Breakfast Links: Dog Hit, Vatican & Memory Test
Ok this is pretty awesome - turns out in Mexico City a top police sniffer dog was stolen while he was being checked into a plane. That’s right, he cost one druglord a few too much and he got the dog stolen - Rex IV was replaced in it’s cage by a puppy (which was discovered at the other end of the flight). The best part of this was that the dog was part of an elite Mexican drug squad! He was an elite dog! Rights to the movie coming soon. The good news is that they found him in a park a few days later - the bad guys couldn’t bring themselves to kill a dog and the fuzz were onto them so they just tied him to a tree and ran. (both via schneier)
Speaking of flying - this would never have happened if the elite drug squad was flying on the Vatican Airline! That’s right! The Vatican is launching a budget airline (via gridskipper)! More exclamations!! If you wanted to fly the friendly skies, how much more would you rather fly the holy skies?? More question marks?? That’s right, the Vatican decided not enough people were taking treks to the various holy sites around the world so they are enabling it by starting up this budget service to take people there - fly Mistral Air! I noticed that Mistral Air’s domain is .it - I wondered if the Vatican had their own domain, not only do they (.va), but you can register domains there!
Lastly, you know I like a good test. Especially ones that prove that I am above average. Enter this memory test that seems to be research for some school (via mefi). It has three stages, names, faces and things. It first shows you the text of the name or picture of the face or thing, then shows you them again (along with some stuff you hadn’t seen before) and asks you to say if you’d seen it already. My memory su-huuucks, but I made it barely above average. I got a 88% on faces (avg was 85%, my percentile was 60), 88% on objects (avg 86%, percentile 55, doh!!) and verbal (avg was 77%, percentil 84). At least I did decent on 1 of them! Take it and let me know how you do, unless you did better than me, then stop gloating you jerk.
