Spott och grisläten mot vakt i riksdagen.

Turerna kring den omstridda Carl Larsson-målningen ”Karin skalar äpplen” fortsätter.

DoofusOfDeath writes "I've done a good bit of SQL development / tuning in the past. After being away from the database world for a while to finish grad school, I'm about ready to get back in the game. I want to start contributing to some OSS database project, both for fun and perhaps to help my employment prospects in western Europe. My problem is choosing which OSS DB to help with. MySQL is the most popular, so getting involved with it would be most helpful to my employment prospects. But its list of fundamental design flaws (video) seems so severe that I can't respect it as a database. I'm attracted to the robust correctness requirements of PostgreSQL, but there don't seem to be many prospective employers using it. So while I'd enjoy working on it, I don't think it would be very helpful to my employment prospects. Any suggestions?"

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En fransk domstol kräver att läkemedelsjätten Glaxo Smith Kline betalar 1 695 000 kronor till en man som hävdar att han blivit sex- och spelmissbrukare efter att ha behandlats med ett läkemedel mot Parkinson.

En brittisk bonde och flygentusiast som ägnat de senaste 16 åren åt att utforska Burmas djungler tror att han slutligen har funnit det han sökt: ett 30-tal Spitfireplan från andra världskriget som skulle ha gömts i Burma.

Sverigedemokraten Elof Bergström röstade ja till att Härjedalens kommun ska ta emot 60-talet flyktingar inom kort.

En man i 20-årsåldern larmade polisen efter att han ska ha blivit knivskuren i halsen i Göteborg.

Skolengelskan får problemen att flöda.

Riksdagsmannen Per Åsling (C) ville dra av julklappar på sin deklaration men fick nej av Skatteverket.

An anonymous reader writes "Lamar Smith, a global warming skeptic, will become the new chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Someone who disagrees with the vast majority of scientists will be given partial jurisdiction over NASA, EPA, DOE, NSF, NOAA, and the USGS. When will candidates who are actually qualified to represent science or at a minimum show an interest in it be the representatives of science with regard to political decision-making?"

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New submitter SleazyRidr writes "Finally some news that will please a lot of the Slashdot crowd: a company has been charged with manslaughter! BP has been charged with manslaughter following the Macondo Incident. 'BP has agreed to pay $4.5 billion to settle the criminal charges and related Securities and Exchange Commission charges.' Two of the rig supervisors and a BP executive are also facing jail time. The supervisors are charged with 'failing to alert on-shore managers at the time they observed clear signs that the Macondo well was not secure and that oil and gas were flowing into the well,' and the supervisor is charged with 'obstruction of Congress and making false statements to law enforcement officials about the amount of oil flowing from the well.' Is this the start of companies being forced to take responsibility for their actions?"

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At least 200 people wounded by riot police in violent protests over jobs and economic development in city of Siliana.