Show Notes for TWS062: Monkey see, Monkey did

On the show this week:

• Bigflop
• Life is Disgusting!
• Watch what you’re watching!
• EXTRA: Holiday spices mixed with nuts
• EXTRA: Me, X-Mas, WANT!

This week’s Challenge Question:
Do you beleve that we should all be observed, at practically all times, for our own good? Is a watched society a safe society?
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Full links to all stories covered and many more after the jump!

• Theme Song: Caffeine by Grubspoon from The Podsafe Music Network
• Bigflop
  • Thanks for your responses: Joe, Brian, Jen and anim5
  • C’mon, mister Sasquatch, take a dump! – China.org.cn: Shennongjia ‘wild men’ leave footprints
  • Apparently, they are looking for this guy everywhere.. – Local12: Search For Sasquatch In The Tri-State
  • I think of this as a scorecard, but I missed a couple of these and happily missed a couple of others. – Cryptomundo: The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories for 2007
• Life is Disgusting!
  • No, this does *not* refer to the loveable, honey-lovin’, stuffed bear.. – The Telegraph: Grandmother saved by daughter’s poo
  • Does this make a kidney punch hurt more, or less? – Stuff/Waikato Times: Hamilton man may have 3 extra kidneys
  • EXTRA: Just because you don’t have anything to show, doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t show it. Talentless people in the music industry, for example.. – BBC: Flasher’s ‘inadequacy’ plea fails
  • EXTRA: Now, if they had different *moms*, then I’d be really impressed.. – Ananova: Twins have different dads
  • Chocolate leads to boys. – New Scientist: Diet may influence the sex of your baby
  • With smart people leading the search, it’s kinda like looking for your ancestors. – New Scientist: ‘Intelligence genes’ reveal their complexity
  • If you go out on a date with someone who might not be so young, check for the patches. – New Scientist: Skin patch gives ageing mice a youthful glow
  • Warning: pulling all-nighters may be hazardous to your health. It can wait until tomorrow! (Well, except for TWS… *yawn*) – CNN/AP: Overnight shift to be classified as ‘probable’ cancer cause
  • I say, extend your sense of touch through everything! – BBC: Amputees ‘regain sense of touch’
• Watch what you’re watching!
  • “Well, y’see, we keep losin’ ’em. I was more in favour of an ear tag, ’cause what if they take the jacket off? But I was voted down by the bloody liberals..” – The Daily Mail: School to track pupils with radio chips sewn into their uniforms
  • Re: Obvious threat to company: mark as Spam, Fire employee, or Ignore as normal? – New Scientist: Monitoring email could spot insider threats
  • EXTRA: Just because we see something doesn’t make it true. – Wired: (O) Big Bang or Big Goof? Astronomer Challenges ‘Seeds’ Proof
  • Seeing is believing.. and believing creates the universe.. Or destroys it. – New Scientist: (O) Has observing the universe hastened its end?
• Holiday spices mixed with nuts
  • EXTRA: Ice circles have been seen before, but I don’t recall off-hand any snow circles.. Next: snow greys, with coal for eyes and a tophat. – American Chronicle: FIRST POSSIBLE CIRCLE ON SNOW / SNOW CIRCLES INSTEAD OF CROP FIGURES
  • EXTRA: Ho, ho, hold it right there! – Ananova: Cops bust carol singers
  • EXTRA: Dear god: please alter the world in my favour. Thanks. PS: cookies? – BBC: Cyprus churches to pray for rain
  • EXTRA: I always thought it was *Venice* that was sinking, not *Venus*… – National Geographic: Venus Craft Reveals Lightning, Supports Watery Past
  • EXTRA: Instead headline: just add simplicity. – BBC: ‘Just add water’ instant shelters
  • EXTRA: “No, I didn’t drop it in the loo — it’s a bloody *feature*! – New Scientist: Cellphone’s slosh and rattle reveal its contents
  • EXTRA: “So, let me get this straight: that scraping, creaking noise isn’t good, right?” – New Scientist: Rattling elevators reveal a building’s health
  • EXTRA: Apparently, we drink so much beer in Canada that our beer fridges are causing global warming. Crap. – New Scientist: ‘Beer fridges’ present a gassy problem
  • EXTRA: The Japanese will eventually have a robot for everything. And then, the Japanese will cease to exist, replaced once and for all. – Ananova: Robot helps with breakfast
  • EXTRA: Perhaps they should have considered pre-emptive strikes and just replaced all its bones with Adamantium. – BBC: Death-cheating cat dubbed bionic
  • EXTRA: So, the chicken gets the last laugh.. But what became of the rest of the body? – The Boston Channel/AP: Kid’s Bracelet Found In Chicken 25 Years Later
  • EXTRA: Great.. Mutant ZOMBIE cockroaches.. – New Scientist: Zombie cockroaches revived by brain shot
  • EXTRA: Stop! Hammer Time! – Ananova: Anthem to stop traffic?
• Me, X-Mas, WANT!
  • EXTRA: My own ghost town! – BBC: Texas ghost town is sold on eBay
  • EXTRA: My own ghastly book! – BBC: ‘Spooky’ face on skin-bound book
  • EXTRA: My own loo-finding cell phone (just like in Japan!)! – Breitbart/AP: Cell Phone Service Will Find Toilets
  • EXTRA: How much is *your* child doing to earn their presents? – Northern Territory News Australia: 4yo pig hunter swims croc-infested creeks for 5hrs
  • EXTRA: Time machine necessary to see relatively local play.. – hfxnews/CP/The Daily News: Sci-fi play probes alien intelligence print this article
  • EXTRA: Something for creepy relatives to give naughty children. – Ananova: Road kill teddies
  • EXTRA: Infestation of hairy pests not included. – Ananova: Ewok houses for sale
  • EXTRA: “Lord, save us from our wives.” Will this change in this generation? This seems like an old fogey thing.. – Ananova: Creche for husbands
  • EXTRA: Unfortunately, this only works if you are a ridiculously rich executive of a wealthy company — or a writer of dubious self-help books for the gullible. – Ananova: The four hour working week

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