Epic Fail: Soulja Boy sells just 35k in first week

I'm delighted.

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XXL is reporting that the poster-boy for God-awful, shallow, artless, cookie-cutter, soul-free rap music will sell just 35,000 copies of his second album 'Souljaboytellem' in the all-important first week.

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Let's remember that when Kanye sold just shy of a million copies of 'Graduation' in Week 1, people were saying he'd failed. Let's hope the woeful sales of Soulja Boy are as much a reaction to his abysmal music as the death-knell of big first week sales.

Scientists: "People Still Willing to Torture"

The BBC is reporting that a group of scientists from, you guessed it, the US have repeated the famous Milgram experiments, to assess a persons capacity to 'torture' another, by administering electric shocks (think Peter Venkman at the start of Ghostbusters).

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The results this time? Same as last time:

"What we found is validation of the same argument - if you put people in certain situations, they will act in surprising and maybe often even disturbing ways."

What. A .Shock. (No pun intended)

Life Affirming News - "Some began fighting and others vomited"

"Police arrested 17 people overnight after protest drinking parties at London mayor Boris Johnson's alcohol ban on the London Underground network, descended into chaos.
Four train drivers and three other London Underground staff were assaulted, the tyres of a police vehicle were slashed and two officers assaulted and another injured.

Witnesses said the stench of alcohol on the network was overpowering and that people were "being sick all over the place".

The parties, attended by an estimated 2,000 people, began as light-hearted demonstrations against the new Conservative London mayor's alcohol ban. Revellers, many in fancy dress, chanted anti-Johnson slogans. As the midnight ban drew nearer some began fighting and others vomited."