"Formerly, Americans charged with murder were considered innocent until proven guilty; now they are considered insane until proven sane" - Thomas Szasz

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Man molests colleague in mortuary - "The 55-year-old man pleaded guilty to pressing her buttocks with his hand in the afternoon of Feb 16 while she was photocopying death certificates. A district court heard that the 27-year-old woman had quickly moved away but 30 minutes later, he went up to her again and rubbed her back with his hand before tapping her buttocks... The offender and the women work for the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) and the court ordered that no details that could lead to the identification of the victims are published"
At first I thought this was necrophilia; unlike Wee Chor Kian, this is pretty incontrovertible, since it was repeated. Interestingly the moral of the story may be: if you don't want your name splashed across the papers, molest a colleague.

Fish & Co awarded $269,000 - "Fish & Co sued its former operations manager Dickson Low, who was then running the MFM chain of restaurants in Malaysia. Fish & Co alleged that Mr Low had taken its secret recipes, cooking tips and kitchen operations in an apparent bid to use the confidential information to set up MFM... The defendants signed a deed of settlement, undertaking not to use serving pans, sauces, slogans and jingles, as well as words and phrases identical or confusingly similar to those used by Fish & Co"
Looks like Manhattan Fish Market's scumminess extends beyond passing off as the Fulton Fish Market

Woman arrested for trying to record 'Twilight' on digital camera - "Tumpach insisted Wednesday that’s not what she was doing — she was actually taping parts of her sister’s surprise birthday party celebrated at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont. While she acknowledged there are short bits of the movie on her digital camera, there are other images that have nothing to do with the new film — including she and a few other family members singing “Happy Birthday” to her 29-year-old sister at the theater."

What do cats do all day? Kitty cam has answer - "About 22 percent of the cats' time was spent looking out of windows, 12 percent was used to interact with other family pets and 8 percent was spent climbing on chairs or kitty condos. Just 6 percent of their hours were spent sleeping... looking at a television, computer, DVDs or other media 6 percent of the time and hiding under tables 6 percent of the time"

fairterms - "PUT A STOP TO UNFAIR DIGITAL PRODUCT TERMS... The unexpected and often unfair digital product terms that many sellers embed in these agreements, as well as the product features used to enforce them, often take away your basic rights as a customer—whether you are a business or individual consumer. They could increase your computer security risks and jeopardize your privacy. They could also chill competition."

Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now? - "They configure the phones to have multiple easily hit keystrokes to launch ‘Get it now’ or ‘Mobile Web’—usually a single key like an arrow key. Often we have no idea what key we hit, but up pops one of these screens. The instant you call the function, they charge you the data fee. We cancel these unintended requests as fast as we can hit the End key, but it doesn’t matter; they’ve told me that ANY data–even one kilobyte–is billed as 1MB. The damage is done. Imagine: if my one account has 1 to 3 bogus $1.99 charges per month for data that I don’t download, how much are they making from their 87 million other customers? Not a bad scheme. All by simply writing your billing algorithm to bill a full MB when even a few bits have moved."

Man controlled robotic hand - "During a one-month experiment conducted last year, 26-year-old Pierpaolo Petruzziello felt like his lost arm had grown back again, although he was only controlling a robotic hand that was not even attached to his body."

Press Muse: Age of extremes - "The cardinal sin – to opine and editorialise within the guise of news... The [Temasek] Review calls this news. News! All conjecture, no evidence. Or as Stephen Colbert would have put it: “All heart, no facts.” And as the saying goes, one abysmally contrived opinion deserves another. The correspondent, now capable of mindreading, babbles on fecklessly... Several paragraphs later, we learn that the Review’s correspondent is omniscient, and magnanimous to boot... if I may return the favour to the Review, please pick up copies of the Associated Press Stylebook and Nick Davies’ Flat Earth News. The journalistic profession is in bad enough shape as it is without half-baked bloggers confusing their art for news reporting"
Doubtless TR will say this is pro-gahmen propaganda.

Uganda considers death sentence for gay sex in bill before parliament - "Members of the public are obliged to report any homosexual activity to police with 24 hours or risk up to three years in jail – a scenario that human rights campaigners say will result in a witchhunt.Ugandans breaking the new law abroad will be subject to extradition requests... "We are talking about anal sex. Not even animals do that"... "We would rather live in grass huts with our morality than in skyscrapers among homosexuals""

Sons struggle - "I salute Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. It takes a great man to admit his mistake... my husband and I [migrated] to give our sons a chance to realise their full potential. The disproportionate amount of time they spent on Chinese left them little time for important subjects like mathematics, resulting in average grades that demoralised them. Our decision paid off. Both my sons are now professionals in their chosen fields"
Is this meant to be ironic?