Interesting News Stories

It mad me kind of sad, too.

I had no idea whales lived that long, either. Crazy.

Butts charged with stealing toilet paper.

Fossils of a feathered dinosaur found.

This woman gives new definition to the term ballbreaker (or nutcracker, I guess, but technically they weren't cracked).

This is so cool.

We could even make our own SF shirts!

I'm thinking, SEVERE CONSEQUENCES!

Chicago baby monitor picks up NASA video from space shuttle Atlantis.

Eris Rising

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Planetary astronomy professor Michael E. Brown and graduate student Schaller found otherwise while studying Dysnomia, the moon of Eris, another dwarf planet.

Using the Keck Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope they were able to calculate the movement of Dysnomia and, with that information, calculate the mass of Eris at 27 percent more than Pluto. But even though Eris tops Pluto, Earth is still 360 times more massive

Has nobody mentioned this because crazy local laws are the norm in certain parts of the US? Fashion police ban low-slung jeans.

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Delcambre town council unanimously passed the ordinance earlier this week making it a crime to wear trousers that show underwear.

"If you expose your private parts, you'll get a fine" of US$500 (Ł254) Mayor Carol Broussard said.

Offenders will also risk up to six months in jail

QUOTE (psammead @ June 14, 2007 02:12 pm)

Has nobody mentioned this because crazy local laws are the norm in certain parts of the US? Fashion police ban low-slung jeans.

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Delcambre town council unanimously passed the ordinance earlier this week making it a crime to wear trousers that show underwear.

"If you expose your private parts, you'll get a fine" of US$500 (Ł254) Mayor Carol Broussard said.

Offenders will also risk up to six months in jail

If they're going to enforce that law for sorority girls with coin slots, I demmand they enforceit on Plummers as well!

Why don't they just make suspenders mandatory?

QUOTE (psammead @ June 14, 2007 03:12 pm)

Has nobody mentioned this because crazy local laws are the norm in certain parts of the US?

The British press loves to make the U.S. sound like it's full of crazies, psammead. You should be careful of mistaking stories like this one for typical practices. Skepticism is a good thing.

I don't think I said I thought the US was full of crazies or that this was a typical practice (if you click my link it's fairly obvious I wasn't suggesting that!). However, this is certainly an 'only in America' story that couldn't possibly happen here, for many reasons. And you have to admit, it's pretty crazy! Plus, I've seen plenty of American press reports that give a pretty skewed picture of Britain as a nation of eccentrics.

Topic? Squirrel on the rampage

God, I hate squirrels. We had some crazy, fearless quad squirrels at my college and I'm holding a grudge. Glad the old dude squished the sucker.

Squirrels at my school are like that too.

What is it about a squirrel that once they get into college they think they run everything?