i love pickled ginger. no, there's not supposed to be a link here - i just love pickled ginger.

more naked people, more photos of naked people!

Britney quote of the month: on Hinduism: "What’s that? Is it like kabbalah?" (Newsweek)

Yet another reason gasoline-burning cars are bad: 98 tons of prehistoric, buried plant material – that's 196,000 pounds – is required to produce each gallon of gasoline. Yes, i drive a fuel-guzzling pick-up truck. I suck. Next spring I'm buying a convertible Mini-Cooper.

Amazon's new Search Inside the Book feature (see Oct 24 blog entry) worries some folks. Another way to steal copyrighted material?

Canadians Beat World at Rock, Paper, Scissors. Thanks to Jill for this link.