Wired Cola

2009: Auto-Tune the News #1
2010: Brothers Gregory get a regular segment on TV
2011: MSNBC is the first channel to go to an all-autotune format.
2014: A web-only news broadcaster starts up. Key gimmick: the newsreaders sing in their natural voices.
A few weeks back I had a slight discussion on the fb with keith about the Guardian's experiment with crowdsourcing analysis of a data dump. I made the hubris-plagued claim that in the future, more news would be made that way than by traditional reportage.

Karen "Tinybites" Hamilton is expecting! As makes sense for a food-blogger, she talks about a lot of the food-and-drink changes this has brought to her life.
And of course, there's the drinking thing. You're not supposed to drink while pregnant, right?
In this Very Special Episode of Wired Cola, we'd like to urge you to drink a little bit. Science is on your side.  
Key point from that page: moderate consumption, and we're talking 1-2 drinks/day here, has no measurably negative effect on your baby, and may be modestly better for their development.
The always-reliable (or at least in this case, impressively footnoted) Wikipedia article on the subject is straightforward:

So, I get a lot of spam just like everyone else, though Gmail ensures I never see it unless I want to.
Gmail says I got 1288 spam emails in the last 30 days (I'm basing this on how Gmail's spam filter works: it auto-deletes spam after 30 days, and I never touch my spam folder). That number may be off a bit either way: the rare bad message gets through, there's probably a false-positive or two in the spam folder.
But ever since I wrote about my trip to Greece, I have started getting a very odd message, one that, well, you be the judge:

From: mike.power200@[popular mail system redacted].com
Subject: How much does 1 week in greece cost

Ah, news from Honduras. Can't get enough of it! No, literally.

This sounds bad. Censoring the press? Bad! US President says coups are bad, too!

Only, hm. This Wikipedia entry gives one pause. And here's a WaPo (those notorious kowtowers to the right) columnist limning some subtle details like the fact that the Honduran supreme court ordered Zelaya's removal from office after he tried to pursue an already-ruled-illegal plebiscite by force, and was replaced by a member of his own party.