LeVar Burton needs our help. The former host of classic educational series and childhood TV staple Reading Rainbow is trying to acquire the Twitter handle @ReadingRainbow. However his efforts have come to no avail. The name's been bogarted by an unknown party and left to rot for over three years. More »
Who are these brave Russian gladiators? And why have they electrified two swords with which to fight? The world may never know their names, but we will know what to call them: heroes. Dear, sweat, idiot heroes. [Buzzfeed] More »
...I'd suggest hanging around the Westin St Francis Hotel in Union Square, San Francisco, during your lunch-break on the 17th of March. The Free Speech Coalition, which is the basically a porn trade union, is holding the rally for anyone in opposition of the proposed .xxx domain names. They believe it'll only encourage censorship, despite 200,000 .xxx domain names being applied for already. [The Register] More »
Filed in things I never knew: early Monopoly boards were circular! Filed in things I should have known: Monopoly street names all hail from Atlantic City. More »
British police thought they'd hit the jackpot when their chopper's infrared-camera located a cannabis grow-house, but were surprised when all they found were a couple of Cavia porcellus by the names of Simon and Kenny reclining beside an electric heater. More »
