50,000 spider crabs have swarmed the ocean floor near Australia’s Port Phillip Bay, crowding 10 deep over an area the size of a football field. Paris Hilton unavailable for comment.

I’m usually unamused by the homebrew animated shorts that show up on the web, but for some reason this one really makes me laugh. It’s called Demolition Squid.

Georgia’s Cobb County school board have put stickers in 34,452 science textbooks that read:

This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.

Today they lost a lawsuit to parents on church vs. state grounds that the stickers were unconstitutional. Sometimes the good guys win.

Conservative Christian group, American Family Association, said it will end its 9 year boycott of Disney.
From the AP article:

The Tupelo-based Christian group has protested Disney’s extension of benefits to domestic partners of gay employees, promotion of gay-related events at its theme parks and violent and sex-filled content of movies made by its Miramax subsidiary.

The article goes on to say that the boycott had “limited impact”. No shit. I’m sure it was unsettling to Eisner when it was started 9 years ago. “What? Intolerant hate-mongering rednecks are going to avoid my park? Oh noes!”

AP has the story:

WASHINGTON – Two former employees of a breast-implant manufacturer alleged the company covered up high rupture rates and workers were so fearful of bosses finding defective implant parts that they hid the parts in the ceiling.

They’re lying. The implants are fine. The workers are undercover artists are just putting their finishing touches on their exhibit, Random Avalanche of Boobs.

AP has an article on what happens to the the contestants from the time that they get booted to the air date of the final episode. Losers from The Apprentice get to stay in a

suite filled with food, beer, video games, DVDs and books

That sounds pretty cushy. Compare that to winning; having to tongue the taint of a megalomaniacal choad.

Gizmodo rumors that a handle-less Segway is in the works. I think we all know where this leads…

This video of a Citroen Transformer has been out for a while… dunno how I missed it… oh, yeah, I don’t live in Europe. Someone has now created a Bumblebee parody of it.