The Palestinian village of Taybeh, home of the Taybeh Brewing Company, holds an annual Oktoberfest. I’ll have to see if the LCBO can import from Palestine. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Where the West Bank meets Bavaria

AKA What to do when the Terminator comes for you-I swear I’ve seen most of this stuff in Schwarzenegger movies. Carnegie Mellon University produces another mind bogglingly idiotic piece of work.

The Washington Post has an article discussing the issues around organ donation and new laws that are making the process easier for the procurement groups. “In many hospitals, organ network representatives now routinely comb through patients’ records looking for potential donors.” New Zeal in Organ Procurement Raises Fears – washingtonpost.com

Via Best Week Ever blog: Best Week Ever » Blog Archive » UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK: Chewbacca Impersonator Moves Crowd to Tears, Applause Title says it all.

That’s not a threat. He’s just dead. It’s obvious for a while that he’s disappeared from the public eye and this latest video seals it. Osama Bin Laden has died, now he’s either in heaven with a truckload (caravan load?) of virgins, in hell with an angry fire god, or slowly turning back to dust. […]

A recent survey by the McCormick Tribune Foundation (U.S. based) found that MacGyver was the number one fictional character Americans would want to be with in case of a disaster. Good choice, Jack Bauer is a chump who puts everyone he works with in danger, and you’ve got a 95% chance of dying if you’re […]

There are some jobs in life that can more accurately be described as a calling, or a service to all humankind. Others are just fun. “Sports science has always been dominated by men and for them, studying breasts is seen as slightly laughable. For women, though, it’s completely credible – they can see the benefits. […]

An Opportunity for Wall St. in China’s Surveillance Boom – New York Times “Terence Yap, the vice chairman and chief financial officer of China Security and Surveillance Technology, said his company’s software made it possible for security cameras to count the number of people in crosswalks and alert the police if a crowd forms at […]

Best space project, ever. Geostationary Banana Over Texas From the website: “Geostationary Banana Over Texas is an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky. This object will float between the high atmosphere and Earth’s low orbit, being visible only from the state of Texas and its surroundings. From the ground, […]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20726968/ Gandhi said “Poverty is but the worst form of violence”. I suspect that poverty played a factor in this (and where was the education system, to teach this woman not to trust white people in the forest?)… but inbreeding (which I propose played a factor) probably helped this tragedy along.