Ig Nobel awards for 2010

[wellinghall]

http://improbable.com/ig/

via http://www.boingboing.net/

The Guardian's take ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/01/ig-nobel-awards-mould-bats

ETA: A bottle which lay hidden in Clifton Rocks Railway since the 1940s has a story to tell about Bristol.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/front_page/newsid_9027000/9027533.stm

ETA2: From this month's Ansible: Outraged Letters. Charlie Stross shares an all too familiar artistic experience: 'My editor at Ace just emailed me the art department's idea of a cover for Rule 34. / My reply was along the lines of: "You know it's set in Scotland? Handguns are illegal here. Also: policewomen don't usually wear red leather corsets on duty ..."'

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Rule 34 is the sequel to Halting State, which I reviewed here:
http://philmophlegm.livejournal.com/149699.html

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I rememebr that.