Women touting for customers on a rural highway outside Els Alamus near Lleida in Catalonia have been told to don the yellow fluorescent bibs or pay fines of 40 euros (£36) under road traffic laws.

Police claim the sex workers on the LL-11 road are not being specifically targeted because of what they do but because they posed a danger to drivers.

It’s always reassuring to see people being honest about health and safety.

This is exciting.

This struck me as beautifully farcical.

British security agents were forced to change secret data including codes and signal frequencies after a helicopter dropped boxes containing sensitive information over Baghdad. The boxes, which included a number of different codes, were allowed to fall from a Puma helicopter flying over Baghdad in April 2006.

I have an image in my mind of an intelligence officer for the Republican Guard taking a dressing down for having found no useful information, only to have a couple of dossiers drop into his pleading outstretched hands.

A semi-thorough rundown is available from The Telegraph.

Some insightful quotes here from Radiohead, a comparison between file-sharers and paedophiles from U2, predictable cut-throat capitalism from Gene Simmons, but my personal favourite comes from Iggy Pop:

I’m in favour of all forms of piracy.

See what your band’s got to say at Pirate Verbatim.