An English haiku

My lips form a smile
As to meet hers in a kiss
My heart beats faster

Is your pig diseased? If so, check out this handy online diagnostic tool!

The Online Pig Disease Problem Solver. Now if they could only come up with something like that for humans…

Adventures in Car Rental: 2007 Volvo S40

Renting cars is always a bit of a chancey proposition, because you never know what you’re going to get. Take my previous article about the Ford Expedition, for instance — you just show up at the agency, they give you the keys, and it’s a bit of a surprise every time. Sometimes you end up being stuck driving a horrible piece of dreck, and sometimes you get lucky and drive off in something that ends up being at the top of your list of cars you’d like to buy. And that’s what happened when I drove off the lot in a Volvo S40.

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Such a beautiful design… why would you want to muck it up with silly things like user content?!?

Apple says: no, you can’t have third-party applications on your iPhone. Not yours!

Apparently Rowan Atkinson correctly divined President Bush’s new strategy for Iraq way back before the first gulf war.

Blackadder goes forth outlines Bush’s new Iraq strategy… in 1989. But don’t worry, W. has a cunning plan!

From the ‘the perfect gift for someone who already has everything’ file…

Russian MiG 21F fighter for sale on Ebay Motors. Personally I like the “get low monthly payments” link right below the current price! You’ll want those low payments, because insurance on one of these must be a killer!

How getting rid of management could be your company’s best move.

How do you run a business without managers? Quite well, apparently!

A day later the cheap obvious joke returns with a vengeance.

New Jersey eyed as cause of gas-like smell in NYC. Looks like my entry from yesterday was premature!

Incredibly no one even remotely implied that New Jersey was the suspected cause.

Mystery smell settles over Manhattan. The smell was said to be so powerful it even overpowered the New York subway’s usual bouquet of urine and vomit.

It was either that or bringing the guy back to life so they could hang him again.

Court drops Kurd charges against Saddam Hussein. I don’t think there’s much more they could have done to punish him anyway…