Minor Malorum Duorum

A two-year-old was strangled by her mom's boyfriend's albino python. You know, once it starts biting your kid on the head, maybe it's time to trade the python for a kitten?

Sooooo awesome. Worth making it to the end! http://www.phillyd.tv/2009/07/01/westboro-baptist-church-the-song/

Viral video explained:
They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting.
(The link above is tame, push play at your own risk!)

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another.

OMG Apocalypse Fiiiinally!

Quoth Yahoo: SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.

*As a side note I'm amused that the only thing on CNN is about a senator who cheated on his wife. OTOH at least CNN isn't pretending he's a democrat.

"The British government has made certain places in the country areas where, if you take pictures of them, the police can stop and search you even without probable cause. There's just one little problem: They won't tell anyone what they can and can't photograph."

A great story for when you really want to feel bummed out.

Surprisingly scary statistics about pervasive rape in South Africa.

He actually got twenty years, but the judge suspended nineteen. He'll be back to rape her again when she's five.

This article talks about a puppy who got flushed down the loo by a 4 year old boy.

There is a sewer-cam picture of the puppy in question. I guess it's amazing the puppy lived, but what I can't figure out is why the journalists would print the blatant lies being told here.

Nobody puts Baby in the Red Room.

P.S. The body of my story was too short. I needed at least 10 words!

Looks like the increasing popularity of sushi combined with modern practices of fish farming are increasing all of our chances to get a new intestinal friend.

Imagine driving up to a house you own only to find it's not there anymore.

A fox in Föhren, Germany has taken 120 shoes as chewtoys for her cubs. And also? Love the photo caption.

Man arrested for throwing a metal bolt at Special Olympics runners. Way to go above and beyond the call of duty.