Mayor tries to jump over a person dressed as a tomato. Fails. The cost? twenty-four-thousand pounds.

In a country where people would go crazy if guns were banned for a twenty-four hour period, LA did just that with Silly String. Here at the Big Bad Blog, we hope that people in LA were safe and well-behaved, and only used guns on Halloween.

Reversing one of the stupidest concepts in intellectual property law, the United States government has decided that genes cannot be patented, after all.

We present to you: the incredible shrinking moon!

(via Things Organized Neatly.)

Now that jailbreaking is legal, Apple is working on ways to disable your jail-broken phone. The Big Bad Blog is starting to think that Apple does not think very highly of its customers — they seem to be out to break our shit.

Stats-heads: Here is an interactive graph about Lonodn’s cycle-hire scheme, looking at the time, weather, and number of bicycles in use.

Drug smuggling just got cooler. Now they build submarines.

(From a set of girls with video game tattoos.)

Apparently politicians continue to have a poor grasp of science. Which is too bad, as it means that while they understand that they need “an energy policy” or “a climate change policy”, they have no idea what it should look like. This, in turn, allows lobbyists to have undue influence on said policies.

The latest media giant strategy? To make patent claims on online video formats, in an attempt to limit sites such as YouTube.