The Stella Awards, poking fun at frivolous and ridiculous civil legal findings, are based on the story of Stella Liebeck, who spilt coffee on herself after buying it at McDonalds drive through and successfully sued the restaurant for damages.
The story is held as a standout example of how people are suing for the stupidest [...]

Anyway, this week the family calls upon you fine readers to settle another of our arguments. We both like to run the toothbrush under the tap before we brush our teeth. One of us likes to do this before applying the toothpaste, the other likes to do this after the toothpaste. In the [...]

First really good find off Indy are Sleater-Kinney. They’ve had 7 albums, must have a good underground following in the US, supporting Pearl Jam in the US over the next two months, and they’ve toured extensively on their own merits.
You can give ear to 7 songs and watch a couple of videos. Their early stuff [...]

…the sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu and the Jew.

Imagine the peace that would be in the world if everyone understood the truth in that…
Quote from an article by David James Duncan

This week : In the AFL, there’s been more attention on the bottom of the table, than the top. People are suggesting teams put the advantage of good draft picks over the passion of striving to succeed in every game. What do you think? Picks or Pride? Read on for background.
Over the [...]

Ashleigh’s Cub Pack, along with the scout troop, went through the Croydon Le Pine Funeral Home tonight for something new. It was a really good thing for them, they were really engaged by the guy presenting. He ran through a slide show first, detailing a lot of what they do and what goes [...]

You don’t need to read this. It’s a saga of conflicting remote management schemes. It’s just here in case somebody has the same problem I had, cos the answer isn’t anywhere on the internet that I could find.
THE PROBLEM :
I have a win2k3 server that I can’t get at remotely. Now the [...]

Apropos of nothing, this week you will be voting on the trouserless icons of children’s TV. Assuming you are GenX enough to know who they are, what’s your pick out of Humphrey and Fat Cat?
If I recall correctly, people believed that Fat Cat was taken off TV for having no pants. Patently ridiculous, [...]

Here’s the questions. Work out your answers then scroll down to see the answers. Post your results in the comments section.
1) Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How
many months have 28 days?
2) If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one
pill every half hour, how long would [...]

Nope, hell didn’t freeze over. It still looks like a one button mouse, but the Apple Mighty Mouse uses the cleverness that makes your laptop touchpad work, to make the mouse look like one button, but give you the option of having it act like two. So in the ethos of the [...]