Weekly Roundup w/e 13th May 2011

Operation Human Shield

A weekly round-up of things we liked that we think you'd like also.

We’re back, did you miss us?  I’ve been away sunning myself in tropical Skegness in Billy Butlin’s exclusive resort.  As a result I haven’t been scouring the web for interesting things to show you.  Well, it was back to the grind this week but it wasn’t all bad.  Former tabloid hack and lovable cockney rogue Rich Peppiatt came to Birmingham Skeptics this week to lift the lid on the Tabloid press, really interesting talk, catch him if you can.  Anyway, we have some lovely, and not so lovely, things for you here:

• 1,2,3,4, I declare a race war! A homeopathist suggests that their response to the ‘threat’ from the Advertising Standards Authority should be similar to ‘Operation Human Shield’ from South Park.

• Richard Dawkins reckons Science can explain the end of the world.  Well he would do wouldn’t he? the heathen.

• Some Ikea manuals from Sci-Fi. Featuring the Djiloriann and the Tjardiis.

• Shortly after his death, rumours circulated that Osama Bin Laden was a fan of The IT Crowd.  Obviously that’s absurd, it was Big Bang Theory he liked.

• For the ultimate in a nondenominational wedding ceremony, consider a quantum entanglement.  Although, "The quantum marriage will literally be broken up by skepticism about it,"

• As you all know, depicting a woman in a picture above a newspaper article about her is deeply immoral. Well, hurrah for newspaper Der Zeitung and their airbrushes.

• Florida ‘accidentally’ bans sex, fools.

• Attention all you penis owners, Facebook will make it drop off.

• Cancer has attacked his vocal cords, he cannot speak, but Christopher Hitchens still has his voice.

• The US Military apparantly considered using spy crows to find Osama Bin Laden.  I wonder if they came up with idea whilst watching Four Lions.

The weekly round-up is put together by Birmingham Skeptics co-organiser Paul Bryant (@thebigyeti)