You cannot force people to follow directions they deem arbitrary. more inside

Study finds animals have personality - We've known this for a loooong time but science is catching up.

Aussie PM John Howard comprehensively destroyed in the Australian elections - sweetest of all, a further personal message sent to the Bush-supporting anti-gay Howard by voters is the likelihood of his losing his own seat, which he has held since 1974. A sitting Australian PM has not been unseated this way since 1929. The new PM is Kevin Rudd, who some would say is just a younger, left-leaning version of John Howard who enjoys recycling, and the first Kevin to be Prime Minister of ... anywhere, I think. more inside

It's Jerry Time! The Gobbler - let's catch up with Jerry. more inside

What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft? more inside

Cosmic Defect Suspected in the Fabric of Space-Time - probly bullshit.

Strato Cruiser airship concept by Tino Schaedler and Michael J Brown With its carbon fiber skin, sectional helium chamber design and photovoltaic cells, the Stratocruiser’s construction brings new levels of safety, speed and ecology to travel. An advanced propulsion system more than doubles the cruising speed of conventional blimps.

Jimmy Carter, Cat Killer - 'Lamentably, I killed your cat while trying just to sting it.' WTF more inside

An antibiotic primarily used to treat pinkeye in humans rids frogs of the lethal fungal disease Chytridiomycosis that is wiping out amphibian populations around the world, a team of New Zealand scientists reports.

Dr Crippen is a name that has been synonymous with murder for nearly a century. Notorious for murdering his wife and fleeing Britain on a ship with his lover disguised as a boy, this American doctor was the first person to be apprehended via the aid of wireless communication, in this case radio telegram. He was hanged in 1910 after a British jury found him guilty of murdering his wife, Cora, who had vanished earlier that year, and whose remains were identified as those found under the cellar floor of his London house. Except he was innocent. more inside

How mother moose outwits the bear - Pregnant moose seek out human company when they are about to give birth, to escape the threat of bears. From the Beeb & Biology Letters.

How Baboons Think - "Reading a baboon's mind affords an excellent grasp of the dynamics of baboon society. But more than that, it bears on the evolution of the human mind and the nature of human existence. As Darwin jotted down in a notebook of 1838, 'He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.'" more inside

Make a Dalek Chocolate Cake more inside

Fundamentalists Hate Noah's Ark - The story of Noah and the Ark leaves much to be desired, from many different fields of knowledge.

What is it in humans that rehabilitates us in the eyes of those that watch? You can go thru life as a cynic, & disparage the human race for our ceaseless slaughter, but then you hear about things like a bunch of bystanders getting together to save a bear from a deadly fall off a bridge, and it makes you wonder. more inside

Man Finds Human Leg In Smoker - A man who bought a smoker at an auction of abandoned items opened it up and found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches above the knee. more inside

LOL MICROSOFT Serious bug found in Excel 2007. Try multiplying 850 by 77.1 - the answer should be 65535. Do it in Excel 2007 and it's 100000. D'OH! Holy Crap! & LULZ to follow.

Goats On A Roof - At Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant, the roof is covered with grass. All summer long the goats have a ball up there grazing away. This also occurs at the Old Country Market, Coombs, Vancouver Island. more inside

'Treasure Trove' of Homo Erectus found. This is a mass of the oldest human skeletal bones found outside Africa, they will help improve understanding of the biology of the 1.8-million-year-old hominids. Described are three-dozen fossils from four individuals found at Dmanisi in Georgia, central Asia.

Another reason why Cats are awesome: they kill and eat Scorpions. Yum Yum.