This is pretty cool: Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.

"Hung gar short knife set" is a semi-old chinese knife fighting form. Not to be confused with "Hurricane saber" which is a "long knife" (ie: Broadsword) form. Considering it is 2 sided I probally couldn't use it for the short knife set.

Don't look now, but the penny is under attack!

On both sides of the border!

(I've always wondered if changing the GST to 5% wasn't some back-door attack on the penny. Getting the NDP to propose the final assault, though... well played Mr. Harper, well played.)

Yeah, Jere, too bad Kipper shat the bed and Detroit waited until OT to bother scoring a goal on Nashville.

Between that and what I think is a viral gastro I'm coming down with, this has been an inauspicious end to the weekend.


Hmm, I suppose Albert's is the most sensible dagger suggestion (the, uh, police station one. I'm not sure what the "Hung Gar" thing is about.), given this city's propensity for finding people with sharp objects accidentally stuck in them.

Still one never knows when one could use a dagger....

How long is it? And can I do "Hung Gar short knife set" with it?

Otherwise just turn it into your local police station, they'll take it in and insure it doesn't get stuck in someone accidentally.

Hey, so Matt and I found a knife - well, more accurately, a double-edged dagger with a hilt - outside our back gate. There's no blood on it or anything, so I imagine some "rebellious" suburban teenager lost it, but I have no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions?

Seeing how things are probally it is Clark's sister... But the combination of first and last name is rather common.

Yep I know I'm no help at all.

Not bad eh? Tied? Now all the oilers need is some late season losing from nashville and vancouver...

Oh yeah, apparently a Heather Clark won the a car in the roll up the rim to win, anyone know if that was clark's sister?

Jere: Tied.

Also, for those working out the scenarios, assuming the Oilers win their last two games (an absolute must; there's no other path to the playoffs), here's how it shakes out for Vancouver/Nashville:

• A single regulation loss for Vancouver (not counting their game vs. Edmonton on Thursday) and the Canucks are out. (ie. Go Flames Go tonight.)


• Two regulation losses for Nashville in their remaining 4 games (get out your Red Wings, Blues, and Blackhawks jerseys) and the Predators are out.

Botanist sues to stop CERN hurling Earth into parallel universe:

A lawsuit has been filed in Hawaii in an attempt to hold up the start of operations by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) atom-smasher on the French-Swiss border.

A colourful American botanist, teacher, former biologist and sometime physicist says (in outline) that the LHC may rip a hole in the fabric of the space-time continuum and so destroy the Earth. He wants the US government to act now and delay the LHC's startup while a new safety review is carried out.

Walter L Wagner and his fellow Hawaiian Luis Sancho, according to a report on MSNBC, filed suit in the Hawaii federal court last Friday. The men are worried about one of several planet-busting physicists' nightmares being unleashed in the LHC's bowels deep beneath the Franco-Swiss countryside. (According to Wagner's website, as of publication, the LHC is located "near Generva, Switzerland".)

Firstly Wagner is concerned that careless atom boffins might slip up and create a miniature black hole. This would then suck in surrounding mass, gaining unstoppably in size and power in a runaway process until it had engulfed the entire Earth and packed it down inside its swelling, unescapable event horizon.