Salon.com Life | Clothes make the mullah: “In the middle-class salons of Tehran these days, one of the lighter topics of conversation is President Khatami’s wardrobe. He is seen as very elegant, and in fact as a bit of a dandy.” And you thought the British press was bitchy about fashion…

My current feed reading list’s on the right of this page. Thanks to Rich Cobbett for pointing me at Bloglines.

CNN.com – Fly-eating robot powers itself – Dec 29, 2004: “The EcoBot II uses human sewage as bait to catch the insects. It then digests the flies, before their exoskeletons are turned into electricity, which enables the robot to function.”

20 Wackiest Courtroom Moments of 2004 on Courttv.com In ruling that Pennsylvania’s drunk-driving laws can’t be enforced on people on horseback, the state Supreme Court had only one dissenting judge, Michael Eakin, who phrased his dissent in a poem inspired by the “Mister Ed” theme song: “A horse is a horse, of course, of course,…

The Policeman’s Blog: “Over the Festive period, you may run out of DVDs to watch, the kids may break all their toys and you may get so bored you might decide to ring the police. If you live in the Newtown area, Mrs. C has asked me to tell you NOT to ring the police…