Techotic

Charles Platt wrote a gripping article entitled “Life on the Inside” for BoingBoing of his visit to prison to see his Vietnamese friend, who is serving a 40 years prison sentence for two gang related murders.

Heath and Deborah Campbell of Hunterdon County, N.J phoned a local supermarket Greenwich ShopRite to order a birthday cake for her 3 year old son, Adolf Hitler Campbell. She asked the bakery department to spell out her son’s name on the cake, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.

A 60 year old Japanese man who was thrown in the air by work colleagues in celebration at his retirement party, but they failed to catch his fall, so the man ended up with a damaged neck and backbone, leaving him paralysed. He eventually died of blood poisoning.

I’m not a fan of guinea pigs, but this ugly one confirms my prejudice.

Watch Rosie the hairless guinea pig or skinny pig flapping her ears.

Did you hear the sound it made?

The crap wrapping service started by UK retailer Firebox is for men who don’t want their loved ones to know that they bought their presents online instead of taking the time to go out shopping in the brick and mortar world.

I don’t know the point of this ID card. The card was found inside a wallet made in Japan.

Britain has been hit by a deadly winter vomiting bug, which force hospitals to close wards to new patients as they struggle to cope with the influx of norovirus sufferers.

Some leading London’s hospitals had to turn away 999 emergency patients, and others had to draft in GPs to cover for staff hit by the bug.

A Swedish artist and filmmaker Pål Hollender uses investment fund from what he called the “five main unethical industries”: arms manufacture (Lockheed Martin), tobacco (Swedish Match), alcohol, pornography and gambling to fund scholarships for artists. He calls his scholarships foundation, “The Pål Hollender Foundation for Ethically or Aesthetically Offended Consumers of Culture.”