From the file of 'just how fucked up can things get?': Judge loses $US54m pants case.

Highlights:

A judge in the US capital lost his $US54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner over a pair of misplaced trousers in a case that became a symbol of the United States' lawsuit-happy legal system ( Read more... )

Otters about the house...

Want. So. Much. Aww

Poland's conservative government took its drive to curb what it sees as homosexual propaganda to the small screen, taking aim at Tinky Winky and the other Teletubbies ( Read more... )

Celebrity polar bear cub Knut receives death threat.

What sort of weirdo sends a death threat to a Polar Bear? I mean, apart from being a bit of an arsehole thing to do, Knut can't read. Duh.

Polar Bears ( Read more... )

My baby crawled yesterday. She's been mobile for a while - tummy squirming, but yesterday apparently she did full on hands and knees crawling about four feet to get to a box. She's only just gone four and a half months!

I haven't seen it yet, but hopefully when I have her over the weekend! Crazy!

Reuters (who would never lead the world astray) reports under the title Canadian town to immigrants: you can't stone women that:

Immigrants to the small Quebec town of Herouxville must not stone women in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules made public by the local council.It's a cutesy little ( Read more... )

So in response to Bush sending another 20K or so troops to piddle around in the desert, NZ's Duty Minister Jim Anderton attacks Iraq as 'another Vietnam'. Yeah no shit, did he only just figure that out? Of course the government backs away from his remarks and the opposition attacks him. It isn't hard to see the parallels between the two, sad that ( Read more... )

Ugh. I seem to have forgotten to use this thing in the month of December. I blame Christmas. In fact, I blame the whole Christmas slow-down ( Read more... )

I like in a city, which in many parts of the world, would qualify as 'small'. It's a city, but it's not a very big one. 150,000 people, about 20,000 of which all to the university, so the population shrinks by about 10% over the summer. One ice rink, no roller skating rink, four movie theatres and a whole heap of pubs. Two mini-golf courses, one ( Read more... )