Take your dog, monkey or Playboy bunny to work.
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 13:21We have a winner! It's "take your dog to work" day for one burglar.
Some monkey business on a Japanese train station. It looks rather like those macaques you see bathing in the hot springs.
Twirly trees in Liverpool. I have concerns for their root system, but measuring the effects of even sunning would be a great experiment. You can't, needless to say, normally do that with trees.
Clegg of the Lib Dems unveils a green energy plan and it's shiny and wonderful. And not at all spurred by oil wars in Georgia. Either way, green energy self-sufficiency is about the sexiest thing I've heard all day.
Black holes 'dodge middle ground'. It seems that you can have a little one or a big one, but they haven't found any middleweights yet.
There is, of course, the obvious problem when trying to look for a BLACK hole in SPACE. They get round this by looking for distinctive X-ray noise, rather than sticking pins in patches of black.
Wetlands created for rare birds. Hey, birdies! Look at this nice digger! Now nest where it's been! Good job birdies are dim.
Superdoctors - "the Indiana Jones of surgery". A non-surgical treatment for club foot, brought about by necessity (shortage of surgeons) in Malawi, proves to be better than the standard UK procedure. Everyone wins.
New steam loco arrives for tests
Drop in East European migration. :(
Six key species get woodland aid. With mugshots. Warning: includes red squirrel doing the Puss in Boots pose - you know the one.
Look, no. NO. If someone has served his time, come out of prison and started his own business, this is a good thing. Good! Not grounds for media kerfuffle!
Hidden historic snails unearthed in a stately home.
Fruit juice 'could affect drugs'
Have you ever heard the phrase "tiger kidnappings"? New one on me. It's nothing to do with tigers, except in the tenuous sense of hunting by stalk and ambush.
Dog stolen from animal sanctuary—oddly, not a purebreed.
No 10's Clarkson video is a joke. And a funny one. And a cheap one (just look at the quality of production). So lighten the heck up.
Actually, speaking of video editing, here are a couple of really cool demos from the SIGGRAPH conference. Unwrap Mosaics and using static photographs to enhance video. Really cool. If you still thought you can trust what you see with your eyes, well, you can't, so there.
This is not news. [insert generic despair for mankind]
This shouldn't be news! Why should it be unusual for girls to take leading roles? Even if this is a film about Playboy models and starring a very conventionally beautiful blonde girl and I find it reeheeheeeeally hard to believe it's feminism.
Cavemen's descendants traced. Lucky things! That's so cool!
'Zero tolerance' over stray dogs
I can't decide if this rivalry with Aus is ridiculous or just a bit of fun.
Machine 'sniffs out skin cancer'. Know what's also good at this? Dogs! Dogs for everyone! More canine super-surgeons! Cost less to train than humans.
Robert Winston talks about the downsides of surgical robots. I'm liking these recent promotional clips with actual content in them (this one's plugging a TV programme tonight). It gives them more permanent value.
Bus stops to have recycling bins. Bet the driver still ends up having to scoop everything in.
Putting percentages in context, aka "why percentages bandied about in headlines are pretty much guaranteed to be meaningless, I mean honestly, stop and think about it for a second".
And finally, cow beauty contest.
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