A while ago Ireland made offending religious beliefs a crime.

Now, a court over there has awarded a six year old boy, who was wrongly accused of stealing a bag of crisps from Lidl, £7,500 in damages for defamation of character.

A six year old. Defamation of character. A six year old. Character. Defamation. Of.

He’s fucking six. Six year olds don’t have characters capable of being defamed, the last time I checked.

In further madness, the Lidl employee grabbing his arm apparently constituted false imprisonment and assault.

I just don’t even know any more. The BBC have more.

The title is description enough, this is too good for words. Clickston.

Discovered via a Tweet from Stephen Fry.

Went for a wander around, as I hadn’t been out the house in a wee while. There’s nothing particularly spectacular but still, the shots are located hither.

This, in case your name’s Steve Love and you’re wondering where it is, is on the way up to Devil’s Dyke.

Found on break.com

Global warming. Maybe it’s happening, maybe we’re the prime cause of it, maybe it’ll eventually lead to some species facing extinction.

Nuclear weapons. Let’s imagine their proliferation, that more nations/factions seek access to them, and the possibility they’ll be used again, making large swathes of our planet uninhabitable for a very long time.

Overpopulation. The fact that we continue to spread over the Earth, destroying the natural habitat of any lesser beings that happened to be there before us.

Waste produce. Regardless of global warming being man-made or not, a large volume of pollutants do make their way into the environment and do royally fuck things up in certain parts of the world.

These problems and more, how do we solve them?

How do we stop ourselves from ruining the planet?

According to The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement we do it by not having kids so the human race goes extinct and life on this planet can carry on unimpeded by our viral, self-destructive ways.

Are they serious? Yes.

Are they quite mad? I reckon. Maybe quite noble too… but also quite, quite mad.

It’s an interesting standpoint to take, at any rate.

Found this the other day; the RAGE amuses me greatly. I know I can be a bit of a Grammar Nazi at times but this takes it to hilarious new heights.

… you find the following short story amusing.

They’re Made Out Of Meat

I find it: pretty hilarious, in a wry smiley sort of way. Recognise.

There is a guy walking around Cannes, right now*, with a webcam strapped to his head, letting everyone on the internet instruct him what to do via Twitter.

Sounds fun; is fun. Hearing a guy say “Steve Griffiths I’m standing in this fountain just for you” as he stands in a fountain, mere moments after you tweeted him “jump in the pool like a duck” is pretty damned amusing.

His website and twitter feed is here, or you can see just the stream right here.

To see just how seriously he’s taking it, see that tattoo on the left? Twitter told him to do it. He went to a tattoo parlour, sat down, and streamed himself getting Twitter’s Fail Whale (chosen by the people watching/tweeting him), along with the names of a couple of those tweeting, tattooed permanently onto his arm. For real-reals.

Pretty damned seriously, then.

Before you get too excited, he’s obviously not doing anything illegal, or too lewd, which is a shame, but let’s be realistic here.

More photos in his Facebook album here, and the live stream itself is here*.

Other amusing things people have had him do include:

• Dance around in the street
• Hug and kiss random people
• Go up to someone at a restaurant and ask to try their meal
• Jump in a fountain (hehe)
• Spin around until he’s dizzy

And this was just the first afternoon. Check his shit out, it might be funny.

If you’ve made it this far, here’s the back story: his name’s David Perez, he works for an ad agency called Leo Burnett, he wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, his boss said “Ok you can go but you have to wear a webcam and let Twitter tell you what to do”, he decided to do it, and he’s there doing it now*. Not quite sure why his boss wanted him to do it, but they’re an ad agency so who knows.

*That is, if you’re reading this between June 21st and 26th 2010, and if he’s awake of course. He’s in Cannes so that’s an hour ahead of UK time.

When it’s a Transformer. Keep watching…

This is just staggeringly sweet.

The embedded version isn’t in HD, so click the links below the video to see it on Vimeo directly, in all its glory.

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier

As a side-note, Vimeo is full of awesome video things like this. If Youtube is the Ford of web-based video content, Vimeo is the Rolls Royce; higher quality streaming, higher quality content.