]
• A legal blow against the case of the West Memphis Three: [2]
• Iran has moved ballistic missiles into place to strike at Israel: [3]
• US House of Representatives US House Passes Resolution Supporting Gospel Music Heritage Month: [4]
• Biblical text writing may have poisoned monks: [5]
• Boing Boing is accused of censorship: [6]
• Chinese protesters torch buildings (news stories like this don't make it out of China very often): [7]
• Canadian blogger Mark Steyn wins his "human rights" battle against charges of "angering Muslims:" [8]
• Mike Meyers latest idiotic movie, The Love Guru, is getting some free marketing by ticking off Hindus: [9]
• Now you can buy Defend Our Porn, a porn DVD being sold as a fund-raiser to support the legal defense of a porn producer up on obscenity charges: [10]
• Jesus sighting of the week – in Mumbai, India: [11]
• The worst public works PR campaign ever: [12]
• Say hello to PABBIS – Parents Against Bad Books In Schools: [13]
• The FCC stumbles into Internet filtering: [14]
• Apparently, witchcraft killings are now only news if more than one person is murdered for practicing witchcraft: [15]
• Banned – the statues they won't let you see: [16]
• How to buy cheaper-priced gas from Costco without a Costco membership: [17]
• London scholars hold conference on improving Jewish-Muslim relations, but no Muslim scholars show up: [18]
• The world's "top 10 intellectuals" are all Muslims: [19]
• The guy who prematurely burned the Burning Man Man last year is sentenced to up to four years in prison: [20]
• Thousands of dykes on bikes, dykes with tykes and dykes with mikes gather in San Francisco: [21]
• Transsexual Israeli tops Lebanese song charts: [22]

Picture of the moment:

• Remember, kiddies, June 31st is Weasel Stomping Day: [23]

2008-06-28

• North Korea is taken off of the United States' list of "countries that sponsor terrorism." I'm sure the 10 million starving folks there are just thrilled: [1]
• Bill Gates has officially resigned as chairman and CEO of Microsoft: [2]
• Update – remember those T-shirts with the names of all the soldiers killed in Iraq, that were banned in four states last year? They're now banned in six states: [3]
• For the first time in history, the ice at the North Pole is expected to be melted by summer of 2008: [4]
• The Chinese believe the Olympics are cursed because of the supernatural gods represented by the Olympic mascots: [5]
• Amsterdam will be going smoke-free on July 1st, so all cannabis joints sold and smoked in the city must be tobacco-free: [6]
• The Army doesn't trust youngsters from the "Facebook generation:" [7]
• AVG, the popular anti-virus software, is screwing up Web traffic: [8]
• India is planning to set up a surveillance system for all email coming from abroad: [9]
• U.S. border agents are copying contents of travelers' laptops: [10]
• Historians have determined the exact day and date that Odysseus returned from the Trojan War: [11] (Gotta use that grant money somehow…)
• The top 10 strangest anti-terrorism patents: [12]
• New flash – we've lost the war against cocaine in Columbia: [13]
• Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that clergy can be sued for decades-old sex abuse cases: [14]
• Clear Channel refuses to let Harry Shearer (Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) advertise his new CD, Songs of the Bushmen: [15]
• SourceForge, the world's largest open-source software site, is blocked in China: [16]
• Texas high court rules exorcisms are protected by law: [17]
• Why does sex play such a large role for fringe religious sects? [18] (Hey, don't look at us…)
• Now you can get on the sex offender list for streaking in public: [19]
• New Mexico court refuses to let man legally change his name to "Fuck Censorship:" [20]

2008-06-27

• Angry politicians vow to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional: [1]
• Unfortunately, the politicians can't do anyting about this guy because he's not in the USA: [2]
• Australia considers banning "sexy" music videos from Saturday morning TV: [3] (Because we all know how many kids still watch Saturday cartoons in these days of video games, the Net, DVDs, 24-hour kid TV cable channels…)
• How to get Usenet even if your ISP blocks you: [4]
• Black guy gets life for smoking pot: [5]
• The UN is turning a blind eye to the continuing problem of children being abused by UN peacekeepers: [6]
• Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie is knighted: [7] (Obviously, Queen Elizabeth never read any of Rushdie's freakin' boring books…)
• This school finds it necessary to provide courses and videos explaining why teachers and students shouldn't Do The Deed: [8]
• But here's a teacher who's really determined to prove he's innocent of teacher-student deed-doing: [9]
• Grand Theft Auto is turning our innocent children into criminals: [10]
• Iranian Christians forced to worship in secrete: [11]
• For the crime of paddling down a river, a canoeist is arrested and his DNA is taken: [12]
• Missouri judge says it's okay to hand out religious fliers at gay-pride festival: [13]
• You folks living in Ashland, Oregon won't want to miss this Fourth of July parade spectacle: [14]
• Let's all have some agwa, a liqueur made from coca leaves: [15] (And it's sure to be banned in 3…2…1…)
• ICANN (the "official" Internet body that governs domain names) is set to introduce a lot of new domains for spammers to grab: [16] (…no sign of an .xxx or .porn domain yet.)
• Muslims condemn Facebook for hosting "fascist" groups: [17]
• New York City government subpoenas videotapes of protests at the 2004 Republican Convention: [18]
• Proud pagan witch backs Obama's poverty bill: [19]
• Israeli military is pressuring religious girls to enlist: [20]
• DEVO sues McDonald's for copyright infringement: [21]

2008-06-26

• The RIAA finally loses it – declaring that AM-FM broadcasting is "a form of piracy:" [1]
• Paranormal investigator promotes himself by claiming Massachusetts wedding had other-worldly guests: [2]
• Scans of the classic SubGenius zine Zontar are available online: [3] (Interestingly, my work firewall blocks this under the category "Malicious Web Sites.")
• US government is trying to cover up a murder…one that you're not likely to see on the national news: [4]
• US Army asks for public's help in stolen laptop case: [5]
• Two US Senators question the need to search laptops and other electronic devices owned by U.S. citizens returning to the country without the need for reasonable suspicion of a crime or probable cause: [6]
• Electric cars are too quiet, so here's a proposal for require them to make fake engine noise: [7]
• Remember the Exxon-Valdez? The US Supreme Court has cut the damages award from the oil spill (which Exxon still hasn't paid) to $500 million…which equals four days' worth of Exxon-Mobil's profits: [8]
• The Supreme Court also rules it's unconstitutional to sentence someone to death for raping a kid. Cheery news today, folks, isn't it? [9]
• Atheist China set to become world's top Bible producer: [10]
• If you're one of those parents who doesn't understand that strange "text" thing your kids are doing, this story spells it out for you: [11] (OMG STFU LOL ASL)
• Massachusetts lawmaker destroys his political career by challenging outrageous sentences for sex offenders…oh, wait, sorry. Massachusetts politician proves he hates innocent children and pledges to destroy child victims of sex crimes when they have to testify in court. There, is that better now? [12]
• The Westboro Baptist Church is going to protest George Carlin's funeral: [13] (Now that's funny!)
• Children concerned about their parents' Internet use: [14]
• North Carolina has an "I Believe" license plate, but meanwhile South Carolina is recalling license plates that say "WTF:" [15]
• Arab broadcasters are concerned about increasing media censorship in the Middle East: [16]
• That darned Internet is encouraging the growth and popularity of self-proclaimed prophets: [17]
• New York City health department to test every single adult living in the Bronx for HIV: [18]
• ACLU may file suit to end lunch prayers at the US Naval Academy: [19] (…evidently no one at the ACLU has eaten the food there.)
• It's now pornography when you take pictures of your baby's bare bum: [20]
• Teen drivers in Australia to be banned from using cell phones: [21] (…so how about they ban adult drivers from using cell phones, too?)
• Coming soon to theaters – Manure, the movie: [22]
• Porn returns to Times Square in NYC – "artful," boring, unerotic, snooze-inducing porn: [23]
• Want to get out of your tour of duty in Iraq? Get caught with porn: [24]
• Those Godless Homosexuals are engaging in an evil conspiracy to make you think they're actually being persecuted: [25]
• You know gas prices are bad when brothels (legal US brothels) are offering fuel discounts: [26]

Picture of the moment:

• Amphibious robot snake: [27]

2008-06-25

• British scientists have produced nearly 300 human-cow hybrid embryos since January of 2008: [1]
• A listing of social media sites banned worldwide: [2]
• US' largest sugar producer to sell its assets to Florida state government and go out of business: [3]
• Nearly half of all the Web sites that host malware are hosted by just ten networks: [4]
• Recent UK UFO sighting ("UFO chased by police helicopter") is debunked: [5]
• Kurdish TV station is banned from broadcasting in Germany: [6]
• Uri Geller loses his attempt to buy Elvis Presley's former home: [7]
• Indiana court strikes down sex offender law that would have required sex offenders' Internet use to be monitored and their PCs subjected to searches "at any time:" [8]
• Witches and healers can practice their craft in South Africa, for now: [9]
• James Dobson, Focus on the Family's idiot-in-chief, versus Senator Barack Obama: [10]
• Saudi official declares it's okay to marry a one-year-old girl as long as you don't have sex with her: [11] (I won't even begin to think about this one in detail…)
• Women with long fingernails complain the iPhone is sexist: [12]
• Clueless video game bill nears passage in New York: [13]
• Thanks, US – the Taliban have made $100 million from opium poppies since they were thrown out of power: [14]
• UK TV ad for Heinz mayonnaise with two men kissing set to become most complained of the year: [15]
• The un-American, evil, satanic ACLU is attempting to shut down public prayer in Ohio and Wisconsin: [16]
• Decent Jesus-loving Americans don't like it when their neighbors sacrifice goats as part of a Santeria ritual: [17]
• Why are kids doing so bad in school? It's Wikipedia's fault: [18]
• Muslim council in Malaysia orders women to stop wearing lipstick and high heels to keep from getting raped: [19]
• The FBI is now investigating evil Internet copyright pirates: [20]

Picture of the moment:

• When the Talaban's a-rockin', the thermobaric Hellfire comes a-knockin': [21]
• What the person on the other end of that phone sex line really looks like: [22]

2008-06-24

• California prepares to copy New York's plan to force ISPs to block bad Internet sites to Protect The Children: [1]
• Don't worry, Christians, Jesus will return soon…but he'll be a Muslim: [2]
• Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool detected password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated: [3]
• But don't worry, development of the next edition of Microsoft Windows is being overseen by the US government: [4]
• A proposal to put oil company executives on trial for promotion of global warming denial, in the same way tobacco company executives were put on trial for denying the link between cigarettes and cancer: [5]
• Senator JOhn McCain's solution to high gas prices – throw money at the problem: [6] (Hey, why not…that's all the US government has done for a lot of other problems…)
• The Earth is "not at risk" of being destroyed by a black hole created by the Large Hadron Collider in Europe: [7]
• Zimbabwe's dictator…I mean "President"…has effectively stolen the election after losing the popular vote: [8] (…sound familiar?)
• By the way, it's not a good idea for artists to make fun of Zimbabwe's dictator right now: [9]
• The Religious Right is looking for the next crusader to rise to the challenge and test those mean ol' barriers between church and state: [10]
• Famous novelist Ian McEwan announces, "I despise Islamism:" [11] (With the way statements like that are causing riots these days, maybe he should change his name to "Salman Rushdie.")
• Aussie sex offenders offered chemical castration: [12] (An idea so obvious, it will never get anywhere in the USA….)
• J.C. Penney gets into hot water for a new "fake ad" on the Internet that supposedly promotes teen sex: [13] (…an ad that promotes teen sex? On the Internet? Well, I never!)
• As long as J.C. Penney doesn't promote what this day care center did…[14]
• UK prepares to put construction site workers who wolf-whistle at passing women onto the sex offender list: [15] (…this comes in the middle of an article about female college students wolf-whistling at construction workers. Someone keep my head from spinning.)
• The guy who leaked TV newsman Tim Russert's death onto Wikipedia before the media found out about it has been sacked: [16] (…professional jealousy?)
• If you think Canada is the land of the free, then try not to get in trouble with the country's human rights police: [17]
• Facebook flash mob pull public freeze prank: [18]
• Malaysian painter breaks religious taboos in a country where breaking religious taboos could get you killed: [19]
• Real life imitates Star Trek once again: [20]

2008-06-23

• Saint George Carlin's soul has been flung up onto a roof somewhere. The National Cynical Network is broadcasting a tribute: [1]
• In Barcelona, Spain on July 6, PETA will state its annual Running of the Nudes to protest the Running of the Bulls two days later: [2] (If they were really committed to this cause, they'd do their nude run at the same time as the bulls.)
• The latest Internet-born mental disorder – telling bald-faced lies about yourself online: [3] (And they don't mean, "I'm a 17-year-old big-busted blonde who wants your phone number," either.)
• "Kid-friendly" sex shop opens in New York: [4]
• United Nations resolves to classify rape as a "weapon of war:" [5]
• Something that finally makes sense about all those loony neocons: [6]
• Five foods that cause anal leakage: [7]
• A Web site dedicated to short one-page science fiction stories: [8]
• Odinists win right to worship in prison: [9]
• Not to be outdone by the guys selling their souls on eBay, this man put his entire life up for auction: [10]
• Wyoming sherriff announces all US government agents are not allowed to operate in his district without permission, or they'll be arrested: [11]
• Unknown creature found by Russian troops: [12]
• Nerd girls are sexy: [13]
• Father's Day cards banned in Scottish schools: [14]
• Bizarre sex death of model Aussie preacher: [15]
• Do you know how much of your porn is "extreme?" [16]
• A guide to the shadowy organizations that rule the world: [17]
• Russia condemns rewriting of World War II history: [18]
• Omigod, lots of people are using their fancy, clean, innocent iPhones to look at porn: [19]
• The three R's in Russian schools are reading, writing, and religion: [20]
• Did you know Scientology procedures can miraculously heal innocent children in comas? [21] (See also: [22])
• Indiana Fucking Jones: [23]
• God flooded New Orleans because of those evil homosexuals, and now he's flooding Iowa, too: [24]
• Japanese bloggers force the shutdown of WaiWai, a "weird news from Japan" blog: [25]

Picture of the moment:

• Blasphemy! [26]
• TV worth watching: [27]

2008-06-22

• US asks to "rewrite" evidence presented to the court regarding the detainees at Guanatanamo: [1]
• Major Creationist holoday – today is the 375th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's confession that the Earth does not orbit the Sun (forced upon him by the Vatican): [2]
• Ohio county sherriff passes out plastic sherriff's badges and copies of the New Testament to church students: [3]
• Ohio board votes to ax teacher accused of branding students: [4]
• Danish appeals court throws out Muslims' lawsuit against newspapers over the Forbidden Muhammad Cartoons: [5]
• Plague of rats devastates Burma villages: [6]
• UK forces use controversial new "vaccuum" missile against the Taliban: [7]
• Fuck your way to the revolution: [8]
• Egyptian police in search of American tourist with footage "marring Egypt's image:" [9]
• The Tor project's Web site is blocked in China: [10]
• Iranian newspaper banned for criticizing President Ahmadinejad: [11]
• In Pakistan, it's illegal to fly a kite because it's against Islam: [12]
• In Missouri alone, more than 7,000 computers are trading dreaded kiddie porn on those terrorist file-sharing networks: [13] (…depending on what they classify as "kiddie porn," of course. Nope, this isn't a scare story.)
• Barack Obama's candidacy is increasing traffic on racist Web sites: [14]
• Martha Stewart banned from entering Britain because she has a criminal record: [15]
• Texas prisons experiment with religious rehab for prisoners: [16]
• The first Arabic video game forXbox is released: [17]
• Did 17 Massachusetts teenage girls make a pact to become pregnant? [18]
• 52-year-old grandmother gives birth to her own grandchildren: [19]
• Christians hold prayer vigil at gas station, because we know God hates high gas prices: [20]
• Guy convicted of sex with a table gets six months in jail: [21]
• What this guy did to his Dad may only be outdone by what his Dad wanted to do to him: [22]

Picture of the moment:

• USA's secret underground concentration camps revealed by Texe Marrs: [23]

2008-06-21

• Hundreds of components for United States nuclear weapons are missing: [1]
• Alert for SubGenii – Saturday, June 28th is the date of the Totally Normal Event in Whippany, New Jersey: [2]
• Chinese call for the animated film Kung Fu Panda to be banned after Steven Spielberg pulls out of the Olympics: [3]
• Google UK complies with Scientology's request and censors a parody site: [4]
• Ohio 8th grade science teacher – yes, he did teach Creationism to the kiddies and yes, he did burn crosses in students' arms: [5] (With PDF report goodness: [6])
• Vice President Cheney gets the last laugh: [7]
• KFC Canada gives in to PETA's demands: [8]
• German Lutherans poised to elect a Godless, Satanic homosexual bishop: [9]
• Despite their hatred of Islam, this is why a lot of religious anal-retentives wish they lived in Saudi Arabia: [10]
• Penn and Teller take on the war on porn: [11]
• Let's see…a 13-year-old boy has consensual sex with a 12-year-old girl…so they arrest the boy and charge him, but not the girl: [12]
• Threat of UK libel leads to revision of book review: [13] (From Bartholomew's Notes on Religion.)
• AP News tries to save face after their recent copyright "rules" tick off bloggers: [14]
• The Web site Search Jew Watch (and yes, it's as dumb as it sounds) is pwned: [15]
• Proctor & Gamble wins its lawsuit against Amway over claims that P&G supports Satanism: [16]
• Pasadena couple captures UFO fireballs on video: [17]
• The latest excuse for poor student test scores – Wikipedia isn't accurate: [18]
• What it's like when your name "accidentally" ends up on the sex offender list: [19]
• Paraguayan inmates riot for more sex: [20]
• UK council bans the word "brainstorming" and replaces it with "thought showers" so as not to offend epileptics: [21]
• The five unsexiest movies about sex: [22]

Picture of the moment:

• Hell, no! [23]

2008-06-20

• Congress is ready to forgve the telecom companies for spying on us: [1]
• A silly attempt to use Rev. Ivan Stang to paint ANONYMOUS as a hate group: [2]
• China's overeager American censors: [3]
• Artist's video Evolution of the Nude banned in Bolivia, Cameroon and Nepal: [4]
• Atari is sending legal threats to video game sites that say bad things about the game Alone In The Dark: [5] (In German – the English translation is here: [6])
• 56.com, the "Chinese YouTube," is shut down over fears of censorship: [7]
• The first lawsuit involving South Carolina's "I Believe" license plates comes one week after they were introduced: [8]
• Sweden gives its military intelligence sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all crossborder e-mail and telephone communications: [9]
• Disgraced stem-cell scientist says he's cloned rare dogs: [10]
• Jumbo bug crashes Cisco anti-hacker appliances: [11]
• Nineteen scientists and one activist appeal against the cell phone: [12] (In French – the English translation is here: [13])
• In the Spore online game, you can make a giant penis but making giant boobs will get you banned: [14] and [15]
• Aussie Grail Movement cult member admits torturing her son and feeding his flesh to relatives: [16]
• UK cops chase a UFO over Cardiff: [17]
• The UN takes the bold step of talking about the problem of violence against women during war: [18]
• Another "religious marijuana" argument fails in court, this time in Alabama: [19]
• Oh no, the new cheaper iPhones are going to have a lot of porn: [20]
• South American cult leader with six wives and 30 children denounces the morning-after pill as a sin: [21]
• Finalist for the "Unluckiest Sex Life In The World" award: [22]
• Tell-all book is Allen Greenfield's personal account of how he was thrown out of the Ordo Templi Orientis: [23]

Picture of the moment:

• Satan's park found on Google Maps: [24] (Though pagans would point out that it's a pentacle, not a Satanic image, and why do you always say a pentacle is Satanic, and whine whine whine…)

2008-06-19

• Time to panic – major world bank issues warning of coming global economic collapse: [1]
• How the Pentagon turned a program for US soldiers to resist torture into a blueprint on how to torture prisoners: [2]
• While we're at it, here's a story about how the U.S. military hid its prisoners from the Red Cross: [3]
• Good news for Jews – giraffe milk and meat is kosher: [4]
• New Zealand government-run "Bioethics Council" backs the right of parents to choose the sex of their children: [5]
• The sixth severed human foot this year is found in British Columbia: [6]
• Where are those Godless homosexuals coming from? From that Godless Darwinian theory of evolution, of course: [7]
• Russian university professor teaches students about Jewish "blood libel:" [8]
• Ohio middle school teacher gets in trouble for displaying the Ten Commandments in his classroom: [9]
• Old-school rockers KISS blast new-school rockers Radiohead for actually giving away their music for free: [10]
• Has Earth been invaded by The Soulless? [11]
• Memphis police are protecting us from the transsexual menace: [12]
• Cell phones are the spawn of Satan (again): [13]
• Nebraska to stop funding erectile dysfunction treatments, because sex is not medically necessary: [14]
• Muslim women in headscarves banned from Barack Obama photo op: [15] (…and this is from Fox News, which absolutely does not spread false rumors accusing Obama of being Muslim.)
• Here's a list of frequently-banned children's books, plus information on how to get them: [16] (This is a 2-megabyte PDF download.)
• Egyptian censor inflicting pain on media: [17]
• A push to rename lap-dancing clubs in Britain as "sex encounter venues:" [18]
• Another "psychic" wastes the time of police and family members in Chicago missing-person case: [19]
• Anglican Church schism declared over gay clergy: [20]
• Thailand woman arrested for refusing to stand up during an anthem to the country's "divine" king: [21]
• Nepalese teenage girl is paraded naked around town after being accused of being a witch: [22] (At least they didn't lynch her…)
• High school students serve delicious cake to teachers, with nauseating results: [23]
• A cure for cancer? [24]
• In Scotland, sending "sexually explicit" email from work could get you labelled a sex offender: [25]
• How to get some when you have HIV? You could hold a "conversion party" and deliberately spread the virus to your friends and enemies: [26]
• By the way, the first "critical vulnerability" in Firefox 3.0 was reported five hours after the new browser was made available for downloading: [27]

Picture of the moment:

• The annual New Zealand Body Art Awards: [28]