Blog Heap of Links for the day 5 March 2009

Barack Obama appears to be graying around the temples since the Presidency takeover

A tourist who refused to take his clothes off at a swinger sex party has been blamed for "a mini-riot" at a north Queensland nudist colony.... "They felt uncomfortable with him eyeing them off and I asked him to show some respect and take his clothes off," said the nudist colony manager. "He then threatened to bash me, there was some argy-bargy and I ordered him off the premises and police were called." [OMG! Not argy-bargy, too!]

Cathay Pacific has apologized for embarrassing a customer whose anguish after missing her flight was captured on video by an airline employee and posted on the Internet. The Hong Kong airline said in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday that the worker who filmed the video has been disciplined but that another person posted the footage on YouTube, a video-sharing Web site.

Certain adhesive patches that deliver medication through the skin have been found to be a risk to patient safety. The patches, if worn while undergoing magnetic resonance imaging scans or MRIs, can cause skin burns, says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today.

Tammy Fausel said that she and her family were shocked at what happened during her uncle's funeral in Gray Court. A Candler, N.C., woman danced in front of the service, waved a wand around the casket, opened the lid, laid her hands on the deceased's head and struck the body with a wand.... charged with disturbing a funeral and public disorderly conduct.... When deputies asked the woman why she acted the way she did, the woman said "she felt that it was the right thing to do at the time...."