It’s a weird, wacky world out there!
Take Holland - they have instituted a tobacco ban on restaurants and cafes. Big deal, you say. Everybody is doing that. Yeah, but does everybody allow you to smoke weed in those same restaurants and cafes? Well, Holland does!
From the UK Telegraph comes this story:
Smoking tobacco in restaurants and [...]

Excuse us for a second while we try to stop laughing.
Ok, it starts with this story from MSNBC:
Free EA software release spawns “sporn”
It’s a double-edged sword, this user-generated content thing
It’s a simple equation that marketers can’t seem to grasp: The Internet plus free modeling tools equals giant dancing penises.
So it goes for Creature Creator, the [...]

You heard it right.
Source: CBS
A dwarf charged with prostituting an underage runaway will appear in Kings County, N.Y. Supreme Court on Monday. Jacqueline Green, a.k.a. ‘Shorty,’ due to her 3 foot 9 inch height, is charged with promoting prostitution and child endangerment for allegedly pimping a 15-year-old that ran away from a troubled home.
According to [...]

Russian Monument To The Enema Unveiled!
Source: AP:
A monument to the enema has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk. The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008.

monument to enemas at Mashuk Akva-Term [...]

June 14, 2008 was, evidently, a protest day across the world for Anonymous against Scientology. (We have pics of an Orlando protest ~ of Epic Fail Guy, of course!) This video - apparently of London’s Scientology presence getting rick rolled - is one of the best things I have ever seen here on the internets. [...]

Can somebody explain this Craigslist posting?
Want age 25-70 guy to come over and jo in my model train room. mutual touching and stuff but nothing more than that…i’m not gay. it’s all HO scale. then after you finish you can stomp around and kick the trains and buildings like a monster (don’t break they are [...]

Christina was nice enough to send me this link to Neave TV.
It describes itself as “telly without context”. Completely random stuff thrown at you.

In my opinion, real television is also completely random stuff thrown at you, but not nearly as entertaining as Neave TV.

Paul Neave is a 28 year old British interactive designer. [...]

That’s what this guy’s art project was called.
Source: New York Times:
A Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama,” in neatly stenciled letters on the plate glass [...]

Designer of Pringles can is buried in his invention
Source: CNN:
The man who designed the Pringles potato chip packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.

One lucky winner will get a prize inside a special box of Pringles. Try and guess [...]

And now, the Courtney Love news roundup:
Love Was Advised To Abort Frances Bean
Source: Warner Bros Records boss Danny Goldberg
Goldberg, who managed Nirvana at the time, writes:
“‘You’re not telling me to have a [bleep]-ing abortion, are you?’ asked Courtney, her voice rising with her trademark hostile whine. ‘I mean I’m pro-choice, but that doesn’t mean [...]