Ananova:

Dog-size rats take over power station
Rats the size of dogs which can even eat through concrete are threatening to plunge parts of Montenegro into darkness.
Workers at a hydroelectric power station on the River Piva say they are too scared to tackle rodents who are also gnawing their way through cables.
One worker told the local daily […]

If you’ve got it, hit it. (and apparently you can donate straight from a Coinstar machine. that’s pretty cool.)
Julia’s massive linkdump here.
Now then. When under stress, people can say and do amazingly stupid things. Fine. All part of being human. Sometimes it’s just a total non-sequitur brainfart. Sometimes […]

BBC:
London bombings toll rises to 37
A series of bomb attacks on London’s transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others. […]

Why do I think that Americans are going to be the ones completely losing their shit over this?

Autonomy above all. Look, certainly no one is under any kind of obligation to stay on this planet; no matter how much value you add to the collective experiment, there’s not, like, a contractual agreement. Not even an unspoken one.
But still, when someone like HST goes - well. I just wish he’d […]

edit:Thank all the gods that are or ever were: It’s a hoax.
Child Pimp & Ho Costumes
Sweet merciful fuckmonkeys. Let’s just take a moment to savor this.
…right, that’s about long enough. See, one problem with language is that it evolves faster than the concepts that spawned the linguistic signifier, i.e., ‘pimp’. […]

Hear that? That’s the sound of three million people going “Shit, not again…”
Pursuit Suspect Beaten in Controversial Use of Force
LOS ANGELES — Police were investigating officers’ use of force Wednesday during the arrest of an unarmed black man who led them on a chase after allegedly being spotted driving a stolen car.
Dude runs, stops, […]

Saint Death offers Mexicans solace
In Mexico, the world’s second-biggest Catholic country, an unofficial cult of death is winning followers, from influential politicians and police officers to drug pushers and violent criminals.
On a sidewalk in Mexico City’s lawless Tepito district, gangsters and ordinary housewives rub shoulders as they pay homage before a shrine to Santa Muerte, […]

[…] On Tuesday Schau and his colleagues attached an engine to a dead pig and used the animal as a boat. The pig was filled with floating materials before they attached the engine and put the “boat” at sea. […]
{ Neil Gaiman < The V }

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…via die puny humans.

From the International Robot Fair:

World Robot Declaration from International Robot Fair 2004 Organizing Office
FUKUOKA, Japan, February 25 // — Confident of the future development of robot technology and of the numerous contributions that robots will make to Humankind, this World Robot Declaration is issued on February 25, […]