After Puppy Thursday, visitors to the BBC News site today can surely expect a more serious, less gimmicky—oh, my mistake; more puppies it is then.

Dangerous stuff. They have a photo gallery a;fljkae;rfk MUST GET NEWS DONE WORK YES WORK.

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Still too ridiculously lenient. *hums A more humane Mikado hopefully*

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Rural tea-rooms seek geisha girls

This would interest my unbrother, who has just learned the word geisha and applies it indiscriminately to all Asian-looking women. *inner sigh* I do not think it means what he thinks it means.

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More things like this are needed! At least until it gets graffiti-written out of existence.

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"It makes me really annoyed to think that all I did was give my name, address and £250 and I had a really dangerous animal a few days later in my home."
BBC: 'Man-eating' python bought online

Dimwit. And now this guy's blaming the system. Well, Have Your Say contributors can mock him for me.

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Car insurance costs 'prompt lies'

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'Tis the season all year round! *grouses*

I find the justification for the Sunday thing bizarre. "Some people like to lie in on Sundays"... er, yes? Some people like to lie in on Thursdays. Why's legislation needed?

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Music players 'in lightning risk'

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Guys. Hey guys. You could always refuse the money. Hmm?

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Teaching aids bought from sex shops (this page isn't NSFW unless you squint)

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I HAVE A DEGREE IN WHIPPET-KEEPING. Yes, at my graduation I wore a flat cap instead of a mortar board. All my ancestors lived in collieries. Because I am from teh north1!

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Squeevolution. Life science is great!

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Walrus-tagging adventure. (Nooo, they're taking my Tomtom, etc)

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Robot unravels mystery of walking

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Carbon crystal storage. Purrrr.

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Cow-hugging monastics for your touristy pleasure.

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The fable of Shambo the bull, written by Children's Laureate Michale Morpurgo for BBC's Today Programme. (Audio; RealMedia only)

Sickening and a ripoff of Oscar Wilde's story The Happy Prince, but still preferable to Thought for the Day.