Remember back when you were in school? This was the worst time of year. You were just days away from going back to school, and all those store commercials had been running for a month reminding you that your freedom is nearly expired. Now, you don’t really have that much free time, so it’s nice to watch the little urchins squirm, isn’t it? If you were busy getting your late night talk show cancelled this week, odds are you missed it.
London’s burning
They’re rioting in London! The city that is going to host the Summer Olympics in less than a year is having trouble keeping its citizens under control, after rioters took to the streets for several nights in a row. The riots started in response to local police shooting and killing a black father of four. Rioting over police brutality? The early 90s really are coming back.
Not her moment
Overnight Internet celebrity Rebecca Black has been pulled out of school because bullying has gotten so bad. Instead, her mom will home school her. She said when she would walk by kids in the hallway at school, they’d start singing “Friday” in a really nasally voice. Gee, wonder where they would have gotten that idea.
Gliding to oblivion
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, or DARPA, lost communication with an experimental hypersonic glider this week, the second time that’s happened during a test flight. The HTV-2 is capable of speeds up to 13,000 mph. Has anyone considered that it’s just hard to communicate with something going several times faster than sound?