WTF?

USA Today:

In 2000, Alaska lawmakers learned that rural police agencies had been billing rape victims or their insurance companies $500 to $1,200 for the costs of the forensic medical examinations used to gather evidence. They quickly passed a law prohibiting the practice.

(Political context snipped because I don't have the background to form a worthwhile opinion on that part; it was just the vileness of the policy itself that got me.)

And in a less serious vein

From silmaril, cat vs. printer.

More LHC

This webcam of the LHC is surprisingly nifty! (via quatranoctal)

Lateral Thinking

(apologies to those who've heard this one before)

Interview time reminded me of a story my brother told a while back, about a friend of his who was trying to get into a surgical program. It was one of those interviews where every good answer is punished with a harder question until they find something you can't answer.

Interviewer: Here's the scenario: you're a junior doctor, scheduled to assist a surgeon who's going to operate on a patient that morning, and you realise the surgeon is drunk. What do you do?

Interviewee: I tell him he looks tired and ask him if he really feels he should be doing surgery today.

Interviewer: He says he's fine, never better, wants to get started.

Interviewee: Okay, I go to the senior doctor on duty.

Interviewer: He is the senior doctor on duty.

Interviewee: I call the head of surgery.

Interviewer: He is the head of surgery.

Interviewee: I call the head of the hospital...

Interviewer: He is the head of the hospital.

Interviewee: Fine. Then I ask the nurses to feed the patient. We're not allowed to operate on him if he's eaten recently.

Interviewer: *is pwned*