Gaggle: “Hello, And Thanks For All The Shellfish”

Posted on February 6, 2007 by JB

Hundreds of newly discovered shellfish species in the Philippines show that the country has lots to offer aside from cheap hookers, fat and greasy politicians, and millions of English-speaking poor people.
Where does technology end and our idea of God begin?
The future is bionic; resistance is futile.
Disturbing question of the day: If even Bill Gates loves Apple, who’s left to love Microsoft?
China decides to dip its own hand in the hot stinking pile of global warming.
These lucky newly-wed pigs shall live happily ever after.
The bomb doorstop.

Gaggle: Have A Wii Bit Of Fun, Lose A Wii Bit Of Flab

Posted on February 4, 2007 by JB

People swear by the Nintendo Wii’s amazing potential to help people lose weight, while some people inexplicably shed fat by doing the exact outlandish opposite.
Paraglider Nicky Moss learns while up in the air that “Hell hath no fury like wild eagles scorned.”
Apparently, God had told these parents it’s better that their kids died than have blood transfusion. Fair enough.
When 84-year-old Sidney Tabor doggedly wants to live in his house, even if it’s wildly burning, respect him.
Here’s a little help from Jim Gray’s friends. He won a Turing Award, he helped perfect transaction processing for automatic teller machines. So maybe you should help find him, too.
Chewbacca could have swallowed this tour guide.
If you want to get laid today, by all means write this down.

Posted on February 3, 2007 by JB

William French Anderson, former Time magazine first runner-up for “Man of the Year,” becomes “Perve of the Year.”
Stop wondering why this Dutch gym is so full of people on Sundays.
Mary Lou Henry is now the official superhero in the annals of feline superheroism.
The unstoppable global warming.
It’s Goundhog Day — again, again, again.
Here’s how Hitler made gung-ho monkeys out of those Panzer tank drivers.
Why men are becoming “useless.”