Virtual burglery

Hey, you know all those cool online virtual real estate tours where you can check out the house you may want to buy in Boca Raton without even getting on a plane? Well, so do thieves, who are apparently also taking tours to case the houses and then go and break in and steal everything the current owners possess because there it all is, online, with helpful pointers to show them exactly where everything is.

Wondering if there’s an alarm panel? Go see! How much valuable art and antiques are there in that place? Take a look!

Real estate agents and the online companies providing these take-it-all-in virtual tours are poo-pooing the hubbub, but insurers are advising clients not to show too much of what they’ve got to offer online.

I’d make an analogy about porn stars, but I’m betting you already beat me to it.

Gay fly

Scientists with nothing better to do swapped out a single gene in some fruit flies to see what would happen when the altered flies were released among their kind. The gene in question is one of two distinct “master sexual genes” that define how fruit flies court other fruit flies.

And you know this wouldn’t be news if nothing happened, so what happened was that female flies imbued with the male gene started acting like male flies, persuing other females and acting like males by farting and scratching their non-existent balls and thinking that watching basketball playoffs in their underwear is considered charming, and vice versa.

Which just proves that for gay flies, it’s not a choice, it’s genetic. So there! So much for faggy flies.

C'mon, baby, let's GO!!!!

Everyone’s watching, to see what you will do. Everyone’s looking at you, oh.