Mothball sniffing warning issued
Doctors have warned teenagers about the dangers of sniffing mothballs after two teenagers fell ill through the habit.
Mothballs? That’s even more lame than inhaling compressed air.
The OpenNet Initiative out of The Citizen Lab at U of T has done an excellently effective visual representation of internet filtering worldwide. You can click on countries to get more details. Very nice piece of work.
A study done in London compared cellphone use and seatbelt use for normal cars and 4-wheel-drive behemoths. The results will surprise noone:
Results Drivers of four wheel drive vehicles were more likely than drivers of other cars to be seen using hand held mobile phones (8.2% v 2.0%) and not complying with the law on seat belts (19.5% v 15.0%).
And of course the Coil video is on Youtube. Six and a half minutes long — not eight, as I had remembered, but still pretty darn long for a song that was originally about three minutes.