Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog

The jig, it would seem, is finally up for UK homeopaths. Parliament has decided that homeopathy is a waste of tax money, and have asked the NHS to stop funding homeopathic medicines and hospitals.

(very small origami, by Mui-Ling Teh)

Do you know what you need? You need a drink making robot.

Remember that Belgian guy who was in a coma, and then his doctors found out he was awake and could communicate? Turns out that he’s probably not awake, and certainly cannot communicate. Turns out that the doctor used a much discredited method called facilitated communication. It’s so discredited that they discredited it on an episode of Law and Order.

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	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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A new year — a new decade — approaches. Like everybody else, you’re probably wondering what did I miss out on reading over these past ten years? Never fear, dear reader — The Guardian has anticipated this concern, and is here to help with the decade’s best unread books.

I cannot figure out why anybody in the United States uses an AT&T phone. They are now telling potential customers that they cannot have the world’s most popular phone if they live in New York City, because New York City has insufficient infrastructure.

We also present (to our bling-loving math geek readers): Rings based on the Fibonacci sequence.

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President Obama is encouraging the development of robotics. But he is also keeping an eye on them, ever-vigilant for the day they turn us.

We are the last to post the following video to the Internet. I have seen it tweeted multiple times, and on every website I visit on a regular basis. It is still sufficiently awesome to include in the morning coffee:

If you’re adopted and looking for your birth father, finding him is not always a good thing.

Norway: Powered by osmosis.

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