The week that was at a glance
Harmful rays
Wi-Fi might be bad for you - the growing ubiquity of Wi-Fi networks mean we're wandering around in a radiation haze that might, maybe, possibly, be bad for us. As Carlow becomes the first Irish town to be a Wi-Fi "hotspot", looks like it's tin foil hats all round.
Harmful raps
Legendary hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons (left) has called for a ban on racial and sexual swear words in rap lyrics, thereby eliminating approximately 85 per cent of the lyrical content of artists such as Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Jay-Z. It's probably a good thing Ol' Dirty Bastard ain't alive to see this happen.
Quote
"You are a rude, thoughtless little pig"
Alec Baldwin leaves some frank, fatherly opinions on his 11-year-old daughter's voicemail.
We now know ...
There aren't enough hitching postsin Wiesenburg, a town south-west of Berlin. A German man, looking for somewhere to sleep off a few beers, decided to rest in an ATM foyer, and his trusty steed joined him there for the night. Apparently, the horse left a deposit of its own.
Doing LSD 40 years agois enough to get you barred from the US. A border guard googled Vancouver psychotherapist Andrew Feldmar's name and came up with a research paper he had written discussing his two acid trips in 1967.
The numbers
74,802 Cups of tea drunk in the average lifetime
£198,000Amount fetched at auction for self-portrait (left) of the graffiti artist Banksy, which featured a stencil of a chimp's head
200The number of people now exonerated by DNA evidence in the US