What were they thinking omnibus
First, Gordon Brown’s special aide and Derek Draper, failed spin doctor and CV padder, plot over e-mail to launch a campaign of personal smears against David Cameron, George Osborne and their wives.
Over e-mail!
In Airstrip One!
I hope they at least had the decency to not seem surprised when the story leaked, the muppets. I for one welcome Britain’s soon-to-be Tory masters.
Elsewhere, Amazon has stripped the sales rankings from a list of books, which it describes as having “adult content”. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and lots of LBGT literature are on Amazon’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum, but not apparently some porn (caution: link NSFW). Obviously, the Internet has reacted to this the same way it reacts to all attempts at censorship and has gone ballistic.
And finally, a woman jumps into a polar bear enclosure in Berlin Zoo and – shockingly – gets mauled by the half-tonne killing machines and has to be hauled out before she’s killed. Perhaps the best bit though, is the deadpan statement by the German police:
“The woman has proved herself to be careless by jumping into the enclosure,” a police spokesperson said. “Logic tells us that polar bears will do this type of thing in this situation.”
Update: The Amazon thing was another data point for Hanlon’s Razor:
“This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection. It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themed titles – in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon’s main product search. Many books have now been fixed and we’re in the process of fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future.”
