Just in time for Patriot’s Day, some more DOOM.

Political Intrigue

• A Louisiana Representative prepares a state bill that would ban human animal hybrids. Is the government finally catching up to the modern world, or simply denying our constitutional right to have children with Wolverine claws? 
• Texas Governor Rick Perry says secession may be in the state’s future. Chuck Norris’s comments that he would be interested in the position of president of a seceded Texas fall into the “you’re really not helping” category. 

Crime and Punishment

• Devious carrier pigeons smuggle cellphone components to Brazilian jails.  The bird was intercepted by police amazingly. This is probably only a few plot adjustments away from being the perfect Disney movie (step one: maybe change the locale to something other than a prison?)
• A Swedish court finds popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay guilty and imprisons four creators. The defendant reject the conclusion that their action constitute organized crime saying “The court said we were organised. I can’t get Gottfrid out of bed in the morning. If you’re going to convict us, convict us of disorganised crime.”

Design and Type

• The history of the despised font that is Comic Sans. Says the creator of the font: ”If you love it, you don’t know much about typography.” But, he adds, “if you hate it, you really don’t know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby.”
• Amusingly defaced street signs. We don’t usually support vandalism here at doombot, except in cases like these when it is AWESOME! 
• 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice. The linguistic equivalent of people ranting about continuity errors in Star Wars. 

Stellar Conflict

• Eight Scottish police officers have identified their official religion as Jedi on surveys intended to measure diversity. Probably not the diversity they were looking for. Move along. 
• Star Wars/MacGyver mashup, because cheezy 80s stock music can destroy just about everything. 

Military Hardware

• What is an Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System exactly? Basically a helicopter with a .388 rifle remotely operated using an XBox 360 controller. Someday the ol’ R&D department really has to tempt that robot uprising…
• The Pentagon announce the EXACTO rifle, a sniper rifle intended for use at ranges not possible with current technology. Featuring the crazy science fiction technology of bullets that will change shape to adjust to weather conditions. How much more crazy awesome will this super gun be? ”Specific system performance objectives (e.g., range, accuracy and target speed) are classified.”