little wonder our forefathers thought eclipses to portend doom, eh?

Started a chess game by email today. lupMixy is white.

Encountered the game below the other day.
Sorta a Tamagotchi with a bit more of an edge.
(Aliens coming to kill your fish.)

Game is from PopCap games. They have a ton of good time killing stuff.

Keep your fish fed!
Click on fish tank to drop food for them.
Buy 3 egg pieces to complete each level and earn a new pet.
Beware! Aliens will try to eat your fish! Click to zap them!

seems that judgements about both globalization and soccer may have been a bit hasty.

Man Drowns Self in Cesspool Over Missing Bike
Thu Nov 13, 9:06 AM ET

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A Tanzanian who thought his boss's bicycle had been stolen while in his care killed himself by diving into a cesspit -- only for a friend to return the bike a little later, a newspaper said Thursday.

Samuel Boniface, 20, committed suicide Tuesday after telling his employer the bicycle had gone missing, police in Dar es Salaam told the Daily Times.

Shortly after his body was found floating in the cesspool, his friend returned the bicycle, saying he had borrowed it.

Overheard on the latest episode of Resident Life, nigh the best show on television.

Q: How do you hide a 5 dollar bill from a surgeon?
A: Put it in a book.

Q: How do you hide a 5 dollar bill from an orthopod?
A: Put it on the patient.

Q: How do you hide a five dollar bill from a plastic surgeon?
A: You can't hide money from a plastic surgeon.

Typed out, the joke doesn't seem so good, but it seems to work better vocalized.

If that doesn't work, try this one.

Q; How do you get two flautists to play in unison?
A: Shoot one of them.

(insert rimshot here)

Big ups for Kucukcekmece!!!

Eminem T-Shirts Spark Deadly Fight
Tue Nov 4, 7:16 AM ET

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish man was stabbed to death after hawking T-shirts depicting U.S. rap superstar Eminem (news - web sites) because a man mistook the sales pitch as an insult to his mother, Turkish newspapers said Tuesday.

A knife fight broke out in an Istanbul suburb after 19-year-old Dilaver Akkurt told T-shirt vendor Hayrettin Demir his mother was named Emine and lived in the area, Hurriyet newspaper said.

"Eminem" means "my Emine" in Turkish.

Akkurt warned Demir to stop shouting "Eminem" and to cease sales of the clothing inscribed with the star's name and image.

Police believe Demir, who died at the scene from multiple stab wounds, was killed by a friend of Akkurt's in the brawl in Istanbul's Kucukcekmece district, Hurriyet said.

Police have detained Akkurt, who was being treated in hospital for wounds, and are still searching for Demir's killer, the newspaper said.