In the news

[Giovanni Schwartz]

I feel we need a section for entertaining news articles. I think we've posted enough of them in random sub-fora that they can have their own topic.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1159756

[Yarjka]

This one brings up some serious linguistic issues: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Fuk ... story.html

[mic0]

Maybe I'm just really tired, but this article about dieting elephants is funny/bizarre. (Having now read a bit more, it's not funny; only the image in my head of an elephant counting calories is still funny.)

[Yarjka]

Maybe I'm just really tired, but this article about dieting elephants is funny/bizarre. (Having now read a bit more, it's not funny; only the image in my head of an elephant counting calories is still funny.)

That reminds me of this article I read some years ago: http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Russi ... tails.html

[S.A.M.]

Canada is safe, for now...

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012 ... anada?lite

[Yarjka]

Purple squirrel

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-n ... enns/61308

[yayfulness]

Interesting.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Have you never read the Da Vinci Code?

[yayfulness]

I wasn't aware that that book was a historical document.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ ... ure-names/

Forget being the last Airbender! I want to be a HELLBENDER.

[Portia]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087 ... 44712.html

I'm amused by the notion of the People's Front for the Liberation of Provo. What would it fight for: caffeinated Coke on campus? That no view be obstructed? "END THE 1-15 CORE PROJECT!"? (Yes.)

[Giovanni Schwartz]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/p ... me=2346638

iPhone FAIL. Awesome.

[Digit]

77-pound wiener dog can barely move.

[Yarjka]

A new kind of cheese

[mic0]

Okay, Yarjka, that link needs a warning or something. I was so excited, because HEY CHEESE, but wow. WOW. Gross.

[Yarjka]

Okay, Yarjka, that link needs a warning or something. I was so excited, because HEY CHEESE, but wow. WOW. Gross.

Hey, I'm still excited. A new kind of cheese!!

[Whistler]

w-what does it taste like??

[mic0]

Okay, Yarjka, that link needs a warning or something. I was so excited, because HEY CHEESE, but wow. WOW. Gross.

Hey, I'm still excited. A new kind of cheese!!

Well, alright, you let us know how that works out for you. Whistler, I don't even want to know... okay, yes I do, but only through hearsay do I want to know.

[Craig Jessop]

Ohio Woman Unknowingly Marries Father

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/21/us/ohio-w ... ?hpt=hp_t3

[Yarjka]

Sperm donor claims to have fathered 35 kids across Quebec

This could possibly lead to some more inadvertently incestuous couples.