News and views about “out there.”
Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority has barred the use of mobile phones with built-in cameras, blaming them for “spreading obscenity.” The edict, which follows a failed ban on the sale and import of the wildly popular devices, is the most sweeping attempt by any nation to prevent the voyeurism invited by the new technology. No […]
As many as half of the Viagra anti-impotence pills sold on the Internet could be counterfeit, British scientists said on Tuesday. I am stunned. STUNNED I say. Now why hasn’t that nice Nigerian banker called me back? I sent him my account number a month ago.
Poland’s state railway PKP is claiming compensation from a man who caused delays to its services by being run over by a train — but said it may forgive the debt after learning the man’s house had burned down. You can’t make this up, folks.