Pakatan Rakyat becomes official?; China puts weapons in space?; Lunatics sell moon land

It's a bright, sunny hump day. (Sometimes we wish things weren't so bright in the morning. Ugh.) What do the news feeds have in store for us today?

• OMG, it's finally happened: The PKR-DAP-PAS alliance has applied to the Registrar of Societies to formalise the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. "A logo bearing a 'rising sun' was also tendered — signalling a 'new dawn' for the country" -- and apparently there's a good chance of the typically recalcitrant RoS might authorise this! [Malaysian Insider]
• Creeping Chinese military superiority: General Xu Qiliang, head of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, has declared China’s plans to put weapons in space. [Malaysian Insider]
• Creeping cross-culturalism: Oxford Circus, the heart of London's West End shopping and entertaiment district, gets a Shibuya-style scramble-crossing makeover. [Straits Times]
• As long as we are talking about Japan -- an article about the mores and significance of that patriarchy's rising number of "herbivorous men". [Times Online]
• Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons' Def Jam Records turned 25 this year! An article about its abiding significance. [CNN]
• Rampart lunacy: the Lunar Registry sells "land claims" to lunar property (name your own crater; buy moon land at USD18.95/acre). Proceeds go to funding private lunar settlement, apparently. "All lunar real estate documents are professionally designed, elegantly printed and make a great conversation piece". [Lunar Registry]
  
• Swedish bad-taste doyen Ann Sofie Back opens a "hostage store", just a wee bit away from the site of the Norrmalstorg robbery (which gave Stockholm Syndrome its name). Apparently, the fail-themed stall is doing well. [The Moment]

(Photo from The Moment)