I know how fantastic QE (the original, US version) is. I even watch it sometimes. And we are all waiting for the Australian version. Waiting to see just how many episodes they play before they pull the plug. For those Naracoortians watching who don’t get real TV, or aren’t aware, Ty Henschke, the fashion one, is an ex-Naracoorte boy. And I think we all knew he was gay back in high school, didn’t we…
Boing Boing: LA train wreck: the copycat effect:
Coleman describes the “copycat effect” as “what happens when the media makes an event into a ‘hot death story’ and then via behavior contagion, more deaths, suicides, murders, and more occur in a regularly predictive cycle.”
South Australia actually has a pretty nice ‘code of conduct’ where media outlets (by-and-large) do not report on suicides in general, and youth suicides in particular, since there is a definite copycat effect. And then the Advertiser went and put front page images of when a student at a particular high school killed himself, at school.
New Scientist Breaking News - Spherical robot provides rolling security cover: A spherical roving robot designed to detect and report intruders… Does it unfurl and stand up like those cool robots in the newer star wars movies?
Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms: …male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey’s bottoms… Isn’t science great!