When success smells; Disorder in the court?
Humans' belief that fragrances improve their allure can seemingly never be overestimated.
Dutch-based artists Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug told The New York Times in March that they recently created a concoction to call attention to our neediness for artificial scent.
Noting the deluge of new industry creations in 2012, Engelberts explained, "Our point is, why do you need nearly 1,400 new scents in one year?"
The pair created Everything, which they claim contains a bit of every one of the year's fragrances they were able to obtain (including Fame by Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber's Girlfriend), dumped into one bottle and left to marinate -- and they offered it for sale for the equivalent of about $39,000. [New York Times, 3-7-2013]
(1) A judge in Racine, Wis., granted bail for Tyree Carter, 20, for his March arrest for "lewd and lascivious conduct" in the Racine Public Library, but among the conditions of his release was that, until trial, Carter "stay out of all the libraries on the face of the Earth."
(2) In a ruling that lasted less than a week, England's Mid Devon District Council had decreed in March that henceforth, no street name could contain an apostrophe, e.g., St. George's would be St. Georges. Outraged punctuationists swung into action, causing the council to quickly reverse itself. [Journal Times (Racine), 3-14-2013] [BBC News, 3-15-2013]