Musings and Mutterings

Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex. Not Kidding. - washingtonpost.com

With friends like these, they can become enemies pretty quickly. A man asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding technically kept to his word of not pulling any pranks before the ceremony by installing a pressure sensor under the couple's bed. When the activity level indicated that things of a more sexual nature were going on, the system sent a Twitter message of the following type:

When the action settled down, a second message like the following was sent:

Fortunately the messages are anonymous. Eventually the best man plans to tell his mate.

Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.


Dinosaurs Sadly Extinct Before Invention Of Bazooka | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

"Over the years, we've learned a great deal about their physiology, their dietary habits, and even their migratory patterns," Diffey said. "Unfortunately, however, nothing in the fossil record can reveal what it would be like to blow apart the massive front leg of a charging diplodocus and then watch it crash violently to the ground, sending a spray of dirt and dinosaur blood several stories into the air."

Gropenhagen Conference: Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit Sex - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

As a side note to the Climate Conference, the mayor of Copenhagen has sent postcards to 160 hotels in the city urging guests and delegates to "Be sustainable - don't buy sex". In response, area prostitutes in the form of the Sex Workers Interest Group (SIO) are offering free sex to anyone producing one of the offending postcards and a COP15  identity card.

You WILL experience the Day of the Ninja -- December 5

Today is, apparently, the Day of the Ninja.

Man-Made (But Very Tiny) Black Holes Possible : Discovery News

According to astrophysicist Ian O'Neill, if you wanted to destroy the Earth using a black hole of the size expected to be created by the Large Hadron Collider you would need a LOT of patience. After 13.7 billion years it would have consumed the mass of a single virus, a long way from consuming the entire Earth.

Peckish bird briefly downs big atom smasher

The Large Hadron Collider was shut down on 3 November when an owl dropped bits of a baguette into an outdoor electrical installation, resulting in a short-circuit that triggered failsafe devices that, in turn, shut down part of the cooling system. CERN reports that the bird is unharmed but lost its lunch. There is no word as to what an owl was doing eating a French loaf.

Geeks are Sexy | Stormtroopers’ 9/11

GaS presents College Humor's interesting take what the destruction of the Deathstar meant to the average stormtrooper.