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CIA LSD experiment?: The hallucination incident in Pont-Saint-Esprit

An elaborate 4chan-based prank leaves Justin Bieber facing a tour of North Korea after having his web presence manipulated.

[via:Joonas Mäkinen]

Newly discovered “cookie-shaped” fossils of early multi-cellular life form

[via:zefrank]

James – Just Like Fred Astaire

Live on Later… with Jools Holland, 1999.

Noam Chomsky on BBC Hard Talk 2009-11-09, parts 1, 2 and 3.

Google Maps based massive multi-player Monopoly game launches

The game site is overloaded at the time of writing.

[via:Xuenay]

Jail threat for Azerbaijani authors of satirical donkey video

Youtube link.

[via:Mummila]

New knowledge on arctic jellyfish

See also: accompanying photos.

[via:ath]

Activists demand posthumous UK government apology to WWII code breaker, computer inventor Alan Turing

Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency in 1952 after admitting a sexual relationship with a man and was forced to choose between a prison sentence and hormone therapy. After choosing the latter and getting his career destroyed, Turing killed himself two years later.

Related: If the logic of sodomy laws is applied, this blog is powered by a Homo’s Devil Machine.

[via:Charris]

Azerbaijan Police questioning citizens who voted for Armenian Eurovision song contest entry

Also: some background info on the controversy, the song in question (Youtube).

[via:Waino]

Rock guitar pioneer Les Paul dies at 94

Ant mega-colony takes over world

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.

Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.

“Open Source” hydrogen car unveiled in London

See also: Company site, ultracapacitors

UK design student disappears car by painting it to merge with the surrounding car park

[via:Charris]

The Hunt For Gollum, £3,000 Fan-Made 40 Minute Tolkien Epic To Be Released Online On 2009-05-03

Watch the trailer.

BBC posted an interview with director Chris Bouchard, who’s been involved with indie filmmaking before.