Tudor Bosman

"Acclaimed novelist Iain Banks has left the literary world and legions of fans in shock after revealing he has terminal cancer and may just have months to live." - Tudor Bosman

This is sad; I was looking forward to reading more Culture books. - Tudor Bosman

:( - Stephen Mack

"A New York police officer was convicted on Tuesday in a bizarre plot to kidnap, torture, kill and eat women." - Tudor Bosman

Stay hungry. - Stephen Mack

I don't always eat women, but when I do…? - Victor Ganata

Victor. O.o - Tamara J. B.

Ancient. - Stephen Mack

"Manhattanhenge – sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice – is a circumstance which occurs twice a year, during which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The neologism is derived from Stonehenge, where the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices with a similarly dramatic effect." - Tudor Bosman

"Fucking is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is 33 kilometres (21 mi) north of Salzburg, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the German border. Despite having a population of only 104, the village has become famous for its name in the English-speaking world. Its road signs are a popular visitor attraction, and were often stolen by souvenir-hunting tourists until 2005, when they were modified to be theft-resistant." - Tudor Bosman

Its sister city is Gebumse, VA. - Eivind

"Kerry County Councillor Danny Healy-Rae has put forth new legislation that would grant people in isolated areas in Ireland special permits that would allow them to drive after consuming some alcohol." - Tudor Bosman

“A lot of these people are living in isolated rural areas where there’s no public transport of any kind, and they end up at home looking at the four walls, night in and night out, because they don’t want to take the risk of losing their licence.” - Tudor Bosman

And they don't have designated drivers either? - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"A cross-dressing Catholic priest, who had been suspended by church officials after he was found to be having sex with men in the rectory, was arrested by police for allegedly dealing crystal meth." - Tudor Bosman

hehe... rectory. I mean C'MON! - SAM

"At one point, Wallin was selling upwards of $9,000 of meth a week, according to his indictment. In his post-priesthood, Wallin, 61, bought an adult specialty and video store in North Haven called Land of Oz that sells sex toys and X-rated DVDs. Investigators believe the shop helped him launder thousands of dollars in weekly profits." - http://www.sfgate.com/local... - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"Beginning in late September 2012, an undercover officer with the Statewide Narcotics Task Force began buying meth from Wallin. During one of their meetings in Wallin's Waterbury apartment -- where he was later arrested -- the affidavit states the undercover officer saw a gallon-size plastic bag filled with crystal meth." - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

Yes, I'm still 12. - Tudor Bosman

"It can take a site a while to figure out that there's a problem with their 'report a bug' form." - Tudor Bosman

How appropriate. - Friar Will

Cool! Grats Tudor. - Stephen Mack

Double cool - Todd Hoff

Looks very cool indeed! - Juan Pablo González

"I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment. As an environmentalist, and someone who believes that everyone in this world has a right to a healthy and nutritious diet of their choosing, I could not have chosen a more counter-productive path. I now regret it completely. So I guess you’ll be wondering – what happened between 1995 and now that made me not only change my mind but come here and admit it? Well, the answer is fairly simple: I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist." - Tudor Bosman

Read this, from one of the founders of the anti-GM foods movement. This is very good, and it unsurprisingly praises the work of Norman Borlaug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...), whom I consider to be one of the great unsung heroes of the 20th century. - Tudor Bosman

"For her project Sworn Virgins of Albania, photographer Jill Peters visited to the mountain villages of northern Albania to capture portraits of “burneshas,” or females who have lived their lives as men for reasons related to their culture and society. Many of the women assumed their male identities from an early age as a way to avoid the old codes that governed the tribal clans, which stated that women were the property of their husbands." - Tudor Bosman

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Tudor Bosman

"In America, if the word “control” is anywhere near a social policy issue, then to your left will be its unwitting executor: psychiatry. “They already decide financial benefits, criminal responsibility and who gets more time on tests, so why not mandate a psychiatric clearance for gun owners!” Because it’s madness. Of course I’m not opposed to this in theory, because in theory is the only place where it would be conceivably valid or reliable. In practice you will have a guy judge you based on his own prejudices, or his fear of lawsuits, or on the negotiated fee. Why not have a gypsy run some tarot cards? At least when it all goes bad you can blame the cards.     Which is the whole point: the system is designed to fail in specific and predictable ways, because a tragedy that is the result of a failure of the system is much easier to live with than a tragedy that happens for no reason, even though they are equally common and equally dead." - Tudor Bosman

Surely total prohibition is the answer. We need a new Constitutional Amendment to repeal the 2nd Amendment. - Gabe

Alcohol prohibition didn't work, organized crime made millions selling the stuff to willing patrons in speakeasys. What in the hell makes anyone think prohibition for guns will work? It won't because the only people that will have guns ARE THE CRIMINALS! It doesn't matter if the 2nd Amendment is repealed or not. The only people that would effect are law abiding citizens. Go ahead and trust your local police dept. and let me know how well that works for you. - John Blanton

Well, of course alcohol prohibition was a total failure. It was repealed in barely a decade! The federal drug prohibition, on the other hand, has lasted for most of a century. Surely that's not a failure, right? - Gabe

I would say awesome, but I think Dropbox is scummy. :( - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

Louis had to /and/ freely said that because Guido is Dictator /and/ Benevolent. - Micah

"SHE'S got purple highlights in her hair and bright blue fingernails, but to doctors at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Demi-Lee Brennan is a one-in-6 billion miracle. The 15-year-old liver transplant patient is the first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her donor, negating the need to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of her life." - Tudor Bosman

Whoa! So, wait, do her blood cells have the donor's DNA or hers? - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

This is what we chose as a collective. But I'm sure they will come to consensus just in the nick of time as all but one involved want to be reelected. And I'm sure the president is worried about his legacy, so this will work out. - Dario Gomez

"In his first post since joining social networking site Twitter early this week, Pope Benedict XVI has tweeted a picture of himself spending time with the Lord Our God, Divine Creator of the Universe. “Feelin real blessed today to be hangin out wit @therealHeavenlyFather today!” the pope wrote to his nearly 500,000 Twitter followers, attaching a link to a Twitpic photo of himself in which he is seen relaxing on his papal yacht with God." - Tudor Bosman

Sorry, that looks 'shopped. - Back to just Joe

I think the Devil shopped it. - Back to just Joe

"Intrepid explorer Graham Hughes can certainly never be accused of having his head in the clouds. That’s because the 33-year-old has set an astonishing new world record by becoming the first person to visit all 201 countries of the world - without flying. It’s taken 1,426 days, or four years of his life, cost him his job and his long-term girlfriend, but on Monday he was officially stamped into South Sudan to complete his amazing quest." - Tudor Bosman

Sponsorship. - Micah

Yes indeedy! - Spidra Webster

Needs mode episodes. So darn dense. - Neal Krummell

Sherlock >> Elementary - imabonehead

That's just what the Yeerks want you to think. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

"In a recent Iwata Asks interview about the Wii U Miiverse social network, director Yoshiomi Kurisu and his team discuss how difficult it was to create auto-detection of penis drawings." - Tudor Bosman

"Kurisu-san suggested we study different types of penises in order to create figure out the relative shape and size people would draw. We spent a week doing that before we realized that we should have been looking at drawings of penises rather than real-life pictures. (laughs) We were very embarrassed about that." - Tudor Bosman

There's a NSFW (but funny) image if you click through. - Tudor Bosman

Awww! - Stephen Mack

"In the wake of this cover, Bowie bemoaned the fact that when he performed the number himself he would encounter "kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.' And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!'"" - Tudor Bosman

Poor David. - Stephen Mack

Prince is similarly miffed about a few covers of his songs that became more popular than his original versions. - Brian Johns

"I, too, exhibit ironic tendencies. For example, I find it difficult to give sincere gifts. Instead, I often give what in the past would have been accepted only at a White Elephant gift exchange: a kitschy painting from a thrift store, a coffee mug with flashy images of “Texas, the Lone Star State,” plastic Mexican wrestler figures. Good for a chuckle in the moment, but worth little in the long term. Something about the responsibility of choosing a personal, meaningful gift for a friend feels too intimate, too momentous. I somehow cannot bear the thought of a friend disliking a gift I’d chosen with sincerity. The simple act of noticing my self-defensive behavior has made me think deeply about how potentially toxic ironic posturing could be." - Tudor Bosman

Read, this is good. - Tudor Bosman

"New Sincerity has recently been associated with the writing of David Foster Wallace, the films of Wes Anderson and the music of Cat Power." Both DFW and Wes Anderson have been thoroughly embraced by the ironic, hipster culture -- which is, shall I say, ironic. - Tudor Bosman

Good article. - Stephen Mack