This weekend coffee contains dogs, experts, box flippers and Christmas spirit

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December 11, 2010

	This is why you should sell your old shit on eBay, instead of just throwing it out. You just never know.
This is an excellent rant on how people are assigned to be “experts” by the media. Reminds me that I saw a “dog expert” on BBC earlier this week. Not a dog trainer, or a veterinarian. Just a “dog expert”.
	Sometimes, spam is beautiful.
One of the most awesome video-game related bloggings I have seen: An analysis of Pac-Man ghost behaviour.
	Add something new to the list of things that provoke inclusion on “terrorist” watchlists: Arranging screenings of documentaries on environmental issues. Thank goodness. I mean, imagining having to sit beside somebody who enjoys environmental documentaries on a red eye …
Ever wonder how to get bees to make you some red honey? Here you go!
	Zoes of the world have lost their lawsuit against Renault, who will be allowed to name a car “Zoe”.
Have a fragile package that you’re putting through the post? Avoid marking it as “FRAGILE”, or even “This Side Up”.

The morning coffee does the usual: origami, police, terrorists?

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January 27, 2010

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.

The morning coffee gives advice to science teachers

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January 18, 2010

We here at the Big Bad Blog do not have a lot of experience teaching science. However we do have a lot of experience in not teaching science. As such, we feel that we can freely give advice on what not to do. For instance, when a student is excited about their science project and showing it off to their friends, do not call the police and tell them the student brought a bomb to the school. Such actions do not reward or foster the student’s curiosity and enthusiasm about science.

At least the authorities have declined to press charges against the kid. For, you know, doing science.

(by Paula Arntzen)

A tower of power was built in August 2009, in Craigavon. Nearly immediately, people who lived near the tower started to feel ill, and attributed it to the electromagnetic radiation emanating from the tower. These people are suing — despite the fact that the (unverified) symptoms they complained about continued for six weeks during which the tower had been turned off, but the complainants had not been informed.

Question: Why have I never had a date like the one described here?

The morning coffee and chili butt

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January 8, 2010

In an incredible breakthrough, scientists have discovered that it is inadvisable to eat red hot chili peppers after anal fissure surgery. A quick question — would YOU sign up to be a participant in such a study?

To date, I have not bought an eBook reader. That may change in 2010:

(The Skiff Reader)

In news from the War on Terror, a California airport was shut down due to a passenger carrying honey. Two officers were hospitalized and treated for inhaling honey fumes. Seriously. Charges have yet to be laid against the honey-carrying passenger.

The Bloggess shows us why voter-driven awards are sometimes inaccurate.