(Today's news trawl is rather Reeish, as you will see.)

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Tour of LA robot show

That Nixie would be great for teaching autistic kids! I understood almost all of her cartoony expressions.

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Stowaway cat from Italy found

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Missing German cat goes home after a year abroad. Microchipping works, people.

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Mummy is LITERALLY gathering dust. It is getting up and shambling around and picking up dust. LITERALLY.

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Police need canine training sites

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Stolen puppy returned to owners after paternity test

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Birmingham skyline mix-up

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Boys harmed by 'get rich' culture. I like this story. One or two people vaguely seem to realise how this unbelievable backsliding in attitudes to ambition and celebrity is affecting girls (50 years ago young ladies were expected to get education and jobs; today's junior schoolgirls' ambition is to marry a pop star or footballer, not even to be one themselves). You don't hear as much about how boys are being damaged, and they obviously are.

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Woman impaled on religious statue

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Cluedo stars killed in makeover. I raised an eyebrow at this, but their justification actually makes sense. Or maybe it's that I'm sick of companies trying to play on my nostalgia recently... Either way, redesign Cluedo, why not. Our hypothetical kids need their own memories, not to have ours forced on them.

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The Month without Plastic blog looks at drinks cans and cartons.

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Legal milestone for open source. This is important and cool.

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Arsenic-munching bacteria found. This is awesome because although they've suspected bacteria could do this in prehistoric (more to the point, pre-oxygen) times, this is the first proof that not only could it have happened once but it's still happening.

Bacteria were around before oxygen became the new trendy thing. Bacteria eat POISON. Bacteria punch TRAINS. Bacteria are HARD!

In fact, bacteria were Jack the Ripper!