Beauty Queen rejected as pageant judge. Stephanie Conover, the reigning Miss Canada Plus, has been rejected as a judge of the Miss Toronto Tourism contest, on the basis that her hobby of reading Tarot makes her a witch.

You are living in the Anthropocene Epoch. So now you know.

Is "Canadian" the new racial slur in the American South? According to that link, and to the Houston District Attorney's Office, "Canadian" is the new racist "code word" for African-Americans when a racist doesn't want to sound racist. more inside

Death From Above. A poison-laden US spy satellite is careering around the planet and is due to re-enter the atmosphere any week now. Don't panic.

Robert Capa--Lost Negatives Photographer of the Spanish Civil War, his most famous photo has been hotly debated as real. A lost suitcase of negatives, otherwise known as The Capa Cache* has been found. *Nifty phrase courtesy of wowbobwow. That, and all links, totally stolen from the Blue. Thanks, guys more inside