Interesting Links for 03-02-2012

[andrewducker]

• Gorgeous Red Aurora Over Australia
  (tags: australia astronomy )
• Broadband speeds improving in the UK. Interesting to note that high-speed connections provide much closer to their premises (boo to ADSL)
  (tags: internet broadband uk )
• Beyond ACTA: next secret copyright agreement negotiated this week-in Hollywood
  (tags: media copyright )
• Some

Comments

[bart_calendar]

About 20 years ago The New York Post ran the headline "Headless Body In Topless Bar."

I still think that is the best ever.

Second best: After Elton John's marriage The Sun went with the headline: "Elton Takes David Up the Aisle."

[philmophlegm]

My favourite headline today is from the BBC:

"German pensioner eats 64-year-old US lard"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16852830

[andrewducker]

That's fantastic!

[philmophlegm]

The best one on the Daily Mail website today (but not in the newspaper) is this one:
"Teacher who 'spoonfed semen to blindfolded children' was investigated in 1994 over 'groping 10-year-old girl'"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095742/Mark-Berndt-Teacher-spoonfed-semen-children-investigated-1994.html?ITO=socialnet-twitter-mailonline

And people wonder why this is the most popular news website in the world...

[steer]

Competitive but I would still go with "Gordon Ramsey sex Dwarf eaten by badger"

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/62732998.html
(here with slightly different headline)
http://stage.sundaysport.com/?p=1798

For me it beats their previous high or "World war 2 bomber found on moon vanishes" (Their unique way of retracting their previous "World war 2 bomber found on moon" which was proved not to be the case)
http://panpa.org.au/2011/04/06/daily-sport-goes-missing-not-on-moon/

Disappointingly though the dwarf story must also lose some marks for being largely fictitious.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/percy-foster-dead_n_962667.html