Odds and sods...

* Dammit, Canada! First universal health care, now you get the new Harry Potter before us? Not fair! You better hope our robot army doesn't hear of this...

* The patriotic and fair-minded GOP responded to the likelihood that an important administration official could very well have committed treason by...bleating and sobbing that Hillary Clinton called Dubya a mean name. To be fair, I do think Senator Clinton was wrong to compare our president to Alfred E. Neuman, a red-haired incompetent simpleton thoroughly divorced from reality, when she knows full well that President Bush has gray hair.

* Apparently some people are using bicycles and GPS systems to play a real-life version of the Tron Lightcycle game. You're better off reading the Slashdot link; maybe THEY can figure out what the hell is going on, cause I can't.