Headline of the moment

Airport worker punches Easyjet passenger holding a baby

-- cnn.com

Headline of the moment

PREGNANT DOCTOR DELIVERS BABY, THEN GIVES BIRTH HERSELF

-- wtsp.com

(This actually rivals one of my favorite weekly world news headlines

"Clone of Elvis found on Mars -- and it's a woman!")

Quote of the moment

"Washington is a place where a meeting is seen as an accomplishment. New York is a place where a fistfight is seen as an outcome."

-- Hank Sheinkopf

Pic of the moment

(from the Dear Hunter's yard in MI)

Headline of the moment

Michael Phelps 'Raced' a 'Shark,' Kind Of. Not Really.

-- New York Times

(The slow/funny news division I assume.)

Pic of the moment

Taken (and sent to me) by the flyer.

Quote of the moment

It took three shots to drop the hog, Seago said, and he later weighed it on scales at a peanut company.

-- cbsnews.com

Quote of the moment

The winner of a sprint is not the person speeding up the fastest at the end but slowing down the slowest.

-- Jere Longman

Quote of the moment

There's a saying in boxing that every great champion has one great fight left in them. 

-- Greg Couch

"I saw what you did there" of the moment

An article about a man trapped in Texas cash machine...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40589631

... Includes the phrase, "Police thought it a hoax before kicking in a door to withdraw him."

The article doesn't say anything about whether they got a receipt on the transaction, nor what the remaining stockpile of men trapped in the cash machine might be.

Headline of the moment

Camping teen awakens to 'crunching sound' as bear bites his head

-- cnn.com

Headline of the moment

What was Mike Pence touching at NASA and is it okay?

--theverge.com

Iceberg naming conventions

This from the BBC:

′• Icebergs are blocks of ice that cover at least 500 sq m

• Any smaller and they are called "growlers" or "bergy bits"

• The US National Ice Center runs the naming system for bergs 

• It divides Antarctica into quadrants - A,B, C and D

• Larsen icebergs get an "A" designation when they calve

• They also get the next number in the sequence of sightings

Quote of the moment

"[Mark Cavendish] also suffered a badly cut finger, other scrapes, and a possible head injury after the wheels of another rider's bicycle rolled over his face while he was down.

-- Marissa Payne for the Boston Globe

Headline of the moment

Zelda's Labyrinths Are Some Bullshit

-- Kotaku.com

Underside of the bean

Chicago, IL.

(Photo courtesy of the flyer)