According to some guy on cnet, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is intending to make its own porn site in order to ‘draw attention to the plight of animals’. Course, it’s all a load of rubbish but Weekender is re-reporting this obvious publicity stunt ‘cause PETA is fun to write about.
Staying with animals, if you are a massively fat mouse then this is gonna make you happy: a new drug called, snappily, SRT-1720 has been developed which protects obese Mickeys and Minnies by reducing fat in their livers. Which is great news for them, bad for French cuisine if it spreads to geese. The same researchers have also proved that a synthetic version of resveratrol – the stuff in red wine that is thought to help longevity – has extended the lifetimes in mice. So the moral is – next time someone asks you if you are a man or a mouse, think carefully. And reach for the Merlot.
I don’t think you want to turn left, Dave
We always wanted to drive KITT, (which for anyone born since 1985 will be meaningless, but suffice it to say it meant we wanted to be The Hoff. We’ve already got a reworked merkin ready to be pressed into use as a chest wig.) Er, yeah. Anyway, the Germans (big fans of The Hoff) have brought this a step closer by inventing BrainDriver – a car which is steered, accelerated and, um, braked using the power of the brain alone. Beyond amazing. (In case you were wondering, Weekender was born in 1995 but has access to a huge number of 1980s TV shows.) What’s slightly less amazing about our friends in Deutschland is that Schleswig-Holstein’s entirely humourless data protection commissioner, Thilo Weichert, is waging war on Facebook’s Like button. Although, as the commissioner rightly points out, every time you press Like, a company can see the IP address for 90 days (according to Facebook) or for up to two years (according to Weichert).
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