Daily Archive: June 28, 2011

Jun 28 2011

Our salticid houseguest in high-def

Taken with my iPhone and edited to eliminate some blurry or non-spider parts of the video attempt. I’m not sure what variety of jumping spider (salticid) this is, but it’s awfully cute. Shown next to a PS3 controller for scale. Uploaded in high-def, so feel free to up the resolution if you’d like to see …

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Jun 28 2011

Latest Catholic sex scandal: priest under Pope’s adviser arrested

Feel the cops’ breath on your neck yet, Ratzinger? Father Riccardo Seppia, a 51-year-old parish priest in the village of Sastri Ponente, near Genoa, was arrested last Friday, May 13, on pedophilia and drug charges. Investigators say that in tapped mobile-phone conversations, Seppia asked a Moroccan drug dealer to arrange sexual encounters with young and …

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