CQ: As we face the prospect of no inter-city or inter-provincial bus service in this province, I am forced to wonder: does the communications power of the Internet foster a world in which most of us never have to travel far, and where will no longer do so?

On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Dis-Urbancies
• Extras

Full list of 27 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • A classic Fortean moment, no less weird for being explained.: The Telegraph – Weird weather rains seaweed over Gloucestershire village
  • If you think it’s bad enough that people drive into lakes when following their GPS, how bad will it be when they have knives?: New Scientist – Augmented reality kitchens keep novice chefs on track
  • Actually, the article doesn’t address *either* of these things..: New Scientist – Why IQs are rising — and how to get better grades
  • Hey, if “dressage” is a real Olympic sport, then..: Metro – Missing the Olympics? Sheep racing could fill the London 2012 void
  • Raising expectations for the rest of us.. (Thankfully (?) I’m a confirmed bachelor… Ladies?): Metro – Romantic flash mob wedding proposal leaves woman stunned
  • I wonder if Disney will have their wedding annulled for copyright violation?: Metro – Couple renew wedding vows dressed as Mickey and Minnie Mouse
  • (EXTRA) Again: raising the bar.. Although the confusion over whether it was an Apple symbol is amusing..: The UK Daily Mail – That must have taken forever! Intricate crop circles of Buddhist symbol for infinite time and wisdom appears in crop field
  • When is a joke not a joke? When the government doesn’t allow laughing. Or dissent.: BBC – Belarus-Sweden teddy bear row escalates
  • Once again, the game has been BESMIRCHED (20 points).: TNT – Top US Scrabble player caught hiding blank tiles in national championship
  • Just as you can be too quick to accept something, you can also be too quick to reject something. (Both are failures.): Environment Health Perspectives – Flavors of Uncertainty: The Difference between Denial and Debate
  • Turns out: rover did it! (Sorta..): Yahoo!/The Lookout – Space junkies try to explain mysterious image in photo from Mars rover
  • Where? *looks* AAAH, MY EYES!: Phenomenica/PTI – Sun surrounded by dark matter?
  • We all know that some of those books were just ad-traps..: New Scientist – Software reveals the most influential Victorian novelists
  • Finally! The backup solution I’ve been searching for, and it means BECOMING my data!: New Scientist – Books and JavaScript stored in DNA molecules
• Dis-Urbancies:
  • Slower speed and more rubbernecking accidents?: Orange – Sex doll relaxes speeders
  • I’ve had some really bad coffee like that..: Incredipedia – Ritual Use Of Caffeinated “Vomit Drink”
  • You just *know* there will be a reality show willing to pay MILLIONS to have people taste the remains..: Yahoo!/The Sideshow – Ancient Roman shipwreck found with 2,000-year-old containers still intact
  • The tattoos are quite nice; the disturbances are the body parts beneath them..: The UK Daily Mail – The astonishing 2,500 year old tattoos of a Siberian princess, and how they reveal little has changed in the way we decorate our bodies
  • With terrifying (and fake-looking) ear-scope photos..: The UK Daily Mail – Doctors find spider that had been living in Chinese woman’s ear for FIVE days… after it crawled in while she slept
  • Mutations won’t happen like the X-Men; there will be isolated cases, some of which survive, until the next generation survives, and the next, and the next after that..: WMCTV.com – Mystery illness causes woman to grow fingernails in place of hair
  • Sadly, it does not get rid of all the crap that we get from the Internet..: New Scientist – Waste disposal network discovered in the brain
  • Which is more disturbing: that this is the work of alien experimentation — or that it *isn’t*?: Denver Post – Livestock mutilations shake up Gunnison ranching community
  • He needs it to save the world. In the future. (Bill Gates is a time travelling alien?): The Sydney Morning Herald – Why Bill Gates bought 200 litres of fake poo
  • (EXTRA) Anyone curious about the human mind would be curious, wouldn’t they?: The Daily Grail – Richard Dawkins Would Like to Trip on LSD
  • (EXTRA) Flamingo sex. There, you’re disturbed. You’re welcome.: Metro – Barry White helps flamingos mate at Sussex zoo
  • (EXTRA) There’s something inappropriately evocative about the word “corpse” when applied to something that may never have had life..: New Scientist – Corpse stars could nurture life on alien planets
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) We would be in a much better state if the real world was like the Internet, where we don’t immediately think “how can I hurt somebody with this”, but instead consider Rule 34..: BBC – Pentagon helps build Meshworm reconnaissance robot

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