Crappiest new way the police or your mom can follow your every move without ever leaving the sofa: The groovy satellite navigation system in your car that tells you how to get to any address you type into it is also ratting you out. Most satnav systems keep records of every address you type into it, and the route you took to get there. If you sync it with your bluetooth phone, it also has records of phone calls and messages you've received. That's why police officers in the U.K. have started sucking data off the satnav systems of suspects to find out where they've been. Now the authorities can tail you without ever leaving their stations — and probably without getting a court's permission to follow you either. Plus, according to New Scientist, the hacks required to get this data off the satnav systems are widely known and can be used by anyone smart enough to look them up on various wikis or discussion boards. So your mom or your boyfriend could be snarfing up your location data too, checking to see whose house you're going to after work and where you go for lunch. That is seriously crap.

At least two things happened in the world of science and science fiction last week. One was cool, the other was crap.

Crappiest cop scenario in a giant, 24-hour food riot: Koreans are seriously pissed off that their government has lifted the ban on importing U.S. beef. Who knows what goes into U.S. beef, anyway? Ranchers feed them everything from penicillin and bubblegum, to kibble made of other cows. Plus, U.S. screening for mad cow disease is just not up to the Korean standards. Koreans freaked out by the idea of buying U.S. beef started rioting Thursday night after the ban was lifted, and just never stopped. Riot cops sent to deal with the nighttime riots you can see in the top picture (below) had to work around the clock, which led to them sleeping in shifts (bottom picture). When science fiction authors write about police state dystopias and food riots, they never seem to take into account what the cops do when they're having to enforce state controls 24-hours a day. Now we know. They sleep on the street, in full gear, with cement as a mattress. Photos via Getty.

Beef Around the Clock [via Foreign Policy Passport Blog]

Crappiest way to encourage people to use their imaginations and experiment with evolutionary possibilities in a game devoted to both: Last week saw the release of EA/Maxis' Creature Creator — a component of the upcoming evolution game Spore — and the entire internet greeted it with a cry of happiness. Creature Creator lets you build any organism you like, quickly fleshing out an animated being as cute or hideous as you can imagine. An algorithm animates the little beast, giving it realistic motions for its body shape. You can share your creations with other users, too.

Of course, one of the first things that people did was create the most obscene-looking creatures they could. It turns out the Creature Creator is very versatile when it comes to adding body parts that look like penises, vaginas, and anuses. Thus, within a day after Creature Creator's launch, Sporn was born. Instead of laughing the whole trend off and coming up with ways to prevent people from uploading their dirty bits to kid-friendly areas in the Spore community, EA reacted with censorious poopheadedness. They banned users from the Creator Creator community who uploaded naughty creatures, and requested that YouTube yank any Sporn videos. What the hell, people? Is this any way to encourage people to think about evolution, which is after all very much about genitals and where you put them? I can understand wanting to wall off this grown-up stuff once kids start playing the game, but squashing it entirely? Crap! Luckily, io9 has managed to procure some of the best Sporn available and we've edited it into a smashing NSFW music video for you.

Infographic above via UK Telegraph.