Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain was declared adults only on Amazon this week. Because there’s two men in it wearing provocative cowboy hats and traipsing round the mountains. Why else would something be restricted? Oh, yeah, they’re gay. Ish. READ MORE

MIT nerds have developed a portable, wearable computer called SixthSense. They are yet to figure out how to make it see dead people. READ MORE

Snakes on an Australian plane. No, it’s not the sequel to the Samuel L. Jackson masterpiece. Snakes really escaped onto Qantas flight, grounding it before takeoff. READ MORE

You may not have heard of her, but Judith F Krug passed away this week from bowel cancer. Her main contribution to American society was fighting against the banning of books from public libraries, including such classics as Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye. Her fascinating obituary can be read at The New York Times.  READ MORE

A man suspected of having lung cancer turned out turned out to have a 5cm pine tree growing in his lung. You don’t believe me do you… READ MORE

First there was Robocop. Now there’s Robo-legs. Honda have developed a walking assist, so they can go home to Mum and say ‘I don’t just make cars’. READ MORE