Dept. of Animals-That-We-Love

A colorful hedgehog

The International Hedgehog Association is telling us important knowledge of the little creature with sharp pins. There's 92 different color-settings of the population of hedgehogs. That's interesting. What interest me the most is: who the hell have counted?! I mean: bird-watching okey, the birds do fly. But hedgehog-watching mean looking at a pile of autumnleaves in hours waiting for the little one to come out.

And hold your horses: there's more from where that come from. At the The International Hedgehog Registry you can register "your hedgehogs". And the sites mission statements is:

1. To preserve and improve the quality of the species, and to keep track of the progress of our efforts.

2 To improve knowledge of inherited traits, toward the goal of eliminating those characteristics that have a negative impact on hedgehog longevity and health and increasing those traits that enhance the species.

3 To track the demographics and distribution of pet hedgehogs.

4 To connect hedgehog owners and breeders with one another, to the enhancement of the hedgehog community.

"Pet hedgehogs"? Why's that? There's not that kind of cuddly little fur-ball that one should want to have in the bed. People are strange...

Dept. of High-Standards-Law

No chewing without prescription

The well-known and maybe one of the world's most stupidest laws (and stickiest): the Singaporian ban of chewing gum is now under reconstruction and the access expands even though it's under tight rules. Only gum for therapeutical use is for sale. Pfizer is trying to get to put the Nicorette-gum on sale and Wrigley´s have got their sugar-free chewinggum to be OTC-like in pharmacies and drug-stores.

The gum ban is from 1992 when people was using gum to keep the subwaydoors open. And since Singapore is a non-democratical Asian tiger the ban have been in action and though the sale of gum is coming to the counters the legislative heads are threatening with stiffer fines for people littering the town with gum.

Myself I wonder if the Singapore lawmakers do censor the Star Wars-movies too. I mean: Chewbacca is there...

Dept. of Mobile-Movie-Makers

Home of the bold and beautiful

"I was very shocked and surprised," says Holden, 41, of Olive Branch, Miss., who still has a difficult time talking about what she saw about 18 months ago. "I just could not believe that people had the audacity to do that."

Mrs Holdens shocking experience was to see how a porno-flic was playing at the portable DVD in the sports-vehicle beside her when sitting in her Humwee. And it´s surely a big thing: dirty driving where owners of DVD in a car is showing their taste in movies for their co-trafficants. There is a lot of upset judgements on this behavior; both since there is som state-laws forbidding drivers to watch movies during the trip but also pure moral: "I think it's the responsibility of the driver of the vehicle whether they're viewing this or not," says Councilwoman Carolyn Sims. "You should have the right to ride down the streets and not be subjected to this pornography."

Dept. of Picture-The-Leader

Scribbles of The Man

A boring meeting. Your boss is a dumbass. You make a sketch of him in a precarious situation involving his blonde secretary, the genitor and a pig. He asks everyone to pass in the sketchbooks since the meeting was about secret stuff. You get worried about your work but do as The Man tells you.

A couple of days later your boss is knocking at your office's door and ask you to turn in your key-card and leave the premises at once. You don't understand why but logging into
www.drawyourboss.com you understand. Someone have sent your sketch of the boss ramming both the genitor and the pig...

Dept. of Wicked-Collections

What's on your list, man?

You know that there is strange ways to still the gene of collect. Soda-cans, badges and stuff. But the very surreal collections is those and one of the most stupid is The Grocery List Collection. And he is sort of using it as a sociologicaly test (what is people of S:t Louis, Missouri shopping) and his findings is: "More people than I thought like onions. Mayonnaise is difficult to spell. So is banana, apparently. And anchovies. And yogurt. There are a lot of notepads out there touting the greatness of numerous bizarrely-named pharmaceuticals. I used to think my handwriting was lame. Now I don't. And lastly, very few people leave their grocery lists in the cart like they should!"

Dept. of Name-That-Matters

Pretty woman as a crack-dealer?

There's a trouble with having a name that are recognizable. Julia Roberts, crack-dealer - but hey, calm down. You won't have to kick all your copies of Pretty Woman or Runaway Bride.

This Julia is 96 year old. And not making movies but making grands on selling rocks.

Dept. of Gadgetery-Gizmo-Lovers

Cory - the gizmoplayer #1

Cory Doctorow is the gadget-king. He is one of the editors of the blog deluxe BoingBoing.net and is on his feet a good deal of the time and in this Gizmodoflic he's is listing his gadget bag. Is it interesting. I don't know. Is it strange. Yes.

Do I get envious? Of course.

Dept. of Sim-The-Reality

Presidential election in the virtual

Everything that happens is reflected in the simulated reality of The Sims as Wired News tells. And 2004 is the Big Election Year and of course some strange Sim-o-holic have made a electional play.

Of course it's damn stupid but man, The Sims is somewhat a creative meltdown. The ability to make new scenarios is huge and people is using them.

Me myself I wonder when the "Sim Terrorist"-expansion pack is released, of course with the choice to play Usama bin Laden.

Dept. of Democratic-Glitches

Ooops...

That's no mathematic mystery. When Boone County was in for election the software of the e-votingsystem running havoc and it turned out to be 144,000 votes but only 19,000 Voters. The old cry "One man, one vote" was truly obsolet in this election.

The story at Slashdot don't mention who really won but who really cares - I mean: Boone County in Indiana - there's a stupid, a wicked and their son in the election...

Dept. of Stuff-You-Don't-Knew-You-Need

Don't let your socks get away

One of the most serious mysteries is where the one sock is going when washing a pair. Because everyone can tell about the socks that never comes out of the washer as a pair. But of course have someone found out the way to force the mystery to be solved. Hanse is selling a little clip that hold the pair of socks together.

I think it's cheating... man - what horrible punishments will the Washer-God put us up when not getting the sock as an offering?