Getting old? Starting to forget things? The miracle cure is here! Blueberry juice! Remember your birthday, where you forgot your keys, the names of your grandchildren! Also — it’s delicious!
(photo can be traced back to here — does it go further? Is that the photographer? We do not know.)
The editor of the Independent believes that everything on Flickr is public domain, and can be used in their newspaper without having to pay for or credit their photos. If one actually reads his comments, he seems to be making the claim that if a rights-holder makes something available via the Internet, they automatically give up all rights. Strange, that.
Do you roleplay? Do you want to help people in Haiti? Then break out your roleplaying-game money and help them! If you donate $20 to Doctor’s Without Borders via Drive-Thru RPG, they’ll give you free roleplaying PDFs that would otherwise cost $1,000 — although it may take a few days to actually download them, as the offer is creating a wee bit of a strain on their servers.
Police in Oxford have been reprimanded for using their riot shields as sleds. While one understands that police officers should probably be doing something other than tobogganing when on duty, we prefer the Oxford police approach to that of the Boston police — arresting people who videotape them and charging them with “illegal wiretapping”.
If you’re thinking of making a charitable donation following the earthquake in Haiti, you should donate money, not stuff. Stuff apparently makes things worse. So give to Oxfam, The Red Cross, UNICEF, or the charity of your choice. But leave your blankets and cans of soup at home.
There are some places in the world where it is actually illegal to die. No word on what the punishment for illegal dying might be.
(by Chris Peterson, editor of Glacier Park Magazine)
Santa, it is rumoured, checks if children are naughty or nice before giving them a gift. In the United States, the Salvation Army has a different take on this — they check to see if a child is a citizen of the United States before giving a gift. Non-citizens are, I suppose, naughty by nature.
I live in London, and love it. But I also love photography and the two often do not mix. For instance, official photographers for TV shows who have obtained prior permission to shoot pictures and are taking photos of cars (as opposed to anything that could possibly be sensitive information) get hassled by the London police so much that they simply prefer to have their shoots elsewhere. Such things should be unbelievable — unfortunately, they are true.
Errata: In yesterday’s morning coffee, we reported that Microsoft had upgraded their blue screen of death to a black screen of death. The source of this information has since recanted, and it now appears that your black screen of death is caused by malware, which is presumably not supplied by Microsoft. We apologize for spreading this malicious rumour and beg your forgiveness.
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