Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

The New York Times, among other papers, recently published a new Hubble Space Telescope photograph of distant galaxies colliding.

Of course, astronomers have had pictures of colliding galaxies for quite some time now, but with the vastly improved resolution provided by the Hubble, you can actually see the lawyers rushing to the scene.

As I regularly do, I was flicking through random pages on Wikipedia and came across this. I enjoy watching Japanese films online because of their strangeness…but I think this is going a bit too far!

Tamakeri (lit. ball kicking) is a sexual fetish and subgenre of pornography in Japan. In tamakeri pornography, a female kicks a man in the testicles. Some tamakeri fetishists report that they prefer to witness kicks that resound with a hearty slap. Pornographic tamakeri videos cater to masochistic men for whom the idea of getting their testicles kicked is sexually stimulating, at least in fantasy.

Two men went into a pub, ordered two beers, took some sandwiches out of their packs and started to eat them. "You can't eat your own sandwiches in here," complained the pub-owner. The two men stopped, looked at each other and then swapped their sandwiches.

Leif Harry Ersland wanted to return a nail gun he borrowed, so he sent a text message to the owner saying "the gun is on the cabin steps."
It didn't take long for the police to turn up at his door, demanding to know whether Ersland was interested in weapons or had any enemies, the Haugesunds Avis newspaper reported Wednesday.
It turned out that Ersland had punched the wrong phone number. Instead of the message going to the nail gun's owner, it went to a stranger, who called the police early Tuesday because she was suspicious about a possible gun deal.
Ersland was not home when the police arrived. His cohabitant, Hilde Pedersen, who knew nothing about the text message, told the newspaper she faced a confusing 45 minutes of intense interrogation.
"I was shocked to see them," Pedersen was quoted as saying. "I became even more shocked when I learned what they wanted. ... It was very unpleasant."
She said about a half-hour after the police left, they called her to say that the whole thing had been a misunderstanding about a message gone astray.

Until I read the bit about the text message being sent to a wrong number I was worried that the police were somehow continually monitoring all telephone messages.