McLinkHalloweeny Spitballin'
Illnesses Whose Victims May Not Be Safely Eaten: At one time, it was believed that Crohn's disease was a genetic disorder and thus its victims were safe to devour. Recent studies, however, suggest that Crohn's is environmental bacteria, linked to Johne's disease, which infects ruminants. If this is correct, victims of Crohn's may not be safely consumed.
McSweeney's via Fox
Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police. The 24-year-old man fell into a drunken slumber on his way home from a Halloween party in Hamburg, police in the northern town of Bad Segeberg said. Believing his hands and face were smeared with blood, passengers alerted police after getting no response from him. A first aid team called to the scene soon cleared up the confusion. Police told the man to remove his make-up after which he was allowed to continue his journey.
Dave: Fox has kindly setup the nice interface from W:
Fox: i can make it a different colour or something.... i just made the letters bigger because Stephen complains about small things, like elves
Michelle: "stephen complains about small things and elves are small too, therefore he complains about them" or "stephen complains aboug small things and elves tend to complain about small things too"?
Stephen: Goblins complain about big things, like horses, which tend to make a mess of a goblin unfortunate enough to be caught underfoot. Gnomes complain about everything, big or small, and then try to fix it, making things much much worse. Elves are just fantasy, they’re not real.Interface Team
Dirty ole town
From Hollywood to Hoxton, art collectors are prepared to pay big money for anything Banksy does, with his most expensive single piece, Space Girl and Bird, selling for £288,000 at Bonhams in April. But Hackney council doesn't care. "We have to clean up the walls," said a spokeswoman, confirming that the street cleaners are ready to blast some of modern British art's most distinctive images away as part of a zero-tolerance policy. "We can't make a decision as to whether something is art or graffiti. The Government judges us on the number of clean walls we have."
You dirty rat: Street cleaners prepare to blast Bansky away, nzherald.co.nz
Link added 7 November: Wooster Collective celebrating street art.