Keep it in the family

National Geographic has an interesting article about why royal families all over the world would marry their close relatives.

Worth a read, if only for the following line:

Bingham learned that even after King Kamehameha III of Hawaii accepted Christian rule, he slept for several years with his sister, Princess Nahi'ena'ena—pleasing their elders but disturbing the missionaries.

Nowadays, I get my news from the darndest places.

Here I was, nonchalantly browsing through the LOLs and FAILs when I come upon a piece on Failbook on how You can't block Mark Zuckerberg.

According to Failblog, Facebook's response ran thus:

This error isn’t specific to any one account. It’s generated when a person has been blocked a certain large number of times.

OK, lemme geddat straight.

They're saying that the system is set up in such a way that if you annoy enough people to the point that they block you, at a certain point, you become so obnoxious that nobody can block you anymore.

Now how does THAT make any sense?