Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog

	You can now create your own toilet paper! Yippee!
There are lots of sports stats geeks out there on the Internet. There are lots of comics geeks, as well. But it takes a special soul to closely examine every single Charlie Brown comic strip in order to calculate the character’s baseball statistics.
	Amongst the group of things being banned in Australian pornography are porn stars with small breasts. Australian censors wants to make sure that all porn is big-titty porn.
Goodbye, lightbulb. Hello strange glowing walls.
	Some advice on judges about to come down hard against copyright violators: Try not to plagiarize somebody from the Internet in your decision.
E-mails from a technology entrepreneur.
	Prosecutors in the United States are trying to show that risque photos can ruin their lives — by ruining their lives. The practice of charging children with producing child pornography when they pose for photographs with their clothes on is currently being challenged in court.
Who writes bad sex scenes? Jonathan Littell, that’s who.

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I used to think that London police were targeting photographers and treating them like terrorists as some sort of strategy. It didn’t make sense, but there had to be something. Not any more.

London police detained two actors filming a children’s television show using anti-terrorist laws in London recently. The actors were suspicious because they were being followed by a camera crew while using children’s walkie-talkies and brandishing hair dryers.

I no longer think the police are out to get me. I think they have lost their minds.

We have no more words this morning. Instead, photos.

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On Saturday, in Trafalgar Square, there will be a protest over the police treatment of photographers in the UK. This particular blogtographer (our preferred term) cannot attend, but encourages everybody in London who happens to own a camera to attend in his place.

(originating with Katie West? found via Warren Ellis)

Also on Saturday, in case photo-protesting is insufficient for your protesting needs, you can also attempt to overdose on homeopathic medicine. Which seems a lot more pointless, but also good fun.

Naomi Klein labels Obama the first US President who is also a superbrand. She has a point. He is also sure not to be the last.

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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.

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