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Irony is dead.

The UK killed it: there are 28 CCTV cameras within 200 yards of George Orwell’s house.

I was watching a British SciFi show called "Torchwood" (don’t bother, it’s truly awful) and noted that they used CCTVs in the episodes to trace peoples’ movements. I thought to myself, "That’s goofy. There’s no way any place has that many cameras." I should have known politics would force me once again into realizing that sometimes I am not pessimistic enough.

Tip o’ the tin foil hat to Boing Boing.

Sigh. More angel silliness.

At least this one was at the Vatican and not at a state fair.

Money quote:

I had not really thought about angels and stuff before. I don’t know if I believe in it all but it does look like an angel.

Several people have looked at it including a professional photographer and they can’t work out what it might be - maybe it is a guardian angel.

Maybe it was a Phoenix Light (hmmm, does anyone brew beer in Arizona? That would make a good label). After all, if the military doesn’t have anything to say about it, it must be a UFO angel.

Anyway, it looks more like a fairy to me. But that can’t possibly be right: we know what the church thinks about them.