Via helice:

'ROME (Reuters) - A 25-year-old man who tried to kill a priest by stabbing him in a Rome church has told police that he did so after the watching the film "The Da Vinci Code" and believing himself to be the anti-Christ.'More here: ( Read more... )

...as it means they won't have to mop up the post-Cabinet meeting bloodspots on the carpet from her cilice wounds any more:


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http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/a-bad-day-for-atheism/

Previously covered here: http://sensaes.livejournal.com/603257.html


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Gullible, Creationist-friendly chump (and Church of England minister) Mike Reiss has quit as Head of Education at the Royal Society:

'...Professor Reiss and the Royal Society have agreed that, in the best interests of the society, he will step down immediately as director of education - a part-time post he held on secondment," it said in a ( Read more... )

...before whoever did this to Jessica Alba forgets the "safety" word again:


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In truth, mercenarytoast's recent post on academics_anon was on a hiding to nowhere before the 'C' word was bandied about. (Fittingly enough, "nowhere" is precisely where the post has since ended-up. However if you're curious, its text is under the cut before the Postscript, below ( Read more... )

One of the Wired blogs ran a speculative piece earlier this year about the proposed Google browser project, but now the full(?) story has emerged.

As a graphic novel:

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

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"Who actually writes the medical studies that get published? A study shows that the answer is not always what it appears to be..."http://improbable.com/2008/08/29/external-author/Read more... )

Richard Dawkins reads his hate mail aloud:

Click to view

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlJdFf3hV7I

P.S. He's a Mac user.

(Cheers to boingfeed.)

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Unrelated bonus Gaffney:


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Nah. Too many versions of Micro$oft Word have come and gone since we last had to fart about with spellcheckers, moaning about "Karadzic" being underlined in squiggly red every time we typed the damned name...


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