May 11, 2009
In response to a school shooting, Germany is moving to ban paintball and laser tag, on the grounds that they “trivialise and encourage violence.” Why stop there? They should also ban video games, television and movies. And books. Possibly even history classes. Anything in which there is the possibility of being exposed to anything that could be construed as violent in a trivial context.
Tony Alleyne’s wife left him. What did he do? Change his flat into a Star Trek set:

(via The Telegraph)
Here is the story of how a NASA Intern stole their Moon Rocks.
