Paramedics Rush Toy To Hospital: A group of British paramedics had the fright of their lives this Halloween, when they mistook a child’s toy found on a London subway station platform for a human fetus and rushed it to hospital. I don’t even know where to begin with this…

November 26th is the busiest shopping day of the year. Adbusters suggests that we buy nothing. I’ll take them up on that. Are you familiar with adbusters? They bill their website as the Culture Jammers Headquarters, and they focus mainly on consumerism. Their site is full of “uncommercials” that need media outlets, spoof ads, and details of their ongoing campaigns. At the grocery store the other day,I saw that they have a print magazine too that I ought to subscribe to. Even if you don’t think much of cultural jammers, adbusters is worth checking out.

If you do your grocery shopping in Lincoln, Nebraska, don’t sample the merchendise! The fuzz’ll be all over you.

Actor Ian Bannen killed in car crash-- most well known here in the US for his recent starring role in Waking Ned Divine. I quite enjoyed him there.

I made a three-pound wheel of swiss cheese over the weekend. Actually, I started making it – the cheese won’t be ready to eat for about four months. It’s fun, it’s easy, and it’s so very tasty. You too can learn how the New England Cheesemaking Supply Company. I highly recommend ordering their 30 minute mozzarella kit. $19.95 gets you everything you need to make 30 pounds of fresh mozzarella except the milk.

Cafe Press: So here’s where I can put my big ugly mug on a big ugly mug for fun and profit. The link will take you to my “wares”, and at the bottom of my “store front” you can click to Cafe Press’ home page. There may be a use for this, somewhere.

Two tech stories from the BBC: A cybernetics expert is planning to hand over control of his body to a computer in the latest of his high profile experiments and Scientists in the United Kingdom are developing a prototype robot slug-destroyer, which draws its power from the decomposing bodies of its victims.

Nothing gets the old ticker pumping like reaching under submerged rocks and into holes in the river bank hoping to feel something – like a big fish – snap shut on your hand. I used to know people who would do this in the irrigation ditches of New Mexico and Texas, and saw pictures of the huge fish they pulled out. There is a small ranch between Socorro and Truth & Consequences, New Mexico, that has a catfish head atop each fencepost around the ranch house. Catfish heads that were, on average, the same size as mine.

Blogger’s been down all day, so I’m just getting started. It’s the first time it’s gone down, and they resolved the problem suitably quickly. I’ll say it again: I love what the Blogger folks have done.

This just in, via All Things Considered on NPR: Rapper Sir Mix-a-lot and the former members of Presidents of the United States of America have joined together to form Subset, and are now playing in clubs around Seattle. The bits on the radio sounded pretty swell. You can find a few blurbs about this here and here.