Mike Browne’s Blog

SignOnSanDiego.com Science/Health — Study suggests orangutan bands learn special skills, pass knowledge to new generations Kind of like Koko.

CNN.com – Happy eleventy-first birthday, Mr. Tolkien – Jan. 3, 2003

I can’t wait to see Joe Millionaire on FOX. A bunch of gold digging ho-bags making asses of themselves falling over each other to get at money that ain’t there. Apparently Joe can’t even afford a $2.50 toll. I wonder how it’s going to turn out? Let me see if I can make a prediction. At the end of the series Joe’s lack o’ cash will be revealed to the girl who gets chosen. She’ll say, “The money isn’t important. I’m not that shallow. I truly love him.” They will walk off into the sunset together not to be heard from until 3 months later we find out she has left Joe for a Beverley Hills Plastic Surgeon who has offered her fake boobs, a new Lexus and a full length sable coat.

Things may take another twist according to this article:

But the Internet is already busy with folks who detect a rat, along with desperation, in the show’s premise. Postings on several Web sites speculate that the trick on the women is wrapped in another, bigger hoax, this one on the show’s viewers.

Marriott isn’t talking.

The buzz is that maybe he really is rich. That would suck.

Here are the words and phrases that have worn out their welciome in the English language over the last year.

Here’s one I won’t miss:

MUST-SEE TV — “Must find remote. Must change channel,” laments Nan Heflin from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Television once pitched entertainment. Apparently now it’s taken on a greater imperative. Assumes herd mentality over program taste.

Yahoo! News – Cocaine Damages the Brain’s Pleasure Cells

Hate your computer today? Frustrated that you can’t find that important XLS? Word formatting things on it’s own? If so, go get DesktopShooter and blow it all away.

This is Chuff’s URL of the day.

Now if this isn’t a great example of how it’s to easy to sue in the US I don’t know what is.

I thought my lunch was weird. This guy takes a picture of himself every day. Even he’s asking When Will It End? I can relate.