Quick Note: Mass Murderer Wants Better Video Games, His Victims Get a Memorial

I know there is a lot going on now at home and in the world, but sometimes it's items like this that catch my attention:

In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik of Norway, upset at his country's liberal government and what he saw as its "Islamisation," bombed a government building in Oslo killing eight people.  He then went to Utoeya Island, posing as a policeman to gain access to the Norwegian Labour Party's youth camp there, and killed 69 young people before being apprehended.

In 2012, he was convicted of mass murder and terrorism and given the most severe sentence possible under Norwegian law.

Mr. Breivik is serving what is expected to be a life sentence at Skien Prison where he has complained that the handcuffs used when he is moved from his cell are uncomfortable and he feels rushed when the guards watch him brush his teeth in the morning.  He recently threatened to go on a hunger strike unless he is given better video games, a sofa and a larger gym.

 I'd be reducing the grocery order.

Norway has chosen a design for a memorial to Breivik's 69 young victims.  Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg calls his winning design "Memory Wound" saying that it "reproduces the physical experience of taking away, reflecting the abrupt and permanent lost."

A slice of Utoeya Island will be removed near the tip of the island, forming a gaping wound in the rock.  The rubble will be used to build part of a memorial to Breivik's bombing victims in Oslo.

I think the Utoeya Island design is chilling and beautiful.