• Meet the Winners of This Year’s Ig Nobel Prizes (Gizmodo) Money quote, “Chemistry Prize: Volkswagen, for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.”
• The west looks on as corruption and bigotry rule in the ‘new Ukraine’ (The Guardian) This is a feature, not a bug. Corruption and bigotry facilitate looting.
• Who said it: tech CEO or communist leader? Take our quiz | Technology (The Guardian) I got 11 out of 14.
• Traffic Is Fake, Audience Numbers Are Garbage, And Nobody Knows How Many People See Anything (Techdirt) I think that this can be more generally applied to advertising, not just internet ads.
• Ancient Roman coins unearthed from castle ruins in Okinawa (The Japan Times) Get your crypto-archeology geek on.
• Nick Clegg reveals that there is a special security door for cats in Downing Street (New Statesman) Cats rule the world.
• Todenhöfer: Interview With Al-Nusra Commander “The Americans stand on our side” (South Front) Not a surprise. There are no Syrian moderates fighting.

Blackadder’s Nationality Based Insults:

The origins of the Brexit may be here.