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... )

...here's a story with a bit of everything in it - bar music, films, and art - including ( Read more... )

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... )

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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http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2008/08/22/news/local/20080822_local_179891.txt

(Cheers to sott_rss.)

Edit: Oh, it's here, too...

http://www.inquisitr.com/?p=2597

Noooooooooo!

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097065813253.htm

(Fair play, though - funniest line: "For anyone born after 1985, entering the workforce is a technological shock."Secondly, for you Americans, what the heck have ( Read more... )

I'm having one of those "Right Hon. Member" moments (as in, s/he is anything but honourable - or right...*yawn*...but convention demands...etc.).

Webliography.

Ugh.

Buckle down, and grin and bear it. Again...

*Struggles.*

I mean, look how the term was contextualised and justified four years ago:

"Information Retrieval (IR) on the World Wide ( Read more... )

[A follow-up to this entry: http://sensaes.livejournal.com/545097.html]Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/25/bill-clinton-some-voters_n_88371.html

No. That would be too cool.

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Ooh and, in smoking news, this is clever ( Read more... )

...that my reluctance to seize upon their offer* must seem churlish:

"If your pro access runs out, you'll still be able to publish your journal or blog, but
certain advanced features will be temporarily disabled until you re-up your membership."Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go and re-up myself elsewhere ( Read more... )