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Photography- A school in the US equipped students with laptops – and actively spied on them and their families at home using integrated webcams (without their knowledge or consent). Moreover, they were actually stupid enough to discipline a pupil for “improper behavior”, using a photograph of the webcam as evidence. (source)
- Over 200 Russians got sick after a mass in the church St Michael in Irkutsk. The infection was caused by … holy water. (source)
- “Don’t you hate it when you can’t get that pesky alien implant out of your groin? Dr. Roger Leir is here to help.” They are serious about this, by the way: Dr. Leir actually removes alien implants, if you happen to have problems with them. He has lots of “evidence” posted on his website. (source)
- “Harvard professor and noted Google critic Ben Edelmen provided video evidence of the Google toolbar transmitting data back to the Mountain View Chocolate Factory after he chose to disable the application in the browser window he was currently using.” (source)
- Utah passed a bill two days ago, disputing science of climate change, claiming emissions are “essentially harmless”. (source)
- The German cinemas increased their turnover by 22.8% in the year 2009. So much for “internet piracy is killing the movie industry”. On the other hand, it has to be stated that there seems to be a rather sad ongoing trend: small cinemas are closing down, and the big chains are gaining more and more market share. But the same applies to all other stores, e.g. bookstores, so that’s nothing the “pirating” can be blamed for. It’s the way capitalism works, I presume. (source)
February 19th, 2010