Boils, Lingerie, Relativity

and the Morning Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Tuesday
(and there'll be no Afternoon Edition today because, well, we Americans are all distracted right now)

Lingerie with GPS tracking device (seriously, I guess)
A Brazilian designer has introduced a £500 ($790) lingerie set, serving a purpose similar to the implanted microchips that rich people put in for in case they get kidnaped. (Can jealous boyfriends use it to track down cheaters? Yeah, but only if the women fails to turn off the system when she's out catting.) Daily Mail (London)
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The shifting of the betting line on whether God exists
Irish gambling outfit Paddy Power (which will take bets on things you wouldn't assume were bettable) opened a line earlier this year on whether the Hadron supercollider would reveal, scientifically, that God exists, and odds started at 20-1, going up to 33-1. [CORRECTION: poorly worded; the line didn't bet on the collider's revealing anything; the line was on God's doing something to blow His cover, with the collider being a natural platform for that.] Now, with apparently many heathen images around Ireland and the UK, the odds have dropped to 4-1. Daily Telegraph
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Aaron Peeples, 29, has been accused of possessing child porn, but, y'know, innocent people get caught up in the public hysteria about these things. KTAR Radio (Phoenix)
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More Things to Worry About on Tuesday

A fist fight in the Iranian parliament, but it's about, er, a bogus credential on a resumé. Washington Post

A prank contest in New Zealand ("Shepherd's Shermuzzle," no relation) is kinda stupid, but lookee-there at what's on that table! Manawatu Standard

Fine Points of the Law: When a cop says to a perp, Hey, What's up?, that has Constitutional implications. (Does it mean that "interrogation" has begun? If so, the cop should have Mirandized him.) Maryland Daily Record

And another Fine Point: Should there be a Constitutional right to DNA testing for a criminal suspect, so that the poor, railroaded guy can demonstrate his innocence? (Bonus: This test case involves a guy so railroaded . . that he had confessed . . and that his lawyer rejected DNA testing at his trial because she thought he was guilty . . and that he's already been released from prison and re-arrested on 17 new felonies.) Washington Post

In Mumbai, a couple finally settled their divorce issues following an arranged marriage that had immediately gone south when the husband discovered that the little lady has facial boils. The Times of India

And from last week, Paris Hilton mused on Einstein's theory of relativity. Well, that is, she had signed up earlier for Virgin Galactic's first-ever commercial space flight but has now begun to worry whether the voyage will inadvertently transport her into the future, which'll be bad because she doesn't know anyone there. Fox News [link from The Week]

Today's Newsrangers: Candy Clouston, Gary Goldberg, Karl Olson
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