Wired News: New Tech Protects Ancient Torahs: “The Burlingame Police Department circulated a bulletin to other law enforcement agencies listing their stolen Torah’s vital statistics — 40 pounds, 175 feet, 600 to 800 years old, ‘contains the five books of Moses’ — but nothing that would help a cop pick it out of a lineup.”…

Man With Chain Saw Allowed to Enter U.S. – Yahoo! News: “BOSTON – On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and…

In Tokyo, a Ghetto of Geeks: “‘There are some people who do lose their grip on reality, but that is not me — or most of us,’ said Ishihara, a chubby man with glasses who this year started dating a woman steadily for the first time. She’s an anime artist. ‘For me, the pillows have…

And the horror at Episode III keeps flooding in… 1. A 33-year-old factory supervisor who identified herself as “Priscilla” said the man got out of his tinted two-door car, strutted about menacingly in his Darth Vader suit before opening it and revealing himself to 15 women workers standing at a bus stop at about 7am.…

(congrats to Liverpool fans btw – well fought). Labour want teenagers doing community service to wear orange suits. The probation service, having had this idea before, argue that it was stymied because the teenagers won’t turn up if they’re being humiliated (which also raises the question as to what the government and/or probation service are…