WiseAndFoolish

Inhaling pig brains may be bad for you . . . at least at Quality Pork in Minnesota.

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Winona Ryder does something unspeakable to a puppet (probably NSFW) here . . . indicating an interesting career direction.

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Out of South Korea comes news that a quarry worker was killed by his LG cell phone.

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WiseAndFoolish recommends that folks always be nice to their cell phones.

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The battery in the victim’s "rigorously tested" phone is believed to have exploded, sending telephonic shrapnel through the 33-year-old’s heart and lungs.

This appears to mirror the experience of a Chinese welder, whose Nokia cell phone’s battery exploded, puncturing his heart with a resultantly broken rib.  The 22-year-old died after being taken to hospital.

Science Takes 13 Years to Suck all the Fun out of Checkers. (Nature)

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Hyperspace Studios is having a Scratch Art competition for tattoo artists.  If you ink skin and know your way around a scratchboard, hop to it; the contest’s deadline is August 15.

What is it about spring and whackjobs killing students?

Today, an as yet unnamed shooter killed 33 people (including himself) at Virginia Tech University.  Horrific details which will be made manifest over the next few days, drawing comparisons to Columbine and the University of Texas’ famed tower.

The perpetrators of those, however, were pikers compared to a school trustee who resented a local school’s tax drain on his pocketbook.
Andrew P. Kehoe killed 45 people — the great majority of whom were children in grades two through six — with an enormous amount of explosives on May 18, 1927 in Bath, Michigan.  He and his wife — his first victim — are included in the count.

Saith Mr Brain’s Faggot Family,

“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.” — BBC

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Steve Olson decries a once brave and sure people well en-route to becoming a surveillance state.

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Would you believe . . . a Cane toad with five legs?

Around Easter, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t been gnawing chocolate bunnies and eggs.

About half the world’s cocoa comes from Ivory Coast, Africa, where Stop the Traffik estimates some 12,000 children have been trafficked to harvest cocoa beans. The children are not paid for their work.

Large chocolate companies aren’t particularly worried about this; after all, you don’t care, do you?

“Okay, call it slavery, but you know they’re dirt poor down there anyway…”
(Nestlé spokesperson, quoted on Tony Chocolonely)

Though attention to the trafficking of children has been gaining momentum in the United Kingdom, the chocolate connection doesn’t seem to have taken off in North America.

Stop the Traffik has a MySpace site with links to relevant information.

Pre-Fleming Goldeneye?
Would you believe a 5,000 year old eyeball?

The Crunchy Ones are the Tastiest
NYC Rats a la KFC et Taco Bell

More Furry New York Rodents
First Beaver spotted in NYC in 200 years. What . . . are short hemlines back in?

Is your Faux Fox or Fideaux?

‘Maybe it’s Just Me’ Dept
. . . but isn’t all this media interest in Anna Nicole Smith’s still-unburied corpse . . . um . . . unseemly?

Clowns Down
Two circus clowns shot while performing in Colombia are dead. The shooting apparently had nothing to do with the performance, leaving the unknown gunman’s motive a mystery.

In and Out and In and . . .
Britney Spears is reported to again be out of rehab a day after admitting herself after . . . actually, by the time you read this, she could be anywhere. Kevin Federline may be making a legal grab for their child before Ms Spears starts playing in traffic with a plucked goose on her head.

Items of Intense Interest:
1. Britney Spears, having recently had her head shaved (and her arm lip-tattooed) after leaving rehab, is once again in rehab.

What she’ll do when she gets out next time is anyone’s guess . . .
2. Scotum, scrotum, scrotum.
3. Here’s the obligatory 4-legged duck.

Penny and Aggie, a well-written and well-drawn comic by Gisèle Lagacé and T. Campbell, is absolutely worth a look should you never have surfed by their vicinity, before. There’s a forum on the site where Campbell and Lagacé address their fans’ concerns and questions.

Yeah, it’s soap opera, but so’s Strangers in Paradise.