Ali Farka Toure dead at 67.
I had been wondering why there weren't any quackery patents coming through in the past while, until I saw this: "Conscience-enhancing malice-weakening gas" "This invention is a mixture of neuroactive substances in the form of gases, liquid aerosols, and/or solid aerosols, which act synergistically to increase the ratio of strength between the desire to do right, called conscience, and the desire to do wrong, called malice."
Yesterday, I noticed that booshwah photographer Michael Reichmann was extolling the virtues of the Funkycam, a $20 1 megapixel digicam that produces weird photos that are amusing and fun, much like the Lomo camera. Then, I read today that some fellow is trying to make a digital Lomo by Frankensteining a Lomo lens onto an Epson RD-1 rangefinder digicam.
I love stories like this, and I imagine news editors all over the world like them too, if only because they get to use headlines like "GIANT SQUID GRABS LONDON AUDIENCE"..
FOR THE LOVE OF GAWD do not click on this link.
MSNBC, always on the forefront of spectacular newsmaking, has the Forbes 2006 list of Most Expensive Private Islands.