Suzie Shooter

BBC news just announced an earthquake in South Wales. My first thought? Bloody Torchwood...

*g*

As headlines go, "Prostitution crackdown unveiled" has to be one of the more unfortunate. I suppose it could have been worse. If they'd been dancing it could have been a ho-down...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7026150.stm

Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.

Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with impotency drugs.

Because these amused me:

Wallace & Gromit
"A life-sized statue of Wallace and Gromit is to be built in Preston, Lancashire - the home city of their creator Nick Park." So that would be what then - about 20cm high?

Crocs
"In April, a hospital in Sweden banned the shoes after three incidents in which static electricity from staff wearing them was discharged into medical equipment, causing it to malfunction [...] However, the Sheffield spokesman said that no similar incidents had sparked concern in the UK."

Oi be stoopid
"A 18-year-old burglar who vandalised a children's campsite building was caught because he wrote his name on a wall at the scene, a court has heard." Really. Has the level of criminal mastermind we're producing really fallen so low?